Horst Janssen Museum

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Horst Janssen Museum in Oldenburg , December 2005

The Horst Janssen Museum is a museum dedicated to the artist Horst Janssen in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) and is spatially and organizationally connected to the Oldenburg City Museum .

overview

The Horst Janssen Museum was opened in 2000 with 1,800 sheets from the Janssen collection of the married couple Carin and Carl Vogel . In 1995, the Oldenburg entrepreneur Claus Hüppe acquired the Janssen collection of the Vogel couple from Hamburg for 1.5 million DM as a basis, thus making the museum's construction possible.

Horst Janssen was a draftsman, etcher, lithographer , woodcut artist , author, poster artist and illustrator. The many facets of his artistic talent are the subject of the permanent exhibition . All aspects of Janssen's work are presented in ten departments in two halls with an area of ​​around 600 square meters.

The permanent exhibition includes numerous original works by Janssen, which are replaced at regular intervals. Original items from the artist's study and numerous other items from his personal environment are shown. Special works are also on permanent display, including a silk carpet designed according to his design and a grand piano painted by Janssen .

Info terminals , projections and films allow visitors to look into the life and work of the artist in addition to classic text panels . There are also audio tours with an audio guide .

A library provides 25,000 art books, including almost all of Janssen's publications. Drawings and graphics from the collection can be viewed in a special user room.

The museum also deals with artists and art developments who influenced Janssen such as Goya , Rembrandt and Egon Schiele . In the main hall of the museum on the ground floor, three to four temporary exhibitions on the work of Horst Janssen or artists from art history and the present are presented annually on approx. 500 square meters , who like Janssen put drawings and prints at the center of their work.

In connection with current graphic art, the Claus Hüppe Foundation awards the Horst Janssen Graphics Prize at regular intervals , combined with an exhibition by the winner in the museum. Previous winners include Katja Eckert (2003), Daniel Roth (2005), Anna Lea Hucht (2008), Michael Wutz , Ralf Ziervogel and Tobias Dostal (2017).

On the occasion of the eightieth birthday, from August 30 to November 15, 2009, the museum organized the first large-scale retrospective since the artist's death with around 300 works.

November 2016, a collection by Stefan Blessin , which included 315 watercolors, prints and drawings by Janssen, was sold for 1.5 million euros to the Horst Janssen Museum, which now has its own collection in addition to permanent loans. Foundations made the purchase possible. The works were handed over in April 2017.

Web links

Commons : Horst-Janssen-Museum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Claus Hüppe Foundation. On: horst-janssen-museum.de
  2. ^ Stephan Onnen: Art coup of "national importance". On: NWZ Online , June 18, 2016
  3. ^ Anja Michaeli: Horst Janssen Museum receives its own art collection. In: Oldenburger Onlinezeitung , November 3, 2016
  4. ↑ Sabine Schicke: “Fresh cell treatment” through the new collection. On: NWZ Online , April 29, 2017 (there is 1.2 million)
  5. ^ Helene von Oldenburg: Janssen Revisited. On: art-in.de , May 14, 2017

Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 40 "  N , 8 ° 12 ′ 53"  E