100 years of griffelkunst – A declaration of love

Part 3

Duration: January 18, 2026 – February 08, 2026
In the late 1960s, Griffelkunst established a professional advisory board that proposed artists, from which a jury made the final selection. We present some examples from this "beginning" of today's Griffelkunst in our third exhibition.

1. Bernd and Hilla Becher
2. Marcel Broodthaers
3. Christo (Christo Javatscheff)
4. Sigmar Polke
5. Gerhard Richter
6. Dieter Roth
7. Fred Sandback

Part 2

Duration: November 23, 2025 – December 21, 2025
In the second exhibition in our series, we are showing particularly typical works by several “world champion artists” from the late 1990s from a private collection in Cologne. These are works by

1. Peter Doig
2. Nan Goldin
3. Kiki Smith
4. Michel Majerus
5. Ralf Peters
6. Thomas Schütte
7. Peter Piller
8. Sigmar Polke

Part 1

Duration: October 12, 2025 – November 16, 2025
Our exhibition series begins with the first stylus artworks from the early 1990s from a private collection in Cologne. On display are works by

1. Dan Asher
2. Günter Förg
3. Hubert Kiecol
4. Asta Gröting
5. Moholy Nagy
6. Georg Herold
7. Martin Noell

Griffelkunst was founded in 1925 by Karl Böse, a primary school teacher from Hamburg. At the beginning of the 1900s, the idea was to bring art closer to the public in the form of inexpensive graphic prints.

The Griffelkunst Association was founded at the Langenhorn primary school, now known as the Fritz Schumacher School. At an annual meeting, the association members at that time were able to choose from several editions by a single artist.

Today, 100 years later, the Griffelkunst Association has 4,500 members and is organized into 88 local groups. For the current membership fee of €200, each member receives four prints, which can be selected every six months from six artists and six prints each. Members can purchase additional sheets at the current price of €45, as well as additional sheets or objects from special editions. The print run of each edition depends on the number of orders placed by members.

We at Haus Mödrath are enthusiastic about the idea of making art accessible to everyone at an affordable price, thereby demonstrating that good art in one's own home is not reserved for the super-rich. With the opening of Haus Mödrath in 2017, we were able to found a Griffelkunst group for Kerpen. Any citizen of Kerpen and the Erft district can become a member of our Griffelkunst group.

To mark the 100th anniversary of Griffelkunst, we are now able to display a total of almost 300 Griffelkunst works from the past 35 years from a private collection in Cologne in our studio for a period of four weeks under the title “Eine Liebeserklärung” (A Declaration of Love).

Admission to the Griffelkunst exhibition is free.