IT PAINTED ITSELF OUT OF ME

Joachim Ringelnatz as a painter
25 July – 30 September 2026

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The writer and cabaret performer Joachim Ringelnatz ranks among the best-known literary figures of the Weimar Republic. To this day, his quirky, at times unsettling poems and texts continue to shape image of 1920s German culture. For him, literature no longer took place solely between the covers of a book; with his performances, it stepped onto the stage of popular entertainment. At the artists’ tavern »Alter Simpl« in Munich’s Türkenstrasse,  he celebrated major successes as resident poet before the First World War..

That the visual arts also played an important role in Ringelnatz’s ouevre was largely forgotten after 1933. . The first exhibition of paintings in 1923 at the renowned Berlin gallery of Alfred Flechtheim marked the poet‘s breakthrough as a painter. The following year, his works were exhibited alongside paintings by Otto Dix and George Grosz.

Founded in Cuxhaven in 2002, the Joachim-Ringelnatz-Museum Cuxhaven today houses the largest collection of documents and visual artworks by Ringelnatz. The majority of the works in this exhibition are drawn from its holdings, supplemented by loans from various museums and private collections. The exhibition is a cooperation with the Joachim-Ringelnatz-Museum Cuxhaven and the Ernst Barlach Haus Hamburg and is curated by Ulrich Luckhardt.

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2026 in the museum

Ruprecht von Kaufmann: Life Between the Chairs
29.11.2025 – 15.03.2026

CHOSEN. FURTHER WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION
15.11.2025 – 15.05.2026

25 YEARS BUCHHEIM MUSEUM
Retrospective and outlook for the anniversary
23 May – 30 September 2026

Resonant Silence
Stone Sculptures by Kubach & Kropp, 05.08.2025 – 15.03.2026

UPRISING OF COLOURS
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and the Legacy of »Die Brücke«
23 May – 30 September 2026

BUCHHEIM'S VILLA, FELDAFING 2014
Photographs by Florian Holzherr – Until 15.03.2026

BUCHHEIM'S HOUSE
Permanent exhibition: Reconstruction of Buchheim's villa in Feldafing

Africa & Oceania
Presentation of objects from the Buchheim Collection in the tower room on the 3rd floor of the Buchheim Museum

Joachim Ringelnatz, An der Kaimauer (At the Quay Wall), 1925, Joachim Ringelnatz Museum, Cuxhaven, acquired with funds from the HERMANN REEMTSMA FOUNDATION, Hamburg, 2025