What do a boxer, a politician, and a Karneval reveller have in common? They are all immortalised in wax on cardboard and wood – along with Gertrud Alex Hoerle and her husband, local painter Heinrich Hoerle – within the painting Cologne contemporaries from 1932. Hoerle was and remains a well-known figure in Cologne, as he was a core member of the revolutionary art collective “Cologne Progressives” since the mid-1920s, which formed around the painter Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and photographer August Sander. Their common aim was to capture the people and social structures of their time in pictures and photographs. “Trudchen” will certainly have a lot to say about that…