Art Museum Bonn
 Entrance to the Kunstmuseum Bonn (2014) |
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Bonn 
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| architect | Axel Schultes |
| opening | 1992 |
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City of Bonn
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-024719 |
The Kunstmuseum Bonn (until 1992 Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn ) is one of the largest, nationally respected museums for contemporary art . The building was designed by the Berlin architect Axel Schultes and opened in 1992. The collection of around 7,500 works in the Kunstmuseum Bonn is characterized by the central volume of works on August Macke and the art of the Rhenish Expressionists . The collection on German art after 1945 is particularly important, with a focus on painting and its expanded, image-related forms of expression. The museum is part of the Museum Mile in Bonn.
history
Building history
The planning for the construction of a municipal art museum began in the early 1980s as part of an overall concept for the construction of federal cultural buildings in the then capital Bonn. In 1985 the city of Bonn launched a two-stage building construction competition that produced 250 individual designs and also included ideas for the planned Federal Art Hall . Despite the different sponsors, both museums should form an ensemble and be connected by what is now known as the “Museum Square”. A federal customs office from the 1950s originally stood on the later construction site of the art museum and was demolished; today the customs office resides in Bonn-Oberkassel. An open-air substation from RWE also stood in the way of the project, which was reorganized and compressed.
The Kunstmuseum Bonn was built in 1985 by the first prize winner of the competition, the architects BJSS - Dietrich Bangert , Bernd Jansen, Stefan Scholz, Axel Schultes - and Jürgen Pleuser. The construction costs of the museum, which opened in 1992, amounted to approx. 100 million DM. The building is one of the most important new museum buildings after the Second World War.
Collection history
The actual collection history of the Kunstmuseum Bonn, originally from the private collection of Professor Franz Obernier (1839–1888) in the City Museum Villa Obernier , began in 1949 with Walter Holzhausen's purchase of the Turkish Café (1914) and Tight Dancer (1914) by August Macke . Together with the group of Rhenish Expressionists and a small Max Ernst collection, Macke forms the foundation of the collection and was also the basis for concentrating the collection on the medium of painting. Bonn's status as federal capital, which lasted for a few decades, also suggested that this collection line should be pursued primarily within German art. In the last six decades, one of the most important international collections with around 7,500 works of art on German art has been created, with entire groups of works being acquired by major artists.
Up until the 1990s, the museum was primarily a place for painting, whereas the focus under the directors Dieter Ronte and Stephan Berg widened considerably, including, for example, photographic and installation positions. The international and cross-media orientation of the art museum is particularly evident in the policy of temporary exhibitions.
architecture
The architecture by Axel Schultes with its "flowing" room concept makes the building, which opened in 1992, a prime example of new museum architecture in Germany. Inside and out, the house documents a strong architectural and artistic self-confidence through the wide-span roofscapes, the circular staircase and the collection and exhibition rooms with their corner passages. The building is based on a square floor plan into which dynamic diagonal axes have been incorporated.
The amphitheater-like staircase forms the center of the house and connects the foyer with the upper collection and temporary exhibition rooms. The auditorium in the basement is also designed as an amphitheater and shows an architecture that is essentially about the connection between ancient, modern and contemporary.
Axel Schulte's sensitive handling of light is of central importance in the Kunstmuseum Bonn. This can already be seen in the fact that the house - with the exception of the graphic rooms - is almost entirely planned as a daylight museum. The museum opens up to the outside space through large window fronts, while the skylight on the upper floor ensures evenly scattered light.
Directors / Intendants
Directors of the City Art Museum Bonn (Rathausgasse)
- Walter Holzhausen 1947–1961
- Eberhard Marx 1962–1976
- Dierk Stemmler 1977–1985
- Katharina Schmidt 1985-1992
Directors of the current Art Museum Bonn (Museum Mile)
- Dieter Ronte 1993-2008
- Stephan Berg since 2008
The collection
In addition to the Westphalian State Museum in Münster, the Kunstmuseum Bonn has the largest collection of August Macke worldwide, whose image concept also bridges the gap between German and French art. Together with the group of Rhenish Expressionists and a small Max Ernst collection, works by Macke now form the foundation of the collection and the basis for the programmatic continued concentration on the medium of painting and German art. The acquisition of entire groups of works and ensembles is part of the specifics of the collection policy and continues in the collection presentation in so-called artist rooms. The house has z. B. on central work bundles by Joseph Beuys , Gerhard Hoehme , Blinky Palermo , Imi Knoebel , Gerhard Richter , Sigmar Polke , Georg Baselitz , Rosemarie Trockel , Ulrich Rückriem , Hanne Darboven , Reinhard Mucha , Andreas Gursky , Georg Herold and Katharina Grosse . At the same time, the focus on German art was deliberately broken through acquisitions by artists such as Robert Delaunay , Alexej von Jawlensky , Helmut Federle , Phil Sims and David Reed .
