# Margarete Lauter

Margarete Lauter (née Vetter) (9 September 1925 in Büchenbronn/Pforzheim; 2 October 2004 in Mannheim) was a German art dealer with the first Art Gallery for international contemporary art established in 1963 in Mannheim (Germany) after the Second World War 1945 mainly presenting works by German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Romanian, Belgian, Hungarian, Israeli, Slovenian, Austrian and US artists.

## Life

Margarete Vetter grew up as the daughter of a farming family with 4 siblings. Her mother promoted her early on with cultural activities. In the late years of the Second World War she met the young architect Harro Lauter (October 17, 1919 – October 5, 1996), whom she married in 1948. After spending 3 years in her father-in-law's parental home in Hoffenheim / Sinsheim (Germany), her husband was appointed architect in 1952 to the Mannheim Building Authority. In 1963, in collaboration with the Mannheim and Paris based artist Rudi Baerwind and the Galerie Paul Facchetti [fr], Paris, she opened the first gallery for international contemporary art after the Second World War in Mannheim. The couple had three children. The youngest son, Rolf Lauter, grew up in his mother's gallery in the 1960s, became assistant curator and curator at the gallery and has been appointed later as museum director.

## Galerie Lauter

Galerie Margarete Lauter 1963–1967
The first gallery space was located in Mannheim, Bismarckstrasse at the square L 15, 7–9, near the main train station, from 1963 to 1967. Galerie Margarete Lauter opened on November 21, 1963, with an exhibition that took place in close collaboration with the Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris, presenting works of the artists Ger Lataster, Ung-No Lee, Georges Noël, Rudi Baerwind, and Zoltan Kemeny, and objects of traditional African art. The guests were welcomed at the opening of the exhibition by the mayor of the city of Mannheim and friend of Margarete Lauter, Hans Reschke. Dietrich Mahlow, director of the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, made an introduction to the exhibition. Paul Facchetti from Paris in conversation with the artist Rudi Baerwind. Heinz Fuchs, director of the Kunsthalle Mannheim, a friend of the Lauter family for a long time, chats with the artists. In other exhibitions Lauter has shown works by: Uwe Lausen (1964–1965), Magie du banal (1965), Zoran Antonio Mušič (1965), Natalia Dumitresco (1965, 1971), Rudi Baerwind and Georges Noël (1965), Pierre Clerc (1965–1966) together with art and cult objects from Africa (1965–1966, 1968), Syn: Bernd Berner, Rolf Gunter Dienst, Klaus Jürgen-Fischer, Eduard Micus, Marc Vaux (1966), Alexandre Istrati (1966, 1975), Karl Fred Dahmen (1966, 1969, 1972) Luciano Lattanzi and Werner Schreib (1966, 1974, 1988), Divergenzen 66: Otmar Alt, Francisco Cuadrado, Jean-Luc Guerin, Dieter Krieg, Jobst Meyer, Manfred Mohr, Walter Montel, Rainer Negrelli [de], Marcel Robelin, Georg Meistermann (1967), Jaroslav Serpan (1967).
Galerie Lauter
In 1967 the gallery moved to a larger space in square B 4, 10a, where up to 6 exhibitions under the new name Galerie Lauter took place every year with international contemporary art (1967–1990). Here she realised amongst others exhibitions by: Jaroslav Serpan (1967, 1978), Amadeo Gabino (1967, 1970, 1982, 1990), Erwin Bechtold (1965, 1968, 1973, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1992), Shusaku Arakawa (1968, 1986), Louise Nevelson (1968), Otto Herbert Hajek (1968, 1977, 1989), Gianfranco Baruchello (1969), Otmar Alt (1969, 1981), Manuel Rivera (1970), Karl Prantl (1970), Rolf-Gunter Dienst (1970), Dieter Krieg (1970, 1988), Wilhelm Loth (1970), Manolo Millares (1971), Reipka - Paluzzi (1971), KRH Sonderborg (1972), Rolf Kissel (1972, 1976, 1979), Op Art & Kinetik: Narciso Debourg, Heinz Mack, Louis Tomasello, Günther Uecker, Jean-Pierre Yvaral (1973), Herrmann Goepfert (1974, 1992), Erwin Heerich (1974), Accrochage 74 (1974) Otto Piene (1975, 1992), Alexandre Istrati (1975), Adolf Luther (1975, 1989), Pierre Alechinsky (1976), HA Schult (1976), Gustav Seitz (1976, 1989), Miguel Berrocal (1976), Antoni Tàpies (1977), Robert Motherwell (1977), Joan Miró (1978), Serpan (1978), Robert Häusser (1978), Antonio Saura (1979), Georges Mathieu (1980), Georges Noël (1980, 1984), Erich Hauser (1980), Heinz Mack (1981, 1985, 1992 ), Hans Hartung (1981), Victor Vasarely (1982/83), Roberto Matta (1983), George Rickey (1983), Antonio Saura (1985–86), Rafael Mahdavi (1987), Karel Appel (1987), Ger Lataster (1987/88), Werner Schreib (1988), Adolf Luther (1989), Victor Vasarely (1989), COBRA (1990), Yaacov Agam (1989/90).
From 1990 to 1996 Lauter changed for new tall spaces at Friedrichsplatz 14, right next to the Kunsthalle Mannheim and Mannheim's landmark, the water tower.
From 1996 she retired to private rooms for 4 years after her husband passed away, focusing on smaller exhibitions and art consulting. Finally in 2000 she reopened a gallery space at Friedrichsplatz 15 to conduct art trading in a reduced form. Lauter ended her gallery activities in spring 2003, after 40 years of successful work, in which she was able to build up numerous new private collections.

