{"id":3276,"date":"2025-08-08T13:57:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielhartlaub.com\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:32:26","slug":"coming-up-friday-september-5-2025-vanished-the-curious-life-and-death-of-felix-hartlaub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielhartlaub.com\/?p=3276","title":{"rendered":"VANISHED \u2013 THE CURIOUS LIFE AND DEATH OF FELIX HARTLAUB. Solo exhibition. Frankfurter KunstS\u00e4ule. 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the collected works published by Suhrkamp, we know that the illustrator and author Felix Hartlaub (1913\u20131945, son of \u00a0Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, the then director of the Mannheimer Kunsthalle and founder of the Neue Sachlichkeit<\/em> (New Objectivity<\/em>) art movement) created dark, apocalyptic ink drawings as a child, focusing on wounded war veterans. His story of the boy, which he told in 16 drawings about 100 years ago, depicts the imaginary adventures of his alter ego in the world. Employed at the F\u00fchrer’s headquarters as a contributor to the Wehrmacht’s war diary, he managed to smuggle out his own texts describing his external and internal perceptions of that time. Felix Hartlaub’s short life and his unexplained death in the final days of the war left behind many mysteries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Daniel Hartlaub and Keith Rodway are currently working on a film about Felix Hartlaub, who went missing in Berlin in 1945, and the Frankfurter KunstS\u00e4ule<\/a> featured this film theme in a special collaboration with English artist Keith Rodway. In spring 2025, the two artists already put on a joint exhibition<\/a> on Felix Hartlaub in England. For the Felix Hartlaub film, his nephew is planning an animated imaginary world, parts of which was shown on the KunstS\u00e4ule<\/a>. In Hartlaub’s pictures, Felix Hartlaub’s life oscillates between art, war, and the Nazi regime. The advertising column thus recalled a turbulent time. The parallels to the realities of today\u2019s world seem clear.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like the exhibition in May at Electro Studios<\/a> in Hastings, England, this exhibition was also curated by Katrin Kobberger.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the opening english<\/span>\u00a0band Necessary Animals<\/a> (Keith Rodway\/Amanda Thompson<\/a>) performed The Felix Song <\/em><\/a>and other pieces + CD-Release of Vanished<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Exhibition was part of the Saisonstart<\/a> of Frankfurt Art Excperience<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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VANISHED \u2013 THE CURIOUS LIFE AND DEATH OF FELIX HARTLAUB
\n<\/strong><\/em>at Frankfurter KunstS\u00e4ule<\/a>, Frankfurt, Germany
\n<\/span><\/span>Solo exhibition
\n<\/span>2025-26<\/span><\/span>
\nCharcoal on paper\/music
\nPrinted Poster Paper (<\/span><\/span>3,60 x 420m).<\/span><\/p>\n

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