Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart

The association is currently setting a number of focal points, which serve as a thematic background for the exhibition program and for other activities such as lectures, conferences or the awarding of scholarships.

[2] One of the founding fathers of the Württembergischer Kunstverein was the lawyer and painter Carl Urban Keller, who initially ran the association as a voluntary curator.

The aim of the association was to get the bourgeoisie interested in art, as well as to purchase, exhibit and raffle works by local artists.

In March 1933, for example, the first major retrospective of Oskar Schlemmer, with his main work Bauhaus Stairs, was closed by the new rulers before it even opened.

The gallery of the city of Stuttgart also moved into the rooms of the art building with the Kunstverein, which now consists of the historic complex with a domed hall and gallery rooms, the new so-called quadrangular hall designed by Paul Bonatz and Günther Wilhelm, and a glass connecting wing between the old and new buildings.