Angermuseum

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The Angermuseum (in March 2007, after construction work started)

The Angermuseum is the first city museum in Erfurt. It was ceremoniously opened on June 27, 1886 and is housed in the building that previously housed the public scales in Erfurt am Anger . Back then, the scales were necessary so that incoming trade goods could be cleared accordingly. Originally only the gallery on the first floor was used for the museum. The building was built between 1706 and 1711 according to plans by the architect Johann Maximilian von Welsch . It is a Franconian-influenced baroque building with St. Martin, the patron saint of the city, in the gable triangle.

history

The extensive collection of works by the painter Friedrich Nerly the Elder was donated to the city of Erfurt in 1883 by his son, Friedrich Paul Nerly , on the condition that a museum be set up to present the collection. Friedrich Nerly the Elder had emigrated to Venice in 1835 and then only painted watercolors and drawings of the city. Over 700 of the works created in Italy are part of the collection of the Angermuseum. The main focus of the rest of the collection was initially - inspired by the works of Friedrich Nerly - landscape painting , portraits and still lifes from the 18th to 20th centuries.

It is a peculiarity of the Angermuseum that the citizens were committed to the expansion of the museum and not the princes as in Weimar and Gotha. Families like the Lucius family and the Stürcke family should be mentioned here. For a long time, the “dignitaries of property and educated citizens” also determined the character and orientation of the museum.

In 1912, Edwin Redslob , who later became the Reichskunstwart, took over the management of the museum, then Walter Kaesbach . Kaesbach was supported in acquiring new artistic works by the Jewish shoe manufacturer Alfred Hess , who was responsible for the purchase of numerous current works by painters such as Lyonel Feininger , Emil Nolde , Ernst Barlach , Gerhard Marcks , Max Pechstein and others. a enabled and made the collection of the Angermuseum known as one of the largest of German Expressionism. The museum experienced its heyday in the twenties under the long-time director Herbert Kunze .

A famous example of the Expressionism collection at the time is the so-called "Heckel Room", which the artist Erich Heckel designed with expressionist wall paintings under the motto "Levels of Life" in 1922/24. As the “only surviving monumental wall paintings of German Expressionism”, they can still be seen today on the ground floor of the museum.

As a result of the National Socialists and their definition of degenerate art , many works of the museum's collection of modern art at that time were destroyed or put aside. Some works were also lost during the Hess family's escape from Germany. It is the aim of the museum to restore this collection. In autumn 2017, Christian Rohlf's 1904 oil painting “Weiden II”, which had originally been in the museum since 1918, was able to acquire for 68,500 euros.

In 1935 the library moved out of the Angermuseum, which allowed it to dispose of the entire building. From 1944 the museum was closed, the works of art were relocated because of the aerial warfare and thus saved from bombs and artillery fire.

In 1976/77 the building was extensively reconstructed.

On June 1, 2010, after five years of renovation work, the museum became the state capital's art museum with the special exhibition “Natalja Goncharova. Between Russian tradition and European modernity ” reopened in cooperation with the Opelvillen Rüsselsheim Foundation and the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

Today the museum is supported by the association "Friends of the Angermuseum" and the association for arts and crafts and, in addition to the picture gallery, has extensive graphic and handicraft material.

Collection focus

lPortrait of the merchant Christian Nonne ;
Ink drawing by Franz Kotta , 1785, owned by the Angermuseum
  • Middle Ages collection: Erfurt and Thuringian art of the Middle Ages, sculpture, painting, handicrafts
The collection of medieval art includes a Works from the heyday of Erfurt art in the second half of the 14th century, including four altar panels from the Augustinian Church and sandstone sculptures from the workshop of the master of the Severi sarcophagus . Eight panel paintings, including the small panel “Christ as a Good Shepherd” (around 1540/1550) and the paintings “Let the little children come to me” (around 1535) and “Holy Night” (around 1540), and a winged altar are Cranach and attributed to the Cranach workshop.
  • Painting collection: German painting from the 18th century to today
  • Graphic collection: graphics and drawings from five centuries
The collection consists of more than 30,000 works. It mainly includes drawings and prints from the GDR. In 2004, the Erfurt graphic artist Rudolf Franke , co-founder of the Erfurt studio community, donated 14,000 prints to the museum. Not only works by German artists, but also works by Czech and Slovak artists can be seen. The collection also includes works by “non-conformist” artists from the GDR such as Gerhard Altenbourg , Hermann Glöckner and Roger Loewig .
  • Handicraft collection: faience, glass, porcelain, furniture, contemporary jewelry
The museum's glass collection includes over 800 objects from more than 8 centuries. However, only 122 objects are currently on view in the permanent exhibitions: “The most important works include the fragments from the Barefoot Church from the death of Francis (around 1250) and a disc with the Ride of the Magi (after 1350) from the Marienkirche in Salzwedel. “The handicraft collection shows a variety of historical Thuringian faiences. Furniture and musical instruments are also on display.

