Born in New York to German parents and raised in Berlin, Gertrude Degenhardt became an internationally renowned printmaker and visual storyteller, illustrating writers including Bertolt Brecht and Liam O’Flaherty.
First visiting Ireland in the late 1970s, she developed a lasting connection with Galway and the West, where she lived and worked for many years. Her distinctive style combines precise line with theatrical imagination, often depicting musicians, performers, the grotesque, and solitary figures shaped by rhythm and movement.
Presented following her death in 2025, this exhibition celebrates a singular artistic voice rooted in both European tradition and the cultural life of the West of Ireland.
