Bayreuth Art Museum
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Bayreuth Art Museum with entrance in Brautgasse |
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| place | Bayreuth |
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Modern Art Museum
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| opening | 1999 |
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-749517 |
The Art Museum Bayreuth is the museum for modern art of the city of Bayreuth . In the historic rooms of the Baroque town hall, exhibitions on contemporary art and art of classical modernism are presented. The offer includes guided tours, museum educational events and lectures.
history
The beginnings of the building lead to the Middle Ages. After destruction as a result of the Hussite Wars in 1430 and the great city fires in 1605 and 1621, major renovations are recorded in 1679. In 1721 the building was used as the town hall of Bayreuth. It was to hold this function until 1917. A baroque transformation from 1722–1727 under the direction of the margravial builder Johann David Räntz is associated with the task of being a public building and town hall . From 1797 to 1812 the old town hall was the seat of the city court and from 1816 to 1832 the district court met here. By 1916, various municipal institutions, such as a trade school or the offices of the city post office, were to find accommodation in the old town hall. With the inauguration of the New Town Hall on Luitpoldplatz in 1916, the old town hall lost its administrative tasks.
In the Weimar Republic , the baroque town hall housed the city library on the ground floor from 1921 to 1928. After the destruction of the new town hall on Luitpoldplatz in World War II , the old town hall was reinstated in its representative offices in 1945. When the new town hall was built in 1972, there was another change in function to the service building of the Bavarian State Police .
After Lord Mayor Dieter Mronz took over the Dr. Helmut and Constanze Meyer Art Foundation for Bayreuth, the decision was made in favor of the Old Town Hall as the seat of the art museum that is now being created, which was given its new purpose in December 1999.
collection
The focus of the museum's collection is art of the 20th century. Works on paper form by far the largest group of around 10,000 objects. The prints , drawings and watercolors are in the depot. Sometimes individual objects and groups of objects are presented in exhibitions. The poster museum in the Bayreuth Art Museum comprises around 17,000 posters. The poster motifs concentrate on cultural content such as literature, theater, exhibitions. But there are also many variations on topics such as contemporary history, sports, travel or gastronomy.
Independent institutions, foundations and collections
The Dr. The Helmut and Constanze Meyer Art Foundation and the Caspar Walter Rauh Collection of the Upper Franconian Foundation formed the basis of the museum in 1991, which was expanded in 1992 to include works by the expressionist Georg Tappert . With the establishment of the art museum in 1999, the tobacco history collection of British American Tobacco was set up . In 2002 Prof. Dr. Klaus Dettmann Art Foundation , followed in 2009 by the Voith von Voithenberg Foundation . With the Werner Froemel Collection of the Upper Franconian Foundation , another large bundle was added to the collection in 2010. The Georg Jakob Best Art Foundation Viola Schweinfurter has been the youngest foundation in the house since 2014.
Donations and purchases
The inventory has been growing continuously since 1999 through own purchases. The Hertha Drescher and Günter Ruckdäschel collection has been in the art museum since 2000. The Prof. Dr. The Felix and Sybille Böcker donation has existed since 2008. The Friends of the Bayreuth Art Museum have donated the house since 2005. The handover of the Small Poster Museum founded the Poster Museum in the Bayreuth Art Museum in 2012.
literature
- Marina von Assel, Martina Kern, Susanne Steinlein, Helmut Meyer, Constanze Meyer: Art in the 20th Century. From the collection of the Art Museum Bayreuth: Museum guide . City of Bayreuth, 1999, ISBN 3-9807043-1-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Bartl, Bernd Mayer, Reiner Küchler, Jürgen Dohrmann, Norbert Will, Holger Leverentz, Marina von Assel, Dieter Mronz, Hans Angerer: The old town hall of Bayreuth: history, reconstruction and current use . City of Bayreuth, 2000, ISBN 3-9807043-0-0 .
- ↑ Bayreuth Culture Atlas
Coordinates: 49 ° 56 ′ 39.1 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 29.6 ″ E