Ferry (gallery)

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The ferry is a municipal art gallery in Bad Saulgau in Upper Swabia . It was founded in 1947 on the initiative of the French occupying power by the then governor Coup de Fréjac, together with the Saulgau district administrator Karl-Anton Maier and the linguist Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher as the "Center d`Information". After the Nazi dictatorship, it was supposed to contribute to the democratization of the Germans and the reconciliation of the former " hereditary enemies " through art and culture . Under the symbolic name “Museum - The Ferry”, a place of education and encounter was created, which in the following years became known primarily as a gallery.

Exhibitions

The “Fähre” showed important representatives of classical modernism with Emil Nolde , Paul Klee and Otto Dix early on . In the early 1960s she opened up to concrete art . In addition, the “ferry” has always been a forum for regional art, in which formerly ostracized artists such as Wilhelm Geyer , Hans Gassebner or Karl Caspar found a new home. It was also the starting point for the Upper Swabian Art Prize, which was first awarded in 1952 and endowed with DM 10,000 . The highlights include the exhibitions " Hans Purrmann " (1950), "Concrete Art" (1960, in collaboration with Max Bill ), " HAP Grieshaber " (1979, homage to his 70th birthday), "Modernism and the present in the Würth Collection “(1997) with works by Max Beckmann , Marc Chagall , Alexej von Jawlensky , Pablo Picasso and in 2010 a large retrospective with photographs by Herlinde Koelbl .

The more than 70-year tradition of exhibitions has made the “ferry” an integral part of the southern German art landscape. More than almost any other gallery in Upper Swabia, it has documented the development of classic modern and contemporary art in the Southwest almost comprehensively in over 400 exhibitions (Wilhelm Geyer 1947, Otto Dix 1953, Erich Heckel 1958, Max Ackermann 1959, Willi Baumeister 1961, Anton Stankowski 1973, Gottfried Garf 1975, Willi Baumeister 1979, Emil Kiess 1981, Rudolf Wachter 2000, Werner Pokorny 2001 and many others).

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death in 2018, the “Fähre” once again commemorates Wilhelm Geyer, who was closely connected to its early history as one of the formative artists of the 20th century in the German south-west and innovator of sacred art, who himself played a major role in the creation of the Upper Swabian Art Prize.

Old monastery

Since 2010 the "ferry" has been in the old monastery, a former Franciscan monastery from the 17th century. The municipal collection "Art in Upper Swabia since 1900" is also housed here, which arose from the long-standing exhibition tradition of the "Ferry". With representative works from Jakob Bräckle to Maria Caspar-Filser and Hans Purrmann to Rudolf Wachter, this collection offers an overview of the artistic creation between Ulm and Lake Constance over the past 100 years.

literature

  • 1947-1997. 50 years "ferry" Saulgau, Bad Saulgau 1997 (City of Saulgau)
  • Andreas Ruess: Art in Oberschwaben 1945–1970 and the "ferry" Saulgau, in: Art Oberschwaben 20th Century. The Sleeping Beauty, Lindenberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89870-844-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1947-1997. 50 years of the Saulgau “ferry” . Self-published by the city of Saulgau, Bad Saulgau 1997.
  2. ↑ The "Fähre" gallery in Bad Saulgau is a legacy of the French occupation . In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt online . ( tagblatt.de [accessed on August 1, 2018]).
  3. ↑ painting completely out of the act of painting out: Wilhelm Geyer . In: Rainer Zerbst's culture blog . September 9, 2018 ( rainer-zerbst.de [accessed October 23, 2018]).
  4. ^ Andreas Ruess: Art in Oberschwaben 1945-1970 and the "ferry" Saulgau . In: Art of Upper Swabia, 20th century. The Sleeping Beauty . Lindenberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89870-844-9 .