1. Fruhjahrsausstellung, 8.-28. April 1953 Collektiv-Ausstellungen -- Gottfried Diehl, Offenbach a/M, Johanna Schutz-Wolff, Hamburg, Peter Steinforth, Berlin

Koln: Galerie Ferdinand Möller. Very Good. 1953. First Edition. Paperback. 8 pages; Clean and complete in stapled self-wrapper. Exhibition list for a group show including Gottfried Diehl, Johanna Schutz-Wolff, Peter Steinforth. OCLC 79640607 RE: The Gallery: Ferdinand Möller (1882-1956) was a high-profile German art dealer and gallery owner. Möller's career was at its height through the years of the German Republic. After 1933, being neither Jewish nor among those identified by the party as a government opponent, he remained a leading figure in the German art world, although the nature of the arts business was transformed during the Hitler years. About 1937 Möller was obliged to end his involvement with organising art exhibitions. In 1938 Möller became one of four leading art dealers mandated to dispose of art works confiscated in the campaign against so-called degenerate art. Many sources assert or imply that he found opportunities to interpret his mandate and /or to enrich himself unreasonably while undertaking this work for the government. In 1951 Ferdinand Möller opened his gallery at Hahnenstraße 11, close to the university and a ten minute walk from the city centre. Cologne, like Berlin, had been in large part destroyed by the bombing, and the building in which Möller installed his gallery was designed by Wilhelm Riphahn, one of the city's twentieth century architects. During the next four years the gallery presented a succession of successful exhibitions featuring not just German impressionist artists from the "Weimar" years, but also classical works, along with exhibitions of works by well-regarded contemporary artists who were still very much alive, such as Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Hans Uhlmann and Fritz Winter. Ferdinand Möller himself, by this time aged 73, died in a Cologne hospital in January 1956 and the gallery was closed down shortly afterwards .