Bega's house

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Exterior view of the Begas house.

The Begas Haus is the museum for art and regional history in Heinsberg . It was named after the Begas family of artists, who worked for four generations and whose ancestral father Carl Joseph Begas was born in Heinsberg in 1794.

Attached to the museum is also a café run by Lebenshilfe , in which art is occasionally exhibited under the motto “culture without barriers”. The Heinsberg Provost Church of St. Gangolf and Heinsberg Castle are also in the immediate vicinity .

history

After three years of renovation, the Begas House was reopened on March 12, 2014 in the premises of the former district museum. The historically significant building from the 16th to 18th centuries was also expanded to include the neighboring Lennartz House and completely redesigned both outside and inside.

Under the direction of Rita Müllejans-Dickmann , the museum was given a new profile and, in addition to the regional history of the Heinsberger Lande, now focuses primarily on the life and work of the Heinsberg artist family Begas. Since September 2019, the museum has been offering educational courses and workshops in the new area of active art . There has been a bust of Kaiser Wilhelm I since 2019 . right next to the entrance of the Begas house. It was erected on September 20, 1908 on the Heinsberg market square and removed from there in 1942. The bust has been privately owned since then and has been given to the museum on permanent loan.

Permanent exhibitions

A look at the museum's permanent exhibition.

There are two permanent exhibitions in the Begas House. On the one hand, the nationwide largest collection of paintings, sculptures and graphics by the Begas family of artists characterizes the museum; on the other hand, historical objects and documents as well as valuable Christian treasure art and furniture from the past centuries are exhibited in the regional history department and in the context of the life and work of the Begas family brought.

90 percent of the permanent exhibition comes from the museum's own holdings; other loans came from the Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation , the Old National Gallery of the State Museums in Berlin and the Begas family archive in Düsseldorf. With the support of other donors, some new acquisitions have been added to the portfolio.

Special exhibitions

  • 2015: “HEIM @ T FRONT 1914–1918” - testimonies from those involved in the war from the Heinsberg district
  • 2015: Andrea Zang - "Analogisms"
  • 2016: "People at Glanzstoff "
  • 2016: "Vogel-Frei" - Art by people with disabilities
  • 2017: Birgit König - "Interfaces"
  • 2017: “People at Glanzstoff” - historical moments
  • 2017: “A matter of opinion” - Heinsberg then and now with photographs of Pit Siebigs
  • 2017: "Man - the secret and the sin": wooden sculptures by Andreas Joerißen
  • 2018: Hans-Peter Funken - "Abstraction and Landscape"
  • 2018: "Home game - people at Borussia ": Photo project by Markus Bullik
  • 2018: “bra-participation” - an art project for the 100th birthday of the BH
  • 2019: "Women at Glanzstoff"
  • 2019: Gerlinde Zantis - "Chaussée déformée"
  • 2019: Janine Müller - "With different eyes: Pictures from the Begas house"
  • 2019: Odine Lang - "Taxa"
  • 2019: August Lentz - "Impressions of the destroyed city of Heinsberg"

literature

  • Britta Derichs: Amor and the Begas house. Children's guide with illustrations by Yvonne Adams. Edited by Barbara Jacobs and Rita Müllejans-Dickmann.
  • Rita Müllejans-Dickmann, Wolfgang Cortjaens (ed.): Begas-Haus Heinsberg. Volume 1: The Regional History Collection. Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86832-177-7 ; Begas House Heinsberg. Volume 2: The Begas Collection. Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86832-178-4 .

Web links

Commons : Kreismuseum Heinsberg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna Petra Thomas: Works in the Begas House are expanded by a fourth generation. In: Aachener Zeitung . May 4, 2018, accessed August 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Integration: Heinsberg celebrates “culture without barriers”. In: Aachener Zeitung. June 4, 2019, accessed August 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Begas Haus press kit. (PDF) Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Begas Haus press kit. (PDF) Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Active Art. In: Bega's house. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Anna Petra Thomas: Historical bust: Kaiser Wilhelm I welcomes museum guests in the Begas house. In: Aachener Zeitung. December 6, 2019, accessed December 20, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Begas House - Collections. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Begas Haus press kit. (PDF) Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
  9. ^ "Heim @ t Front 1914–1918" officially opened in the Begas House. Aachener Zeitung, October 26, 2015, accessed on August 12, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Works by Andrea Zang can be seen in Zweibrüggen Castle. In: Aachener Zeitung. June 5, 2015, accessed August 12, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Anna Petra Thomas: Exhibition "People at Glanzstoff" in the Begas House. In: Aachener Zeitung. April 10, 2016, accessed August 12, 2019 .
  12. ↑ "Vogel-Frei" in the Heinsberg Begas House. In: Aachener Zeitung. August 23, 2016, accessed August 12, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Anna Petra Thomas: Birgit König questions viewing habits with her art. In: Aachener Nachrichten. October 30, 2016, accessed August 12, 2019 .
  14. ↑ "People at Glanzstoff" promises spectacular insights. In: Aachener Zeitung. October 23, 2017, accessed on August 12, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Anna Petra Thomas: International Museum Day: Traces of Time, Lively and Visible. In: Aachener Zeitung. May 21, 2017. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Mirja Ibsen: Mystery and sin are in each of these wooden sculptures. In: Aachener Zeitung. August 13, 2017. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Dettmar Fischer: Exhibition in the Begas House: dots, lines, dots ... done! In: Aachener Zeitung. May 7, 2018, accessed August 12, 2019 .
  18. ↑ From July 8th, the “home game” will be announced in the Begas-Haus. In: Aachener Zeitung. June 14, 2018, accessed August 12, 2019 .
  19. ↑ The brassiere in the focus of an art exhibition in the Begas house. In: Aachener Zeitung. September 3, 2019, accessed August 12, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Dettmar Fischer: "Women at Glanzstoff": Fascinating look into the role of women. In: Aachener Zeitung. January 13, 2019, accessed August 12, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Anna Petra Thomas: Begas Haus: Drawings as detailed as photographs. In: Aachener Zeitung. March 18, 2018, accessed August 12, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Anna Petra Thomas: Bright colors: Heinsberger Mona Lisa twice in the Begas house. In: Aachener Zeitung. July 4, 2019, accessed August 12, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Dettmar Fischer: Exhibition in Begas Haus: Nature is the source of ideas for “Taxa”. In: Aachener Zeitung. September 30, 2019, accessed September 30, 2019 .
  24. ^ Lentz exhibition in the Begas House: Impressions of the destroyed city of Heinsberg. In: Aachener Zeitung. November 25, 2019, accessed December 28, 2019 .

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