This major museum presentation of informal painting brought together 16 artistic positions, eight per country, from France and Germany respectively. The exhibition set a bold and avant-garde precedent in postwar Germany and established Wiesbaden as a significant venue for contemporary art.

To mark the 70th anniversary in 2027, the Museum Reinhard Ernst is planning an exhibition that partially reconstructs the historic show and makes tangible the breadth and life-affirming novelty of abstract painting in the 1950s. At the heart of the mre’s temporary exhibition are the works by Judit Reigl, the only female artist who was part of the group exhibition in 1957.