Alpine gallery

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Stables

The Alpenländische Galerie in Kempten (Allgäu) was a branch museum of the Bavarian National Museum until October 5, 2015 and housed together with the Alpine Museum in the former stables of the Kempten prince abbots. The two museums were set up by the Bavarian National Museum, which also exhibited the majority of the paintings and sculptures shown in the Alpine Gallery. Some of the works were on loan from the city of Kempten , which was also responsible for running the museum.

place

Glance into the main hall

In 1991 the Alpine Museum and Alpine Gallery were set up in the former royal stables of the Kempten prince-abbots, built in 1730. The Alpenländische Galerie was housed in two rooms on the first floor in the former stables.

After the Alpine Gallery was closed, the rooms are used by the Alpine Museum. Special exhibitions are shown in the large hall. From March 10 to November 12, 2017, the exhibition "Shining Middle Ages" was on view in the smaller hall. The works from the former Alpine Gallery owned by the city of Kempten are presented here. They are supplemented by significant loans from the Bavarian National Museum that are related to Kempten. The Alpine Museum has been closed since November 13, 2017 (as of February 13, 2018).

The scientific lectures of the Friends of Kemptener Museen eV (fkm) take place in the museum rooms on the first Sunday of each month.

collection

Around 125 sculptures, paintings and altar works from the 14th to 16th centuries from Swabia and the Alpine region were presented, including a palm donkey , as it was carried in Palm Sunday processions, and several female chandeliers . The painters Ulrich Mair and Jakob Schick as well as the highly idiosyncratic carver Lux Maurus stood for late medieval art production in Kempten itself. The other Upper Swabian artists such as Jörg Lederer , who worked in nearby Kaufbeuren, were each represented at a high level. Due to the theme and later revisions, highly interesting altar wings from the workshop of Bartholomäus Zeitblom represented art in Ulm, at that time the artistic center of Swabia. The eponymous work of one of the most important painters from Zeitblom's environment, the Söflinger Altar, was also exhibited in Kempten. Among the works of the early period, Mary in the childbed from the monastery of Heggbach from 1347 was particularly noteworthy.

For the exhibition, a catalog was published generously with color photographs by Joachim Haag, Hans Peter Hilger, Kornelius Otto and Andrea Teuscher, which can still be purchased in-house.

literature

  • Matthias Less: 1991 Kempten - Alpine Gallery. In: Renate Eikelmann, Ingolf Bauer (ed.): The Bavarian National Museum 1855 - 2005. 150 years of collecting, researching, exhibiting. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-7774-2885-7 .
  • Hans Peter Hilger: Alpine Gallery Kempten. Branch museum of the Bavarian National Museum, Munich. Catalog. Bavarian National Museum, Munich 1991, ISBN 978-3-925058-24-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Museums Kempten - 66th art exhibition as part of the Allgäu Festival Week 2015. Accessed on May 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ rta.design GmbH: Kempten Show ?? Luminous Middle Ages ?? shows how people believed and lived in the past . In: all-in.de - the Allgäu online . ( all-in.de [accessed on May 21, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Shining Middle Ages - of saints, craftsmen and altars. Retrieved April 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Museums Kempten -. Retrieved February 13, 2018 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 46.3 "  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 40.8"  E