Graphic collections Weimar

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The graphic collections of the Foundation of Weimar Classics count with around 230,000 works of the most important of its kind in Germany . They offer a comprehensive overview of graphic design in Europe from the 15th to the 21st century.

history

The basis of the collections is the holdings of the former Grand Ducal Kupferstichkabinett . Its outstanding quality was guaranteed by the princes' prudent acquisition policy and advice from Goethe , who was in charge of the direct institutions for science and art. After the nationalization of the grand ducal property in 1919, the state of Thuringia continued to manage the graphic inventory and was able to expand it through donations, bequests and new acquisitions, especially in the field of modernism .

Another prominent core area is Goethe's art collection - towards the end of his life one of the large private collections in Germany at that time. Goethe said: "You were amazed at the strange wealth in the most varied of subjects, and your astonishment would have increased if time and inclination had allowed you to know everything I have."

The third large collection comprises the graphic collections of the Goethe National Museum founded in 1885 .

In the course of the merger between the Weimar Classic Foundation and the Weimar State Art Collections, the graphic holdings of both institutions were merged. The resulting totality of drawings and prints enables a complete, exemplary overview of European graphic creation from the 15th to the 21st century.

The graphic collections of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are currently housed in the study center and in the Goethe National Museum.

The holdings can only be viewed after prior registration from Tuesday to Friday in the user department of the Goethe National Museum or in the special reading room of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library .

Hermann Mildenberger is currently the department head of the graphic collections in Weimar .

Duration

Today's graphic collections consist of three large holdings.

Holdings of the Grand Ducal Kupferstichkabinett: Today, all drawing techniques and varieties of printing techniques are represented in the collection of the former Grand Ducal Kupferstichkabinett. It comprises around 35,000 hand drawings, including works by great masters such as Leonardo da Vinci , Raffael , Albrecht Dürer , Lucas Cranach the Elder , Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo , Peter Paul Rubens , Anthonis van Dyck , Rembrandt van Rijn , Jacques Callot , François Boucher , Caspar David Friedrich , Philipp Otto Runge , Edvard Munch and Auguste Rodin . In addition there are 140,000 prints, including important Italian Chiaroscuro artists, almost complete bundles from the oeuvre of Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä., Rembrandt or Callot, but also by the Bauhaus artist Lyonel Feininger as well as by prominent GDR artists. Valuable incunabula that are unique in the world also increase the art-historical significance of the collection.

Goethe's art collection: Goethe owned over 9000 prints and more than 2000 hand drawings. Among these sheets are works by Albrecht Altdorfer , Parmigianino , Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino), Jacopo Tintoretto , Rembrandt, Abraham Bloemaert , Jacob de Wit (1695–1754), Claude Lorrain and Antoine Watteau ; but works by Goethe's German contemporaries are also represented, including by Jakob Philipp Hackert , Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein , CD Friedrich and Runge. The approximately 2100 drawings by the poet himself occupy a special position.

Graphic holdings of the Goethe National Museum: The third large collection of more than 40,000 sheets includes the graphic holdings of the Goethe National Museum, founded in 1885. Her focus is on the time of Goethe and the aspects of Weimar cultural history that go beyond it up to the present. In addition to artists' bequests, for example from Johann Heinrich Meyer , Louise Seidler or Bartold Asendorpf, there are special collections from Franz Liszt , Friedrich Nietzsche and the illustrative art of literary works.

literature

Selection:

  • Margarete Oppel: JHW Tischbein. Drawings from Goethe's art collections . Weimar 1991.
  • Hermann Mildenberger: In the field of vision of the Goethe era I. Watercolors and drawings from the holdings of the Weimar art collections . Berlin 1997.
  • Hermann Mildenberger, Ursula Verena Fischer Pace, Sonja Brink, Lea Ritter-Santini: In the field of vision of the Goethe period III. Most secret residence. Goethe's Italian Museum. Drawings from the holdings of the graphic collections of the art collections in Weimar supplemented by rare antique works from the Duchess Anna Amalia Library Weimar . Berlin 1999.
  • Dieter Graf, Hermann Mildenberger: In the field of vision of the Goethe era IV. Chiaroscuro. Italian woodblock prints of the Renaissance and Baroque . Berlin 2001.
  • Hermann Mildenberger, Hans Dickel, Uwe Fleckner: Arcadian worlds. Pablo Picasso and the Art of Classicism, exh. Cat. Weimar Classics Foundation and Art Collections . Weimar 2003.
  • David Mandrella, Hermann Mildenberger, Benjamin Peronnet, Pierre Rosenberg: In the field of vision of the Goethe era V. From Callot to Greuze. French drawings of the 17th and 18th centuries . Berlin 2005.
  • Viola Geyersbach, Maja Chotiwari: Inventory of graphic collections, in: Leise Superlative. Alexander Olbricht & Marcus Behmer . Ed .: Wolfgang Holler and Hermann Mildenberger. Berlin 2010.
  • Hermann Mildenberger: Landscapes of the patron. Donations from Dr. Wilhelm Winterstein . Weimar 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Goethe's works. Published on behalf of Grand Duchess Sophie of Saxony. IV. Department: Goethe's Letters, Vol. 47: April - October 1830, p. 122.
  2. ^ History of the graphic collections in Weimar .
  3. ^ Artist directory of the Weimar Graphic Collections (PDF; 119 kB).
  4. Newer publications on the holdings of the Weimar Graphic Collections (PDF; 123 kB).

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 39 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 43 ″  E