German Baroque Gallery
The German Baroque Gallery is located in the Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg and represents an important art collection of works from the Baroque period. It includes paintings from the possession of the Augsburg Municipal Art Collections and loans from private collectors.
History and sponsorship
The German Baroque Gallery was established after 1958, when the city of Augsburg was given the Schaezlerpalais, which had been family-owned until then, from the married couple Wolfgang Lorenz and Hilda Sophia von Schaezler. The exhibition was set up on the one hand by the extensive art collections of the city itself, most of which survived the Second World War unscathed, and on the other hand by loans and donations from private collectors.
After a renovation and modernization of the Schaezlerpalais became inevitable, the German Baroque Gallery was closed for several years and reopened in February 2006 with the rest of the building and the other museums next door. The German Baroque Gallery is part of the Augsburg art collections and museums of the city of Augsburg.
exhibition
The exhibition of the German Baroque Gallery focuses primarily on painting from the 16th to 18th centuries, but also shows graphics since the 15th century. A special focus is on artists from Augsburg and Swabia , who worked here during this time and who, in addition to their pictures, also became famous for ceiling frescoes or altarpieces in churches , including Matthäus Günther , Johann Evangelist Holzer and Joseph Heintz the Elder.
In addition, there are also works by artists on display who worked throughout southern Germany and whose names are now associated with Baroque art, such as Johann Heinrich Schönfeld or Georg Philipp Rugendas . The overview of baroque painting is supplemented by paintings by other celebrities such as Georg Flegel , Johann Heinrich Füssli , Anton Graff , Anton Raphael Mengs or Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder . With pictures by Angelika Kauffmann , the collection also has works by a female artist, which was still quite rare at the time.
location
The German Baroque Gallery was housed in the Schaezlerpalais, a former city palace of the banker Benedikt Adam Freiherr von Liebert, Edler von Liebenhofen , on Maximilianstrasse in the heart of Augsburg's old town . She shares the premises with the graphic collection of the city of Augsburg and the State Gallery of Old German Masters .
Web links
- German Baroque Gallery (art collections and museums Augsburg)
- German Baroque Gallery at the State Office for Non-State Museums
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '54 " N , 10 ° 53' 57" E