Dachau Anja Seelke never really let go. Not until today. “How do you keep the conversation about Walter von Ruckteschell alive?” The artist from Stade is also asking this question one year after the opening of her exhibition about the sculptor, a dismantling of the legend of the “Africa lover” Walter von Ruckteschell (1882-1941), who is almost an icon of Dachau’s art history. Ruckteschell was a colonialist, racist, and Nazi sculptor. Mayor Florian Hartmann (SPD) spoke at the time of the beginning of the necessary confrontation with the city’s colonial legacy. But that has not happened to date. Why not?
Dachau and the difficult legacy of the artist Ruckteschell – Dachau