August Macke and Rhenish Expressionism
August Macke was born in Meschede in 1887, but lived in Bonn from 1900 until his untimely death in 1914. Today the museum has one of the most extensive Macke collections with paintings, watercolors and drawings. Macke's handling of color and light also formed the basis for the collection's continued concentration on the medium of painting.
Self-Portrait with Hat (1909)
Vegetable fields (1911)
Marienkirche with houses and chimney (1911)
The tightrope walker (1914)
Franz M. Jansen , Helmuth Macke , Carlo Mense , Heinrich Nauen , Paul Adolf Seehaus and Hans Thuar belong to the circle of the Rhenish Expressionists, who are also represented in the Kunstmuseum Bonn . Together with the group of Rhenish Expressionists and a small Max Ernst collection, August Macke forms the foundation of the collection.
German art after 1945
The focus of the collection of German art over the past 60 years takes up the greater part of the collection of the Kunstmuseum Bonn and thus traces important trends in art history. The backbone of the 1950s collection is made up of works by Fritz Winter , Willi Baumeister , Gerhard Hoehme , Emil Schumacher and Ernst Wilhelm Nay . A younger generation - Sigmar Polke , Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz , the artists of the ZERO group and others - were looking for new forms of expression. Alongside Joseph Beuys, Franz Erhard Walther , who is represented in the collection with his first set of works, also stands for the expansion of the concept of sculpture . The Beuys students Blinky Palermo , Imi Knoebel , Anselm Kiefer or, later, Walter Dahn are among the leading artists in the Rhineland region . Richter and Palermo in particular became groundbreaking for artists such as Albert and Markus Oehlen , Martin Kippenberger and Daniel Richter , all of whom are represented in the collection. In the early 1980s it was the Neue Wilden around Hans Peter Adamski , Werner Büttner , Walter Dahn and the Oehlen brothers who caused a sensation; At the same time, however, there were also quieter, almost “documentary” approaches, for example by Hanne Darboven , who is represented in the collection with the large work complex Bismarck Time. In addition to the photography collection, which has been significantly expanded in recent years, Reinhard Mucha , Birgit Werres , Camill Leberer , Georg Herold , Benjamin Houlihan and Thomas Rentmeister should be mentioned in the field of contemporary sculpture . Since 2011, the 7 × 20 meter sculpture In Seven Days Time by Katharina Grosse has adorned the facade of the art museum. Originally the bronze sculpture The fallen Warrior (1993) by Markus Lüpertz was located there . His monumental torso Spielbein / Standbein (1982) was erected a few meters further in the direction of the Bundeskunsthalle.
Joseph Beuys: Multiples
The museum owns more than 500 works by Joseph Beuys and thus houses one of the most important collections of his work. The Beuys collection includes sculptures and drawings, but primarily multiples . With 460 of a total of 557 works, the art museum has the largest public collection of Beuys multiples in Europe and chronologically covers Beuys' entire creative period. Together with permanent loans from other collections (Günter Ulbricht Collection, Murken Collection ), these were exhibited in the neighboring representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1981 .
The graphic collection
This part of the collection comprises more than 5500 sheets of international standing. The historical inventory is essentially based on drawings and prints by the Rhenish Expressionists and Max Ernst . The most extensive part of the graphic collection takes up the international art after the Second World War. a. with Carl Buchheister , Karl Otto Götz , Hans Hartung and Emil Schumacher . The collection extends from works of American and English Pop Art to representatives of Minimal Art and American color field painting to works by Sigmar Polke , Gerhard Richter and Hanne Darboven . The collection contains a selection of 80 sheets on Franz Erhard Walther's first movement . A special relationship to the federal capital Bonn and the art museum has z. For example, the collage by Christo Wrapped Reichstag, Project for Berlin from 1977. With works by Dorothee Rocke , Thomas Müller, Silvia Bächli , Gert & Uwe Tobias and Anna Amadio, the collection extends from the late 1990s to contemporary art.
Photography and video art
The museum lists important photographic works by Bernd and Hilla Becher , Katharina Sieverding , Andreas Gursky , Thomas Struth , Thomas Ruff and Jörg Sasse, among others . In 2012, the museum was able to expand its photography and media focus with the purchase of the series Self-optimizing System (2004/06) by Jürgen Klauke as part of the new collection presentation.
