Pfeiffer was closely involved in early 20th-century reform movements, and considered himself a strict vegetarian. In addition to his art-related activities, he also wrote philosophical texts and prepared several unique, comprehensive and somewhat atypical iconographic programmes for large-scale mural projects. This can especially be said about the painting done at the Šilutė church in around 1925–1926.

In 1910–1932 Pfeiffer served as professor at the Kunstakademie Königsberg. Alexander Kolde, Eduard Bischoff and Karl Eulenstein were among his students.

Most of the artist’s creative legacy was destroyed during bombing in 1943. Some of his earlier works and others created after 1945 have been preserved. In terms of his mural work, only the painting inside the Šilutė Evangelical Lutheran Church exists to this day.

Organisers: Pranas Domšaitis Gallery, East Prussian Regional Museum (Germany)

Partner Scheu Hugo Museum in Šilutė

Curators: Dr Jörn Barfod, Jan Rüttinger

Coordinator Aurelija Malinauskaitė

Designer Edita Namajūnienė

Editor Dr Ilona Čiužauskaitė

Translators: Albina Strunga (English), Regina Makauskienė (German)