Grafschaftsmuseum Wertheim and Otto Modersohn Cabinet
The Grafschaftsmuseum Wertheim and Otto-Modersohn-Kabinett is the former historical museum for the city and county of Wertheim in the former Klinkards- und Rankenhof Wertheim in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg . The Grafschaftsmuseum Wertheim includes the collections of the city of Wertheim and the historical association Wertheim e. V. It protects and maintains cultural products that were created on the area of the former Grafschaft Wertheim , were used here or have a content-related relationship to the landscape, culture or history of the region.
location
The museum is located in a building complex from the 16th century. It includes the Old Town Hall , the House of the Four Crowned and the Blue House , a half-timbered house painted with smalt blue . It is located in the old town of Wertheim, not far from the market square.
history
In 1878, for the first time, the Wertheimer Zeitung issued “a friendly invitation to everyone who is in possession of documents, printed matter or images that relate to Wertheim's circumstances ...” to “donate them to the municipal collection to be created” - elsewhere there is talk of a “municipal museum”.
The local council took care of the matter, provided a cupboard for this purpose and guaranteed supervision. Since the collection grew rapidly, a so-called municipal antiquity hall was set up on the third floor of the Kilian's Chapel from 1886.
After the renovation of the chapel in 1904, the museum was re-established there, looked after by the historical association founded in the same year with the support of the city of Wertheim. The Historic Association of Alt Wertheim acquired the House of the Four Crowned in 1915 in order to present the ever-expanding holdings. The collection eventually gained such importance that in 1922 Prof. Dr. Rott, director of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, took care of them and reorganized them.
After the war in 1945, efforts were made to find ways of presenting the collection in a contemporary and adequate manner. On September 11, 1981, the museum was opened in the former Catholic court in Mühlenstrasse and expanded in 1985 to include the Baroque and Ständersaal. The viticulture and fishing department were also added. In 1988 the collection moved to the Old Town Hall . On August 27, 1989, the house was opened by Prime Minister Lothar Späth and renamed the County Museum in 1993 . In 1999 the main building was connected to the restored Four Crowned House as an extension by a glass walkway.
building
Old Town Hall (main building)
The exhibition concept in the Old Town Hall depends on the particular architecture of the Renaissance building. It offers an exhibition area of around 1800 m².
- Cellar : viticulture department, fishermen and boatmen's guild, floods, sacred art
- Ground floor : rooms for temporary exhibitions, rococo rooms, music history department
- 1st floor : 19th century with the areas: dolls and dollhouses (Weidelt collection); Fabric manufacture and blueprint; Clothing history; Fairy tale collection (Andreas Fries room); Paper cutouts; History of expellees; Biedermeier room; Graphics and paintings by the brothers August and Josef Futterer (around 1900); Silesian Cabinet (special exhibition of the Silesian Cultural Works Foundation); Painting by the Wertheim artist Erika Orysik ( Art brut ).
- Second floor : Otto Modersohn cabinet and Franconian gallery with pictures by artists in, around and from Wertheim
House "To the Four Crowned"
The house "To the four crowned" has been connected to the main house by a glass bridge since the renovation in 1999.
- Ground floor : The historical kitchen (furnished around 1914/1915) has been preserved as a document of earlier museum concepts and is equipped with historical stove plates from the 16th to 18th centuries.
- 1st floor : Denomination department with objects on the collegiate church, Reformation / Luther custom in Wertheim, St. Venantius, religious dispute 1781, Father Venantius Arnold, Jewish history and religious objects of the expellees and a new beginning in Wertheim 1946/49
- 2nd floor : town and county history; Women in Wertheim ( Wertheimer Frauenzimmer ); Coin cabinet ; Ruling history; Library and Coin Research Department
- Top floor : arts and crafts - pewter, ceramics, silver, weapons, historical collections of roof tiles.
collection
County Museum
In addition to ongoing funding from the Central Office for Museum Care (renovation, equipment, etc.), the state government has classified the museum as "nationally important" since 1985 and receives permanent funding from the Ministry of Science and Art (so-called lottery and totes -Medium). In addition to the original collection areas (including the history of the Counts of Wertheim, the princes and the bourgeoisie, the Wertheim guilds, folk art and the history of clothing in the villages in the former county), new topics (music history department, denominational history, history of the expellees) have also developed .
