Messmer art gallery

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Messmer art gallery

The Messmer art gallery is a museum in Riegel am Kaiserstuhl in the rooms of the disused Riegeler brewery . Art from the 20th and 21st centuries is shown in temporary exhibitions on around 900 m² of exhibition space. The museum has an 850 m² sculpture garden with sculptures by contemporary artists Gerald Baschek, Hellmut Bruch , Gerhard Frömel , Friedrich Geiler, Bernhard Licini, Rüdiger Seidt , Michel Jouët and Michael Schwarze .

founding

In 2005, the former entrepreneur and art collector Jürgen A. Messmer founded the messmer foundation as a dedication to his daughter Petra, who died of cancer in 2003. The foundation is responsible for the museum, which opened in June 2009. Up to three exhibitions from the fields of classical modernism and contemporary art are presented annually . Exhibits from the company's own collection as well as loans from international private and museum collections are on display .

In 1978 Messmer succeeded in acquiring large parts of the estate of the Swiss artist André Evard . Throughout his life he painted figuratively as well as abstractly and was considered a pioneering painter of Swiss modernism . Through the artist, the entrepreneur found concrete, constructive art , which today forms the focus of his collection. The first exhibition at the Kunsthalle Messmer was a homage to Evard and only showed his work. In addition, the International Evard Prize initiated by Messmer was named after the artist.

Exhibitions (selection)

In addition to André Evard's estate, the Messmer art collection also includes works by Max Bill , Georges Braque , Salvador Dalí , Otto Dix , Günter Fruhtrunk , François Morellet , AR Penck , Pablo Picasso , Gerd Grimm , Sonia Delaunay , Joan Miró and Victor Vasarely . Including these works, the museum has presented the following exhibitions, among others:

  • 2009: Homage to André Evard
  • 2009: Victor Vasarely + 50 years of constructive art in Paris
  • 2010: Group exhibition of the nominees for the 2nd International André Evard Prize
  • 2010: Salvador Dalí and the omnipotence of dreams
  • 2010: Gerd Grimm - fashion, girls, metropolises
  • 2011: Kinetics - Art in Motion
  • 2011: Water - facets of an element
  • 2012: Le Corbusier and André Evard - From Art Nouveau to Modernism
  • 2013: Marc Chagall - Poetry and Dream
  • 2013: Group exhibition of the nominees for the 3rd International André Evard Prize
  • 2014: Ernst Fuchs and Friedensreich Hundertwasser
  • 2014: China through the ages
  • 2015: Andy Warhol King of Pop Art
  • 2016: Group exhibition of the nominees for the 4th International André Evard Prize
  • 2016 Joan Miró - The passionate painter-poet
  • 2017: Christo and Jeanne-Claude : Objects - Drawings - Photos
  • 2017: Picasso and the women
  • 2017: Light & Movement
  • 2018: Otmar Alt: Paths of Life
  • 2018: Dalí - The Magic of Genius
  • 2018: Group exhibition of the nominees for the 5th International André Evard Prize
  • 2019: One hundred years of Bauhaus
  • 2019: 10 years of the Kunsthalle Messmer - a life for art
  • 2020: Leon Löwentraut - Young, provocative & successful

International André Evard Prize

The André Evard Art Prize is awarded every two to three years. International artists who work concretely and constructively can submit their work. The maximum of two award winners, who are selected by a jury of experts, will receive joint prize money of 10,000 euros. 750 artists took part in the fourth call in 2015, 80 of which were selected for the group exhibition. In addition to the jury prize, an audience prize is awarded.

The jury for the second award in 2010 consisted of Karola Kraus (formerly director of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden ), Christina Schroeter-Herrel ( art historian , Deutsche Bank AG ) and Gerhard Frömel (visual artist and lecturer at the Art University Linz ). The award winners were the artists Inge Dick and Wolfram Ullrich , the audience award went to Peter Somm.

The winner of the third International Evard Prize 2013, Tatsushi Kawanabe, was chosen by the mathematician Dietmar Guderian, Marli Hoppe-Ritter (co-founder of the Museum Ritter ) and Ewald Karl Schrade, the initiator of Art Karlsruhe .

The fourth prize was awarded on April 24, 2016 to the American artist Betty Rieckmann, the audience prize went to the German artist Bodo Sperling . The jury consisted of Ewald Karl Schrade, Marli Hoppe-Ritter and Sabine Schaschl.

In 2019 Rüdiger Seidt received the art award , whose work Circletetra, 2018 - Cor-Ten also won one of the two audience awards. The second audience award went to Antonio Marra for his artwork The Wisdom of the Sea Cucumber.

Messmer Gallery

In 2013, Jürgen A. Messmer expanded the art gallery with a commercial gallery in the historic column room of the former brewery, which sees itself as a platform for young artists. The program includes works from the field of concrete-constructive art and figurative painting or sculpture.

