Special exhibition on Heinrich Gustav Eberlein
Until 01.11.2026, the co-founder of the museum Heinrich Gustav Eberlein will be commemorated. Celebrated as a sculptor, he saw himself as a universal artist with his book "Aus eines Bildners Seelenleben", published in 1892. Painting, poetry and musical composition were further facets of an artist whose fame did not survive the turning point of the First World War and whose work fell into oblivion, literally ending up almost completely in the "dustbin of history".
An important turning point came in 1982 with the targeted rediscovery of the plaster designs that had been smashed to pieces and the long and ongoing journey to restore Eberlein to a significant place among Germany's sculptors of the Gründerzeit.
The Gustav-Eberlein-Forschung e. V. association played a decisive role in this process under the decades-long research of Prof. Rolf Grimm and his drawings, which his son Rudo now also presents freely accessible on the Internet.
Now some works that have been stored in the depot for many years and, for the first time, collages that Eberlein made for his "Seelenleben" are celebrating a kind of resurrection with renewed visibility.
Until 01.11.2026, the co-founder of the museum Heinrich Gustav Eberlein will be commemorated. Celebrated as a sculptor, he saw himself as a universal artist with his book "Aus eines Bildners Seelenleben", published in 1892. Painting, poetry and musical composition were further facets of an artist whose fame did not survive the turning point of the First World War and whose work fell into oblivion, literally ending up almost completely in the "dustbin of history".
An important turning point came in 1982 with the targeted rediscovery of the plaster designs that had been smashed to pieces and the long and ongoing journey to restore Eberlein to a significant place among Germany's sculptors of the Gründerzeit.
The Gustav-Eberlein-Forschung e. V. association played a decisive role in this process under the decades-long research of Prof. Rolf Grimm and his drawings, which his son Rudo now also presents freely accessible on the Internet.
Now some works that have been stored in the depot for many years and, for the first time, collages that Eberlein made for his "Seelenleben" are celebrating a kind of resurrection with renewed visibility.