## Footnotes

* ↑ "Galerie Margarete Lauter". Online queries with scopeQuery™. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
* 1 2 "Galerie Lauter Mannheim 1963-2003". galerie-lauter3.webnode.com (in German). 2021-10-23. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* 1 2 "Galerie Lauter Exhibitions 1963-2003". galerie-lauter3.webnode.com (in German). 2021-10-20. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "SWR Retro - Abendschau: Neue Kunstgalerie in Mannheim | ARD Mediathek". www.ardmediathek.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Margarete Lauter - Stadtwiki Pforzheim-Enz". pfenz.de. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
* ↑ "Results for 'Paul Facchetti' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ Earlier than Lauter Rudolf Probst was an important art dealer in Mannheim, who dealt with works of classical modernism in Germany before and during the Nazi era. He opened his first gallery for classical Modern Art in Mannheim in August 1945, right after the end of the war, after working as an art dealer in Dresden in the Emil Richter art store (1918–1923) and managing the gallery "Neue Kunst Fides" from 1923–1933. His gallery, in which he had shown works by Emil Nolde, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann and Oskar Kokoschka, was closed by the National Socialists in 1933. Probst acquired the Kunsthaus Tannenbaum from Herbert Tannenbaum (1892–1958) a short time later in Mannheim, but also came into conflict with the National Socialists here immediately. After an exhibition of Emil Nolde's works in the summer of 1937, Probst had to forego the presentation and public sale of art accused to show "degenerated art". The Kunsthaus was destroyed in air raids on Mannheim in 1943. From 1945 to 1958 Probst operated his gallery first in Otto-Beck-Straße and from 1949 in Mannheimer Schloss. Probst offered numerous artists of classical modernism after the war and succeeded in conveying important works to German museums. (Karl Ludwig Hofmann, Christmut Präger: Rudolf Probst 1890–1968, Galerist. Nimbus, Wädenswil 2015, ISBN 978-3-907142-88-2.)
* ↑ "Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim". 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim". beta.clio-online.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ Today's city plan of Mannheim is based on a horseshoe-shaped grid of squares referring to Mannheim Castle, starting with A 1 and ending with U 16. The planning of this network goes back to Elector Frederick IV of the Palatinate from 1606 and has been preserved until today. This unique structure can only be compared to the later founding of Manhattan.
* ↑ "Galerie Margarete Lauter [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-15.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Paul Facchetti' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org.
* ↑ "Results for 'Ger Lataster' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Ung-No Lee' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Georges Noel' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Rudi Baerwind' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Zoltan Kemeny' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "The Lauter Legacy – Galerie Margarete Lauter 1963-1967 & Galerie Lauter Mannheim 1963-2003. Part I: Grand Opening 1963". October 17, 2021.
* ↑ Uwe Lausen: Das Lamm (in German). Mannheim: Galerie Margarete Lauter. 1964. OCLC 950173345.
* ↑ Galerie Margarete Lauter. "Magie du banal". www.worldcat.org (in French). Retrieved 2020-02-22.
* ↑ The exhibition Magie im Alltag / Magie du banal: with works by Royston Adzak, François Arnal, Eduardo Arroyo, Victor Brauner, René Bro, Aristide Caillaud, Dado, François Dufrêne, Yolande Fièvre, Peter Foldes, Klaus Geissler, Domenico Gnoli, Habbah, Horst Egon Kalinowski, Peter Klasen, Harry Kramer, Michel Lablais, Maurice Lemaître, Pavlos (Pavlos Dionyssopoulos), Jean-Claude Quilici, Bernard Rancillac, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Antonio Recalcati, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Peter Saul, Bernard Schultze, Ursula Schultze-Bluhm, Harold Stevenson, Jacques de la Villeglé has been realised in collaboration with Rudi Baerwind, Claude Rivière, Wolfgang Sauré and Gerald Gassiot-Talabot as well as with the support of the galleries Iris Clert, Galerie Breteau, Alexandre Iolas, Galerie «J», Claude Levin, André Schoeller and Galerie Stadler all from Paris. It was a demonstration of young international contemporary art in Germany long before the first Art Fair took place in Germany and Switzerland and many of the artists shown here exhibited only later in Documenta Kassel and Biennale di Venezia.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Natalia Dumitresco' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ Galerie Margarete Lauter. "Rudi Baerwind - Georges Noël". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
* ↑ Galerie Margarete Lauter. "Pierre Clerc". www.worldcat.org (in German). Retrieved 2020-02-14.
* ↑ Galerie Margarete Lauter. "Kult- und Kunstgegenstände aus Afrika". www.worldcat.org (in German). Retrieved 2020-02-23.
