Pechstein on a journey
The international exhibition tour
2025 – 2028
Palazzo Zabarella
14 Via degli Zabarella
35121 Padova, Italy
Tuesday – Sunday
10 am – 7 pm
www.zabarella.it ›
Now in Padua: Max Pechstein. Expressionism of the soul
Palazzo Zabarella, Padua · 24.10.2026 – 14.03.2027
The historic Palazzo Zabarella hosts the first major exhibition of sandstone in Italy, the country that has been influenced by sandstone on several trips. Over 120 works from more than five decades, paintings, drawings, watercolors, photographs, sketches, and personal objects, tell the story of the Bridge years to the late works.
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 19:00, last admission at 18:15. Closed on Mondays, also on 24th and 25th December; additionally open on Mondays 7th December, 28th December, 4th January and 8th February.
All stations
Since 2025, the work of Max Pechstein has been on display in a major retrospective, in cooperation with the Zwickau – Max-Pechstein-Museum art collections, the Institute for Cultural Exchange Tübingen, and the Max Pechstein Foundation.
Kunsthal Rotterdam
Max Pechstein: Expression of Harmony
28.03. – 15.06.2025
The tour begins with over 50 paintings as well as graphics, drawings, photographs and personal belongings.
Buchheim Museum, Bernried
Max Pechstein – Vision and Work
19.07. – 26.10.2025
Second station at Starnberger See: from the early works through the Bridge Years to the late works, supplemented by draft sketches, letters and photographs.
Ostholstein-Museum Eutin
Max Pechstein by the Baltic Sea
14.08. – 02.11.2025
Pechstein's pictures of the Baltic coast, at the same time as the station in Bernried.
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Max Pechstein. Adventures of Expressionism
23.04. – 30.08.2026
Over 100 works, including landscapes of the Baltic and South Seas, which were on display in Austria for the first time, with a focus on Pechstein's relationship with Wolfgang Gurlitt.
Palazzo Zabarella, Padua
Max Pechstein. Expressionism of the soul
24.10.2026 – 14.03.2027
Now to be seen
The first and only Italian stop on the tour. Film and sightseeing ›
Modern gallery, Saarbrücken
Saarländischer Kulturbesitz Foundation · Title to follow
24.07. – 24.10.2027
in preparation
Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn
Max Pechstein – Vision and Work
13.11.2027 – 08.03.2028
in preparation
Museum of Art Lucerne, Switzerland
Max Pechstein – Vision and Work
08.07. – 05.11.2028
in preparation
You can also find all the films here Publications › Exhibition videos.