The gallery Brockstedt has been founded 1958 in Hannover and moved to Hamburg in 1959. In 1992, the second gallery opened in Berlin.
It's reputation was formed through its work with artists of the German Expressionist movement, the Post-War rediscovery of the artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit, such as Otto Dix, Franz Radziwill, Christian Schad, etc., the intensive work with the artists of the Cologne Progressive Art movement, like Gerd Arntz, Otto Freundlich, Heinrich Hoerle, and Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, and a lifelong friendship and collaboration with the Hamburg artist, Horst Janssen. In addition to the work of Modern masters, the gallery also features Contemporary Realists, such as Johannes Grützke, Antonio Lopez, Francesco Lopez, Isabel Quintanilla, Maria Mureno, Annette Schröter, and Hans Scheib, as well as the artists of the German Informel (Willi Baumeister, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, and Emil Schumacher), and a number of non-figurative painters (Mark Safan, Jupp Linssen, and Gust Romijn), and others.
