Barberini Museum

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Barberini Museum
Le palais Barberini (Potsdam) (37065598495) .jpg
Museum Barberini, view from the Old Market (2017)
Data
place Potsdam coordinates: 52 ° 23 '42.6 "  N , 13 ° 3' 44.2"  EWorld icon
architect Hilmer & Sattler and Albrecht
opening 20th January 2017
management
Website
Bank side of the Museum Barberini (2016)

The Museum Barberini is an art museum in the center of the Brandenburg state capital Potsdam . The museum is located in the classicist-baroque Barberini Palace , which was reconstructed from 2013 to 2016 and whose architectural model and namesake was the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. The founder of the reconstruction and the art business is Hasso Plattner . It has been open to the public since January 23, 2017. The exhibition themes range from the Old Masters to contemporary art, with a focus on impressionism . More than one million visitors were counted by May 2019. The Barberini Museum is located in the historic center of Potsdam on the Alter Markt .

background

The Barberini Palace, which dates from the 1770s, was destroyed in the air raid on Potsdam on April 14, 1945 shortly before the end of the Second World War, except for parts of the facade. In 1948 the ruins were removed; Development of the property was not carried out in the following decades despite various plans. The software entrepreneur and patron Hasso Plattner took over the reconstruction of the palace in the course of the redevelopment of the old Potsdam city center in order to found an art museum for Potsdam. Before that, Plattner had already donated a large part of the facade reconstruction of the neighboring Potsdam City Palace.

The first groundbreaking for the reconstruction took place in August 2013. Only the facades were reconstructed, the interior work was carried out from a modern point of view, which according to Tagesspiegel “leaves the interior baroque”. Exhibition rooms with the latest technology and high ceilings with coves and oak parquet were created on three floors , a total of 17 halls with a total area of ​​2200 square meters. The building also offers a shop, a café & restaurant and an auditorium for readings, concerts, film screenings, plays and lectures. The museum houses the collection of the Hasso Plattner Funding Foundation and provides the framework for temporary exhibitions.

The opening took place on January 20, 2017. The guests included the Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel , the Prime Minister of Brandenburg Dietmar Woidke and the Microsoft founder Bill Gates . The British Guardian counts the museum among the most important openings in the world in 2017. The museum is managed by Ortrud Westheider , who was previously director of the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg a. a. Has realized exhibitions on Frida Kahlo , Henri Matisse , Joan Miró , Pablo Picasso and William Turner .

  • An exhibition space before the opening, still without works of art, November 2016

  • Bronze sculpture The Step of the Century in the courtyard, November 2016

  • Reconstruction donor Hasso Plattner

Exhibitions

The exhibition themes range from the Old Masters to contemporary art. Based on the works of the collection of the founder and patron Hasso Plattner, the Museum Barberini presents three changing exhibitions per year with loans from international museums and private collections. One focus of the collection is the art of the GDR and German art after 1989 . This includes works by Gerhard Richter as well as by the founders of the Leipzig School such as Werner Tübke , Bernhard Heisig and Wolfgang Mattheuer . A monumental cast of his sculpture The Step of the Century is set up in the inner courtyard of the museum. Another focus is on impressionism. The works include pictures by Claude Monet , Edvard Munch and Auguste Renoir . Scientific symposia with international curators and scientists prepare the exhibitions. At the same time, art historians put striking works into new contexts in changing presentations.

With the exhibitions of Classical Modernism and Impressionism. The Art of Landscape and From Hopper to Rothko. America's way into the modern age took the museum - supported u. a. on loans from the Hermitage , St. Petersburg, the National Gallery , Washington - 2017, its exhibition program based on international cooperation. With the exhibition Behind the Mask. Artists in the GDR began researching their own collection of art in the GDR, which still occupies a marginalized position in German art history. Based on its own holdings, the show, which sparked a broad discussion in the media as well as in the society for the rewriting of German art history after 1945, brought together over 100 works by around 80 artists from the fields of painting, photography, graphics, collage and sculpture.

In 2018, for the first time, an exhibition explored the question of how the idea of ​​world theater was integrated into the history of ideas in Max Beckmann's art . The Max Beckmann show . Welttheater brought together more than 110 loans from major German and international museums and private collections such as the Harvard Art Museum , Boston, MoMA , New York, National Gallery , Berlin and Tate , London.

The exhibition Gerhard Richter. Abstraction dedicated itself to the abstract strategies and procedures in the artist's oeuvre for the first time in the summer and autumn of 2018. Inspired by a new acquisition by the Museum Barberini, the show, which was created in collaboration with the artist, examined the relationship and meanings of abstraction and object in Richter's work from the 1960s to today - of photography and color material, of overpainting and uncovering. The exhibition brought together around 80 works from international museum and private collections, including the Gerhard Richter Archive , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Collezione Prada, Milan and the Fundação de Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto.

From November 2018 to February 2019 the Museum Barberini showed the first retrospective of the neo-impressionist Henri-Edmond Cross (Color and Light) in Germany. Around 1900 Cross was considered one of the most important representatives of the French avant-garde and was known for his light-flooded depictions of the Riviera. The retrospective included loans and a. from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. They were supplemented by key works from international private collections that are otherwise not accessible to the public.

