German Wallpaper Museum

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Since it was founded in 1923, the museum has been in the Red Palace, of which only the portico has been preserved since it was destroyed in 1943
The building of the Hessian State Museum, in which the collection was on display until 2008

The German Wallpaper Museum is a museum in Kassel that is part of the Hessen Kassel museum landscape . It reflects the history of wallcovering.

history

In 1920 the German Wallpaper Museum was founded in Kassel on the initiative of the wallpaper dealer Gustav Iven. The sponsoring association of the museum, which was also founded this year, has been the main financier since then and includes various wallpaper manufacturers and dealers. The city of Kassel joined the association in the mid-1980s.

The wallpaper museum was opened as a private institution in 1923. It was initially located in the Red Palace on Friedrichsplatz . The collection, to which wallpaper manufacturers and dealers contributed, grew to 9000 wallpapers by 1934 . The exhibition was expanded to the White Palace in the same year . The Red Palace was completely destroyed during the Second World War, except for the portico and the White Palace.

From 1948 the museum was located in Wilhelmshöhe Castle , but only parts of the collection were shown there in the Weißenstein wing. In 1976 the wallpaper museum was housed in the Hessian State Museum and the objects were shown on an area of ​​1000 square meters. In 1993 the museum became the sponsorship of the State of Hesse , the collection remained the property of the Association of the German Wallpaper Museum .

The collection, which has now grown to around 23,000 wallpapers, includes gold leather wallpapers from the 16th century to contemporary designer wallpapers , Chinese wallpapers , panorama wallpapers and wallpapers made of materials such as colored paper and oilcloth. In this way, around 10,000 complete or fragmented decorations from the past 300 years were exhibited in the State Museum, 600 of them in a rich exhibition and 20 contrasting rooms.

The museum has been closed since 2008 due to renovation work at the state museum, but parts of the collection are shown as part of changing special exhibitions. The museum is to be presented in a new location in the future, according to the current status (2016) in a new building at the location of today's Hessian Administrative Court on Brüder-Grimm-Platz opposite the State Museum. However, the opening is not expected before 2019/2020.

  • Chinese wallpaper depicting a funeral procession (around 1780)

  • Chinese wallpaper (around 1780)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of the German Wallpaper Museum eV ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the museum-kassel.de page
  2. ^ Ernst Wolfgang Mick : The German Wallpaper Museum in Kassel . In: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany - City and District of Kassel . tape 7 , 1986, pp. 64 .
  3. ↑ The new wallpaper museum on the Kassel vineyard should be ready in 2013 In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from February 26, 2010
  4. ^ German Wallpaper Museum ( Memento from September 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on the webmuseen.de site
  5. ↑ Wall Lust - showcase German Wallpaper Museum ( Memento of 14 July 2014 Internet Archive accessed) on 29 June 2014
  6. ↑ The future of the wallpaper museum is still open. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from August 12, 2013

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 38.8 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 24 ″  E