Kunstgewerbemuseum Düsseldorf

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Decorative Arts Museum, facade 1906

The Kunstgewerbemuseum on the north side of Friedrichsplatz (today Grabbeplatz ) in Düsseldorf contained the rich collections of the Central Commercial Association for Rhineland, Westphalia and neighboring districts of Düsseldorf until its dissolution in 1927. The state and city library and the historical museum were also there temporarily housed in the building. The building was demolished in 1979, and today the K20 building of the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection stands in the same place .

building

The building at Friedrichsplatz 3–7 was built from 1893 to 1896 according to designs by the architects Carl Hecker and Franz Deckers in the historicist forms of the “ Dutch Renaissance” or “Dutch- Low German Renaissance ”. The facade showed sculptures in Bollendorfer sandstone together with brick facing. The base consisted of Niedermendiger basalt lava . The extension was built by the architect Johannes Radke , who took over the work after Hecker's death. The construction costs amounted to 332,252 marks.

The state and city library, which had been sponsored by the City of Düsseldorf since 1904 and was housed in the former picture gallery on Burgplatz, was also included in the extension . In 1906 the extension was officially opened. Peter Behrens designed the reading room for the new library rooms.

In 1926 the Central Commercial Association was dissolved and the museum rooms were handed over to the city. The collections of the Kunstgewerbemuseum also became the property of the city and were relocated to the exhibition rooms at the Ehrenhof . In its place, the Historical Museum , today's city ​​museum , the city ​​archive , the adult education center and the city administration academy moved into the former museum building in 1927 . These facilities remained on Friedrichsplatz for different lengths of time before they were gradually moved to other buildings.

The building was badly damaged in World War II but remained in use until the 1970s. From the late 1960s onwards, only the state and city library remained of the numerous users, so that the building became a pure library building. As early as 1970, however, the holdings were transferred to the newly founded Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and the Heinrich Heine Institute , so that on December 28, 1979 the former Museum of Applied Arts was torn down.

  • Decorative Arts Museum, facade 1896

  • Decorative Arts Museum, facade 1906

  • Kunstgewerbemuseum, side view 1906 (Neubrückstrasse)

  • Kunstgewerbemuseum / Library, ground floor plan 1906

Museum collections

Heinrich Frauberger, director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Düsseldorf, member of the board of the art exhibition in the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf , 1904

The arts and crafts museum as an institution was founded in 1882 and housed in the newly built arts and crafts school on Burgplatz until 1896 . Heinrich Frauberger (* 1845 in Oberndorf; † July 1920 in Düsseldorf) was the founder and first director of the Düsseldorf Museum of Applied Arts and the Central-Gewerbe-Verein. In his almost 40-year management time, he campaigned for the establishment of museum collections.

In the building on Friedrichsplatz, which opened in 1896, there was a large staircase. To the right and left of it were the atriums that were used for changing exhibitions, for example for plaster casts based on Assyrian alabaster reliefs and part of the collection of stove tiles. Behind the atria were three halls, which were also used for changing exhibitions, for example for lace, trimmings, embroidery and fabrics, leather work, costume pieces and old glass paintings.

The Theobald-Haniel -aal was on the first floor with gifts from the deceased member of the Board of Directors. There was also the "Rhenish Renaissance Room", a "Rhenish Baroque Bay", the "Flemish Room", a "Dutch Room" (also "Hindelooper Kamer"), a "Hall in Italian Gothic" (also "Florentine Hall") and the "ancient kitchen". Cutlery, old weaving mills, silk fabrics, embroidery, wrought iron work and Renaissance furniture were also exhibited on the first floor.

On the second floor there was furniture, a “Romanesque hall”, a “Gothic chapel” and a “room in Tyrolean Gothic”. The Eduard Böninger collection with Japanese and Chinese exhibits was exhibited on the second floor. In the atrium, ceramics, fabrics, carpets and art objects from the Orient could be seen. A room from Damascus was donated by Mr. Krupp from Essen, as well as Asian objects and ceramics.

The reading room of the state and city library with 70,000 volumes was set up on the left of the vestibule, where 800 incunabula and 500 manuscripts, some of which are of great art historical value, were to be found. There was also a sculpture by Rudolf Bosselt and a bust by Adolf Schmieding in the Heine room of the library.

  • chapel

  • Florentine hall

  • Reading room clad in cedar wood, Peter Behrens, around 1906

literature

  • Festschrift for the inauguration of the new museum building in Düsseldorf on October 30, 1896. Centralgewerbe-Verein for Rhineland, Westphalia and neighboring districts, Düsseldorf 1896. Digitized
  • Barbara Mundt: The German arts and crafts museums in the 19th century. Munich 1974, p. 241.
  • Contributions to the double jubilee of the University and State Library Düsseldorf: 25 years University and State Library, 100 years State and City Library, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-9807334-4-0 digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, pp. 208 f.
  2. ^ Georg Friedrich Koch: Museum and exhibition buildings . In: Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres (Ed.): Art of the 19th century in the Rhineland . tape 2 . Architecture: II, secular buildings and urban planning . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-30252-6 , pp. 203-235, see p. 218 f .
  3. ↑ Hanns Michael Crass: The State and City Library Düsseldorf and its building in the years 1906–1970 / 79. P. 12. In: Irmgard Siebert (Ed.): Contributions to the double jubilee of the University and State Library Düsseldorf. 25 years university and state library, 100 years state and city library. Düsseldorf 2004, pp. 7-14
  4. ↑ The attractive collection of Islamic handicrafts goes back to the first director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Heinrich Frauberger, who systematically built up this area in the 1880s and 1890s through the acquisition of manuscripts, miniatures, Koranic bindings, textiles, metal, wood and ceramic objects . , on smkp.de
  5. ↑ Verkehrsverein Düsseldorf (ed.): Guide through Düsseldorf am Rhein and its surroundings , Düsseldorfer Verl.-Anst., Düsseldorf 1904, p. 64 [II. Part Sights 1. Tour of the city.]

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 42.1 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 35.3 ″  E