Gallery City of Sindelfingen

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Sindelfingen City Gallery, exterior view of the town hall building

The Stadt Sindelfingen Gallery was founded in 1990 for contemporary art. The gallery is located in the city center and is housed in a classical building that was converted into a museum by the Berlin architect Josef Paul Kleihues and expanded with a new building, the Octagon. With the Lütze Collection, the gallery has significant works of modern and contemporary art.

The museum sees itself as an exhibition and production location with a focus on predominantly younger positions. In cooperation with the artists, site-specific works and exhibitions are developed within a question and then shown in group or individual presentations. The Stadt Sindelfingen gallery is directed by Madeleine Frey, who succeeded Otto Pannewitz in 2016.

history

Octagonal new building

The classicistic building in the center of the city was built in 1845 as the town hall and redesigned as a museum in the 1980s by the architect Josef Paul Kleihues . Kleihues added a new octagonal building to the old building. On three floors in the old building and two floors in the octagon , the gallery offers a total exhibition area of ​​750 m². Next to it is the city library with another exhibition room belonging to the gallery, the skylight hall. The octagon has been a listed building since 2016.

collection

The collection of the Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen goes back to the collecting activities of Diethelm Lütze (1931–2014), who began building up his private collection in 1972 with the focus on southern German art of the late 19th and 20th centuries. His passion for collecting had its roots in the art collection of his godfather Max Lütze (1889–1968) - a Berlin building industrialist, art patron and government architect - which had been dissolved due to inheritance sharing and which had housed numerous top works of German Expressionism [retrospectively called "Lütze I Collection"]. With the acquisition of the extensive Lütze collection, the city of Sindelfingen received more than 1,200 works from the fields of painting, sculpture and graphics in 1986.

Diethelm Lütze began collecting art in 1972 with a direct connection to his place of residence in Stuttgart. Works by two local artists, a painting by Hans Schreiner and a sculpture by Otto Herbert Hajek were the first works, which were soon followed by works by Max Ackermann , Moritz Baumgartl and Alfred Lörcher , among others . Lütze pushed ahead with the expansion of his collection in a consistent manner. The centers of artistic creation in southern Germany such as Munich, Karlsruhe or Stuttgart were brought into focus. Relationships within these centers, but also among each other, he included in his considerations. Finally, groups such as “SYN” Baden-Baden, “ SPUR ” and “ Geflecht ” Munich or student-teacher relationships became visible. Part of the collection strategy was to depict artistic as well as regional characteristics. In this way, the envisaged field of the collection was constantly expanded and, at the same time, a network-like, stable framework into which the artists and their works could fit.

At the time of its acquisition in 1986, the collection represented a broad spectrum of southern German art of the 20th century. The foundation was nevertheless the art of the late 19th century with important representatives such as Franz von Stuck , Max Slevogt or Franz von Lenbach , who mainly had their sphere of activity in Munich; with artists like Albert Kappis , Hermann Pleuer or Bernhard Pankok , whose names can essentially be associated with Stuttgart; or with such as Hans Thoma , Wilhelm Trübner , Edmund Friedrich Kanoldt from the Karlsruhe district. All of these artists are representatives of the realism and impressionism that shaped the late 19th century in southern Germany. The collection of the Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen today includes works by Max Ackermann, Horst Antes , Georg Baselitz , Willi Baumeister , Moritz Baumgartl, Julius Bissier , Peter Brüning , Emil Cimiotti , Karl Fred Dahmen , Walter Dexel , Otto Dix , Adolf Fleischmann , Günter Fruhtrunk , Rupprecht Geiger , Karl Otto Götz , Camille Graeser , HAP Grieshaber , Otto Herbert Hajek, Adolf Hölzel , Carl Hofer , Alfred Hrdlicka , Karl Hubbuch , Alexej von Jawlensky , Wassily Kandinsky , Alexander Kanoldt , Ida Kerkovius , Anselm Kiefer , Per Kirkeby , Thomas Lenk , Markus Lüpertz , August Macke , Franz Marc , Georg Karl Pfahler , Hans Purrmann , Karl Schickhardt , Oskar Schlemmer , Georg Schrimpf , Bernard Schultze , Emil Schumacher , Max Slevogt, KRH Sonderborg , Anton Stankowski , Hermann Stenner , Franz von Stuck, Hans Thoma, Wilhelm Trübner, Fritz von Uhde , Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart , Hermann Werner , Brigitte Wilhelm and Fritz Winter .

Since its foundation, the collection area of ​​the Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen has been continuously expanded through donations, permanent loans and bequests from artists and personalities who are important for the city of Sindelfingen, southern Germany and the history of the place. For example, the estate of the artist Ilse Beate Jäkel (1907–1982), who is closely associated with the city, includes around 1,500 works, mainly on paper.

The gallery also looks after the holdings of the municipal collection, which comprises more than 3,000 works, mostly by regional artists.

Web links

Commons : Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City Gallery Sindelfingen. In: Detail , 4/1991.
  2. ↑ Tim Schweiker: Glaspalast and Oktogon are under monument protection. (No longer available online.) BB heute, Röhm Verlag & Medien GmbH & Co. KG, February 18, 2016, archived from the original on October 24, 2017 ; accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Georg Linsenmann: Obituary: A cultural man of the old school. Stuttgarter Zeitung, November 16, 2014.
  4. ↑ Max Lütze Medal. Kulturpreise.de.
  5. ↑ Dr.-Ing. eh government architect Max Lütze † Max Lütze. In: Der Tiefbau , Ed. 10, 1968, p. 201.
  6. ^ The Lütze IV Collection. A supplement to the Bibles Collection and the Modern Book Art Collection. Württemberg State Library , Stuttgart.
  7. ^ Lütze II Collection. 20th Century Art from Southern Germany. Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 23 August to 4 October 1981. Wilhelm Hack Museum , 1981, p. 4.

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