Louise Rösler (1907–1993)

The Giersch Museum of Frankfurt’s Goethe University is presenting an outstanding twentieth century artist in Louise Rösler, who has yet to be discovered by a wider audience. She was born in Berlin in 1907, and this is the first major presentation of her diverse work in a retrospective, bringing together over 160 exhibits from all Rösler’s artistic periods. She worked as an artist from the 1920s until shortly before her death in 1993.

Rösler came from a family of artists, and travelled extensively through southern Europe after completing her training in Munich, Berlin, and Paris. Back in Berlin as from 1933, she focused on the big city as a subject – a recurring theme in her work throughout her life. Rösler worked figuratively until the 1930s. After moving to Königstein im Taunus due to the war in 1943, she developed a more abstract, freer style emphasizing colour and form as sensual elements and combining them to create dynamic visual worlds. She returned to Berlin in 1959.