1967: In June, the American artist Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) published the essential principles of his conceptual art for the first time in Artforum: “What the work of art looks like isn’t too important [...] No matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an idea.” With such principals, Sol LeWitt would change art permanently.

At the end of the same year, Konrad Fischer (1939–1996) opened his first gallery space in Düsseldorf at Neubrückstrasse 12 with a floor piece by Carl Andre. Andre put Fischer in touch with Sol LeWitt, whose work the budding gallerist—at the time still active as an artist himself—presumably first took notice of in 1967 at the exhibition “Serial Formations” in Frankfurt am Main.

LeWitt’s first solo show in Europe, which opened in Düsseldorf on January 6, 1968, became the starting point for a long-standing professional and friendly relationship. This is evidenced not only by the twelve exhibitions that Fischer presented through 1993 and the numerous projects he initiated, but also by the extensive correspondence, especially the many postcards from all over the world that Sol LeWitt addressed to his gallerist and friend.

The current presentation now takes into account the long-standing professional and friendly relationship between the two of them.

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