In this cabinet exhibition, around 20 artists recall the "GeSoLei", opened 100 years ago – an exhibition for health care, social welfare and physical exercise, which made Düsseldorf in 1926 the venue of the largest exhibition of the Weimar Republic. A few years after the First World War, it promoted the ideal of a "new efficient human being" – an image that was later ideologically appropriated and radicalised under National Socialism. Topics such as medicine, sport, social services, hygiene, nutrition and physical culture were at the centre, supplemented by a broad cultural and entertainment programme.
Between 8 May and 15 October 1926, over 7.5 million people visited the 400,000 square metre site.