Künstlerhaus (Hanover)

Künstlerhaus Hannover

The Künstlerhaus Hannover is a listed building in Hannover . It is located in the Mitte district near the opera house and is the seat of several cultural institutions.

The House

The heritage protection house was built, and from 1853 to 1856 on 23 February 1856 Museum of Art and Science in the presence of King George V inaugurated. The initiative to build it came from the Natural History Society of Hanover in the middle of the 19th century, together with the Historical Association of Lower Saxony (founded in 1835) and the Association for Public Art Collections (founded in 1848), which also brought in their collections. The architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase designed the building in the arched style of the Hanover School of Architecture . The reliefs and figures are by the sculptor Wilhelm Engelhard , the statues by Dürer, Vischer, Leibniz and Humboldt on the facade by Carl Dopmeyer . In the following years the museum was renamed the Museum of the Province of Hanover and then the Provincial Museum . The house with its extensive collections quickly suffered from a lack of space and since no structural extensions were possible in 1895, a new building was built in 1902 on the edge of the Maschpark . After the completion of the new museum (today's Hanover State Museum ), the old building at Sophienstrasse 2 became the property of the city and was redesigned to become the Künstlerhaus of the City of Hanover (also called Künstlerhaus Sophienstrasse in older pre-war catalogs ).

Institutions in the Künstlerhaus

The artist house around 1858

The following institutions have their headquarters in the Künstlerhaus:

• Art Association Hanover
• House of Literature Hanover
• Cinema in the Künstlerhaus
• Lower Saxony Foundation
• Friedrich Bödecker Circle
• Hanover Artists' Association

The great glow

The artist house at night with the chandelier

For the 150th anniversary of the artists' house in 2006 which was installed The Great lights of Stephan Huber bought. It is a huge chandelier that hangs over Sophienstrasse in front of the main entrance of the Künstlerhaus. If there are evening events, the installation lights up and swings from one side of the street to the other.

Web links

Commons : Künstlerhaus Hannover  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Künstlerhaus at Hannover.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Das Künstlerhaus , State Capital Hanover (accessed on February 22, 2015)
2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions 1903 to 1936 / Kunstverein Hannover 1928 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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 November 24, 2015) 
3. ↑ http://www.stephanhuberkunst.de/fotoseite/uchten.html

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 22 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 35.7"  E