Web links

Commons : Kunsthalle Messmer  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Pawellek: 10 years Kunsthalle Messmer: large shows from Chagall to Miró. In: www.chilli-freiburg.de. June 4, 2019, accessed July 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Michael Haberer: New star in the art landscape. The Messmer Foundation's art gallery opened yesterday with an exhibition of works by the painter André Evard. In: www.badische-zeitung.de. June 20, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Michael Haberer: Art according to the laws of logic. 120 guests came to the opening of the Vasarely exhibition in the art gallery of the Messmer Foundation in Riegel on Friday. In: www.badische-zeitung.de. October 19, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Michael Haberer: "Top 80" in the Messmer Art Gallery in Riegel. 80 works of art, which are eligible for the André Evard Prize “Concrete-Constructive Art”, endowed with 10,000 euros, can be seen at an exhibition in the Messmer Art Hall that is well worth seeing. In: www.badische-zeitung.de. March 8, 2010, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Michael Haberer: Fascinating personality and incredible type. The exhibition “Salvador Dalí and the omnipotence of dreams” opened on Friday evening in the Messmer Art Gallery in Riegel. In: www.badische-zeitung.de. June 7, 2010, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Michael Haberer: Gerd Grimms snapshots: fashion, girls, metropolises. Tomorrow a new exhibition with 80 works by the Freiburg graphic artist opens in the Kunsthalle Messmer in Riegel. In: www.badische-zeitung.de. November 12, 2010, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  7. ^ Kinetics - Art in Motion. In: Monopoly magazine . Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Jürgen Haberer: Kick-off for a discussion. In a themed exhibition, the Kunsthalle Messmer in Riegel deals with the facets of an element: It's about water and the urgency of a socio-political discourse. In: www.bo.de (Baden Online). July 16, 2011, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Cornelia Frenkel: From Art Nouveau to Modernism. Le Corbusier & André Evard in the Messmer Art Gallery in Riegel. In: www.kulturjoker.de. April 2012, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Jürgen Haberer: Chagall invites you to dream. Art patron Jürgen Messmer has achieved another great success. His gallery in Riegel am Kaiserstuhl is showing an exhibition with 143 works by Marc Chagall until the end of June. In: www.bo.de (Baden Online). February 2, 2013, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Michael Haberer: André Evard Prize goes to Tatsushi Kawanabe. 700 artists from 35 countries applied, 88 were nominated. In: www.badische-zeitung.de. September 7, 2013, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  12. ^ Jürgen Haberer: Double retrospective: Hundertwasser and Fuchs. In: www.bo.de (Baden Online). April 15, 2014, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Michael Haberer: China exhibition in Riegel. Highlights from 5000 years of art and culture. In: www.badische-zeitung.de. September 21, 2014, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  14. ^ Warhol - King of Pop Art - Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel. In: www.suedbadisches-medienhaus.de. July 28, 2015, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  15. ^ Finissage and award ceremony of the 4th International André Evard Prize. In: www.kunsthallemessmer.de. April 25, 2016. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Joan Miró, the passionate painter-poet, in the Riegeler Kunsthalle Messmer. In: www.chilli-freiburg.de. August 16, 2016, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Jürgen Ruf: Kunsthalle Messmer reveals Christo's life's work. In: www.fnp.de. January 26, 2017, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Jürgen Haberer: Wives, lovers, models: Pablo Picasso and his women. In: www.bo.de (Baden Online). June 28, 2017. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Jürgen Haberer: Messmer Art Gallery in Riegel: Illusions through light. In: baden online (bo.de). November 25, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Jürgen Haberer: Otmar Alt's colorful world in bars. In: www.bo.de (Baden Online). February 6, 2018, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Salvador Dalí: The magic of genius. In: www.weltkunst.de. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
  22. ↑ exhibition. 5th International André Evard Prize of the messmer foundation. In: www.weltkunst.de. Retrieved July 26, 2019 .
  23. ^ Baden-Württemberg. Kunsthalle Messmer shows exhibition on 100 years of Bauhaus. In: www.welt.de. February 21, 2019, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  24. ^ Friederike Zimmermann: The Messmer Art Gallery in Riegel is celebrating its tenth anniversary with an André Evard exhibition. In: www.kulturjoker.de. July 2019, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  25. ↑ 4th International André Evard Prize. ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Kunsthalle Messner, accessed on September 18, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunsthallemessmer.de
  26. ↑ a b 3rd International André Evard Prize. ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Kunsthalle Messner, accessed on September 18, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunsthallemessmer.de
  27. ↑ LED artist from America wins Evard Prize. Badische Zeitung , April 28, 2016, accessed on January 21, 2017.
  28. ↑ Public favor meets jury opinion! International André Evard Prize for Rüdiger Seidt from Forbach - Antonio Marra (Offenbach) wins audience award. In: www.regiotrends.de. February 17, 2019, accessed February 18, 2019 .

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