Herbert Gerisch Foundation
The Herbert Gerisch Foundation is an art foundation founded in 2001 by Brigitte and Herbert Gerisch with its headquarters in Neumünster- Brachenfeld in Schleswig-Holstein . The foundation serves to maintain, promote and present regional and international contemporary art. At the same time as it was founded, an international sculpture park was continuously being built .
Foundation, endowment
The foundation complex and its buildings include the Villa Wachholtz , a historic country house garden (both listed) and the Gerisch Gallery including another garden plot. After extensive restoration work on the villa and historic garden and the integration of all buildings and green spaces into the landscape, the foundation began its regular exhibition operations in September 2007. With up to three major temporary exhibitions each year, as well as smaller cabinet exhibitions, the foundation also focuses on the issuing of publications and museum educational activities. The foundation's offerings also include cultural events, readings, concerts and panel discussions. The foundation and the associated cafe are open five days a week during the exhibitions.
Sculpture park
When it was founded, the garden was laid out in the style of an English landscape garden, with a sculpture park. By donating the Villa Wachholtz and its property, its area could be expanded considerably to include that of the historic landscape garden. In July 2012 the inventory comprised 22 sculptures. Among them are works by Horst Antes , Abraham David Christian , Bogomir Ecker , Thorsten Goldberg , Menashe Kadishman , Brigitte Kowanz , Pit Kroke , Ian Hamilton Finlay , Carsten Höller , Res Ingold , Markus Lüpertz , Olaf Nicolai , Morio Nishimura, Mimmo Paladino and Anne and Patrick Poirier .
Exhibitions
The Herbert Gerisch Foundation began its regular exhibition with the exhibition “ Henry Moore - Like Nature” in September 2007. This was followed by major exhibitions of internationally recognized contemporary art, including solo exhibitions by Ah Xian (2008), Mark Dion (2009) and Brigitte Kowanz and Romuald Hazoumè (both 2010), Yehudit Sasportas and Carsten Höller (both 2011), Thorsten Goldberg (2012); Double exhibitions by Cecilia Edefalk / Caroline von Grone (2010) and Olrik Kohlhoff / Bjørn Melhus (2011). With the lavish exhibition “ Emil Nolde and his collector Paul Ströhmer” (2011/12) it was possible to reconstruct a predominantly expressionist collection that was once in the Villa Wachholtz in the first half of the 20th century.
In addition to the major exhibitions, there are regular cabinet exhibitions on the ground floor of Villa Wachholtz, with the works of regional artists or historical reviews. Students from art colleges such as the Muthesius Art College in Kiel (2008) or the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (2010) are also invited at longer intervals .
Showrooms
Villa Wachholtz
The Villa Wachholtz was built in 1903 by the colored paper manufacturer Paul Ströhmer based on designs by the church builder Hans Schnittger . The Art Nouveau building is one of the outstanding villa architectures in the city of Neumünster, on which the economic rise of a north German industrial city, which for a long time enjoyed the reputation of “Manchester's Northern Germany”.
In 1924 the villa became the property of the publisher Karl Wachholtz , the nephew of the builder Paul Ströhmer. In 2004 the city of Neumünster transferred the Villa Wachholtz, which at the time was in great need of renovation, to the Herbert Gerisch Foundation in the form of an endowment. After the restoration by the Gerisch Foundation in cooperation with the State Office for Monument Preservation in 2007, the historic 700 m² villa offers space for changing exhibitions of contemporary painting, graphics, photography, sculpture and video art. In addition to a museum shop, there is also a bistro-café with a garden terrace in the villa.
Gerisch Gallery
In 1967, the founder Herbert Gerisch built a modern and representative house in the typical villa style of the 1960s on the property next to Villa Wachholtz. The Gerisch gallery with around 160 square meters of exhibition space is now located in the former swimming pool wing.
Landscaped garden
In 1924/25 the Lübeck garden architect Harry Maasz laid out a 2.5 hectare country house garden in the style of a reform garden in the north and west of the Villa Wachholtz. After various uses that favored overgrowth and decay, it was carefully restructured in 2006/07 and has been a listed building since then. Today it presents itself to its visitors as a garden work of art from the early twentieth century. Harry Maasz (1880 to 1946) was one of the leading representatives of the garden art reform alongside Leberecht Migge , Alfred Lichtwark and Fritz Schumacher . In his book “Small and Large Gardens”, published in 1926, he describes the redesign of the garden of the Wachholtz Villa in Neumünster. As a first-generation freelance garden designer, Maasz did not see the so-called reform garden as a section, but as a component of the landscape that was found. The merging of garden and landscape was just as important to him as the transition between residential buildings, garden landscape and surrounding natural landscape.
Founding couple
The foundation named after them was set up in 2001 on the initiative of the founding couple Brigitte and Herbert Gerisch. Herbert Gerisch (formerly mayor and head of cultural affairs of Neumünster and member of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein) would like to contribute to turning the former textile and leather center of Schleswig-Holstein into a “city of modern sculpture”. In 2002 Brigitte and Herbert Gerisch started to build up a collection of sculptures designed to grow annually. The most recent acquisition (2012) is the sculpture Cumulus 11.08 by the Berlin artist Thorsten Goldberg.
Artistic direction and direction
From 2007 to 2015 Martin Henatsch was the artistic director of the foundation. The exhibition program of the Herbert Gerisch Foundation is based on the one hand on the existing sculpture collection and on the other hand on the specific character of the historic country house garden.
literature
- Margita Marion Meyer: The beautiful and functional garden - Harry Maasz's residential gardens and the country house garden for the Wachholtz publishing family in Neumünster. In: Martin Henatsch, Herbert Gerisch Foundation (Ed.): Gerisch Sculpture Park. Art in the outdoor space - Harry Maasz Garden - Villa Wachholtz. , Neumünster 2007, ISBN 978-3529051814 , pp. 56-89.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Margita Marion Meyer: The beautiful and functional garden - Harry Maasz's residential gardens and the country house garden for the Wachholtz publishing family in Neumünster. In: Martin Henatsch, Herbert Gerisch Foundation (Ed.): Gerisch Sculpture Park. Art in the outdoor space - Harry Maasz Garden - Villa Wachholtz. , Neumünster 2007, ISBN 978-3529051814 , pp. 56-89.
- ↑ See garden routes between the seas: garden of Villa Wachholtz
- ↑ See Harry Maasz. Garden board of the State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein (PDF; 247 kB)
Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 31.1 ″ N , 9 ° 59 ′ 56.6 ″ E