Saarland Museum

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Museum building on Schlossplatz (2011)
Modern gallery, entrance situation in front of the construction of the 4th pavilion (2008)

The Saarland Museum is a museum in the Saarland capital of Saarbrücken , which is supported by the Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation . It currently has three locations, each with a different focus.

management

It is thanks to Rudolf Bornschein , the first director of the Modern Gallery, that a collection of expressionist art was built up. His successor was Georg W. Költzsch, whose commitment to the Informel particularly shaped the collection in this direction. He was followed by Ernst G. Güse who showed important exhibitions on the works of Jean Dubuffet , Giorgio Morandi and Arnulf Rainer and underscored the high status of the museum and its collections to date.

The former director Ralph Melcher was dismissed without notice in October 2011 for gross breach of duty after the public prosecutor's office launched an investigation into him for embezzlement of public funds. From May 2011 to April 2013, the acting director of the museum was the art historian and general director of the Alte Völklinger Hütte world heritage site, Meinrad Maria Grewenig . Roland Mönig has been director since December 2013 .

Locations

Museum in the castle church

The museum housed in the Saarbrücken castle church shows sacred art from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. Also noteworthy are the baroque princely graves and the colorful windows by Georg Meistermann . The castle church was modernized in 2004 and connected to the “old collection” in the district building with a new glass access wing, which is attached to the south side of the choir . The Saar College of Music also uses the premises of the castle church as a permanent venue for musical performances. Since 2012, contemporary art exhibitions have been held in the nave of the castle church, for example by Roland Fischer and Eberhard Bosslet .

Old collection

Dieffler Pietà , wooden sculpture from the former Dieffler Wendelin chapel, probably 16th to 18th century, dimensions 78 × 56 × 30 cm, (Saarland Museum, Old Collection, Depot, I-Nr. KII-63)

The old collection is housed in the district building next to Saarbrücken Castle and focuses on artists from the 16th to 19th centuries. These include Dutch painters such as Abraham Mignon , Joos de Momper , Gillis van Coninxloo and Johann Boumann with landscapes and still lifes from the 16th and 17th centuries. In addition, regional artists such as Johann Christian von Mannlich can also be seen. The collection is thematically structured according to different directions of painting. A presentation of silver and porcelain objects , coins , miniatures and furniture complete the collection.

Modern gallery

The modern gallery was built according to plans by the architect Hanns Schönecker between 1965 and 1978 on the banks of the Saar next to the Saarland State Theater . Initially three connected pavilions were available, a fourth pavilion was planned over decades. In 2007 a construction phase marked by scandals began. This "became a cultural-political disaster, the costs exploded, there were cases of embezzlement and corruption, layoffs, an angry population and finally construction freezes." After the project was taken over in 2013 by the Kuehn Malvezzi architecture firm , the fourth pavilion was opened in 2017.

The modern gallery shows art from the 19th century to the present day. The most important groups of works include works from the Berlin Secession , Expressionism and informal art. The extensive graphic collection has around 18,000 works on paper. The holdings also include a collection of photographs that are given their profile through the estate of Monika von Boch , a student of Otto Steinert . The Saarland Museum also has an extensive collection of works by the artist Alexander Archipenko . In addition, there are regular temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.

Special exhibitions (selection)

  • 1999: Jean Dubuffet . Figures and heads. In Search of a Counterculture (September 12, 1999 to November 14, 1999)
  • 2001: Jürgen Liefmann . Drawings. (November 18, 2001 - January 13, 2002)
  • 2010: Katja Strunz . In the square (July 3rd to September 26th)
  • 2010: Photosynthesis. Photographic work by Joachim Lischke and André Mailänder (September 4th to November 7th)
  • 2010/2011: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff . Landscapes and Still Life (November 6, 2010 to January 23, 2011)
  • 2011/2012: pilgrims. On the way for the salvation of your soul ?! , Saarland Museum in the Castle Church (September 16 to November 27, 2011) [1]
  • 2012: Roland Fischer New Photography 1984-2012 , Modern Gallery (June 3 to November 4, 2012) [2]
  • 2012/2013: Michael Seyl : Yellow, Red, Blue , Saarland Museum am Schlossplatz (May 18, 2012 to December 31, 2013) [3]
  • 2012/2013: 100 years - The Blue Horse , Saarland Museum on Schlossplatz (July 12, 2012 to January 6, 2013) [4]
  • Saarland - Art of the 50s , Modern Gallery (November 24, 2012 to April 7, 2013) [5]
  • 2012/2013: Eberhard Bosslet : Dingsda , Moderne Galerie (December 16, 2012 to June 20, 2013) [6]
  • 2014/2015: Olav Christopher Jenssen , Modern Gallery
  • 2015/16: Franz Gertsch , Modern Gallery
  • 2017/2018: Pae White : Spacemanship , Moderne Galerie (November 18, 2017 to April 2, 2018)
  • 2018/19: 1718–2018: Wilhelm Heinrich von Nassau-Saarbrücken - statesman - general - urban planner , old collection (October 27, 2018 to February 24, 2019)
  • 2019/20: in the modern gallery: Giuseppe Penone (April 13, 2019 to June 28, 2020)
  • 2019/20: in the modern gallery: Rodin / Nauman (September 21, 2019 to January 26, 2020)

Catalogs (selection)

  • New acquisitions for the modern gallery . Catalog for the exhibition in the Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken 1961
  • German Informel. Symposium Informel. KF Dahmen, KO Götz, Gerhard Hoehme, Bernard Schultze, Emil Schumacher, KRH Sonderborg, Fred Thieler . Editor: Georg W. Költzsch, Berlin, Edition Galerie Georg Nothelfer, 1986, 2nd edition, 294 pages, ISBN 3873299232
  • Gerhard Hoehme. L'Etna Myth and Reality . Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken 1990
  • Jürgen Liefmann. Drawings . Catalog for the exhibition in the Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken 2001, ISBN 3-932036-13-1
  • Bernard Schultze. Works from the Rugo collection and the artist's studio . Publisher: Ralph Melcher, Saarlandmuseum, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 978-3-7757-1637-6
  • The bridge in the South Seas - exoticism of color . Editor: Ralph Melcher, catalog for the exhibition in the Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken 2005, ISBN 978-3-7757-1680-2
  • Ulrike Rosenbach. figure / nature . Catalog for the exhibition in the Saarland Museum, Zweibrücken 2007
  • The paintings in the old collection in the Saarland Museum . Editor: Ralph Melcher, Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken 2009, ISBN 978-3-932036-44-6
  • Museum of Prehistory and Early History. Old collection. Museum in the castle church. Guide to the collections . Editor: Ralph Melcher, Dillingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-932036-45-3

literature

Web links

Commons : Saarlandmuseum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cathrin Elss-Seringhaus: Melcher terminated without notice . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung of October 15, 2011, p. B1.
  2. ↑ Silke Hohmann: Scandalous architecture , article in the magazine Monopol from November 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ The Modern Gallery opens its doors , article in the Saarbrücker Zeitung from October 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ Kulturbesitz.de: The Saarland Museum ( Memento from February 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation: Exhibitions. Accessed March 1, 2018 (German).

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 51 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 59.7 ″  E