Originally the historical association also collected glass objects. When the Wertheim Glass Museum was founded, this collection was loaned there.
The old stock of the museum is constantly being systematically expanded, but in its entirety cannot bring a balanced course through all centuries of Wertheim's town and county history. Main topics are set from the holdings and special exhibitions on individual topics are shown. The museum currently has around 19,000 objects and 1,000 coins.
The museum sees itself as a transnational institution, as it were as a "State Museum for the former Grafschaft Wertheim" (quote from Zoege von Manteuffel, director of the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart ). As an art museum, the house collects works by artists associated with Wertheim.
Otto Modersohn Cabinet
In 1989 the Otto Modersohn Cabinet was opened. The core of the collection is a donation from Wertheim's art patron and collector Wolfgang Schuller, comprising a total of 14 pictures by Modersohn from the time of his seven trips to the Franconian region between 1916 and 1927. It is supplemented by pictures by Louise Modersohn-Breling as well as friends from Wertheim and Würzburg artist circles in a changing combination with views from Wertheim, Würzburg and Franconia. Modersohn's works date from the time of his artistic transformation, in which the influence of Cézanne , Renoir and Pascin and other French as well as the simplification of form of German Expressionism came to light. The museum is constantly expanding the collection of paintings by Modersohn and graphics and paintings by other artists that are related to the city of Wertheim.
Branches
Because of the constantly growing population from the rural area, separate museum branches were set up in several localities in the area. In 1995 a branch was opened in the old fruit barn of the Bronnbach monastery ⊙ , in which around 2000 objects of agricultural equipment are presented. To document the living and working culture in the villages, the permanent exhibition there has been expanded since summer 2005.
The Schlösschen im Hofgarten ⊙ museum , which is run by a foundation, is scientifically curated by the county museum . The Max Liebermann Collection and members of the Berlin Secession (Wolfgang Schuller Foundation) as well as a collection on artists from the Rhine-Main-Neckar area and the Porcelaine de Paris collection are presented in changing arrangements and in special exhibitions.
The folkloric collection of the Alfred Prassek Foundation in Kreuzwertheim is also scientifically advised by the county museum.
Museum education
The museum offers guided tours and didactic courses on certain art and cultural techniques, including blueprint , paper cutting and the art of making fire.
literature
- Marion Diehm: The Kilian's Chapel. From Latin school to the city's collection of antiquities . In: 625 years of Wertheim Latin School. Festschrift . Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium, Wertheim 1998, pp. 73-77.
- Erich Langguth: From Wertheim's story . Historischer Verein Wertheim, Wertheim 2004, pp. 106-108, pp. 507-513.
- Jörg Paczkowski: Comments on the building history of the old town hall in Wertheim . In: Wertheimer Jahrbuch 1991/92 . Historischer Verein Wertheim, Wertheim 1992, pp. 161–172.
Web links
- Official website of the county museum
- Castle in the courtyard garden
- Historical Association Wertheim eV
Individual evidence
- ^ Appeal from court pharmacist and city archivist Dr. Karl Wagner in the Wertheimer Zeitung of November 10, 1878.
- ^ Archives Councilor Dr. Alexander Kaufmann, cit. in .: Erich Langguth: From Wertheim's story . Historical Association Wertheim 2004, p. 508.
- ↑ Cf. Marion Diehm: The Kilian's Chapel. From the Latin School to the City Antiquities Collection (see literature), p. 73ff.
- ^ Modersohn collection in the county museum and Otto Modersohn cabinet. Flensburg online, June 13, 2011, accessed on December 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Art is his life - Wolfgang Schuller turns 85. Main Echo, October 30, 2010, accessed on January 11, 2016 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 34.5 ″ N , 9 ° 31 ′ 5.2 ″ E