26.04 – 27.07.2024

On behalf of the Lentz Villa and the Szczecin Club of Collectors – Devotees of Painting and Historical Art, we invite you to an exhibition titled Szczecin in Paintings from the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Property of Private Szczecin Collectors, comprising approximately thirty paintings, which will be held between April and July this year in the interiors of Szczecin’s Lentz Villa.

The exhibition presents paintings by German artists, depicting the city in connection with the river Oder and the Port. The works come from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and were created by artists associated with this region. The exhibition is thus designed to acquaint the city’s inhabitants and guests alike with the cultural heritage of our cross-border region.

Works presented at the exhibition include Fritz Modrow’s Szczecin Port, Eduard Krause-Wichmann’s View of Stepnica from the Szczecin Lagoon, Julius Paulsen’s The Port in Szczecin, Otto Lang-Wollin’s Summer on the Lagoon, as well as several paintings by Hans Hartig. The works come from the private collections of Polish owners associated with the Szczecin Club of Collectors – Devotees of Painting and Historical Art.

The exhibition is curated by:

Renata Zdero

The project Szczecin in Paintings from the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Property of Private Szczecin Collectors is a cross-border cultural offer co-financed from the funds of the Interreg VI A Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Brandenburg / Poland Cooperation Programme 2021-2027.