A particular attraction of the museum is the Ingrid Oppenheim video collection, which has been presented since 2005 as part of a room installation designed by Stefan Eberstädt. In 1980, the Cologne gallery owner and collector Ingrid Oppenheim gave her extensive collection of videos on permanent loan to Bonn, which was given to the art museum after her death in 1986. The collection includes early tapes by video pioneers such as Klaus vom Bruch , Gary Hill , Nan Hoover , Ulrike Rosenbach , Marcel Odenbach and Bill Viola . Through the consistent continuation of acquisitions, around 200 artists are now represented with works in the collection. The long-standing collaboration with Videonale , the video festival founded in Bonn in 1984, which has been at the Kunstmuseum Bonn since 2006, underlines the importance of video art.
Sculptures outside the art museum
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Heinz-Günter Prager :
Gäa (2001)
Katharina Grosse :
In Seven Days Time (2011)
Exhibitions
The claim to sharpen one's own collection profile in exchange with international personalities is expressed above all in the policy of changing exhibitions, which already sought the global dialogue of art under Dierk Stemmler and Katharina Schmidt and then increasingly under Dieter Ronte. In addition, the house has repeatedly focused on the relationships between German and American painting. Important milestones in the museum's recent exhibition history were, for example, presentations on Brice Marden , Philip Guston , Ellsworth Kelly , Robert Ryman and John Baldessari . In the European context, the museum has increasingly dealt with positions that work across genres on the media and content-related expansion of the classical concept of art, as applies to Nedko Solakow , Erwin Wurm or Kris Martin . In recent years, the exhibitions with a reference to Germany include primarily presentations with works by Franz Ackermann , Thomas Rentmeister and Albert Oehlen . With the large-scale project The West Shines , the Kunstmuseum Bonn also comprehensively presented the internationally radiant quality of the artists of the Rhineland.
Selection of exhibitions
- Time turns - outlook , 1999/2000
- I you he she it. Rineke Dijkstra Pia Stadtbäumer , 2000/2001
- The achromatic color white , 2001
- The Guggenheim: Contemporary Art , 2006/2007
- The West Glows , 2010
- Mitch Epstein - State of the Union , 2011
- Rosemarie Trockel. Drawings, collages and book drafts , 2011
- Thomas Rentmeister - Objects. Food. Rooms , 2012
- Albert Oehlen , 2012
- David Reed - Heart of Glass , 2012
- SHELL TREE, WOODEN BIRD AND EYEFISH . Max Ernst for children and young people, 2012
- Ernst Wilhelm Nay - The polyphonic picture , 2012/2013.
- An expressionist summer - Bonn 1913 , 2013
- Retrospective of the photographer Larry Sultan , 2015
- New York Painting , 2015
- TELE GEN Art and Television , 2015
- Susanne Paesler , 2016
- With different eyes. The portrait in contemporary photography , 2016 (a cooperation project with the Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne )
- REAL TIME. The art of slowness , 2016
- Creepy. Interiors from Edvard Munch to Max Beckmann , 2016/17
- Mental yellow. Highest point of the sun - The KiCo collection at the Kunstmuseum Bonn and the Lenbachhaus Munich , 2017
- Gerhard Richter . About Painting - Early Pictures , 2017
- Georg Herold , 2017/18
- Nadia Kaabi-Left. Sealed Time , 2017/18 (curator Barbara J. Scheuermann)
- Hans Hartung . , 2018
- Painting as an experiment - works from 1962–1989 , 2018
- DDorothea von Stetten Art Prize 2018. Young art from Denmark , 2018
- Heidi Specker photographer , 2018
- Excellent # 3. Frauke Dannert , 2018
- Monika Baer . Prize of the Dieter Krieg Foundation 2019 , 2019
- Mask. Art of Transformation , 2019
- Nanne Meyer . Good reasons in 2019
- Candice Breitz . Labor , 2020
literature
- Art Museum Bonn. From Rhenish Expressionism to contemporary art. Published by Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2013, ISBN 978-3-943676-01-3 .
Web links
- Art Museum Bonn
- Entry on Kunstmuseum Bonn in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association (with a short description of the LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland , 2014)
Individual evidence
- ↑ see photo of the Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn at Rathausgasse 7 (accessed on December 19, 2015)
- ↑ "physical inspection", p. 17, General-Anzeiger Bonn from April 26, 2012
- ↑ Noun nominandum : René Zechlin will be the new head of the Kunstverein Hannover ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2008 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. in the online edition of art - Das Kunstmagazin on November 16, 2007, last accessed on August 17, 2013
- ^ Dierk Stemmler: Joseph Beuys - objects, drawings, multiples , Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn 1981. (exhibition catalog; 77 pages)
- ↑ kas.de: Third Guggenheim exhibition opened in Bonn (accessed on December 21, 2015)
- ↑ Summer of the Century in FAZ of September 4, 2013, page 28
