Decorative Arts Museum Berlin

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Decorative Arts Museum of the National Museums in Berlin
Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin Kulturforum entrance.jpg
Data
place Berlin-Tiergarten , Matthäikirchplatz
Art
architect Rolf Gutbrod (new building)
opening 1867
Number of visitors (annually) approx. 51,000 (2019)
management
Sabine Thümmler
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-018417

The Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is one of the most important collections of European handicrafts from the Middle Ages to the present day. The museum was established in 1867 and changed its location and name several times until 1995, and the exhibition space was constantly enlarged. In 1985 the newly constructed exhibition building in the Kulturforum in Berlin-Mitte was opened. The branch in Schloss Köpenick belongs to the arts and crafts museum and was an independent institution in East Berlin until 1990 .

In 2019 the Museum of Decorative Arts recorded around 51,000 visitors.

history

View into the arts and crafts museum

The Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts was opened in 1867 as the "German Commercial Museum in Berlin" with exhibits from the 1867 Paris World Exhibition . The museum's mandate was to teach and train artisans, industrial draftsmen and the general public. The associated teaching institution of the Berlin Arts and Crafts Museum was established in 1868 as a training institution on the initiative of the Association of German Commercial Museum in Berlin . Until 1921, the museum and school remained linked at different locations. With the purchase of the Lüneburg Council Silver in 1874 and the takeover of approx. 7000 exhibits from the Brandenburg-Prussian Art Chamber in 1875, the museum was one of the most important of its kind in Europe. In 1879 it was renamed the Museum of Applied Arts .

In 1881 the company moved to the new Martin-Gropius-Bau with special collections on goldsmithing and ceramics, glass and textiles as well as a chronological overview of the history of interior design from the late Middle Ages to the present. Even the treasure of Priam of Heinrich Schliemann found a home here temporarily. The Decorative Arts Museum moved into a part of the 1921 Berlin City Palace , and together with objects from the collection of the Hohenzollern the Castle Museum Berlin . The museum rooms and parts of the inventory were destroyed in the Second World War . After the division of Berlin, the relocated exhibits were located in East and West Berlin .

The East Berlin parts of the collection were housed in Köpenick Palace in 1963 . The West Berlin parts came to the Charlottenburg Palace . Since 1985 they can be seen in the new museum building at the Kulturforum, designed by Rolf Gutbrod in 1967 and opened in 1985. Köpenick Castle has functioned as a branch and second exhibition center since the political change . In 2014 the building at the Kulturforum was redesigned and renewed by the architects Kühn Malvezzi .

Directors

exhibition

Köpenick Castle , branch of the Kunstgewerbemuseum

The Kunstgewerbemuseum collects European handicrafts from all post-antique style periods in art history , including gold and silversmiths, glass, enamel and porcelain vessels , furniture and room panels as well as tapestries , costumes and silk fabrics. In the museum building at the Kulturforum, a tour on an area of ​​7,000 square meters leads through the historical development of handicrafts from the Middle Ages to the present. The exhibition includes pieces of medieval treasury art from important churches of the period, such as a Carolingian Bursen reliquary (so-called Closer Burse ) and a pompous than crux gemmata crafted Vortrage- and reliquary cross , a work of the late 11th century, from the Dionysius-treasure of the Collegiate Church St. Dionysius in Enger , more than 40 works from the Guelph Treasure . The representative silver of the councilors of the city of Lüneburg with the citizen oath crystal of Hans von Laffert stands for the epoch of the Renaissance .

Exhibits from the courts of Italian principalities during the Renaissance period are bronzes , tapestries , furniture, Venetian glasses and majolica on the ground floor. On the upper floor you can see treasures from baroque art chambers, Delftware and baroque glasses. Furthermore, European porcelain, especially from Meißen and the Royal Prussian Porcelain Manufactory , decorative and tableware from Rococo and Classicism to Historicism and Art Nouveau is on display.

The fashion and costume collection is of national importance. It was particularly enriched in 2003 by purchasing the Kamer / Ruf collection and in 2005 by taking over the collection of the Berlin fashion designer Uli Richter . The main works of this collection have been shown since 2014 in the newly established exhibition focus on fashion-art-works on the ground floor. In the basement of the New Collection, 20th century handicrafts are complemented by industrial products.

The second museum location in Köpenick Castle shows a cross-section of interior design from the 16th to 18th centuries in a permanent exhibition entitled Room Art from the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo .

literature

About history

  • German Trade Museum in Berlin . Berlin 1867 ( digitized ).
  • Georg Büttner: The extension of the Royal Museum of Applied Arts in Berlin. In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen vol. 58 (1908), Sp. 509-528, plates 58-61 ( digitized version ).
  • Barbara Mundt: Everyday Museum Life from the Empire to Democracy. Chronicle of the Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseum (=  writings on the history of the Berlin museums, volume 5). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-50746-6 .

Collection catalogs

  • Arthur Pabst: The collections of the Kunstgewerbe-Museum Berlin. Seemann, Leipzig 1884.
  • Christiane Keisch (Red.): European arts and crafts from ten centuries: Köpenick Palace. Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin 1976.
  • Monika Bierschenk (Red.): Museum of Applied Arts Berlin. Handicrafts from the Middle Ages to the present. Berlin 1985, 2nd edition 1989.
  • Sabine Thümmler (Ed.): Always modern - design classics from 1825 to 1985 from the holdings of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2017, ISBN 978-3-95498-360-5 ( excerpt online ).

Web links

Commons : Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Schloss Köpenick  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin State Museums counted more than 4 million visitors in 2019. January 31, 2020, accessed July 19, 2020 .
  2. ^ National Museums in Berlin: National Museums in Berlin: Museums & Institutions - Museum of Applied Arts - About us - Profile. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Nikolaus Bernau: New opening of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts: The Museum of Decorative Arts shines in new splendor. November 20, 2014, accessed on December 2, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Reliquary in bursa form from the treasure of the St. Dionysius monastery in Enger / Herford in the online database of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Victor H. Elbern : A Franconian relic fragment in Oviedo, the Engerer Burse in Berlin and its surroundings. In: Madrid Communications. Vol. 3 (1962), pp. 183-204.
  5. ↑ Marcin Latka. Abbot Kęsowski's cup. artinpl, accessed on July 25, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 35 ″  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 3 ″  E