Kunsthalle Würth
The Kunsthalle Würth is a private art museum founded in 2001 by the entrepreneur Reinhold Würth in the Katharinenvorstadt of Schwäbisch Hall . The museum hosts temporary exhibitions from the Würth Collection .
architecture
The art gallery was planned by the Danish architect Henning Larsen and built in three years. In addition to the exhibition rooms, the three-storey, modern museum building also includes a shop, cafeteria and various event rooms that can be opened to the outside using large glass doors. The two parts of the building can be connected by a fabric sail so that the outside area is also covered. The building is around 17 meters high and the enclosed space is around 15,000 cubic meters. The facade is clad with shell limestone , the otherwise predominant building materials are concrete, steel and glass.
Exhibitions
Temporary exhibitions based on the Würth Collection, who founded the Museum Würth in Künzelsau in 1991 and is known as an art patron throughout the country, are shown. So far, the Kunsthalle Würth has shown major exhibitions of works by Eduardo Chillida , Max Liebermann , Anthony Caro , Henry Moore , Horst Antes , Fernando Botero , Edvard Munch , Georg Baselitz , David Hockney , Niki de Saint Phalle and themed exhibitions. The exhibitions are accompanied by guided tours, museum education and supporting programs. There are lectures, concerts and readings in the Adolf-Würth-Saal of the Kunsthalle.
Surroundings
In 2003 the brewhouse , an imposing brick building of the Löwenbrauerei Hall from 1903, was opened near the Kunsthalle, in which there are additional exhibition areas, rooms for museum education and catering facilities.
A branch of the Kunsthalle is located in the Schwäbisch Haller Johanniterkirche . This Johanniterkirche, built at the end of the 12th century and rebuilt in 1385 and 1404, was secularized in 1816. Since then it has served, now under the name Johanniterhalle, as an exhibition space in addition to numerous other functions. The building, which has been owned by Adolf Würth GmbH und Co. KG since 2005, has been carefully restored. Since autumn 2008, the building, now again referred to as Johanniterkirche, has provided an adequate home for the late medieval picture treasure of the former Princely Fürstenberg picture collection in Donaueschingen as well as other sculptural works of the south-west German area from the collection of Würth. The painting Darmstädter Madonna (also Madonna of Mayor Meyer) by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543) has been exhibited in the choir of the Johanniterkirche since January 2012 .
Sculpture by Niki de Saint Phalle in front of the Kunsthalle Würth
Sculpture by Niki de Saint Phalle in front of the Kunsthalle Würth
Sculpture by Niki de Saint Phalle in front of the Kunsthalle Würth
Sculpture by Niki de Saint Phalle in front of the Kunsthalle Würth
literature
- Gottfried Knapp , Andreas Schmid: Building for the world. Architecture at Würth. = Build for the world. Architecture at Würth. Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2001, ISBN 3-934350-43-7 , pp. 231-243.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Q4U GmbH: Kunsthalle Würth - City of Schwäbisch Hall. Retrieved August 13, 2017 .
- ^ City of Schwäbisch Hall
- ↑ Johanniterkirche on kunst.wuerth.de
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 38.5 " N , 9 ° 43 ′ 56.7" E