With the major exhibition Three Generations of Baumhauer. A Gmünd family of modern artists , the museum and gallery in the Prediger Schwäbisch Gmünd will be devoting their attention to an extraordinary family cosmos from December 2025: the Baumhauers. Three generations - Alois, Sepp and Monika and Regina Baumhauer - unfold a panorama of artistic development that also paints a picture of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

Alois Baumhauer, poster for the 5th Schwäbisch Gmünd Music Festival, 1926 © Stadtarchiv, Schwäbisch Gmünd

It all began with Alois Baumhauer, whose drawings from the First World War capture vivid impressions of a soldier's life. They are silent testimonies to an era in which art was above all observation, processing and reflection. His son Sepp took this view further - but in his very own formal language. His powerful, characteristically modeled sculptures of the post-war decades make the existential questions of the time physically tangible. Massiveness, vulnerability and inner tension characterize his works and mark the transition to a new, searching modernity.

Sepp Baumhauer, Torso, 1960 © Museum im Prediger

With Monika and Regina Baumhauer, the present finally enters the room. The sisters combine personal, social and ecological issues in their paintings and installations. For them, colors, signs and forms become open movements of thought - poetic, political, sometimes provocative. They not only formulate new aesthetic perspectives, but also reflect on the role of art in a world characterized by transformation.

Monika Baumhauer, Mandrill, 2019 © Monika Baumhauer

Despite the different generations and styles, subtle thematic resonances emerge: Landscapes, animals, physicality - recurring motifs that make the commonalities visible, but also the deliberate demarcations. The exhibition thus becomes an impressive dialog about time, origin and artistic identity.
December 2, 2025 to July 26, 2026
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