KARL HORST HÖDICKE
BILDER AUS DEM DESSAUER TURM

KÖNIG GALERIE | VAULT
ALEXANDRINENSTRASSE 118–121, 10969 BERLIN

13 NOVEMBER 2026 – 24 JANUARY 2027

OPENING
12 NOVEMBER 2026 | 6 – 8 PM

KÖNIG GALERIE presents the exhibition BILDER AUS DEM DESSAUER TURM by Karl Horst Hödicke in the Vault at St. Agnes. It marks the artist’s seventh exhibition with the gallery.

The title refers to the nickname Hödicke gave to the building where he lived and worked for decades. Located on Dessauer Straße, near the Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz, it was for a long time the only building still standing in an otherwise largely vacant urban landscape.

The exhibition focuses on paintings that depict Hödicke’s personal surroundings.

© Karl Horst Hödicke

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KARL HORST HÖDICKE

Karl Horst Hödicke (1938–2024) was a contemporary German artist known for his Neo-Expressionist paintings. The artist’s broad brushstrokes and specific colour palette provide his works with a sense of seeing a place through memory – specifically Berlin with its ever-changing cityscape was a central motif in his work. Having moved to Berlin in 1957, Hödicke became one of the spokespeople for a small group of impetuous young lateral thinkers who wanted to revolutionise painting. No sooner had German post-war modernism rejoined the international artistic trend towards the abstract than they revolted against this new doctrine with a revival of...