From March to June 2019, a show with over 130 works from the Jacqueline Picasso collection - including paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures, and ceramics - was devoted to the late work of Pablo Picasso . From July to October 2019, over 50 works from the National Galleries Barberini Corsini Rome, including one of Caravaggio's most important works , the painting Narcissus from 1598/1599 , were on view in the exhibition Ways of the Baroque .

Detail from the picture Bottle, Lemons and Oranges (F384) in the Van Gogh exhibition . Still life

The last exhibition of 2019, Van Gogh. Still life (October 2019 - February 2020) was the first show on this topic. The show, conceived in cooperation with the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, and the Van Gogh Museum , Amsterdam, as well as loans from the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, analyzed the decisive stages in the work on the basis of over 20 paintings and life of van Gogh.

In collaboration with the Denver Art Museum , where the exhibition entitled Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature was on view from October 20, 2019 to February 2, 2020, the Museum Barberini is showing from February 22, 2020 to June 1, 2020 Monet. Places .

Mediation

The Barberini Museum attaches great importance to the scientific and didactic preparation of its exhibition topics. The basis is the uniformly designed exhibition catalogs, which in German and English-language editions sound out the topics in scientific essays and which are prepared in symposia with international experts. Contributions to the catalogs have been written so far. a. Olivier Berggruen , Marina Ferretti Bocquillon, Stephen F. Eisenman ( Northwestern University ), Michael C. FitzGerald ( Trinity College ), Annette Haudiquet (Musée d'art moderne André Malraux), Christoph Heinrich ( Denver Art Museum ), Nancy Ireson ( Barnes Foundation ), Stephan Koja ( Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ), Stefan Koldehoff , Brigitte Leal ( Center national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ), Alexia Pooth ( Bauhaus Dessau Foundation ), Lynette Roth ( Harvard Art Museum ), Corinna Thierolf ( Pinakothek der Moderne ), Richard Thomson, Sylvia Yount ( The Metropolitan Museum of Art ).

In the exhibition rooms, texts on the individual rooms and exhibits point out the central aspects. The audio guides for each exhibition, which are available in German and English on the Barberini app , provide content support .

Based on the exhibition Ways of the Baroque , the audio tour Italy in Potsdam leads on the Barberini app as a city tour to 30 buildings and works of art that were created in the 18th and 19th centuries based on Italian models: from St. Nicholas' Church - inspired by St. Peter's Basilica in Rome the Brandenburg Gate leaning against the Arch of Constantine to the Orangery in Sanssouci, in whose architecture the Villa Medici in Rome is reflected. The city tour - spoken by Günther Jauch - accompanies you through the city and enables a visual comparison between Potsdam and Italy.

Awards

  • The non-profit organization Stadtbild Deutschland awarded the reconstruction of the Barberini Palace as an art museum the title “Building of the Year 2016”.

literature

  • Christiane Borgelt: Potsdam: The way to the new center. Published by the redevelopment agency Pro Potsdam on behalf of the state capital Potsdam represented by the urban planning and urban renewal department, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89479-713-3 .

Web links

Commons : Museum Barberini  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH: Potsdam: Museum Barberini opened. (No longer available online.) January 22, 2017, archived from the original on February 14, 2017 ; accessed on February 14, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Londoner is 1,000,000. Barberini visitor , Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , May 30, 2019, accessed on September 19, 2019.
  3. ↑ Sanierungträger Potsdam GmbH, 2012, p. 44.
  4. ↑ http://www.taz.de/!5371876/
  5. ↑ The liberated look. tagesspiegel.de from January 19, 2017, accessed on January 21, 2017.
  6. ↑ Rome lies on the Havel. tagesspiegel.de from December 22, 2016, accessed on January 21, 2017.
  7. ↑ museum-barberini.com. Retrieved November 9, 2015 .
  8. ^ Before the opening of the Museum Barberini Potsdam. pnn.de, November 7, 2016
  9. ^ Will Coldwell: The top 10 new museum openings in 2017. theguardian.com, January 9, 2017, accessed January 16, 2017.
  10. ↑ NEW DIRECTOR OF THE BARBERINI MUSEUM IN POTSDAM. Retrieved November 9, 2015 .
  11. ^ The Barberini timetable , pnn.de, January 18, 2017
  12. ^ Museum Barberini opens with Monet, Rodin and Nolde. Deutschlandradio Kultur Kulturnachrichten from January 19, 2017.
  13. ↑ Picasso Exhibition: A Big Step for the Barberini. Berliner Morgenpost , January 29, 2018.
  14. ↑ Peter Richter: A and Double-O . In: sueddeutsche.de . July 14, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 23, 2019]).
  15. ^ Exhibitions in the Museum Barberini. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  16. ^ Palais Barberini in Potsdam is "Building of the Year" , Der Tagesspiegel , January 10, 2016
  17. ↑ Press releases from Stadtbild Deutschland e. V.
  18. ↑ Success story in Potsdam: The charisma of the Barberini Museum , pnn.de, January 18, 2018