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Max Peiffer Watenphul: The Independent Spirit of the Bauhaus in Rome
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Max Peiffer Watenphul, Persian Landscape, 1966 | Photo: Antonio Idini | Courtesy the Max Peiffer Watenphul Foundation
Max Peiffer Watenphul. Bauhaus Painter
Opening date: Apr 21, 2026
Closing date: Aug 23, 2026
Schedule: Tue - Sun 9 am - 7 pm | Mon closed
Tickets: 15 €
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Location: Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
Address: Viale Belle Arti 131

Between the suspended light of Venice, the geometries of the Bauhaus, and landscapes shaped by a restless gaze, the trajectory of an unconventional artist comes into focus. The Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome presents an exhibition dedicated to Max Peiffer Watenphul, a singular figure of the twentieth-century avant-garde. Bringing together around 80 works, the exhibition traces the artist’s entire creative path - from his early beginnings and training at the Bauhaus in Weimar to his mature works produced in Italy. Painter, photographer, and tireless traveler, Peiffer Watenphul moved through the artistic ferment of the 1920s while maintaining an independent stance, resisting any fixed definition. The exhibition highlights his connection to the Bauhaus’s interdisciplinary ethos, while emphasizing his personal evolution toward a distinctive and autonomous pictorial language. From cityscapes and still lifes to Italian views and his postwar Venetian period, his work reveals an intense, lyrical vision capable of transforming reality into image. More than a retrospective, the exhibition offers the portrait of an artist who reimagined, with subtlety and freedom, the legacy of the European avant-gardes.

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