Dom Museum Vienna
 The Dom Museum at Stephansplatz 6 |
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| place | Vienna , Austria |
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| opening | 1933 |
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The Dom Museum Wien is a museum of the Archdiocese of Vienna in the Zwettlerhof next to the Archbishop's Palace at Stephansplatz 6.
history
The Archbishop's Cathedral and Diocesan Museum was founded on the initiative of Cardinal Theodor Innitzer and opened on June 3, 1933 in the premises of the Archbishop's Palace . In 1973 the company moved to the Zwettlerhof (Stephansplatz 6) and from the mid-1980s onwards, additional rooms were adapted for museum operations.
From 2010 to 2015 it was called the “Dommuseum”, and since August 1, 2015, the official name has been “Dom Museum Wien”. In May 2012 the museum was closed in order to rebuild it and realign it conceptually. The Viennese art scholar Johanna Schwanberg has been heading the Dom Museum Vienna since March 2013 .
Remodeling and reopening
The architect Boris Podrecca was entrusted with the renovation after the closure in May 2012 . Now, in the newly designed rooms in the historicist Palais on Stephansplatz, the valuable exhibits of medieval sacred art and the St. Stephan cathedral treasure were to be shown in conjunction with key works of the Austrian avant-garde and contemporary positions. The new Dom Museum Vienna was officially opened in October 2017.
For the time of the renovation, many exhibits were housed in the westwork of St. Stephen's Cathedral. The most important cultural and art-historical conglomerates were, however, transferred back to the museum after the museum renovation was completed.
Concept and focus of the collection
The Dom Museum Vienna combines several collection focuses:
Medieval cathedral treasure of St. Stephan : These include valuable altars, ornate sacred objects decorated with gold and precious stones such as monstrances and chalices, paintings, precious manuscripts and sumptuous robes.
Rudolf IV the founder: the objects related to Archduke Rudolf IV (1339-1365). In the 14th century he laid the foundation stone for the new Gothic building of St. Stephen's Cathedral and also founded the University of Vienna. He is generally considered to be the father of the imperial Habsburg capital. Highlights of the collection: the portrait of Rudolf, which is considered the oldest painted portrait in the West; his shroud of silk woven with gold thread, originally made for a Muslim sultan.
Art of Viennese modernism and the avant-garde: The Otto Mauer Collection, located in the Dom Museum Vienna, spans the range from works by the Expressionists and Secessionists to works by the most important representatives of the Austrian avant-garde of the 1950s and 60s, such as Gironcoli, Kogelnik, Lassnig, Mikl, Oberhuber, Prachensky, Rainer, and many more
Contemporary art from Austria: The Otto Mauer Prize, which has been awarded annually to young artists living in Austria since 1983, requires, among other things, the purchase of a representative work by the laureate, thereby guaranteeing the constant expansion of the collection of the Dom Museum Vienna. Works by Erwin Bohatsch, Peter Kogler, Heimo Zobernig, Maria Hahnenkamp, Dorit Margreiter, Esther Stocker, Isa Rosenberger and Nilbar Güres are represented.
The museum's program moves in the field of tension between art, church and society. Permanent and special exhibitions as well as events should offer a contemporary look at the history of sacred art, but should also include contemporary artists. The historical and contemporary works are to be re-contextualized and enter into a dialogue with one another. In addition to intercultural and interreligious issues, the museum would like to give a place to existential topics that are at the core of the Christian religion: identity, migration, exclusion, violence and poverty.
Permanent exhibition
In its permanent collection, the museum shows art from over a thousand years, especially works from St. Stephen's Cathedral and the numerous churches of the archdiocese in Vienna and Lower Austria . Since the reopening in 2017, a room in the permanent collection has also been dedicated to the Otto Mauer Collection. An important aspect of the new exhibition concept is the juxtaposition of old and new art, of tradition and modernity. Accordingly, works by contemporary artists (Iris Andraschek, Hubert Lobnig, Maria Hahnenkamp, Judith Huemer) can be seen in the permanent exhibition, which contextualize, counteract and complement the historical objects.
Exhibitions
- 2007: Anatomy of Transience - painting by Franz Basdera
- 2007: Fire and Spirit - 1000 Years of Bulgarian Icons
- 2007: Christmas cribs from Europe - The Schreiber Collection
- 2008: Religion, Flesh and Power - The Religious in the Work of Alfred Hrdlicka
- 2008: Between the Worlds - Helmuth Gräff
- 2008: Heroes, saints, heavenly climbers - football and religion
- 2008: 75 and not a bit old - special program for the anniversary
- 2008: Icons under the hammer and sickle - The Russian Orthodox Church in the 20th century
- 2008: Baby Jesus - cribs from five continents from the Schreiber collection
- 2009: Hans Robert Pippal - Sacral
- 2009: Arik Brauer and the Bible - For his 80th birthday
- 2009: Hans Plobner - iron etchings, gouaches
- 2009: Klemens Maria Hofbauer - patron saint of Vienna - for the 100th anniversary of the canonization
- 2009: Expression and Meditation - From the Rombold Collection
- 2009: Maria lactans - The breastfeeding woman in art
- 2010: Croatia - cradle of European culture
- 2010: Memoria mediterranea - Matko Trebotić
- 2010: Serbia - Cultural Bridge between East and West
- 2010: Detlev Kreidl - Diversity of Color
- 2010: Expedition Bible - journey of discovery with all senses
- 2011: Dante's Vision - Through Hell to Light
- 2011: From Arthur Aal to Rosa Zwirn - The most beautiful Jewish names in the German language
- 2011: The City - An epyllion about the fate of a city
- 2011: Baby Jesus, come to me! - Cribs and children from old Austria
- 2012: Uzbekistan - cradle of the cultures and civilizations of Central Asia
- 2012: Symbol Religion Myth - The Cross in Sculpture
- 2012: Window to Another World - Contemporary Icons by Nikos Kypraios
- 2017: Images of Language - Language of Images (opening exhibition after renovation)
- 2018: Show me your wound
management
- 1961–1972 Rudolf Bachleitner
- 2007–2012 Bernhard Böhler
- since 2013 Johanna Schwanberg
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Archbishop's Cathedral and Diocesan Museum in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ^ The university of the self-proclaimed Archduke. In: derStandard.at. March 16, 2015, accessed December 7, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.wienerzeitung.at/themen_channel/wissen/geschichte/667081_Abendland-und-Morgenland-im-Angesicht-des-Todes.html
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 31.3 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 27 ″ E