Heinrich Neuy Bauhaus Museum

The Heinrich-Neuy-Bauhaus Museum (proper spelling HeinrichNeuyBauhausMuseum ) in Steinfurt displays works and objects of the Bauhaus artist Heinrich Neuy and changing exhibitions on topics of the Bauhaus period .

The museum

The museum was opened in June 2011 on the 100th birthday of the namesake Heinrich Neuy, who lived and worked in the Steinfurt district of Borghorst from 1932 until his death in 2003 . It is located in the rooms of a former collegiate curia house of the Borghorst women's monastery at Kirchplatz 5 in Steinfurt. The permanent exhibits include some paintings by Heinrich Neuy, his drawing table, furnishings and utensils, and some of his carpentry work. In addition to various armchairs and chairs that visitors can try out, there are other Bauhaus objects installed or exhibited, such as lamps, doorknobs and wallpaper.

The museum is run by the Heinrich Neuy Foundation . It is one of the integration companies of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL).

On the upper floor it houses the former monastery library of the former canonesses and ladies' monastery Borghorst. The collection, which is not open to the public and can be viewed by a glass wall, was made accessible by the University and State Library of Münster (ULB) and is listed in the catalog of the ULB Münster as the parish library of St. Nicomedes . With a total of 1147 volumes, it comprises 764 titles that date back to the 15th century.

The museum shop and museum café are also open during the museum's opening hours (Wednesday to Friday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.). The museum café is run by the local coffee roastery, Kaffee Kater , and is expanded in summer to include seating on a garden terrace under a hundred-year-old copper beech .

History of the building

Restored outer wall in the protective glass building

The listed building was built in 1688 as the Stiftskurienhaus for Margaretha Cornelia von Merveldt . It is recorded as number 272 in the list of architectural monuments in Steinfurt . It is the last surviving residence of a canon of the Borghorster Curia. After the women's monastery was dissolved in 1811, it was acquired by the Weining family, who ran a textile company in Borghorst, and bequeathed it for several generations. In 2004 it was acquired by the Heinrich Neuy Foundation to build a museum.

The restoration, conversion and expansion of the building began after a year of planning in 2006 and was made possible through voluntary commitment by members of the foundation, the curators and the association, with the participation of the Steinfurt Monument Care Works and the Terra Nova Association from Ochtrup. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia , the North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation for Nature Conservation, Heritage and Cultural Care , the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe , the city of Steinfurt and private and commercial sponsors from the region participated in the financing .

The rear of the building was extended by a three-storey modern glass building that opens up to a park-like garden. This represents a protective structure for the restored original outer wall of the building, offers space for the museum café and made the museum barrier-free by installing an elevator.

collection

In the early 1990s, Heinrich Neuy began to bring his own works into a Heinrich Nuey archive as unsaleable works for exhibition purposes . Two years before his death, he founded the independent Heinrich Neuy Foundation with his daughter Hedwig Seegers as trustee. It has existed as a non-profit foundation since 2005.

The collection contains early drawings, sketchbooks, the cycles Gewitter , Lyrik und Freude , drawings and watercolors for the family, as well as a comprehensive selection of the entire artistic oeuvre from Neuy's student days at the Bauhaus to his late work The Months . The collection also includes the originals of numerous written statements by Neuy, texts, notes and photos from the cycle of Classical Character Pictures, Furniture Designs, Architectural Sketches, Personal Documents and Notes, as well as furnishings and utensils, some of which are on display in the museum, some constantly, some changing. Some sound and film documents are also part of the collection, such as the performances of Buster Floods settings of music-related images by Neuy

Since 2010, the collection has been expanded to include bequests from other “Bauhaus members”. There were also the Margaret Camilla Leiteritz Foundation and the Art Concret Foundation with constructive, concrete work by u. a. Victor Vasarely , Aurelie Nemour, Raphael Soto and Enzo Maiolino. On the occasion of the exhibition Bauhaus Dialogues - Chairs from the Löffler Collection 2018, a children's chair was realized for the first time for the collection, which Neuy had designed in 1930 for his application to the Bauhaus.

Exhibitions

In addition to the permanent exhibits from Heinrich Neuy's estate, there are changing exhibitions on other of his works as well as various topics related to the Bauhaus, taking into account both artistic works and design products. Unless otherwise stated, the exhibitions were curated by HeinrichNeuyBauhausMuseum eV .

June 2011: opening
November 2011 to January 2012: Heinrich Neuy's works in collector's hands.
January to April 2012: Heinrich Neuy - Character Pictures.
May to August 2012: Albert Hennig .
October 2012 to March 2013: Margaret Camilla Leiteritz and women at the Bauhaus and Burg. (Curators: Heinrich P. Mühlmann, Dorsten; Richard Anger, Berlin and Franz Kösters, Rheine).
March to June 2013: Architectura - drafts and abstractions. (Curators: Franz Kösters, Rheine and Richard Anger, Berlin).
July to November 2013: cheerfulness in picture and form. (Curators: Franz Kösters, Rheine and Richard Anger, Berlin).
November 2013 to April 2014: Fritz Kuhr - My Life - A Bauhaus.
April to May 2014: HeinrichNeuyKarlNeuy (works by the two brothers Heinrich & Karl Neuy).
May to October 2014: Threads - Herbert von Arend.
October 2014 to January 2015: Josef Albers and students.
February to April 2015: Photography at the Bauhaus (works from the Freese Collection).
April to May 2015: Constructive concrete cabinet.
May to September 2015: A re-encounter (with works by Fritz Winter and Ingrid Kreytenberg ). (Curator: Dagmar Kronenberger-Hüffer).
September 2015 to January 2016: Marieluise Schmitz-Helbig - life's work of a “post-war Bauhausler”.
January to May 2016, extended: René Halkett - From Bauhaus to Surrealism (curator: Dagmar Kronenberger-Hüffer).
June to September 2016: Heinrich Neuy - Early Works.
September 2016 to January 2017: Emil Bert Hartwig - woodcuts by a master student of Paul Klee. (Curator: Dagmar Kronenberger-Hüffer).
May to June 2017: Children and art and culture ... and Heinrich Neuy.
January to June 2017: Gunta Stölzl - A life for the weaving mill.
June to September 2017: Theodor Steinkühler and the early Bauhaus.
September 2017 to January 2018: The Bauhausler Johannes Karl Herrmann - Departure into the modern age.
January to May 2018: Heinrich Neuy and the music.
June to September 2018: Rudolf Lutz - The small format.
September 2018 to January 2019: Bauhaus Dialogues - Chairs from the Löffler Collection
February to May 2019: Bauhaus Dialogues - De Stijl in the Netherlands
June to September 2019: Bauhaus Dialogues - The Avant-garde in Eastern Europe (Curator: Elisabeth Hemfort)

Publications

Heinrich Neuy: Bauhaus - The way to abstract painting . Publishing house of the symbol magazine, Cologne / self-publishing gallery Neuy, Steinfurt 1993. ISBN 3-9800350-5-0
Heinrich Neuy: Character colors . Self-published by Galerie Neuy, Steinfurt 1993
Heinrich Neuy: Classic character form . Oberfinanzdirektion, Münster / Galerie Neuy, Steinfurt 1993
Heinrich Neuy: Encounters in Belarus . Self-published by Galerie Neuy, Steinfurt 1995.
Heinrich Neuy: Evidence painting . Self-published by Galerie Neuy, Steinfurt 1995 (signed).
Crossing boundaries: children and art and culture (KuKuk) . Editor and publisher: HeinrichNeuyBauhausMuseum, Steinfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-056738-4