Painting and sculpture collection of the city of Nuremberg

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The painting and sculpture collection in Nuremberg has been an institution of the Nuremberg City Museums since 1994 . It manages the entire movable art collection of the city of Nuremberg , which includes around 4,000 paintings and 1,500 sculptures. This collection has been part of the city of Nuremberg's art collections since 2013 .

Stocks

The approximately 4,000 paintings and 1,500 sculptures in the municipal art collections date from the 12th century to the present day and are divided into several collection areas: City Hall Gallery, Municipal Gallery, Franconian Gallery, "International Art" collection, so-called. Office pictures. There are also extensive cultural-historical collections: goldsmith's work, furniture, coins and medals, antiquities, textiles, glasses, some special collections, Asiatica ( Carl Johannes Fuchs collection , East Asian scroll paintings and drawings), a collection of Polish naive art (Hans-Joachim and Christina Orth collection) . The latter two collections are on permanent loan from the Berlin museums .

Outstanding works

The most important works in the collections include the so-called Vitzliputzli , an Aztec goldsmith's work from the 2nd half of the 16th century, works by Hans Pleydenwurff , Michael Wolgemut , Hugo van der Goes , Veit Stoss , Adam Kraft , Martin Behaim , Peter Vischer d. Ä. , Hans Burgkmair d. Ä. , Albrecht Dürer , Jan Gossaert, called Mabuse , Hans von Kulmbach , Hans Baldung Grien , Peter Flötner , Hans Schwarz , Lucas van Leyden , Georg Pencz , Hans Sebald Beham , Hans Peisser , Wenzel Jamnitzer , Christoph Jamnitzer , Johannes Rottenhammer , Roelant Savery , Jusepe (Giuseppe, José) de Ribera , Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn , Joachim von Sandrart , Matthäus Merian d. J. , Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael , Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich , Bernardo Bellotto , Jakob Philipp Hackert , Christian Daniel Rauch , Johann Adam Klein , Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller , Carl Rottmann , Johann Georg Christian Perlberg , Wilhelm von Kaulbach , Carl Spitzweg , August von Kreling , Carl Theodor von Piloty , Arnold Böcklin , Anselm Feuerbach , Paul Ritter , Franz von Lenbach , Hans von Marées , Hans Thoma , Hans Makart , Johann Sperl , Wilhelm Leibl , Hermann von Kaulbach , Max Liebermann , Fritz von Uhde , Christian Rohlfs , Wilhelm Trübner , Carl Fleischmann , Lovis Corinth , Ernst Barlach , Paula Modersohn-Becker , Heinrich Nauen , Hans Purrmann , Max Pechstein , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Hans Arp , August Macke , Le Corbusier , Josef Albers , László Moholy-Nagy , Conrad Felixmüller , Richard Lindner , Ernst Wilhelm Nay , HAP Grieshaber , Franz Vornberger , Joseph Beuys , Michael Mathias Prechtl , Otto Piene , Toni Burghart , Horst Antes , Richard Serra .

building

The administration of the painting and sculpture collection is housed in the former administration building of the Tafelwerk at Äußere Sulzbacher Straße 60 in Nuremberg. At the moment it does not have its own exhibition space. A visit is only possible by appointment. The building was erected in 1922 by Hans Müller as the administration building for the Julius Tafel iron rolling mill . It also houses the graphic collection of the city of Nuremberg and the administration of the Museum of Industrial Culture .

Exhibition locations and virtual offer

Parts of the collections are exhibited in various Nuremberg museums, in the Stadtmuseum Fembohaus , in the Museum Tucherschloss , or on permanent loan from the Germanic National Museum and the New Museum in Nuremberg . Most of the collections are stored in various depots.

In order to nevertheless present the rich holdings of the collection to the public, changing exhibitions on certain subject areas or individual artists are repeatedly presented in one of the museums of the City of Nuremberg and other institutions, especially in the Fembohaus city museum .

The 'digital offer of the museums of the city of Nuremberg' has been expanded since 2020.

Virtual exhibitions on the holdings of the collection can also be seen on Google Arts & Culture:

Virtual tours can also be found on the museums website:

literature

  • Wilhelm Schwemmer: From the history of the art collections of the city of Nuremberg. in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg 40, 1949, pp. 97–206.
  • Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( online ).
  • Ideal images 1. Exhibition catalog. Museums of the City of Nuremberg, Nuremberg 2002. ISBN 3-921590-95-7
  • Ursula Kubach-Reutter: Nuremberg's handling of its imperial city past. The art collections of the city of Nuremberg around 1800. in: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 2002, pp. 345–355.

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