Art Forum East German Gallery

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Front of the exhibition building, classicist columns temporarily alienated

The Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie ( KOG ) is an art collection of works by German artists from the formerly German eastern areas and the German settlement areas in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Until reunification, works by artists from the GDR were also collected. The seat in Regensburg is also to be seen in connection with the patronage of the city for the interests of the Sudeten Germans .

The museum is part of the cultural promotion under the Federal Expellees Act and is funded 50% by the federal government, 20% by the Free State of Bavaria and 30% by the city of Regensburg. It awards the Lovis Corinth Prize every two years . Since 2010, the prize has occasionally been endowed with 10,000 euros.

history

City park side of the exhibition building, 50 years of the Ostdeutsche Galerie (2020)
Circular Exhibition 1910
View 1910, still with the portico on the city park side, 1970 relocation to the street side

Location

As early as 1652, a shooting range for the city's shooting range was built on the present site of the museum. This listed building is located opposite the museum building that was built later. It is the oldest building in the ensemble and now serves as an administration building for the museum. The main building of the museum in the city ​​park dates from 1871 and was originally built as a municipal gym. From 1906 it was converted into an exhibition hall and in the area of the Upper Palatinate Kreisausstellung included in 1910 on the occasion of 100 years as part of the former imperial city of Bavaria was held. In 1942, during the Second World War , an air raid protection school was set up in the hall. After the war, the city of Regensburg used the building for cultural purposes, first as an art dealer, then for the city's "Gallery of Contemporary Art from Eastern Bavaria". After Regensburg took over the sponsorship for the Sudeten Germans, there were specific exhibitions of Sudeten German artists.

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The “Sudetendeutsche Galerie” collection of the Adalbert Stifter Verein found a home here in 1957. "1970:" The holdings of the Adalbert Stifter Verein and the artists' guild are combined here. "

Around 1960, smaller extensions were built on the side wings and an extension on the park side. For this purpose, the entrance with the portico had to be relocated to the street side. Since the figure of Pallas Athene was not rotated on the top of the dome, she has since turned her back to the visitor when entering. After being renamed “Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie”, the museum was given its current name “Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie” in 2003.

The Ostdeutsche Galerie art forum is located in the street named after Johann Maier , who was executed by fanatical National Socialists a few days before the surrender on the morning of April 24, 1945 at 3:25 a.m. on Moltkeplatz, today Dachauplatz , in Regensburg .

Establishment / foundation

In 1966 the civil law foundation was established as a general non-municipal foundation “Ostdeutsche Galerie”, which is still the sponsor of the museum today. The founder was Walter Boll , head of the cultural department of the city of Regensburg . The museum was opened in 1970. As a museum that is actually financed by the public sector, the foundation is represented by two bodies, the foundation council chaired by the suspended mayor of Regensburg, Joachim Wolberg, and the foundation board consisting of the city councilor and legal advisor for the city of Regensburg, Wolfgang Schörnig (chairman of the board ), the director of the KOG, Agnes Tieze , and the managing director of the KOG, Maximilian Obermeier.

FOUNDATION BOARD: Chairman: Joachim Wolbergs, Lord Mayor of the City of Regensburg and representatives

Section 96 BVFG funding

Funding within the scope of § 96 BVFG have been the Federal Republic of Germany, the federal states and the city of Regensburg from the start.

“About half of the Foundation Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie is supported by the federal government - in 2015 and 2016 with 647,000 euros. In addition, the Free State of Bavaria and the City of Regensburg are promoting. The latter also provides the museum complex rent-free. "

- Report by the Federal Government on the measures to promote cultural work in accordance with Section 96 of the Federal Expellees Act (BVFG) in 2015 and 2016

Collection / holdings

The museum now has a collection of 2,000 paintings, 500 three-dimensional works and 30,000 graphics, etchings, drawings, etc. It covers art between around 1800 and the present and focuses on classic modernism between impressionism and new objectivity .

In addition to works by hitherto less well-known artists, such as Clara Siewert , Irma Lang-Scheer or Willi Ulfig , works such as Carl Gustav Carus , Lovis Corinth , Käthe Kollwitz , Otto Müller , Adolf Hölzel and Bernard Schultze , Otto Freundlich , Ludwig Meidner are also more highly regarded , Sigmar Polke , Katharina Sieverding , Dan Flavin , Peter Weibel , Gerhard Swoboda or Oskar Kokoschka .

