Hetjens Museum

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Entrance to the Hetjens Museum with Palais Nesselrode on the right and the extension on the left, in September 2018

The Hetjens - German Ceramic Museum is a Düsseldorf museum for the history of ceramics founded on May 9, 1909 . Due to the pieces in its collection, which are up to 8,000 years old and come from all over the world, it is considered the most universal institute of its kind and is regularly represented on loan at home and abroad.

history

Hetjens Museum in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort (1908)
Faience room in Hetjens

It was named after the Düsseldorf collector Laurenz Heinrich Hetjens (1830–1906), whose estate formed the basis for the museum. Hetjens was a journeyman upholsterer and saddler who had achieved his first prosperity as the technical director of a glass factory in Aachen . In 1866 he married the extremely wealthy widow Maria Catharina Regnier, who was 14 years his senior, and devoted himself to collecting art and research in the following years. His main focus as a collector was on Rhenish stoneware from the Gothic , Renaissance and Baroque periods . He not only bought, but took part in excavations himself and developed into a recognized expert. He named the city of Düsseldorf as the universal heir of his considerable fortune. In his will, however, he ordered 150,000 gold marks to be made available for the construction of a museum in which his collection would be made accessible to the public and which would also bear his name. If this requirement was not met within a year, he designated Cologne as the heir, whereupon the museum building at the northern end of the art exhibition palace (at that time the Hetjens Museum Hofgartenufer No. 3 on the corner of Krefelder Strasse, today Victoriaplatz) was implemented in 1907/1908.

With the establishment of the municipal art collections in 1913 and with the dissolution of the arts and crafts museum as part of the planning for the GeSoLei in 1926, the ceramic holdings were transferred to the Hetjens Museum. The Hetjens collection was supplemented by further acquisitions and donations and moved to the Palais Nesselrode on Schulstrasse in Düsseldorf-Carlstadt in 1969 due to lack of space . In 1994, on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the museum, an extension was opened, which also houses the Düsseldorf Film Museum . Today the Hetjens Museum has 8,500 m² of exhibition space.

management

collection

Exhibition at HETJENS - German Ceramics Museum "Royal elegance, Prussian splendor" (2013)
Exhibition in Hetjens "Royal Elegance, Prussian Splendor" (2013)
View into the Asia department of Hetjens (2018)

The original collection of the founder Laurenz Heinrich Hetjens, which consisted primarily of Rhenish stoneware , has been steadily expanded over the last century to include ceramics from all continents and creative periods. The permanent exhibition shows the whole world of ceramics from prehistory to the present day. The highlights of the collection are antique and pre-Columbian ceramics, rare stoneware vessels, Islamic ceramics , faience and majolica , contemporary artist ceramics , an extensive collection of valuable porcelains and the Asia department, which was redesigned in 2018. A special eye-catcher is a reconstructed Islamic ceramic dome from Pakistan in the museum rooms . The Ernst Schneider Collection in Schloss Jägerhof is also managed by the Hetjens.

Events

Hetjens organizes guided tours, culinary events, readings, concerts, theme evenings, restoration courses and children's birthdays. Workshops on Japanese culture with tea ceremonies are particularly popular. A “table of the month” presents special porcelain ensembles in elaborately designed thematic presentations.

Special exhibitions

Table of the month "Pique-nique Tropical avec Hermès Toucans" at Hetjens (2017)

Examples of special exhibitions in recent years:

  • Interactions - Masters and journeymen of the Bauhaus between workshop and industry (2019)
  • Nice to cry! Meissen onion pattern in all its beauty (1730 to 1888) (2018/2019)
  • In women's hands - ceramics from West Africa (2018)
  • Granted house-trained - pugs made of Meissen porcelain and their friends (2018)
  • Leiko Ikemura : Fairy Tale Forest (2017)
  • Markus Karstieß - Turning to speak (2017)
  • »Love me as I love you« - messages on ceramics (2017)
  • Moscow splendor of the tsarist era (2016)
  • Russian Bridal Treasures - The Porcelain of the Grand Duchesses (2016)
  • Good luck for! Mining and White Gold - The Middelschulte Collection (2016)
  • Clay treasures of the Andes - pottery of the Incas and their predecessors (2016)
  • Kangxi - Porcelain Treasures for the Imperial Court and European Princes (2015)
  • CHINA CONTEMPORARY (2015)
  • Contemporary ceramics from Fontana to Uecker - new acquisitions by the Lontzen Foundation (2015)
  • Pink Porcelain! - Porcelain painting from pink to purple (2015)
  • Departure to new painting grounds - painting of the Franconian baroque on glass and glaze (2019)

circle of friends

The Friends of Hetjens, founded in 1958, supports the museum in expanding the collection, in its scientific processing and cataloging, as well as in events and public relations work.