Directors

Exhibitions

  • 2011: A millennium of ivory from the 5th to the 15th century. In cooperation with the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
  • 2012: Table talk with Luther. Christian images in an atheistic world
  • 2013: Henry van de Velde. A universal museum for Erfurt ,
  • 2014: observation and ideal. Ferdinand Bellermann. A painter from the circle around Humboldt
  • 2015: Widerschein - The color field painter Christiane Conrad encounters the landscape art of the Angermuseum
  • 2015: Controversy and compromise: the cycle of pillar paintings of the Mariendom and the culture of biconfessionalism in Erfurt in the 16th century
  • 2015: Jacob Samuel Beck (1715–1778). For the 300th birthday of the Erfurt painter
  • 2016: Hans Purrmann (1880–1966). The colors of the south
  • 2016: icons. The visible of the invisible divine
  • 2017: Luther. The order. Martin Luther and the Reformation in Erfurt
  • 2017: Harald Reiner Gratz: Luther's Stone in Schmalkalden and other peculiarities of German history
  • 2017: Helmuth Macke . In dialogue with his expressionist artist friends
  • 2018: Franz Markau (1881–1968) - aspects of his life's work

literature

  • Marita Steffens: Painted glass from the collection of the museums of the city of Erfurt. Museums of the City of Erfurt, Erfurt.
  • Albin Schaedel: Glass blown in front of the lamp. From the collection of the Angermuseum . Angermuseum, Erfurt 1979.
  • Cornelia Nowak: The Erfurt Art Association: between avant-garde and adaptation; a documentation from 1886 to 1945 . Ed .: Ernst Herrbach. Angermuseum, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-930013-14-2 .

Web links

Commons : Angermuseum Erfurt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steffen Raßloff: Monuments in Erfurt: In 1886 the local history of Erfurt's museums began in the Angermuseum. In: www.erfurt-web.de. November 10, 2016, accessed on April 21, 2018 (in the original report in the Thüringer Allgemeine Zeitung from July 26, 2014).
  2. ↑ Sven Behrisch: A house full of longing. The ZEIT museum guide: The Angermuseum in Erfurt. In: www.zeit.de. July 8, 2010, accessed April 21, 2018 .
  3. ^ Angermuseum Erfurt - graphic collection. In: www.netzwerk-graphische-sammlungen.com. Retrieved April 21, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c Steffen Raßloff: History of the Erfurt museums. Erfurt can look back on a traditional museum history back to the 19th century, which culminated in a multi-faceted museum landscape. In: http://www.erfurt-web.de/ . March 21, 2016, accessed April 21, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Angermuseum Erfurt. In: www.museumsverband-thueringen.de. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
  6. ^ Rohlf's "Weiden II" is back in the Angermuseum after 80 years. Dpa message. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. February 7, 2018, accessed August 25, 2020 .
  7. ^ Natalja Goncharova, Between Russian Tradition and European Modernism (June 13 to October 3, 2010). In: www.erfurt.de. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
  8. ^ Klaus Michael: The Erfurt studio community. In: www.bpb.de. September 6, 2012, accessed May 6, 2018 .
  9. ^ Angermuseum Erfurt - graphic collection. In: www.netzwerk-graphische-sammlungen.com. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
  10. ^ Angermuseum Erfurt Art museum of the state capital of Thuringia. In: www.hvg-dgg.de. Retrieved May 10, 2018 .
  11. ^ Collections in the Angermuseum. Selected objects from the collections. In: kunstmuseen.erfurt.de. Retrieved May 10, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Kai Uwe Schierz; Paul Kaiser: Table conversation with Luther: Christian images in an atheistic world . Kerber, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-86678-784-1 .
  13. ↑ Miriam Krautwurst; Kai Uwe Schierz (ed.): Henry van de Velde: A universal museum for Erfurt . Kerber, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-86678-829-9 .
  14. ↑ Kai Uwe Schierz; Thomas von Taschitzki (Ed.): Observation and Ideal: Ferdinand Bellermann . Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7319-0104-4 .
  15. ↑ Reflection: The color field painter Christiane Conrad encounters the landscape art of the Angermuseum. In: www.erfurt.de. February 19, 2015, accessed January 18, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Birgit Kummer: Angermuseum in Erfurt is converting its picture gallery. Petersburg hanging with several rows of images is dissolved. Current exhibition shows pictures by Christiane Conrad. In: Thuringian General . February 20, 2015, accessed January 18, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Eckhard Leuschner; Falko Bornschein; Kai Uwe Schierz (Ed.): Controversy and Compromise - The cycle of pillar paintings of the Mariendom and the culture of biconfessionalism in Erfurt in the 16th century . Sandstein, Dresden 2015, ISBN 978-3-95498-176-2 .
  18. ↑ Kai Uwe Schierz; Thomas von Taschitzki (Ed.): Jacob Samuel Beck (1715–1778): For the 300th birthday of the Erfurt painter . Sandstein, Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-95498-195-3 .
  19. ^ Gerhard Kölsch: Review by Thomas von Taschitzki, Kai Uwe Schierz: Jacob Samuel Beck. In: www.sehepunkte.de. Retrieved August 23, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Kai Uwe Schierz; Dr. Hanns Simon Foundation (ed.): Hans Purrmann (1880–1966): The colors of the south . Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7319-0254-6 .
  21. ↑ Miriam Krautwurst; Kai Uwe Schierz (Ed.): Icons: The visible of the invisible divine . Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7319-0408-3 .
  22. ↑ Kai Uwe Schierz (Ed.): Luther. The order. Martin Luther and the Reformation in Erfurt. Reception and reflection . City of Erfurt Angermuseum, Erfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-930013-16-6 .
  23. ↑ Kai Uwe Schierz (Ed.): Pictures for the story. Harald Reiner Gratz . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, Saale 2017, ISBN 978-3-95462-942-8 .
  24. ↑ Helmuth Macke. In dialogue with his expressionist artist friends. In: kunstmuseen.erfurt.de. Retrieved May 10, 2018 .
  25. ↑ Michael Helbing: Through colors to light: retrospective in the Angermuseum Erfurt. In: thueringer-allgemeine.de. January 27, 2018, accessed May 10, 2018 .

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