Municipal gallery in Viersen Park

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Sculpture Position in Focus by Wolfgang Nestler in front of the Galerie im Park building (2007)

The Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen (often called Galerie im Park ) is a representative villa in Viersen used for exhibitions with a valuable collection of prints , surrounded by the Viersen sculpture park .

building

The building was erected in 1869 as a representative factory owner's villa in the neo-renaissance style and in 1899 came into the possession of the Kaiser's coffee shop , which had its headquarters in Viersen . The Wilhelminian-style villa has been owned by the city of Viersen since 1973 . It was declared a monument in 1976, redesigned in 1980 and opened in 1981 as the municipal gallery in the park for exhibitions and cultural events. It is located between the bus station and the main entrance of the 'Kreishaus Viersen'.

Collections

The Galerie im Park contains several collections, an important one of which is the graphic collection started in the early 1960s by the then City Director Karl-Heinz van Kaldenkerken . The more than 1000 sheets from the end of the 15th century to the present include, for example, valuable single sheets by Rembrandt , Rubens , Albrecht Dürer , Marc Chagall , Picasso ( La Poule ), Braque , Fernand Léger and Joan Miró , graphic works by the German Expressionists ( e.g. by Lyonel Feininger , Kokoschka , Paul Klee and Emil Nolde ), a collection of Rhenish artists and contemporary art from purchases from the respective exhibitions. The collection also includes 40 photographs by August Sander .

Exhibitions

The first exhibition in 1981 showed works by the realist Dieter Asmus ; Over the years various art movements have been shown, e.g. B. kinetic art by Günter Haese (2007). The artists with outstanding exhibitions, for which extensive accompanying publications were often published, include, for example, Hans Brög (1983), Christoph Meckel (1987), Hermann Schmitz (1987), Henry Moore (1989), Erwin Heerich (1990), Fritz Koch ( 1993), Tony Cragg (1996), Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1997), Heinz Lanser (1998), Werner Schriefers (1999), Anatol (2002), Matta (2002), Georg Ettl (2003), Ewald Mataré (2004) , ZEBRA (2005), Martin Lersch (2006), Günter Haese (2007), Herbert Zangs (2008) and Wang Du (2010).

Others

In addition to readings by authors and concerts, the Städtische Galerie offers a museum educational program with guided tours for school classes and other groups.

literature

  • Werner Mellen: Municipal gallery in Park Viersen. The checkered history of the house. In: Albert Pauly (Ed.): Viersen - Contributions to a city . Vol. 4. Viersen 1983
  • Angelika Pack, Helmut Heißenbüttel : 10 years of the Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen . Culture Office of the City of Viersen 1992
  • Jutta Pitzen: The graphic collection of the city of Viersen . Volume 1-4. Publisher: City of Viersen, School, Culture and Sport Department. Viersen 1996/97

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Werner Mellen: Municipal Gallery in Park Viersen. The checkered history of the house . Viersen 1983
  2. ↑ Jutta Pitzen: The graphic collection of the city of Viersen . Volume 1-4. Viersen 1996/97
  3. ↑ Angelika Pack: Hermann Schmitz. A Rhenish painter . (Monograph). "Viersen. Contributions to a city. 12 ". Viersen 1987
  4. ^ Joachim Peter Kastner: Günter Haese. Viersen sculpture collection . Viersen 2007. ISBN 978-3-9808779-6-1
  5. ↑ Joachim Peter Kastner: Wang Du. China Daily, Services top task for games . Viersen 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813463-1-2

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 29.8 "  N , 6 ° 23 ′ 29.1"  E