Art building of the Philipps University of Marburg

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The art building of the Philipps University of Marburg is an institute building of the Philipps University of Marburg that was built between 1925 and 1927 . It is one of the most important German educational buildings of the 1920s. The building designed by Hubert Lütcke was originally named "Jubilee Building", based on the 400th anniversary of the founding of the university. In 1950 the name was changed to “Ernst-von-Hülsen-Haus” in order to commemorate the university curator Ernst von Hülsen , who had campaigned for the construction of the building. Since this name of the building was no longer considered acceptable due to the role of the namesake in National Socialism , the Presidium of the Philipps University decided in 2016 to rename it to "Art Building".

Main facade of the art building (2009)

history

Refurbishment of the art museum in 2015

The four-wing, square complex, designed by the architect and Prussian building officer Hubert Lütcke, presents itself both inside and outside as an architectural combination of regional style and expressionism . Even the interior was designed by Lütcke down to the last detail such as the jagged armrests of the chairs, which correspond to the jagged window grilles. The amalgamation of teaching, research and university collections is almost unique for its time. Such an integrative concept for the arts can only be found at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The idea for the Marburg anniversary building goes back to Richard Hamann , who, as a professor of art history in Marburg since 1913, had also designed the financing concept: All donations were to be used for the sole purpose of creating a joint institute for the entire art sciences and art maintenance. In order to meet this requirement, the archaeological seminar, the Christian-archaeological seminar, the prehistoric seminar, the art history institute and the photo archive Foto Marburg as well as the musicological seminar with its own concert hall and the university museum moved into the new building.

On July 30, 1927, the first holiday of the university anniversary, the house was opened. Large parts of its usable area served the various art and cultural history collections. For the university museum, spacious presentation rooms were set up on the street side, for the holdings of the Hessian History Association and the Art and Antiquity Association with its predominantly Hessian paintings, sculptures, graphics and arts and crafts exhibits, especially Hessian folk art. The collection of originals and plaster casts of ancient works served as the teaching collection of the Archaeological Seminar. In addition, Richard Hamann housed the "Photographic Apparatus", which he initially founded as an art history teaching collection, in the anniversary building, from which the Photo Marburg Photo Archive later emerged under Hamann's direction. Today, with almost two million unique photographs, it is one of the world's largest scientific photo archives for archeology and Art history. The "Lecturing for Lecturing Art" underlined Hamann's interest in the broad communication of educational knowledge. The skylight rooms were intended for temporary exhibitions, another skylight room served as a drawing room. The concert hall was completed in 1930/1931 and, with 200 seats and a stage, is still used for public concerts.

Todays use

Illuminated windows of the art building, art museum on Biegenstrasse (2019)

The art building is still an important building of the university today. Little has changed in the original concept of integrated use by cultural science teaching and research institutes and associated collections. The building was extensively renovated from summer 2011 to autumn 2018 . The work included the renewal of the slate-covered roof, the renewal of the windows and thermal insulation in connection with a facade renewal. The drainage system was also renewed. In particular, the art museum located in the front part of the building with a collection of modern art was fundamentally renovated and reopened on October 21, 2018 with a public festival.

literature

  • Lütcke: The new anniversary building of the art institute of the University of Marburg . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , vol. 80, 1930, pp. 1–12 ( digitized version of the Central and State Library Berlin ).
  • Kathryn Brusch: Marburg, Harvard and purpose-built architecture for art history, 1927. In: Elizabeth Mansfield (Ed.): Art History and Its Institutions. The nineteenth century. London 2002, pp. 65-84.
  • Katharina Krause: An art institute for Marburg. Concepts and their architectural expression. In: alma mater philippina , edition winter semester 1998/1999, pp. 12–18.
  • Thomas Jahn: The art institute of the Philipps University of Marburg. In: Jörg Jochen Bruns (Hrsg.): Marburg pictures. A matter of opinion. Evidence for five centuries. (= Marburger Stadtschriften zur Geschichte und Kultur , Volume 53.) Volume 2, Marburg 1996, pp. 321–356.
  • Martin Warnke: Richard Hamann. In: Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft , Volume 20 (1981), pp. 11-20.

Web links

Commons : Ernst-von-Hülsen-Haus  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst von Hülsen as the namesake no longer acceptable. - on the website of the Philipps University of Marburg, accessed on September 15, 2016
  2. ↑ More than 3,500 guests at the museum festival. Philipps University of Marburg, October 22, 2018, accessed on October 23, 2018 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 35.9 "  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 29.3"  E