Art Museum Albstadt

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Art Museum Albstadt (on the left the sculpture "Development" by Jörg Bach)

The city ​​of Albstadt's art museum in the Ebingen district was established as the Albstadt Municipal Gallery when the city was founded in 1975 . In 2016 it was renamed from "Galerie Albstadt - Städtische Kunstsammlungen" to "Kunstmuseum der Stadt Albstadt".

The creation of the museum is largely due to civic engagement. The foundation of the Walther Groz Collection in December 1976 was fundamental .

One of the highlights of the collection are the more than 450 works by Otto Dix on paper. The collection also focuses on classic modern graphics, with a special focus on Dresden artists and artists from southwestern Germany. The Felix Hollenberg Prize for Printmaking has been awarded to contemporary artists on a regular basis since 1992, with a special focus on etching .

The Albstadt Art Museum has the largest collection of works by the Ebingen-born representative of south-west German open-air painting and impressionism, Christian Landenberger .

The house also houses a unique special collection on the landscape of the Swabian Alb, from Matthäus Merian to the present.

Since 2011, the youngest child in the house has been the “young art space” children's museum with annually changing exhibitions and activities for a young audience and families.

architecture

Built in 1908/1909 by the Reutlingen architects Beck and Hornberger, the building functioned as a Protestant clubhouse until the early 1970s. In 1974 it was acquired by the city for the purpose of containing the Christian Landenberger collection. In 1986/1987 the exhibition area was expanded to 1,400 m² by expanding the top floor.

history

The house was founded in 1975 by graphics expert Alfred Hagenlocher as a special museum for the graphic arts and opened on November 23, 1975 with an exhibition about the Hamburg graphic artist Horst Janssen . With the departure of the founding director Hagenlocher in 1981, Georg Reinhardt (until 1985), Edeltraut Brockmüller (until 1986), Adolf Smitmans (until 1998), Jörg Becker (until 2000), Clemens Ottnad (until 2001) and Veronika followed Mertens (inc., Until 2002), Marina Sauer (until 2014). Today the art museum is directed by the art historian Veronika Mertens. A friends' association with around 300 members, the Galerieverein eV, founded on December 2, 1978, supports the work of the museum and the expansion of the collection.

collection

The donation of around 5000 works of art from the Walther Groz collection to the municipal art collections has made the museum one of the largest and most important municipal graphic collections in Baden-Württemberg. Other donations and a. by the couple Ruth and Karlheinz Brucker as well as by Ernst Adolf Groz supplemented the inventory. On March 22nd, 1980 the department “The landscape of the Swabian Alb”, which had been built up since 1977, was opened. In 1988 760 sheets and 52 printing plates as well as the complete archive of the graphic artist Felix Hollenberg were handed over to the then Galerie Albstadt. Art donations from Wolfgang Gäfgen , Karl Rössing and Max Uhlig have expanded the collection to include contemporary items. The Gerhard and Brigitte Hartmann Collection has been housed in the Art Museum since 1994.

Today the house owns around 25,000 works on paper and around 350 paintings.

In addition to Otto Dix , Felix Hollenberg , Christian Landenberger , Karl Schickhardt and the collection “The Landscape of the Swabian Alb”, other focal points of the collection are the graphics of classical modernism, with a special focus on Dresden artists (including Otto Lange , Otto Gussmann , Dresden Secession Group 1919 , Dresden work sections by Ludwig von Hofmann and Friedrich Karl Gotsch , Hermann Glöckner , Angela Hampel , Ernst Hassebrauk , Hans Körnig , Gerhard Kettner , Otto Lange , AR Penck , Hans Theo Richter , Wilhelm Rudolph , Helmut Schmidt-Kirstein , Alice Sommer , Max Uhlig , Werner Wittig ) and artists from the German Southwest (including Karl Caspar , Maria Caspar-Filser , Wilhelm Laage , Dietrich Klinge , Jürgen Pal Zusammenarbeit, Rudolf Schoofs ).

Major works

  • Otto Dix War Diary (around 1916)
  • Otto Dix etching cycle "The War"
  • Otto Dix "Leuchtkugel", 1917, Inv.Nr. SWG 80/23
  • Otto Dix "evening sun", 1918, inv. No. SWG 85/24
  • Otto Dix "Ellis", watercolor and gouache, Inv.No. SWG 85/37
  • Franz Radziwill “Shattered Houses”, around 1923, pen and ink and watercolor, inv. SWG 814/121
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner “Girl Dressing in Stockings”, lithograph, 1909, inv. No. SWG 80/178
  • Christian Rohlfs "Female Nude", watercolor, 1915, inv. SWG 76/1200
  • Otto Mueller "Sitting Nude Girl", pencil, watercolor, around 1914, Inv.No. SWG 76/1227
  • Maria Caspar-Filser “Schneeschmelze”, 1909, oil on canvas, Inv.No. M 79/14
  • Matthäus Merian d. Ä., "Hechingen with Hohen-Zollern and Killertal", 1643, copper engraving, Inv.No. GS 78/112

Exhibitions

literature

  • Städtische Galerie Albstadt (ed.): Paths into the 20th century. Exhibition from November 26, 2000 - January 28, 2001, ISBN 3-934439-08-X .
  • Otto Dix . Inventory catalog of drawings - pastels - watercolors - cardboard boxes and prints from 1912–1969 from the Walther Groz Foundation in the Albstadt Municipal Gallery. 2nd Edition. Publications of the Städtische Galerie Albstadt, Albstadt 1985, ISBN 3923644116 , pp. 32–36.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.jungerkunstraum.de

Coordinates: 48 ° 12  '44.4 " N , 9 ° 1' 30.4"  E