Emil Schumacher Museum
 Common foyer of the Osthaus Museum Hagen and the Emil Schumacher Museum |
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| place | Hagen , Germany |
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Museum for the work of Emil Schumacher
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| architect | Lindemann architecture office |
| opening | August 28, 2009 |
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Emil Schumacher Foundation
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-017429 |
The Emil Schumacher Museum is an art museum and part of the art quarter in Hagen and is dedicated to the internationally renowned painter Emil Schumacher , who was born in Hagen . It was opened on August 28, 2009 in the run-up to the RUHR.2010 Capital of Culture year in a specially constructed new building.
The museum holds several temporary exhibitions a year. A supporting program with concerts, cinema screenings, lectures and readings in the museum's own auditorium complements the exhibition program.
The museum is run by the non-profit Emil Schumacher Foundation. The chairman of the foundation is Ulrich Schumacher, chairman of the foundation advisory board is the lawyer Friedrich Grawert. The museum's scientific director has been the art historian Rouven Lotz since 2011 .
history
The idea of setting up the museum goes back to 1997, when the then Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Johannes Rau , suggested the construction of a Schumacher museum on the occasion of the artist's 85th birthday in order to allow the painter a permanent presentation of his work in dedicate to his hometown Hagen . In the same year, the city council unanimously decided to build the museum, which should be completed on August 29, 2002 for Emil Schumacher's 90th birthday . When Emil Schumacher died on October 4th, 1999 at the age of 87, Mayor Wilfried Horn affirmed the city's will to build the museum in the presence of Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder .
collection
The collection of works is thanks to the artist's son, the art historian Ulrich Schumacher, who founded the Emil Schumacher Foundation in 2001. The foundation is based in the Emil Schumacher Museum. The foundation comprises around 500 works from the years 1936 to 1999. 88 oil paintings, 200 gouaches, 25 ceramics, 50 pictures on porcelain and 10 paintings on slate as well as the entire graphic are the core of the museum collection, which includes around 100 other works by Emil Schumacher belong to the property of the city of Hagen. The support of the Emil Schumacher Museum by the citizens of Hagen is bundled in a support association that accompanies the museum work.
With their expressive power, large-format pictures on wood or canvas form the core and climax of Emil Schumacher's diverse oeuvre. In addition, the artist created a large number of gouaches, which in Schumacher's oeuvre are not limited to the eponymous technique, but rather were painted in mixed media on paper. An extensive graphic work as well as ceramic works and the experiment with ever new materials such as slate, lead or aluminum characterize the work of Schumacher. Possibilities of an impasto application of paint and the direct handling of the most diverse materials create a particularly intense effect.
Exhibition program
In addition to the exhibition to introduce the extensive oeuvre, there are regular changing exhibitions on special individual aspects of Emil Schumacher's work. Large special exhibitions show the artist in juxtaposition with other internationally important personalities. To complete the exhibition program, the Emil Schumacher Museum is showing further solo exhibitions by changing artists and themes:
- 2020: Fritz Winter - Breakthrough to Color , in cooperation with the Angermuseum , Erfurt
- 2019: Emil Schumacher - The charm of the material
- 2019: Emil Schumacher - "For Ulla". For the 100th birthday of Ursula Schumacher
- 2019: KRH Sonderborg - Images of Time and Space
- 2019: Heinrich Brocksieper - A Hagener at the Bauhaus. The materiality of things
- 2019: Emil Schumacher - Leaves from the Engadine
- 2018: Gerhard Hoehme - Epiphany of Informel
- 2018: Emil Schumacher - Wheels: Factory
- 2018: Emil Schumacher - pictures on porcelain
- 2017: Peter Brüning - The Potential of Informel
- 2017: Emil Schumacher - Pastoral - Bucolic scenes
- 2017: Emil Schumacher - places of security
- 2016/17: Gilgamesh - Builders and Schumacher
- 2016/17: Karel Appel . The abstract look
- 2016: Travel pictures from the Orient
- 2016: Emil Schumacher Boscone - Fascination Tree
- 2014/2015: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - The master of the line
- 2014: Emil Schumacher - see black!
- 2013/2014: Norbert Kricke and Emil Schumacher - Positions in Sculpture and Painting after 1945
- 2013: Emil Schumacher - summer joys
- 2013: Young-Jae Lee and Emil Schumacher
- 2013: Emil Schumacher - Leaves from the Engadine
- 2012/2013: Emil Schumacher - Free as a bird
- 2013: "Painting is increased life" - Emil Schumacher in an international context
- 2013: Emil Schumacher - Maccheroni Latino
- 2013: Emil Schumacher - Minnesota Suite
- 2011/2012: Emil Schumacher - Woyzek and Mephisto, theater illustrations from the 1940s
- 2012: Schumacher-Africa - Schumacher's pictures in dialogue with monumental sculptures from the Niger Delta
- 2011/2012: Emil Schumacher - creature horse , Warendorf
- 2011/2012: Emil Schumacher - Trees "... how could I withdraw from nature"
- 2011: Emil Schumacher - The Book of Genesis
- 2010/2011: Nolde / Schumacher - Kindred Souls
- 2010: Rui Inacio - Wahre Bilder / True Images
- 2010: Emil Schumacher - The 2010 birthday exhibition
- 2010: Albert Oehlen - finger painting
- 2010: New Freedom - Abstraction after 1945
- 2009/2010: Emil Schumacher - material as a motif
architecture
The Emil Schumacher Museum, together with the Osthaus Museum Hagen and the historical buildings of the former Folkwang Museum, form an urban ensemble. It was designed by the Mannheim architects Lindemann and consists of a rectangular exposed concrete structure that is encased in a glass envelope that encompasses the entire building. The most striking architectural element is the elongated staircase that can be seen from the museum square and that opens up the building.
The supporting structure of the glass envelope consists of vertically stretched, 30 mm thick steel cables, which are arranged at a horizontal distance of 3 m on the inside of the glass facade. The glass panes are positioned on the rope at points and are attached by holders located in the glass joints. The primary structure of the roof consists of 14 steel lattice girders that protrude over the reinforced concrete core. The glass covering made of accessible glass lies on the upper chords of the steel framework. Another accessible glass level is located on the lower chords, in which all technical components are located.
The night view of the museum creates a special contrast to the daytime view through a colored light show: During the day, the incident sunlight highlights the structure of the facade as a central element, at night the building shines from the inside. The massive structure is illuminated in such a way that the large vertical concrete surfaces are visible as light carriers.
Goal setting
The Emil Schumacher Museum sees itself as a center of research into expressive painting after 1945. With its exhibition program it wants to present the artist Emil Schumacher in connection with parallel international developments in art and his temporal context. In addition, young contemporary artists are presented in regular exhibitions whose work is close to Schumacher's work in terms of form or content.
Web links
- Literature by and about Emil Schumacher Museum in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen
- Models and drawings of the museum district from the competition
- Emil Schumacher Museum at Lindemann Architects
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 20.3 " N , 7 ° 28 ′ 24.7" E