Ziegelhütte art gallery
The Ziegelhütte art gallery is a museum and cultural center in Appenzell . In addition to exhibitions on the two Appenzell painters Carl August Liner and his son Carl Walter Liner , the Kunsthalle shows art from the 20th and 21st centuries in the exhibition wing. It has a concert hall and a café in the old building. Alongside the Appenzell Art Museum, the art gallery is the second building of the Heinrich Gebert Kulturstiftung Appenzell .
The Kunsthalle was created in 2003 by converting a brickworks, which in its core dates back to the 16th century, into a multifunctional cultural center. A new exposed concrete building was erected under the main ridge of the brick building. The brick kiln from 1566 and the early industrial building ensemble with the important production facilities such as pan mill , brick press and paternoster elevator were preserved and integrated into the building.
The architecture, reconstructed in its original dimensions, was designed by the St. Gallen architecture firm Robert Bamert; The Zurich office Tilla Theus was involved in the design of the exhibition wing. The Carl Liner Father and Son Museum Foundation, which has been called the Heinrich Gebert Kulturstiftung Appenzell since 2014, acted as the client.
History of the brick factory
The first lime kiln of the Appenzell brickworks was built at the beginning of the 16th century and was first mentioned in a document in 1559. In 1566, six years after a major fire that destroyed the entire village of Appenzell, the brickworks were rebuilt with the kiln still standing today. In the second half of the 18th century the brickworks, which had previously been state-owned and leased, went into private ownership for the first time. After several changes of hand, it passed to Valentin Gschwend in 1875, who left it to his son-in-law Heinrich Buschauer in 1881. He expanded the brickworks and operated it for a good 40 years until he passed it on to his son Karl Heinrich Buschauer in 1922. He was the third generation to run the brickworks for 35 years until health problems and pressure to modernize forced him to close down in 1957. Since the modern brickworks had meanwhile switched to year-round operation thanks to electrical operation, it was no longer economical to continue operating the brickworks, which only worked in summer with air drying. Until 1981, the existing location was still used for intermediate trade. After that, the now useless building was threatened with demolition. Thanks to the conversion into a cultural center, however, it was possible to preserve the historic building and Appenzell's oldest industrial monument and put it to a new use.
Web links
- Literature by and about Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte: Architecture. In: h-gebertka.ch. Retrieved March 5, 2015 .
- ^ History of the brickworks. In: h-gebertka.ch. Retrieved March 5, 2015 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 19 ′ 41.6 " N , 9 ° 24 ′ 41.2" E ; CH1903: 749 112 / 243 802