Constantin von Mitschke-Collande

The year 2026 marks the 70th anniversary of the death of the artist Constantin von Mitschke-Collande (1884 - 1956), who was born in 1884. To mark the occasion, the Kunstvilla is showing a large-scale retrospective of the artist's work.
The artist, who initially worked in Munich, Paris and Dresden, spent the last years of his life in Nuremberg together with his second wife Hilde von Collande, who also worked as an artist. Mitschke-Collande had studied in Dresden from 1907 under the German Impressionist Robert Sterl and his counterpart, the New Objectivity painter Oskar Zwintscher, among others. In addition, artist trips to Rome, Florence and Paris, where he met Maurice Denis and Fernand Léger, left lasting impressions. After the First World War, Mitschke-Collande, together with Otto Dix, was one of the founders of the socially critical artists' association "Dresden Secession Group 1919", which was followed by an expressionist phase in his work. The subsequent defamation by the National Socialists was another turning point: in 1937, one of his paintings was presented in the Munich female exhibition "Degenerate Art", while others were confiscated or destroyed. The destruction of his studio during the bombing of Dresden in the Second World War meant the loss of a large part of his oeuvre up to that point.
The exhibition brings together works from the Kunstvilla collection, the collection of the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg and from company and private collections - including rarely shown works from his estate. It not only honours the artist, but also the man who found a new home in Nuremberg after the war and expulsion and worked there until his death in 1956.

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Last edited on 10.11.2025