Artists

Karl Bohrmann, Heinz Butz, Michael Croissant, F. G. Scheuer, Rudi Tröger, Katharina von Werz

Press release

With the exhibition Chapeau Fred III, Jahn und Jahn concludes a three-part exhibition cycle that began in January last year and is dedicated to the gallery founder Fred Jahn on the occasion of his anniversary year 2024. Fred Jahn turned 80 on September 30, 2024. The exhibition brings together a carefully chosen and personal selection of works by artists whose paths crossed with Fred Jahn's decades ago and who have become important companions.

“[…] Throughout his long life, he has been working in galleries, as a graphic publisher, and art dealer since 1964. He has published important books and catalogues. Sixty out of eighty years dealing with artists, editions, exhibitions, collectors, museums, dealers, and the public. Despite this diversity, he embodied constancy and unwavering loyalty to his profession. When times changed, Fred Jahn found new tasks without losing his compass. It was always directed towards the authenticity of the artist, the quality of each work, and the right place for both in the expanding network of the art system. But his compass was supported by something else: uncompromising accuracy and undiminished dedication to every large or small task, to every customer, to every business. This created trust and an atmosphere that conveyed the sense of being welcome in the modest spaces above Munich's magnificent Maximilianstrasse. The art dealer as a humanitarian! […]”

(excerpt from the text by Siegfried Gohr on occasion of Chapeau Fred I)