Picture gallery Dachau

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Picture gallery Dachau

The Dachau Gemäldegalerie documents the history of the Dachau artists' colony from its beginnings in the mid-19th century until well into the 20th century. The permanent collection includes around 200 paintings and some sculptures. It is based in the premises of the Sparkasse in the old town of Dachau .

History of the collection

The foundation of the painting collection goes back to the Dachau Museum Association, which the painter Hans von Hayek founded together with Hermann Stockmann and August Pfaltz in 1903. After three years of intensive collecting, Prince Ludwig of Bavaria opened the first picture gallery in two rooms in Dachau Castle on August 26, 1908 . In 1958 the castle had to be cleared and the collection had to be stored. From 1973 the collection was inventoried and significantly expanded by the Museum Association, so that the picture gallery in the old town opposite the town hall could be reopened in 1985. In 1988, management and operation were transferred to the Zweckverband Dachau Galleries and Museums. With the renovation in 2005, the Gemäldegalerie received a modern special exhibition area on the second floor and a roof terrace high above the old town.

Permanent exhibition

Painting by Carl Spitzweg in the gallery: " Dachauerin sitting on a bench "

The tour begins with the discovery of the market town of Dachau just outside Munich and its atmospheric moss landscape by the painters in the mid-19th century. In the decades that followed, more and more landscape painters came to Dachau and the surrounding area. Little by little, an artist colony emerged. A small group of artists, Adolf Hölzel , Ludwig Dill and Arthur Langhammer , made Dachau known nationwide with an exhibition in Berlin in 1898. Adolf Hölzel's artistic ideas led to abstract painting of the 20th century at the same time as other artists . The outbreak of the First World War brought the development of the artists' colony to an abrupt end. But the reorientation of the artists that began afterwards also left its mark on Dachau.

The permanent exhibition shows pictures from our own holdings as well as paintings from the museum association and the city of Dachau. In addition, there are loans from large Munich collections. The paintings on display include works by Johann Georg von Dillis , Christian Morgenstern , Carl Spitzweg , Eduard Schleich the Elder , Adolf Lier , Max Liebermann , Ludwig Dill , Fritz von Uhde , Adolf Hölzel , Emmi Walther , Arthur Langhammer , Leopold von Kalckreuth , Lovis Corinth , Heinrich von Zügel and others

Furthermore, in 2014 students from the Ignaz-Taschner-Gymnasium produced audio guides for six works. These can be found throughout the picture gallery and contain pictures of z. B. John Hammer, Lovis Corinth, Fritz von Uhde and Adolf Hölzel.

Special exhibitions

Special exhibitions regularly deal with individual aspects of Dachau open-air painting and other European artist colonies.

literature

  • Zweckverband Dachau Galleries and Museums (Ed.): Gemäldegalerie Dachau . Dachau 1993.
  • Horst Heres: Dachau Picture Gallery . Dachau Museum Association, Dachau 1985.
  • Belli, Petra (catalog ed. ): FreiLichtMalerei. The artist town of Dachau around 1870–1914. Catalog for the exhibition from March 15 to April 22, 2001 . Dachau 2001, ISBN 3-930941-26-0 .
  • Dachau artists' colony. Flowering from 1880 to 1920 . Atelier in the farmhouse, Fischerhude 2013, ISBN 978-3-88132-394-9 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '35 "  N , 11 ° 26' 6.4"  E