Art gallery in Emden

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Entrée of the Kunsthalle Emden, May 2008

The Kunsthalle Emden (Henri and Eske Nannen Foundation and Otto van de Loo donation) is a museum for modern and contemporary art in the seaport city of Emden ( East Frisia ). It was donated by Henri Nannen in 1986 . The art collection was expanded through a donation from the Munich gallery owner and collector Otto van de Loo , which also necessitated additional buildings. The clinker brick building ensemble was designed by the architect couple Friedrich and Ingeborg Spengelin from Hanover . The Kunsthalle is a member of the working group of independent cultural institutes , a network of currently 37 nationally and internationally respected, independent cultural and research institutes, which through a valuable collection particularly represent the quality and diversity of cultural Germany.

The art gallery has around 1500 pictures. Henri Nannen contributed 650 works of art himself when it was founded. Since 2001, 368 more pictures have been added through acquisitions and donations.

history

Planning for the Kunsthalle began in 1983. Nannen donated all of the fortune that he had built up during his work as Stern boss. He also brought his own extensive art collection - paintings and sculptures mainly from the Expressionist period - into the house. Nannen later stated in newspaper interviews that during this time he was often asked why he had built the art gallery in Emden and not in Hamburg, where he had lived and worked for a long time. The founder justified this by saying that he would only open one more art gallery in Hamburg, but the only museum of its kind in Emden. In the city, Nannen also had to convince skeptics. For his life's work, but especially for the construction of the art gallery, Nannen was later awarded honorary citizenship of his hometown. Today the art gallery is next to the East Frisian State Museum and the Johannes a Lasco library the outstanding cultural institution of Emden and is often highlighted as a cultural lighthouse of the region.

On October 3, 1986, the art gallery was opened by the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker , who praised the human dimensions of the building . The museum's collection focuses on New Objectivity and German Expressionism images , including works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Max Pechstein and Emil Nolde . In addition, the art of Art Informel , the gestural abstraction of German post-war art and art from the former USSR are particularly represented there by the collection bundles of the Henri and Eske Nannen Foundation and the Otto van de Loo donation.

Scientifically, the Kunsthalle was first directed by Thorsten Rodiek , then until 2006 by Achim Sommer, who became director of the Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR . From 2006 to 2010 Nils Ohlsen was scientific director. In 2010 Ohlsen took over the management of the National Gallery in Oslo . Ohlsen's successor at the Kunsthalle Emden was the art historian Frank Schmidt, who took over the management of the Böttcherstraße museums in Bremen in early 2016 . Eske Nannen , the wife of the former Stern boss in 1990, had headed the foundation since his death in 1996. Since November 2016, Stefan Borchardt and Michael Kühn have been joint board members. Lisa Felicitas Mattheis is responsible for the scientific management.

The museum is supported by the non-profit association Freunde der Kunsthalle - Kunstverein in Ostfriesland eV In April 2006, modernization and renovation work began, which lasted twenty months. The new art gallery was reopened on December 2, 2007 with the exhibition “Garden of Eden - The Garden in Art since 1900”. A painting school for children is attached to the art gallery in Emden.

In 2019 the museum was awarded the museum seal of approval from the Museumsverband Niedersachsen und Bremen eV.

Panorama photo of the Kunsthalle Emden
Panorama photo of the Kunsthalle Emden in April 2008

Funding and Financing

The Kunsthalle Emden is financially supported by the state of Lower Saxony . In 2012, the state took over old debts in the amount of 300,000 euros from the last construction phase. The state also contributes to the maintenance costs of the art gallery. She has received an annual grant of 850,000 euros since 2014.

In 2012, the mediation project “At eye level” was awarded the BKM Prize for Cultural Education . The Friends of the Kunsthalle association now has 1154 members. 255 of them belong to the “Young Friends of the Art Gallery” sub-department. In 2004 the Ludolf Backhuysen Society, which was also committed to promoting art in the seaport city, and the Friends of the Art Gallery, which existed at the time, got together. Since then, the association has operated under its current name. The Friends of the Kunsthalle enable the purchase of paintings with their annual contribution and other donations. In the 1980s, for example, an “abstract painting” by Gerhard Richter was purchased, which today is worth many times what was spent on the purchase at the time. The donations from the Friends of the Kunsthalle also subsidize temporary staff positions as well as the printing of catalogs.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions (selection)

The outstanding exhibitions included:

Franz Marc's painting The Blue Foals from 1913 belongs to the collection of the Kunsthalle. In the summer of 2013, a previously unknown cat study by the artist was found under this picture and exhibited from October.

Web links

Commons : Kunsthalle Emden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heiner Schröder: Kunsthalle has become richer , in: Ostfriesen-Zeitung, February 19, 2013, accessed on the same date.
  2. ↑ Dr. Frank Schmidt as of October 1, Scientific Director ( Memento from September 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 28, 2013.
  3. ↑ ▷ MUSEUM NEWS: Board duo for the Kunsthalle Emden - Eske Nannen hands over tasks to the new board. In: museum television. April 4, 2017, accessed on July 3, 2020 (German).
  4. ^ Nine museums awarded a seal of approval by ndr.de on February 6, 2019
  5. ↑ Ina Wagner: Land is now also paying the old debts of the Kunsthalle . In: Emder Zeitung of July 24, 2012. Retrieved on May 10, 2017.
  6. ^ Regina Jerichow: Land secures Emder Kunsthalle . In: Nordwest-Zeitung, August 7, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  7. ↑ Heiner Schröder: Kunsthalle has more and more friends , in: Ostfriesen-Zeitung, February 26, 2013, accessed on the same day.
  8. ↑ An overview of all exhibitions can be found at www.kunsthalle-emden.de: Exhibition archive , accessed on February 26, 2013.
  9. ↑ Two cats slumber under "Blue Foals" ( Memento from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 11.6 "  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 11.4"  E