Artemons

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Artemons / Artemons Contemporary is a gallery with a partially museum character in Upper Austria and looks after Austrian and international art on over 600 square meters.

description

The Artemons gallery is based on the art collection of the industrialist Horst Rilke for painting by Upper Austrian artists of the 19th and 20th centuries and is located in Hellmonsödt .

Artemons Contemporary looks after established Austrian positions such as Franz Grabmayr , Jürgen Messensee , Oswald Oberhuber and Karl Korab , but also sees itself as a mediator of young, innovative art from Central Europe and above all from Asia. Another focus is on the young Viennese scene.

history

The object erected by Albrecht Dunzendorfer was the largest private art gallery in Upper Austria for about a quarter of a century from the time it was built in the late 1950s to the early 1970s . By combining the house, workshop and art gallery, the largest publicly accessible private museum in Upper Austria was created in 2006.

The Austrian painter Albrecht Dunzendorfer built the Hellmondwarte in his hometown of Hellmonsödt in 1958 and in 1971 with a 200 square meter exhibition hall the largest private art hall in Upper Austria at the time, in order to be able to show his works independently of the institutional art business.

About 25 years after the death Dunzendorfers acquired the Arts Foundation of Upper Austria image of industrialists Horst Rilke from Marchtrenk by his heirs House, workshop and art gallery, combined this in 2006 with a central section and realized under bills of state and EU - LEADER -Fördermitteln at the date of Opening on October 12, 2007, the largest publicly accessible private museum in Upper Austria. A support association founded in 2008 involves representatives of public museums, the region and tourism in joint projects to position the museum.

With the museum, the foundation is pursuing the goal of bringing Upper Austrian painters of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on classical modernism, into the limelight and preserving Albrecht Dunzendorfer's life's work.

Herwig Dunzendorfer was the first director. In the 25 years after the death of his father, he organized several exhibitions with Austrian and international artists in addition to memorial exhibitions on Albrecht Dunzendorfer, some in cooperation with the Linz Art Academy (project 8-giving the master class for sculptors, contemporary Upper Austrian ceramics). International projects were handled with the Paris gallery Du Temple (The Last Supper, The Parisian Baroque Art of the 20th Century).

The collection

The foundation of the Artemons Museum was the foundation's collection of around 2000 works by Upper Austrian artists at the time of opening in 2007, which is still being expanded.

I.a. the collection includes the bequests of Herbert Dimmel , Ludwig Schwarzer , Paul Ikrath and Josef Schnetzer . The following are particularly indicated as the main focus of the collection:

Demeter Koko , Hans Strigl , Karl Hauk , Anton Lutz , Max Hirschenauer , Fritz Fröhlich , Franz Zülow , Karl Hayd , Wilhelm Dachauer , Karl Hauk, Franz Xaver Weidinger , Hans Franta , Arthur Brusenbauch , Franz Glaubacker , Leo Adler and Hans Pollack .

The museum has works by Johann Baptist Reiter , Leopold Zinnögger , Julius von Blaas , Albert Ritzberger , Alfred Pöll and Wilhelm Höhnel from the 19th century .

Exhibitions

An exhibition area of ​​around 600 square meters is available for the presentation of the works. In addition to the permanent exhibition of works by Albrechts Dunzendorfers in the former home of the artist, there are regular exhibitions, some in collaboration with museums and artist groups. a .:

  • 2010: and 2011 time cut - current painting of the MAERZ
  • 2010: Painter of Light: Max Hirschenauer , Demeter Koko , Anton Lutz
  • 2011: The landscape in Upper Austrian painting from 1888 to 2011
  • 2012: k / haus 18 - Positions in Painting - Contemporary Painting - The Wiener Künstlerhaus
  • 2013: New Objectivity: Paul Ikrath, Free Figure Compositions: Herbert Dimmel

Artemons Contemporary Gallery

Artemons Contemporary shows contemporary Austrian and international art and, on the one hand, looks after established Austrian positions, but also sees itself as a mediator of young, innovative art from Central Europe and above all from Asia. Another focus is on the young Viennese scene.

Exhibitions

Participation in art fairs

  • 2015: Linz art salon with Larissa Leverenz, Franziska Maderthaner and Jürgen Messensee
  • 2015: Parallel with Osama Zatar
  • 2015: Viennafair with Adam Bota, Michael Glawogger , Franz Grabmayr, Karl Korab, Franziska Maderthaner, Jürgen Messensee, Oswald Oberhuber, Jagannath Panda, Aditya Pande, Thomas Riess and Osama Zatar

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artemons Contemporary Gallery. Retrieved July 1, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Hellmonsödt, Sights , in: Web presence of the market town of Hellmonsödt
  3. ↑ Report on the opening , in: Web presence of the Leader Region Sterngartl from October 15, 2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sterngartl-gusental-leader.at  
  4. ^ Peter Assmann : The landscape in Upper Austrian painting 1888 to 2011 , catalog
  5. ↑ New art enjoyment in Artemons , on the website of the Bezirksrundschau from 23 August 2013
  6. ↑ Web presence: Galerie Artemons Contemporary. Retrieved July 1, 2016 .
  7. ^ Water spirits from Vienna, War in the Subcontinent , in: Sarah Estermann, Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of October 2, 2012
  8. ↑ Around the World with Indian Art - The 15 Best International Shows by Indian Artists to Watch Out For , in: Blouin Artinfo, India, from September 20, 2012