* ↑ "Hans Himmelheber". Museum Rietberg (in German). Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ Galerie Margarete Lauter. "Syn". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Margarete Lauter, Alexandre Istrati' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* 1 2 "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Alexandre Istrati' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ Galerie Margarete Lauter. "Karl-Fred Dahmen". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
* ↑ Dahmen, Karl Fred, Galerie Lauter (Mannheim) (1969). K. F. Dahmen - Montagebilder und Objekte Eröffnung 2. April 1969, es spricht Manfred de la Motte [Einladung (in German). Mannheim. OCLC 1073476056.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
* ↑ K.F. Dahmen: kleine Retrospektive 1962–1972 (in German). Mannheim: Galerie Lauter. 1972. OCLC 950173432.
* ↑ Neuke, Angela (1966). Lattanzi und Schreib: Galerie Margarete Lauter, Mannheim : 20.5.66 bis 16.6.66 (in German). Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar. OCLC 165371588.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
* ↑ Schreib, Werner (1974). Werner Schreib: Galerie Lauter zeigt Cachetagen und Objekte von Werner Schreib aus den Jahren 1958-1969 [1974. Mannheim: Galerie Lauter. OCLC 921042540.
* ↑ Galerie Margarete Lauter. "Luciano Lattanzi & Werner Schreib". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Margarete Lauter, Divergenzen 66' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ Galerie Margarete Lauter. "Georg Meistermann". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
* ↑ Galerie Lauter. "Serpan". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
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* ↑ Galerie Lauter. "Erwin Bechtold". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
* ↑ Galerie Lauter (Mannheim) (1968). Paintings and drawings. OCLC 501157933.
* ↑ Arakawa, Shusaku, Galerie Margarete Lauter (Mannheim) (1986). BILDER UND ZEICHNUNGEN (in German). MANNHEIM. OCLC 1075314569.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Louise Nevelson' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ Galerie Lauter. "Otto Herbert Hajek". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
* ↑ Galerie Lauter. "Gianfranco Baruchello". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
* ↑ Galerie Lauter. "Otmar Alt". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Manuel Rivera' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Karl Prantl' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Rolf Gunter Dienst' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Dieter Krieg' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
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* ↑ Millares, Manolo; Galerie Lauter (Mannheim) (1971). Manolo Millares: Galerie Lauter, Mannheim, 24. September bis 4. Nov. 1971 (in German). OCLC 997464744.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Reipka Paluzzi' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Sonderborg' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Rolf Kissel' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ Galerie Lauter (Mannheim) (1973). Op-art, kinetik: eine Auswahl von Bildem, Objeken, Grafik [by 9 artists (in German). OCLC 501504395.
* ↑ Debourg, Narciso, Galerie Margarete Lauter (Mannheim) (1973). OP-ART, KINETIK (in German). MANNHEIM. OCLC 1074793357.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Hermann Goepfert' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Erwin Heerich' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Accrochage 74' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Otto Piene' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Adolf Luther' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Alechinsky' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Schult' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Gustav Seitz' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Miguel Berrocal' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Tapies' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Robert Motherwell, Galerie Lauter' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
* ↑ "Results for 'Joan Miro, Galerie Lauter' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Serpan' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Robert Häusser' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Antonio Saura, Galerie Lauter' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Georges Mathieu' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Georges Noel' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Erich Hauser' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Heinz Mack' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Hans Hartung, Galerie Lauter' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
* ↑ "Results for 'Victor Vasarely, Galerie Lauter' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Roberto Matta' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "George Rickey Foundation—Solo Exhibitions". www.georgerickey.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Antonio Saura' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Rafael Mahdavi - solo exhibitions". www.rafaelmahdavi.com. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Appel' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, Ger Lataster' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "Results for 'Galerie Lauter, schreib' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
* ↑ "DIE Galerie - Künstler". archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on 2007-06-15. Retrieved 2021-10-23.