The graphic collection includes works by Heinrich Wolff , August Brömse , Carl Thiemann , Hugo Steiner-Prag , Ingrid Wagner-Andersson , Irma Lang-Scheer , Emil Orlik , Willy Jaeckel , Ernst Marow , Daniel Chodowiecki , Adolph von Menzel , Wenzel Hablik , Josef Hegenbarth , Alfred Kubin , Paul Holz , Hans Fronius , Rudolf Jakubek and Markus Lüpertz .

Since 2009 the museum has had a collection of over 160 works by Ben Muthofer , including nine sculptures and reliefs, around 150 graphics and three paintings. This foundation represents a representative cross-section of the work of the constructive-concrete artist.

  • Works in the museum

  • Johann Jakob Müller: The Nemisee with Apollo and Mercury (1805)

  • Friedrich Preller the Elder Ä .: megalithic grave on Rügen (1843)

  • Georg Müller-Breslau : Giant Mountains Landscape with a Distant View (1884)

  • Adolf Hölzel: Capodistria (1905)

  • Lovis Corinth: The Great Martyrdom (1907)

Museum directors

See also

literature

  • Ulrike Lorenz and Gerhard Leistner : Memory & Vision, 100 masterpieces from the collection. Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-89188-110-X .
  • Peter Becher : From the Sudeten German Gallery to the Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie . In: Sudetenland. European culture magazine, 56th volume, issue 3, Adalbert Stifter Verein, Munich 2014, pp. 371–374.

Web links

Commons : Ostdeutsche Galerie  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Archives: Cabinet minutes from 1966.
  2. ^ Lovis Corinth Prize for Fine Arts. Künstlergilde eV Esslingen, accessed on October 27, 2017 .
  3. ^ Lovis Corinth Prize. Kulturpreise.de, accessed on October 27, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Press information: http://www.kunstforum.net/pressemitteilungen/geschichte_kog.pdf
  5. ↑ https://www.irmalangscheer.net/das-heutige-kunstforum-ostdeutsche-galerie.html?page-id=561
  6. ↑ The story is based on: Agnes Tieze: Das Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie. History, collection, outlook . In: HDO-Journal, published by Haus des Deutschen Ostens , Munich, No. 13/2014, pages 23–28
  7. ↑ Instrumentalization of a judicial murder victim. http://www.regensburg-digital.de/buchberger-und-stadtpolitik-instrumentalisiert-domprediger-maier/16042017/
  8. ^ Regensburg University Library: Bosls Bavarian Biography / ed. by Karl Bosl. - Regensburg: Blow [2]. Supplementary volume: 1000 personalities from 15 centuries, 1988. - XVI, 189 pp. Http://bosl.uni-regensburg.de/?seite=32&band=2
  9. ↑ P. May: Dr. Walter Boll in memoriam “He founded the Kunsthalle am Stadtpark and the Ostdeutsche Galerie, which was particularly close to his heart until the end and which he affectionately called 'his museum'.” Http://www.heimatforschung-regensburg.de/2222/1 /1001577_DTL2008.pdf
  10. ↑ Foundation directory - Stiftung Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie http://stiftungen.bayern.de/stiftung/1877;jsessionid=8C39073BDC63...Note Bay. State Office for Statistics: "The entries of private (non-public) foundations may not be complete and up-to-date in all cases, however, as these foundations are not subject to any state supervision and thus there are no reporting obligations." In contrast to a business register, there is no transparency regarding changes in the last few decades in the foundation register at the government of the Upper Palatinate.
  11. ↑ http://www.kunstforum.net/kog_50jahre.php
  12. ↑ Dr. Wolfgang Schörnig. City of Regensburg, accessed on October 27, 2017 .
  13. ↑ FOUNDATION KUNSTFORUM OSTDEUTSCHE GALERIE. Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, accessed on October 27, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Official website of Irma Lang-Scheer: https://www.irmalangscheer.net/provenienz-der-bilder-im-kunstforum-ostdeutsche-galerie-regensburg.html?page-id=554
  15. ↑ Ben Muthofer Foundation ( Memento from March 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) - Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, July 30, 2009
  16. ↑ Otto Koehler: Let's go hunting . In: The time . No. 28/1996 ( online ).
  17. ^ Museum director Ulrike Lorenz
  18. ↑ Director of the Kunsthalle Mannheim https://kuma.art/de/kunsthalle-mannheim

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