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The humble dachshund is taking center stage in a new exhibition in Germany<\/a> that explores the history of the sausage dog in art \u2014 and visitors are welcome to bring their four-legged friends along.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Dachshund: An Icon off the Leash” opens at the Kunsthalle Bremen<\/a> on Saturday, showcasing artwork by dachshund owners and fans including Pablo Picasso<\/a>, David Hockney<\/a> and Andy Warhol<\/a>. In addition to painting, drawing, photography and video, visitors can admire delights such as a wealth of stuffed toy dogs and many other dachshund-themed objects. <\/p>\n

Museum director Christoph Grunenberg believes it’s the world’s first exhibition dedicated to the dachshund in art, rather than dogs in general.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are many artists who owned dachshunds, who were inspired by the dachshund, loved the dachshund,\u201d Grunenberg said. \u201cIt was like a muse and there is an incredible wealth of representation of the dachshund in very different styles by significant artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to take the dachshund as an object, as an inspiration to artists, and trace it through history in all its different forms and important works of art by Picasso, Warhol and Hockney and also ephemera,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

\"VisitorsVisitors view the exhibition “The Dachshund: An Icon off the Leash,” dedicated to dachshunds in art, at Kunsthalle Bremen in Bremen, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026 (AP)<\/p>\n

The dog has a long association with Germany. Kaiser Wilhelm II had dachshunds, or Dackel in German; and Britain<\/a>‘s Queen Victoria<\/a> was a fan of the dogs, some brought from Germany. But the show casts its net wider, with exhibits brought in from Edinburgh<\/a>, Los Angeles<\/a> and Pittsburgh<\/a> among others. <\/p>\n

German artist Thorsten Brinkmann honored the compact dogs\u2019 reputation as a \u201chandbag dog\u201d with a bronze sculpture that features a handbag on dachshund legs. He also provided the colorful \u201cToxie Love\u201d installation in the exhibition\u2019s first room, which sets a playful tone for the show.<\/p>\n

The dachshund, he said, has \u201ca very curious, very special form, very long \u2014 kind of too long, actually, with the short legs \u2014 and it looks already surrealistic to me.\u201d He was helped by objects loaned by the Dachshund Museum in Regensburg, in southern Germany.<\/p>\n

\"AA dog sits during the exhibition “The Dachshund: An Icon off the Leash,” dedicated to dachshunds in art, at Kunsthalle Bremen in Bremen, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026. (AP Photo\/Martin Meissner) (AP)<\/p>\n

For several hours on Thursdays and Saturdays, the museum will let dachshunds and other small dogs into three of its eight rooms for a look and a sniff.<\/p>\n

Among the conditions: they must have a maximum shoulder height of 30 centimeters (about 1 foot) and an online time-slot ticket. A \u201cDachshund Lounge\u201d will be offered as a waiting area. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to take the dog seriously as a personality and the dog can walk around, can interact, will be able to watch videos, look outside the window, smell \u2014 and of course that\u2019s what the dog really is interested in,\u201d Grunenberg said.<\/p>\n

Finnish photographer Elina Brotherus’ dachshund, Marcello, already checked out the wares ahead of the opening of the exhibition, which features Brotherus’ pictures of the 13-year-old dog.<\/p>\n

\"DachshundsDachshunds attend the exhibition “The Dachshund: An Icon off the Leash,” dedicated to dachshunds in art, at Kunsthalle Bremen in Bremen, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026. (AP Photo\/Martin Meissner) (AP)<\/p>\n

Marcello has been her model since 2013, Brotherus said. \u201cI did not manage to have children, so then we got him and he\u2019s my baby.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something so, like, cute and philosophical and special about these dogs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Kelsey Crossman, a business developer who lives in Bremen and originally hails from Florida<\/a>, was invited to a preview of the show at a dachshund meetup group and explored it with her dachshund, Leonidas, or Leo for short. <\/p>\n

She said the dogs’ appeal is in \u201ctheir attitudes \u2014 they\u2019re small, but they\u2019re very strong and a little stubborn, probably like myself.\u201d And, of course, they’re light enough to be easily transported.<\/p>\n

Crossman enjoyed the dachshund collectibles in Brinkmann’s installation \u2014 \u201ca really cool collection of little dachshunds that you might see at grandma\u2019s house, or collectors’ things, and a ton of stuffed animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, she added: \u201cLeo is not allowed near them because he will certainly grab one from the exhibit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,377749],"class_list":["post-902113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-germany-dachshund-art-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}