Bielefeld art gallery
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| place | Bielefeld |
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| architect | Philip Johnson |
| opening | 1968 |
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-021918 |
The Kunsthalle Bielefeld is a museum and exhibition center for modern and contemporary art in the East Westphalian city of Bielefeld in the Mitte district . The museum building designed by Philip Johnson opened in 1968. Most of the construction costs were donated by Rudolf-August Oetker . According to a letter to the papers of the Bielefelder Jugendkulturringes by Rudolf-August Oetker, the Oetker Group contributed DM 10.25 million to the total costs of DM 12.5 million, which because of the tax sales opportunities for the Group only increased to 4, 6 million DM ran out.
collection
The collection includes works of art from the 20th century. These include paintings by Pablo Picasso and Max Beckmann as well as works by the Blauer Reiter and movements around László Moholy-Nagy and Oskar Schlemmer . Younger art from the 1970s and 1980s as well as current artistic positions are also attracting increasing attention in the collection. In the park surrounding the art gallery are u. a. Sculptures by Auguste Rodin , Henry Moore , Richard Serra , Ólafur Elíasson and other modern sculptors can be seen. A bronze cast of Rodin's “ Thinker ” and, since 1989, Serra's vertical sculpture “Axis” are permanently installed in front of the building's entrance .
Exhibitions
The collection is supplemented by temporary exhibitions by contemporary artists corresponding to the profile of the Kunsthalle. The temporary exhibitions with the most visitors were “ Emil Nolde - Encounter with the Nordic” in 2008 with 74,000 visitors, followed by the exhibition “ Picasso's Surrealism - Works 1925–1937” in 1991 with almost 68,000 visitors. The show entitled "1937 - Perfection and Destruction", in which paintings in various styles from that year were shown, counted around 47,000 visitors in 2007/2008; In 2007 around 45,000 visitors came to an exhibition of paintings by Peter August Böckstiegel, who was born near Bielefeld, and by Conrad Felixmüller under the title “Working Worlds”.
The exhibition “Anohni my truth” from 2016 was described in the Spiegel as a great achievement, both in terms of curation and organization.
In addition to individual exploration, the exhibitions can also be explored through guided tours. There is also a museum educational offer for all age groups. A shop, a café and a library are attached to the museum.
architecture
The building, located on the southwestern edge of Bielefeld's old town, was built in 1968 by Caesar Pinnau according to plans by the American architect Philip Johnson in the international style . It is Johnson's only museum building in Europe. The building was renovated in 2002.
In 1994 Frank O. Gehry proposed a deconstructivist extension that would connect the art gallery with the neighboring natural history museum. This was vehemently rejected in particular by Maja Oetker , the wife of Rudolf-August Oetker, and therefore never realized. Instead, Frank O. Gehry realized the deconstructivist Marta Museum in Herford, 15 km away .
The cubic, square-shaped building comprises three above-ground and two underground floors, with a total of 1200 m² of exhibition space available. The facade is made of distinctive red sandstone .
Johnson's design included a sculpture garden as an urban delimitation. This was not initially implemented. It was not until September 27, 2008 - the 40th birthday of the Kunsthalle - that such a facility was built according to the original plans from 1968 to replace the previous park with a water basin. Originally the facility was to be called Johnson Park , after its sympathy for National Socialism became known, it was abandoned.
As part of an exhibition on the work of the architect Sou Fujimoto , a 1: 1 replica of the so-called “Final Wooden House” was built in the sculpture park of the Kunsthalle in 2012.
Name dispute
At the time of the foundation, Rudolf-August Oetker expressed the wish to name the art gallery after his stepfather Richard-Kaselowsky- Haus . Kaselowsky was controversial in Bielefeld because of his Nazi past (membership in the party from 1933 and member of the Himmler Circle of Friends , award of the Oetker company he runs as a National Socialist model company ). This led to a debate that became a main topic of social movements in Bielefeld in 1968. The composer Hans Werner Henze withdrew his piano concerto, which was written for the inauguration, and NRW Minister-President Heinz Kühn and two federal ministers were excused. The event with 1,200 invited guests was subsequently completely canceled by Oetker, but the city council stuck to its name resolution. The "silent" opening on September 27, 1968 was accompanied by protest demonstrations. Until the summer of 2017, a plaque in the entrance area of the Kunsthalle commemorated the namesake and described him as a victim of the heavy air attack on September 30, 1944, without addressing his role in the company or the controversy surrounding him.
In the following years, the Kunsthalle no longer used the controversial part of its name in public. In 1998, a renewed discussion and protest movement arose when the then director of the Kunsthalle, Thomas Kellein , tried to get closer to Haus Oetker and emphasized the name again. This is how the “Passion for Art” initiative was formed, which drew attention to the topic through various campaigns. Radio Bielefeld , after consulting with Oetker, refused to broadcast a radio program by the AJZ Bielefeld radio group as part of community radio via the Kunsthalle . The report was only broadcast after the state media authority was called. In a public lecture, the historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler criticized the naming of a member of the Himmler Circle of Friends as a "blatant violation of political shame".
