The Gallery
The Hartje Gallery was founded in 1982 in Berlin (West), Germany during the same year of the groundbreaking Zeitgeist exhibit. Berlin at that time was exploding with artists creating large-scale neo-expressionist paintings and with new galleries showcasing a wide range of styles. Hartje Gallery presented an international program of painting, sculpture and prints, including the work of American artists Aaron Fink and Michael Gitlin. Hartje also organized a traveling show of Los Angeles art with catalogue, entitled Spectrum Los Angeles with Ed Ruscha, Peter Alexander, John Okulick and others and the SIGNALS exhibit that were shown in museums and cultural institutions throughout Europe.
Between 1986-1991 the Hartje Gallery relocated to Frankfurt where it broadened its program by showing such internationally acclaimed artists as Mimmo Paladino, Francesco Clemente, Jennifer Bartlett, Robert Longo, Keith Haring. The gallery participated in international art fairs, such as Art Los Angeles (1986-88), Zurich Art Fair, Switzerland (1987) and Valencia Art Fair, Spain (1988).
In 2007 the Hartje Gallery re-opened in Brookline, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, in the USA. The gallery will continue to promote culture exchange. Its inaugural exhibit presented Mothers for Children, a portfolio of prints and poems by 25 South African artists, developed by Art for Humanity of Durban, South Africa to support awareness of children’s rights issues. The next show, landscapes and characters, showed the woodcuts of Eva Pietzcker and Miriam Zegrer of Druckstelle, Berlin-Kreuzberg. Both artists spent time in Japan and work in the traditional Japanese style of woodblock printing.