Dr. Günter Lontzen Foundation

The ceramic collector Günter Lontzen (1929–2007) left the Hetjens his private collection of modern ceramics. The approximately 80 objects by international ceramic artists of the present, acquired since 2009 with the foundation's funds, were shown until February 2016 in the exhibition “Contemporary Ceramics from Fontana to Uecker ”.

literature

in order of appearance

  • Adalbert Klein: The Hetjens Museum. 8,000 years of ceramics . Hetjens - German Ceramic Museum Düsseldorf 1972.
  • Hetjens Museum - German Ceramic Museum. Guide to the Hetjens Collection - German Ceramic Museum Düsseldorf 1978.
  • Joachim Naumann: The Hetjensmuseum - German Ceramic Museum - in Düsseldorf. In: Bärbel Kerkhoff-Hader: Pottery. (= Rheinisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde 24), Bonn 1982. pp. 299–303. ISBN 3-427-88251-9 .
  • Ulrich Pietsch , Kristian Jakobsen: Early Meissen porcelain . Published by the Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf and the Dresden State Art Collection. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-7774-7170-9 .
  • Sally Schöne: Passion for ceramics. The Hetjens Museum in Düsseldorf and its collection history. Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-496-01416-4 .
  • Daniela Antonin, Daniel Suebsman: Fascination of the foreign. China, Japan, Europe. Anniversary exhibition in the Hetjens Museum . Hetjens - German Ceramics Museum Düsseldorf 2009.
  • Reto Niggl: Kähler ceramics from Naestved in Denmark Heike Schäfer Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-043235-4 .
  • Marion Roehmer: Siegburger Steinzeug's cosmos of forms. The collection in the Hetjens Museum . Nünnerich-Asmus, Mainz 2014, ISBN 978-3-943904-69-7 .
  • Daniel Suebsman, Daniela Antonin: Porcelain treasures from the Kangxi period . Hetjens - German Ceramic Museum, Düsseldorf 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ . Hofgartenufer (Rhine bridge to Venloerstraße) No 1 restaurant for Kunst Palast, no. 2 Art Exhibition Palace, No. 3 Hetjens Museum. Without no .: rowing club, water sports club, swimming baths in the new harbor basin , in the address book for the municipality of Dusseldorf, 1911, S 174
  2. ↑ The new construction of the Hetjens Museum, begun in the previous year, was completed. in a report on the status and administration of community affairs in the city of Düsseldorf for the period from April 1, 1908 to March 31, 1909.
  3. ↑ a b c Kathrin Stern: The legacy of a passionate collector - or why the Hetjens Museum bears the name Hetjens . In: Landschaftsverband Rheinland (Ed.): Museums in the Rhineland. Information for the Rhenish museums . No. 2 , 2006, ISSN  1437-0816 ( Online [PDF]).
  4. ↑ Death note: Heinz Ritzerfeld, who died on May 22, 1954 at the age of 71. His life belonged to his ceramics and his family. ( rhein-erft-geschichte.de )
  5. ↑ Edith Kowalski: '' Adalbert Klein '', In: Sally Schöne (Ed.): '' Ceramics from passion. The Hetjens Museum in Düsseldorf and its collection history. '' Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-496-01416-4 , p. 146.
  6. ^ Arne Lieb: Düsseldorf: Hetjens Museum loses director. In: RP Online. June 4, 2015, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Dr. Daniela Antonin - the "new one" in the Hetjens Museum. In: local office. October 9, 2015, accessed June 3, 2020 (German).
  8. ^ Arne Lieb: Name and message: Düsseldorf. In: RP Online. September 19, 2017, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  9. ^ Exhibition archive of the Hetjens since 1909. In: duesseldorf.de. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Hetjens-Museum presents around 80 new acquisitions by the Lontzen Foundation in the state capital Düsseldorf, accessed on November 29, 2015

Web links

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