Galka (Emmy E.) Scheyer (1889-1945) was an extraordinary woman: Jewish painter art collector
and mediator. After meeting the Bauhaus artists Alexej von Jawlensky Lyonel Feininger Wassily
Kandinsky and Paul Klee she founded the artists' group The Blue Four along with them. To
promote her four kings not only in Europe she emigrated to the US in 1924. Scheyer organized
exhibitions and gave lectures all over the world. The famous architect Richard Neutra designed
a gallery building for her in the Hollywood Hills where she lived and welcomed art collectors
and Hollywood's high society including Marlene Dietrich Greta Garbo Fritz Lang and Josef
von Sternberg. She died in Hollywood in 1945. This volume presents the papers held at the Galka
Scheyer international conference in Braunschweig the city of her birth in November 2019.