A resident application from 1998 read as follows: “The council of the city of Bielefeld is asked to decide: In future the Bielefelder Kunsthalle will only be called 'Kunsthalle Bielefeld'. The previous suffix 'Richard-Kaselowsky-Haus' will be deleted. ”The first signatories included Annelie Buntenbach and Klaus Hurrelmann . After the search for a harmless version of the name had failed, the then red - green city council decided to rename it to the exclusive name of Kunsthalle Bielefeld . Rudolf August Oetker then ended his support and withdrew his personal loans from the collection of the Kunsthalle. In addition, Rudolf-August Oetker and his wife Maja Oetker were outraged publicly in the newspapers they were close to at the time about the alleged denunciation of Richard Kaselowsky from the green area of the university, of whom very few were from Bielefeld.
In 2016, an initiative submitted a citizen's application in accordance with § 24 GO NRW to supplement the memorial plaque with explanations of Kaselowsky's Nazi past. The Lord Mayor Pit Clausen then tried to reach an agreement with the Oetker family, who suggested replacing the plate. This was decided by the municipal bodies on September 22, 2016. The commemorative plaque was replaced during the 2017 summer vacation. Maja Oetker, Rudolf-August Oetker's widow, protested against the new memorial stone because she saw her husband's name erased.
management
The management of the museum took over from Friedrich Meschede on February 1, 2020 the previous director of the Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover, the art historian Christina Végh .
literature
- Michael Fleischer, Richard Kaselowsky House. Bielefeld City Art Hall. Preparation, planning and implementation in the years 1959-1968 . [Bielefeld], self-published [Oetker], undated [1968].
- Irene Below: The Bielefeld Art Gallery - a "great memorial stone" for perpetrators and victims? In: Art and Politics, Yearbook of the Guernica Society, 2, 2000, pp. 175–196
See also
Web links
- Web presence of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld
- Kunsthalle Bielefeld as a 3D model in SketchUp's 3D warehouse
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Zeit - Museum Guide. Retrieved January 18, 2015 .
- ^ City of Bielefeld - historical review. Retrieved January 18, 2015 .
- ↑ The Art of the Bright Head. When Oetker is donating, sheets of the Bielefelder Jugend-Kulturring, No. 255/256/257, December 1971 / January 1972, p. 88f.
- ^ Neue Westfälische of May 13, 2008: "Art gallery with record"
- ^ Art by Anohni Out of concern for the world , Spiegel, July 22, 2016
- ^ Rüdiger Jungbluth : The Oetkers. Business and secrets of Germany's most famous economic dynasty . Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-02112-9 , p. 340.
- ^ Pearls of the Province: Kunsthalle Bielefeld , Hendrik Bohle, July 11, 2016
- ^ Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1963 - 68… getting on in years , Deutsche Bauzeitung , September 1, 2005
- ↑ Westfalen-Blatt, February 21, 2008
- ^ Neue Westfälische, February 21, 2008
- ↑ Sou Fujimoto. Futurospective Architecture , Deutsche Bauzeitung , July 2012
- ↑ Hans-Jörg Kühne: Bielefeld '66 to '77 . Bielefeld contributions to urban and regional history, 21. ISBN 3-936359-15-6
- ↑ www.klausmoeller.net
- ↑ The Oetkers: Shops and secrets of the most famous business dynasty , Rüdiger Jungbluth , Campus Verlag , 2004
- ↑ residents request to rename the Kunsthalle antikaselowsky.blogsport.de,
- ↑ WSWS.org to rename the art gallery
- ↑ September 27, 1968: The "Richard-Kaselowsky-Haus - Kunsthalle der Stadt Bielefeld" is opened , Bernd J. Wagner, www.bielefeld.de
- ^ To avert harm to our city and everyone , Irene Below , Frauen Kunst Wissenschaft, October 29, 1998
- ↑ TOP 4.3: Addition to Richard Kaselowsky's memorial plaque , meeting of the Citizens' Committee, June 24, 2016
- ↑ Kaselowsky-Straße in Bielefeld is renamed , WDR , 23 September 2016
- ^ Oetker's memorial plaque at the Kunsthallen: Name Kaselowsky removed due to Nazi past , Neue Westfälische , August 3, 2017
- ^ Kunsthalle: Name of founder Rudolf-August Oetker removed from memorial plaque - widow Maja Oetker resists it , Neue Westfälische , August 16, 2017
- ↑ Kestner director Végh becomes head of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld , monopol-magazin.de 23 August 2019, accessed 24 September 2019
- ^ The Bielefeld Art Gallery - a "great memorial stone" for perpetrators and victims? - www.irenebelow.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 5.5 " N , 8 ° 31 ′ 34" E