Kä­te Stei­nitz — From Ha­no­ver to Los An­ge­les: A re­dis­co­very at the Spren­gel Mu­se­um Ha­no­ver

In the ex­hi­bi­ti­on “Kä­te Stei­nitz — From Ha­no­ver to Los An­ge­les”, the Spren­gel Mu­se­um Han­no­ver is de­di­ca­ting the first com­pre­hen­si­ve ex­hi­bi­ti­on to the ar­tis­tic work of a re­mar­kab­le wo­man who­se na­me has so far on­ly be­en re­co­g­nis­ed in the con­text of Kurt Schwit­ters. From 22 Oc­to­ber 2025 to 25 Ja­nu­ary 2026, around 150 works of art and 40 do­cu­ments from se­ven de­ca­des will be on dis­play — an im­pres­si­ve re­tro­s­pec­ti­ve that fo­cu­ses on Stei­nitz not on­ly as an ar­tist, but al­so as a pho­to­grapher and aut­hor. The ex­hi­bi­ti­on is ba­sed on her fa­mi­ly’s ar­tis­tic es­tate, which was do­na­ted from the USA in 2018 and in­cludes uni­que, of­ten un­pu­blished pho­to­graphs, prints and texts.

Vi­si­tors can look for­ward to six ex­hi­bi­ti­on rooms that trace Kä­te Stei­nit­z’s life and va­ried oeu­vre. Par­ti­cu­lar­ly no­te­wor­t­hy are her pho­to­gra­phic works, which have of­ten on­ly sur­vi­ved as ne­ga­ti­ves and have ra­re­ly be­en shown in pu­blic. A mo­no­graph ac­com­pany­ing the ex­hi­bi­ti­on will be pu­blished in Ger­man and Eng­lish by Hirm­er Ver­lag. The ex­hi­bi­ti­on was cu­ra­ted by Isa­bel Schulz, sup­port­ed by the Ernst von Sie­mens Art Foun­da­ti­on — an in­vi­ta­ti­on to re­dis­co­ver the work of an in­spi­ring and hi­ther­to un­de­re­sti­ma­ted ar­tis­tic per­so­na­li­ty.