Bremerhaven Art Museum
The Bremerhaven Art Museum connected with the Bremerhaven Art Gallery of the Bremerhaven Art Association in the seaside town of Bremerhaven is an art museum in the Bremerhaven-Mitte district at Karlsburg 1 at Theodor-Heuss-Platz.
Art Association
The Bremerhaven Art Association was founded in 1886. A co-founder was the city director Hermann Gebhard , who also became the first chairman of the association. The aim of the association was: "To promote efforts in the field of fine arts and to stimulate the sense of art". The first exhibition took place in May 1886 in the auditorium of the boys' elementary school (later Goetheschule ) on Grenzstrasse. After that, the club developed only moderately at first. Another exhibition took place, so u. a. 1893 in the town house in Bremerhaven on the corner of “Bürger” and Kirchenstrasse.
A legacy from Bremen in 1908 formed the basis of the collection. The wife of the Bremen Honorary Consul Edwin Adalbert Oelrich gave the Kunstverein Bremerhaven 34 paintings, including works by Carl Hummel , Wilhem de Gruyter and Oswald Achenbach . The association acquired further exhibits for a collection and is oriented towards the international development of art. In 1909 the association moved from the town hall to the premises of the Stadtsparkasse Bremerhaven an der Bürger . In 1911 the association got permanent rooms in the right wing of the new building of the Bremerhaven City Theater . Pictures by Paula Becker-Modersohn , Heinrich Vogeler and Fritz Overbeck were acquired.
Part of the collection was lost in 1944 during the Second World War , some of the items that had been moved out were preserved. Pictures by Otto Modersohn and Dora Bromberger remain from the 1920s and 30s . The collection was now temporarily housed in the attic of the Leh police barracks (Block IV, today the town hall). Club chairman Klaus Volbehr achieved that from 1950 four former team rooms of the barracks became exhibition rooms.
The inventory of works by Worpswede artists was expanded after 1945 through acquisitions with pictures by Richard Oelze , Hans Mayboden and Albert Schiestl-Arding as well as Karl Fred Dahmen . The association will soon have its own, larger art collection.
The collection was not open to the public. The association lacked suitable exhibition rooms. Individual works could only be seen on loan. Since the 1960s, works of significant works by artists have come into the collection through cooperation between artists and the art association. Until 1964, exhibitions took place in the barracks ambience.
The Kunstverein Bremerhaven has around 600 members (2014). The chairman is Kai Kähler.
Art Gallery
After a long, alternative location search, the Norddeutsche Kreditbank was ready to provide space for the new art gallery in its new building on today's Theodor-Heuss-Platz. The competition winner Gerhard Müller-Menckens planned the two-story building from 1959. Due to objections, years of delays, increases in building costs to 0.8 million marks and changes in financing had to be accepted and the art association took over the implementation of the project. The art gallery was inaugurated in September 1964. The cabinet for contemporary art and the art hall bistro have been housed on the ground floor since 1968 . In 1986 the building was given a glazed heightening according to plans by the architects Silke and Jürgen Grube. Lectures, concerts and discussion events also take place in the Kunsthalle.
Art museum
In the 2000s, the art gallery no longer met the requirements of a contemporary museum and a new building was designed according to plans by the HKP architects in Hanover with the advice of Peter Weber , Bremerhaven / Bremen, and implemented by the Sparkasse Bremerhaven . The new art museum with three floors and 14 rooms with around 700 m² of exhibition space in a compact cube made of dark bricks was built in the center of the city in the immediate vicinity of the existing art gallery on the site of the former indoor pool. The opening of the new building took place in 2007 with the exhibition The Direction is Right , works by the artist Georg Baselitz and portrait photographs by Benjamin Katz . The building of the art museum is owned by the municipal housing company Bremerhaven (Stäwog).
Exhibitions
Different exhibitions are shown in the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven and in the cabinet for current art . Art historical presentations and the results of direct contact with the artists influence the exhibitions. The exhibited works document the local commitment to art in Bremerhaven.
Since 1964, more than 300 exhibitions have been shown in the Kunsthalle. Some artists received their first public exhibition in Bremerhaven. Six to nine temporary exhibitions take place every year. Young artists can conduct timely artistic experiments. The association also organizes exhibitions on the history of architecture, literature and art.
Since 2008, works by Stephan Balkenhol , Joseph Beuys , Rudolf Epp , Hamish Fulton (until 2012), Kirsten Geisler , Hans Fredrik Gude , Karl Heilmayer, Manfred Holtfrerich (until 2010), Carl Maria Nicolaus Hummel , Ilya Kabakov have been and are being shown at the Kunstmuseum , Stanislav Graf von Kalckreuth , Karin Kneffel (until 2012), Harry Kramer (until 2012), Hermann Kretzschmer , Alicja Kwade (since 2013), August Leu , Carl Friedrich Lessing , Otto Modersohn , Paula Modersohn-Becker , Richard Oelze (until 2012 ), Fritz Overbeck , Blinky Palermo , Manfred Pernice , Bernhard Prinz , Franz Radziwill (until 2012), Gerhard Richter , Gregor Schneider (since 2010), Norbert Schwontkowski , Andreas Slominski (2013), Klaus Staudt (until 2011), Luc Tuymans ( since 2012), Paloma Varga-Weisz , Henk Visch , Heinrich Vogeler , Franz Erhard Walther and Lawrence Weiner .
See also
literature
- Harry Gabcke , Renate Gabcke, Herbert Körtge, Manfred Ernst: Bremerhaven in two centuries ; Volumes I to III from 1827 to 1991. Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremerhaven 1989/1991, ISBN 3-927857-00-9 , ISBN 3-927857-37-8 , ISBN 3-927857-22-X .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 26 " N , 8 ° 34 ′ 54" E