Art gallery Osnabrück

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Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, December 2007
Former monastery, December 2007
The baroque pulpit was housed in the Old St. Alexander Church in Wallenhorst in January 2008

The Kunsthalle Osnabrück (former name " Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche ") is an exhibition building in Osnabrück ( Lower Saxony ). The art gallery is located in the former monastery church of the former monastery of the Holy Cross of the Dominican Order .

The art gallery is subordinate to the department of culture of the city. In the Gothic church building will be 665 square meters nave and 375 square meters of the porch and the cloister changing regional and national exhibitions visual arts contemporary shown.

From the Dominican monastery founded in the 13th century, the four-winged monastery building from the Baroque period , which is used by the city authorities, has been preserved next to the church .

history

The monastery was founded at the instigation of the Osnabrück bishop Konrad von Rietberg (1270–1297) in the second half of the 13th century. He brought the Dominicans into the city to strengthen the position of the church in relation to the council. Construction began on the remains of an older building around 1283 (?). The founder is Rembertus Düvelius, lord of the (then) Düvelsburg near Osnabrück (* around 1275, † after 1328, urk. 1295–1398, foundation 1295 together with his brother Albertus). Around 1295, parts of the monastery, which was given the name Monastery of the Holy Cross , were available. The city's population also referred to it as the Natrup Monastery or Nottrup Monastery. The monastery choir was consecrated probably in 1297. On this occasion , the monks received an indulgence from Pope Boniface VIII . In the first years of the 14th century, the monastery was enlarged by donations. the monastery also received a cemetery.

In disputes between the leadership of the diocese and the Dominicans, the cathedral chapter of St. Peter's Cathedral prohibited the citizens of Osnabrück from providing the religious with food and from participating in their services. The conflict was not resolved until 1319.

Further construction activity came to a standstill around 1348 due to the plague epidemics and the general emergency in the city, triggered by the drought and the Hase floods . In 1372 the monastery was damaged by fire. The buildings were not completed until the 15th century, after a quarry on the Westerberg in Osnabrück had been donated to the monastery for construction work in 1493.

In 1521, during the Reformation , conflicts arose again between the members of the order and the city council, which Martin Luther's teachings had joined. The Reformation-minded Bishop Franz von Waldeck instructed the prior to leave the monastery to the population for use as a hospital and residence for the needy. He also forbade the monks to ring church bells and hold services. They resisted, did not leave the field and endured popular anger. In 1543 the monastery was looted. The monastery archive was partly lost permanently; the city council confiscated valuables such as silver liturgical implements. The monks were locked up in the monastery. They survived the blockade, which is said to have lasted five years, because they were secretly cared for by the Benedictine nuns of the Gertrudenberg Monastery from Osnabrück and the Cistercian nuns of the Rulle Monastery, which is just under ten kilometers northeast .

In the first half of the 17th century during the Thirty Years' War , the monastery was given back its previous legal status under Bishop Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg , who carried out the Counter-Reformation . The Osnabrück Dominicans were allowed to hold a procession in the city in 1628 . The monks received material support in 1644 during the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia from the Catholic ambassadors, including Count Maximilian von und zu Trauttmansdorff and the French Duke of Longueville .

At the end of the 18th century, the monastery was used as accommodation for British soldiers in 1795 under the last Osnabrück Prince-Bishop , the British Prince Friedrich August, Duke of York and Albany . The following year it was expanded into a hospital. In 1803 the monastery was abolished in the course of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . The furnishings were removed and some of them were moved to other churches. The baroque pulpit is located in the Old St. Alexander Church in Wallenhorst and the valuable Klausing organ from 1713 in the St. Matthew Church in Melle .

During the period of French occupation from 1803 to 1805, the monastery served the French troops as a warehouse. At the beginning of the 20th century, the empty monastery was to be demolished. However, that did not happen.

Around 1910 it was used as an infantry barracks during the German Empire ; for this purpose, false ceilings were drawn into the monastery church. In 1913 the church was renovated. Another thorough renovation took place in the 1960s. It was completed in 1966. The city of Osnabrück used the church as a space for events such as concerts and exhibitions. In 1991 the church was renamed Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche and converted into an art gallery in the following year.

In 1993 the church was reopened as an art gallery with a retrospective of Arnulf Rainer's work . From November 2013 Julia Draganovic acted as director of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. She took over the office from André Lindhorst, who was in charge for 22 years. The first exhibition curated by Draganovic in the Kunsthalle, " Michael Beutler , Architect - Etienne Descloux, Artist", was on view from September 12, 2014 to January 11, 2015. Julia Draganovic took over the management of Villa Massimo in Rome on July 1, 2019 . The management of the Kunsthalle was taken over by Anna Jehle and Juliane Schickedanz, who previously ran the association for contemporary art together in Leipzig .

literature

  • Bernhard Beckschäfer: History of the Dominican Monastery of the Holy Cross in Osnabrück , Osnabrück 1913, Faks. Reprint Schöningh, Paderborn 1978, ISBN 3-506-70620-9
  • Hans-Gerd Rabe: Osnabrück Art and Artists 1900–1970 in: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen , Volume 81, Meinders and Elstermann, Osnabrück 1974, ISSN  0474-8158

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia Draganovic new director of the Kunsthalle , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, article from December 20, 2013. Accessed on September 6, 2014 .
  2. ^ Website of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. Retrieved September 6, 2014 .
  3. ↑ NDR Kultur from July 18, 2019: "Creating a lively place with artists" , accessed on July 19, 2019

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 44.2 "  N , 8 ° 2 ′ 22.4"  E