Exhibition on the occasion of Karl Deppert’s 125th birthday

Why keep depicting war? Let him finally rest, I hear and think back.” A night in the trenches in 1917, for example, “in mud and dirt”, in the barrage between bomb craters, “the air is raging with roaring iron”. Or the oath made by three comrades on the western front. As the only survivor of the great slaughter later described, whoever returns home must tell about it in his work. Karl Deppert (1897 to 1988), who wrote these memoirs, stuck to them all his life.

What’s more, unlike Ludwig Meidner, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and all the other modern artists, whose work would have been different without the traumatic experience of the First World War, even in his late work there is little left for lighter, more cheerful themes that ignore the experience of war Space.

The exhibition at the Kunstarchiv Darmstadt, Kasinostraße 3, can be seen until April 14 and is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.