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In the Art déco-Pfeilerhalle concepts of more than 60 designers from the collection of the couple Inge und Wilfried Funke were presented.

The list of modern artists who have dedicated themselves to the book includes all the great names: it ranges from Manet, Picasso and Matisse to Slevogt, Kirchner and Barlach to Grieshaber, Heisig and Baselitz. They were all represented in this collection of more than 1,400 illustrated books given to the GRASSI Museum for Applied Arts by Berlin collector Wieland Schütz and form the centerpiece of this exhibition.

The museums shows porcellain jars from the 1920s to the early 1930s as part of a donation from the collector Prof. Dr. Peter W. Schatt in the new studio foyer.

The exhibition shows a representative selection of works from Groschup's four handkerchief cycles, each with his own hand-embroidered lyrics on handkerchiefs of different provenance.

The Leipzig Photobook Festival is an international festival that presents and celebrates the potential of the photo book medium in a contemporary context. In 2023, the focus will be on photo books from African countries, as African photo books are still little known in the photo book landscape in Europe and are only sporadically available on the European market. There will also be panel discussions, presentations and two exhibitions – a photo book and a photography exhibition.

The exhibition united more than 100 upholstered furniture of the past 400 years, from Renaissance chair over council chair of the early 17th century, from the first fitness device Chamber Horse of the late 18th century up to the admired design object and the experiments of the last centuries.