Braith Mali Museum

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View of the urban history department (2004)
Monument in front of the museum with busts of Braith (left) and Mali (right)

The Braith-Mali-Museum is a multi-discipline museum in Biberach an der Riss in Upper Swabia.

history

Since 1898, numerous donors and patrons laid the foundation for a Biberach citizens' museum, which opened in 1902 in the historic rooms of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit . Among the important donors was the pastor and paleontologist Josef Probst , from whom not only palaeontological but also art-historical collectibles come.

With the takeover of the estate of the Munich painters Anton Braith (born in Biberach, 1836–1905) and Christian Mali (1832–1906) in the years 1905–1908, their representative, richly furnished studio rooms came to the Biberach Museum. Today the Braith Mali salons are considered to be the only fully preserved artist studios from the 19th century.

Numerous works by the most important German expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner have found their way into the museum because his brother Walter was a local heir in Biberach.

collection

The museum includes the departments

  1. Natural history with biotopes designed to be realistic
  2. Archeology of the settlement of Upper Swabia (including the Forschner Collection )
  3. Gothic
  4. Art from the 17th to 19th centuries (with works by Johann Heinrich Schönfeld and Johann Baptist Pflug as well as the Peters family of painters )
  5. Historical artist studios of the animal painters Anton Braith and Christian Mali
  6. Modern gallery with works by Jakob Bräckle (including his studio ), Julius Kaesdorf , Romane Holderried Kaesdorf
  7. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Department (paintings and graphics)
  8. History of the city of Biberach, including toys from Rock & Graner
Bräckle Atelier

An information corner in the stairwell introduces the designer Heinz H. Engler .

The three-dimensional model of the city of Biberach on the ground floor can be viewed without an entrance fee and is e.g. T. shown during city tours.

building

The Hospital of the Holy Spirit is the largest medieval building complex in the former imperial city of Biberach. Today the completely renovated building houses the museum.

literature

  • Dieter Büchner: Two Munich painter princes in Biberach. The artist studios of Anton Braith and Christian Mali. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 34th year 2005, issue 4, p. 231 f. ( PDF )

Web links

Commons : Braith-Mali-Museum Biberach  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Koldehoff: Naked in nature. The Hanoverian Galerie Koch sells a sketchbook by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - in its individual parts. In: The time . November 29, 2012, accessed May 15, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '52.5 "  N , 9 ° 47' 24.5"  E