Galerie Le Minotaure

Born in 1956 Ulrich Fiedler grew up in Aachen a city located between Germany, The Netherlads and Belgium. During his studies of history of art at the RWTH Aachen Ulrich Fiedler started collecting furniture designed by architects and artists. Founded 1986 in Cologne, where he started to organize a series of important exhibitions, many of them accomponied by publications, his gallery moved to Berlin in 2008. Specializing in the European avant-garde (Bauhaus, De Stijl, French modernism) from the 1920s up to the 1960s, his collection contains furniture by Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Gerrit Rietveld and Mies van der Rohe, as well as metalware, ceramics, graphic design and photography. Earning its reputation through nearly 40 years of experience, the Gallery has become one of the world’s premier resources for individual collectors and museums seeking exceptional original works of modernist design.  The gallery also has exhibited for decades at the world’s most prestigious art fairs, including Art Basel, Tefaf Maastricht and Friezemasters in London routinely deemed by art critics as having one of the fair’s most exciting booths.  In addition, the gallery offers representation worldwide for buying and selling, as well as management of estates and collections.

As a historical gallery and as researchers, we think about the modern past—about innovators and innovations that impacted significantly this time and that continue to influence the present. We believe inherent in the role of a dealer is to research historical context and educate through exhibitions, publications, and stories in homage to the designers and artists that contributed to their field by leaps and bounds in challenging times and the benefits realized from their achievements. In the exhibition at Le Minotaure in Paris, important furniture and objects from the Bauhaus masters, furniture by Charlotte Perriand and Gerrit Thomas Rietveld are combined with work by Jean Arp, Walter Dexel, Wassily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Fernand Léger et Laszlo Moholy-Nagy from the collection of Galerie Le Minotaure. All of these works, which arose from the revolutionary impetus of this period, form an ensemble of original design objects and works of art created during the same time and complement each other perfectly.