Georg Kolbe Museum

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Georg Kolbe Museum
Georg Kolbe Museum after the renovation in summer 2016

Georg Kolbe Museum after the renovation in summer 2016

Data
place Berlin-Westend
architect Ernst Rentsch, Paul Linder
Client Georg Kolbe
Architectural style New objectivity , new building
Construction year 1928/1929
Coordinates 52 ° 30 '35.8 "  N , 13 ° 15' 17.5"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '35.8 "  N , 13 ° 15' 17.5"  E

The Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin is a museum with a focus on classical modern and contemporary art . It is located in the former studio of the sculptor Georg Kolbe (1877–1947) at Sensburger Allee 25/26 in the Westend district and was opened in 1950.

The museum owns the estate of Georg Kolbe as well as a collection of sculptures and other works of art mainly from the first half of the 20th century (e.g. Richard Scheibe , Rudolf Belling , Renée Sintenis , Hermann Blumenthal , August Gaul , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Gerhard Marcks ) as well as sculptural drawings, archive and library . The museum is supported by the Georg Kolbe Foundation, which was established in 1949 to preserve the artist's estate and make it accessible to the public. Since 1978, the museum has received a grant from the State of Berlin on the condition that other artists are also shown. In the same year, the art historian Ursel Berger took over the management (until 2013). In 2008 Marc Wellmann joined as exhibition manager (until 2013). From March 2013, the art historian Julia Wallner from the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg took over the management of the museum.

architecture

The studio house ensemble , which the sculptor Georg Kolbe had built in 1928/1929 by the architects Ernst Rentsch and Paul Linder, represents an important example of Berlin architecture of the 1920s. The sculptor Georg Kolbe worked with many architects, including with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , Walter Gropius , Bruno Taut , Hans Poelzig and Henry van de Velde . Ludwig Mies van der Rohe placed the Kolbe sculpture Der Morgen in the so-called Barcelona Pavilion , the exhibition pavilion of the German Empire at the 1929 World Exhibition in Barcelona.

It is the only artist house in Berlin from the 1920s that is open to the public as a museum. Georg Kolbe lived and worked here until his death in 1947. The damage caused by an air mine during Allied air raids in World War II mainly affected the former workshop area, which was demolished in 1995 for an extension by Paul Linder.

In 1996 the extension designed by the AGP architects was completed. Two additional exhibition rooms and the museum's depots were added on a total of three floors. Between autumn 2015 and summer 2016, the historic sculptor's studio was renovated under the direction of Winfried Brenne Architects and with funds from the German Class Lottery Berlin . Since the renovation, the dining room with original Georg Kolbe furniture, which is now used as a museum shop, has been open to the public.

Exhibition program

Until the 1990s, the focus of the exhibition program was primarily on pre- and post-war modernism. Contemporary art has become more important.

The Georg Kolbe Museum showed solo exhibitions on Aristide Maillol (1996), Bernhard Hoetger (1998), Henry Moore (1998), Karl Hartung (1998), August Gaul: Der Tierbildhauer August Gaul (1999), A. R. Penck (2000), Wilhelm Lehmbruck (2000), Gerson Fehrenbach (2000), Bernhard Heiliger (2000-2001), Wilhelm Loth (2002), Michael Croissant (2003), David Nash (2004), Wieland Förster (2005), Hermann Blumenthal (2006), Max Klinger (2007), Antony Gormley (2007), Johannes Grützke (2007-2008), Otto Herbert Hajek (2008), Ah Xian (2008), Anton Henning (2009), Werner Stötzer (2011), Fabián Marcaccio (2011) , Volker Bartsch on his 60th birthday in 2013. Ruprecht von Kaufmann - Fabel (2014) or the Georg Kolbe Museum's most successful exhibition on Renée Sintenis to date .

Noteworthy exhibitions
  • Wewerka - Tradition of a Family of Artists (2001)
  • Taking Positions: The Fall of a Tradition - Figurative Sculpture and the Third Reich (2001)
  • Waxy identities - wax sculpture at the end of the 20th century (2002)
  • The Community of Saints - Barlach and Marcks (2002)
  • Bronzetti Veneziani (2003/2004)
  • The last portrait - death masks from three centuries (2004/2005)
  • The power of things - sculpture today! (2007)
  • Glamor! The girl becomes a fine lady - depictions of women in the late Weimar Republic (2008)
  • Romantic machines. Kinetic Art of the Present (2009)
  • Wild Worlds - Appropriation of the Alien in Modernity (2010)
  • 1910 | FIGURE | 2010 (2010)
  • William Wauer and Berlin Cubism (2011)
  • ABSTRACT //// SCULPTURE (2011)
  • TanzPlastik - The dance movement in modern sculpture (2012)
  • BIOS - Concepts of Life in Contemporary Sculpture (2012)
  • Volker Bartsch (2013)
  • Renée Sintenis - Berlin sculptor (2013/2014)
  • Ruprecht von Kaufmann - "Fable" (2014)
  • Robert Metzke's "Images of People" (2014)
  • Vanitas - Nothing is everlasting. With Tomas Saraceno , Paweł Althamer , Thomas Schütte , Daniel Spoerri , Dieter Roth , Alicja Kwade , Luca Trevisani (2014)
  • Georg Kolbe and the First World War (2014)
  • Hans Arp - The navel of the avant-garde (2015)
  • Auguste Rodin and Madame Hanako . The French sculptor and the story of the emancipation of the Japanese dancer (2016)
  • Alexandra Ranner - Karma Collapse (2016)
  • Georg Kolbe - In the Network of Berlin Modernism (2017)
  • Alfred Flechtheim . Art dealer of the modern age (2017)
  • The first generation. Sculptors of Berlin Modernism (2018)
  • Colorful stones. William Tucker , Kai Schiemenz, Stefan Guggisberg (2019)

  • Museum garden

  • sculpture

  • Dancers fountain

See also

Web links

Commons : Georg-Kolbe-Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia Wallner is the new head of the Kolbe Museum in Berlin. ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Monopol - Magazin für Kunst und Leben , November 22, 2012, accessed on November 23, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.monopol-magazin.de
  2. ^ Georg Kolbe Museum: Volker Bartsch. The Berlin sculptor on his 60th birthday , ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on August 24, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.georg-kolbe-museum.de
  3. ^ Announcement on the exhibition, ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on August 24, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.georg-kolbe-museum.de
  4. ↑ Georg Kolbe Museum (ed.): Vanitas - Ewig is nothing anyway , catalog for the exhibition, Berlin 2014.
  5. ↑ The first generation. Sculptors of Berlin Modernism | Georg Kolbe Museum. Accessed March 31, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine : The first generation of female sculptors. Accessed March 31, 2018 .