Egon Schiele Art Center

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The Egon Schiele Art Centrum in Český Krumlov , 2016

The Egon Schiele Art Centrum (ESAC) is a museum and gallery in Český Krumlov (Krumau) in the Czech Republic . The private non-profit organization deals with the Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890–1918), with classical art of the 20th century as well as contemporary art .

History of buildings

  • patio

  • patio

The Egon Schiele Art Centrum is housed in the former city brewery, which was in operation from 1608 to 1949. Originally there were 4 town houses on the site of today's complex, which the city administration bought in stages. After the city had obtained the right to brew brewing in 1503 to cover the high city expenses , a house was purchased as a malt house in 1523 , which supplied the surrounding bourgeois microbreweries , which had already received the brewing license in 1347, with malt. In order to expand the malt business, the house on the left was bought in 1584 and the house on the right in 1606. After major renovation work by the local mason Hans Haas and the renowned Budweiser master builder Domenico Benedetto Cometta , the own brewery was started at the end of 1608 - i.e. before the stately Eggenberg brewery in the Latrán district . When the houses were numbered consecutively in 1882, the house on the far left was still considered independent and was therefore given the separate house number 70, while the municipal brewery bears the number 71.

The building has a uniform sgraffito facade, which has been changed several times over the years. While the brewery still had sgraffiti with dark, so-called diamond shadows around 1900 , today you can see a shadowless ashlar plaster .

History and exhibitions of the Art Center

Building at Široká 71, facade design 2013
Building at Široká 71, 2015

It was founded in 1992 and its founders came from the Czech Republic (Hana Jirmusová), Austria (Gerwald Sonnberger) and the United States ( Serge Sabarsky ). Since 1993 the Art Centrum has housed a permanent documentary exhibition on Schiele's life and work with graphics , watercolors and drawings as well as exhibits from his personal estate. In addition, there are special exhibitions on his work, such as:

  • 2020/2021 Josef Seidel (1859-1935) - Krumlov at the time of Egon Schiele , in addition to the permanent exhibition with photographs from the Museum Fotoatelier Seidel from the time of Schiele's life, including those of Josef Seidel , Josef Wolf (1864-1938) and Wenzel Mick (1872 –1951)
  • 2010 Exhibition on the occasion of Schiele's 120th birthday
  • 2002 Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt - watercolors, drawings from the collections of the Serge Sabarsky Foundation in New York and the National Gallery in Prague
  • 1996 Klimt - Kokoschka - Schiele - 100 watercolors and drawings
  • 1993 Egon Schiele - 80 watercolors and drawings from American private collections

In addition to solo exhibitions, the Art Centrum shows themed exhibitions on different art directions and aspects, such as:

  • 2015/2016 Mysterium Böhmerwald with works by Katharina Gierlach , Josef Váchal , Frantisek and Josef Seidel
  • 2011 Fashion Highlights : History of the Heeled Shoe; Art and everyday life , including works by Jiří Kolář and Běla Kolářová
  • 2009 Contemporary Russian Art ; Russian video art ; Political poster of the USSR ; Socialist realism
  • 2008 The Opera in Painting ; Traditional Chinese landscape painting
  • 2005 Estonian Expressionism ; Exhibition “without barriers” : works of art for the blind and visually impaired
  • 2001 Czech puppets ; Expressionism and Meditation - Rombold Collection ; Russia's second avant-garde

In addition, large-scale works of classical art from the 20th century and contemporary art by international and Czech artists will be shown (selection):

Other Projects

  • Synagogue interior

  • Cafe in the former rabbi's apartment

From 1997 the Jewish community in Prague, in cooperation with the Art Centrum, carried out the renovation of the secular synagogue in Český Krumlov , where exhibitions on the city's Jewish history and visual arts were set up.

  • Hradební

  • Back of building

  • painted pigeons

On the back of the building and the adjacent house facades in Hradební Street, there are changing works of art by various artists, as well as unknown works of art by Tets Ohnari , Roman Týc and Tomáš Vaněk.

  • Široká 72: 2007

  • 2015

  • 2017

At the house Široká 72, adjoining the Art Center on the right, an installation on the theme of the “Krumlov Madonna” is being exhibited on the facade of the house by various artists.

International symposia are held regularly in the Art Centrum:

  • 2018: Visegrád Symposium + Austria: View of Women 2018 , with Alena Anderlová, among others
  • 2014: Visegrad Symposium "In honor of Jiří Kolář " on the 100th birthday of the artist, with artists from the Visegrad countries of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Austria, including Dorota Sadovská and Judit Szabó
  • 2013: Symposium 13 - female artists' symposium on predecessors from art and culture with roots on both sides of the border, with Stanislava Konvalinková, Eva Prokopcová, Christoph Raffetseder, Annerose Riedl , Alois Riedl , among others
  • 2011: 2nd Visegrad Symposium + Austria: Art and Everyday Life , with Aleksandra Ska, Zita Attalai, Andrzej Dudek-Dürer, Hajnalka Tarr, Andrej Dúbravský and Hans Polterauer , among others
  • 2007: International Symposium Český Krumlov 100 years after Egon Schiele , with Alena Anderlová, Jan Vičar , Gisela Katzengruber, Manfred Kielnhofer , among others
  • 2006: International Symposium Český Krumlov after the opening of the border - memories of Serge Sabarsky , with Miriam Bajtala, Tassilo Blittersdorff , Teodor Buzu, Ritula Fränkel , Nicholas Morris , Miroslav Páral, Edith Platzl, Norbert Trummer , among others
Garden studio

In order to promote cultural exchange, part of the museum complex was expanded into scholarship studios by 2009, which international organizations can rent for ten years. They are or were financed, among others, by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Austrian Ministry of Culture , the Regional Cultural Directorate of Upper Austria and the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art ( Moldova grant from 1998 to 2010). The scholarships are awarded by the institutions of the respective countries. Mainly scholars from Austria (since 1995), Germany (1997 to 2011), Hungary (1998 to 2014), Upper Austria (since 1999) and Taiwan (since 2004) regularly use or have used studios. After the renovation of Schiele's garden studio by the Českokrumlovský rozvojový fond (ČKRF), the living and studio rooms in the building rented by Art Centrum in Linecká 343 are also used to accommodate scholarship holders.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Široká No. 70, 71 . In: Online encyclopedia encyklopedie.ckrumlov.cz about Krummau .
  2. ↑ history of the house on schieleartcentrum.cz
  3. ^ Pavel Vlček: Český Krumlov. Historické center. Series České dedictí UNESCO . 2016, pp. 162–164 (Czech and English editions available)
  4. ↑ a b c Founding history on schieleartcentrum.cz
  5. ↑ a b c Chronicle on schieleartcentrum.cz
  6. ^ History of the synagogue in Český Krumlov
  7. ^ Egon Schiele Art Centrum on krummau.de.
  8. ↑ Český Krumlov opravil synagogu, další magnet tretího meandru
  9. ↑ Street Art in Hradební Street on schieleartcentrum.cz
  10. ↑ Madonnas on schieleartcentrum.cz
  11. ↑ Symposia on schieleartcentrum.cz
  12. ↑ Scholarship holders at the Egon Schiele Center. Retrieved December 21, 2018 .
  13. ↑ After 102 years, artists are back in the garden studio at schieleartcentrum.cz

Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 38.6 "  N , 14 ° 18 ′ 47.9"  E