Discover more than 200 works by the self taught artist Peter Scholleck from his extraordinary collection created from 1941 to 1967. As you scroll through these galleries you will see that Scholleck is a brilliant artist creating work that is original and ahead of its time. This exceptional body of work had remained unknown to the public until September 2024 when 12 works were selected from a private collection for exhibition.
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“Modernisms ... expands its parameters by including the work of Peter Scholleck, a self-taught artist who ... left a legacy of expressive, textural work engaging modernist movements from Fauvism to Futurism.
... [He] engaged modernism in a rigorous but solitary practice, [and offered] a counterpoint to the ways that institutional training may tend to reproduce stylistic or theoretical consensus.
... [T]his is the first time [his paintings] have received full exhibition .... While Scholleck’s autodidacticism registers in his technique, ... he demonstrates impressive range driven by voracious individual curiosity and a desire to explore the innovations of European aesthetics. The canvases, brushy and emotionally intense, provocatively blend modernist approaches with idiosyncratic innovation, and the impact lingers.”
“Over time, Scholleck absorbed what he saw and synthesized it to create his own highly original works, first in the family’s two-bedroom apartment and then from 1955, in the basement of their split-level home. It is an amazing achievement.”
“I’m asked all the time to look at family collections of artwork but never agree to a client relationship until I see the work; and usually, I pass. I’ve never seen anything quite like Koenigsberg’s collection. I was like, wait a minute. This work has never been seen outside the home? Here I was invited into this world – and it was a very private experience and very special – and my first impression was that this work needs to be seen. It needs to be shared and shown. An unexpected result of the first exhibition of the work in September 2024 was the interest and enthusiasm among artists, specifically painters, who visited several times and brought their friends.”