Mülheim an der Ruhr art museum

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The Art Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr is an art museum opened in 1909 in Mülheim an der Ruhr

The Mülheim an der Ruhr Art Museum is the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr's museum and exhibition center for the art of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Since 1994 it has been located in the main post office on Synagogenplatz in the center of the city, which was converted into a museum. With the move, the building, previously known as the Municipal Museum, was renamed the Mülheim an der Ruhr Art Museum in the Alte Post .

Mülheim an der Ruhr art museum

history

The Mülheim an der Ruhr art museum is one of the oldest museums in the Ruhr area. It was founded in 1909 on the initiative of Mülheim's patron, local researcher and art collector Robert Rheinen (1844–1920). He brought in his extensive collection, consisting of 1385 pieces, including wooden items, paintings, weavings, embroidery, metal objects, ceramic objects and books.

The first scientific director from 1922 to 1951 was the art historian and archaeologist Werner Kruse (1886–1968). Above all, he expanded the art history collections and, through targeted acquisitions, supported young, contemporary artists such as Werner Gilles , Arthur Kaufmann , Hermann Lickfeld , Otto Pankok and Heinrich Siepmann . The art historian Beate Reese has been running the museum since 2009 .

The former main post office in Mülheim was converted into this museum between 1984 and 1994. The forecourt had already been redesigned in 1977 by the sculptor Otto Herbert Hajek as a colored relief with city signs and a fountain. The museum is currently closed due to renovation work.

collection

August Macke, Church with flags

Important works of art of classical modernism and international contemporary art are shown in changing individual, group and themed exhibitions. The highlights of the collection are paintings by the artists Max Beckmann , Karl Hofer , Hans Purrmann , Heinrich Campendonk , Erich Heckel , Alexej von Jawlensky , Otto Mueller , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Franz Marc , August Macke , Emil Nolde , Lyonel Feininger , Wassily Kandinsky , Paul Klee , Oskar Schlemmer and Max Ernst . Regular exhibitions with the graphic stock Ernst Barlach , Marc Chagall and above all Pablo Picasso (Suite Vollard).

In 1981 an important collection of Expressionists and Classical Modernism from Nobel Prize winner Karl Ziegler was added; also the donation from the Mülheim doctor Karl G. Themel, which includes a Heinrich Zille collection.

The museum is one of the twenty RuhrKunstMuseen and is world-class.

Trivia

Thomas Baumgärtel awarded the museum an “award” for his “spray banana”. This was first removed by the city administration with turpentine and later sprayed again on May 10, 2014.

Directorate

  • 1922–1952: Werner Kruse
  • 1952–1961: Werner Möhring
  • 1962–1982: Christel Denecke
  • 1982–2002: Gabriele Uelsberg
  • 2004–2009: Beate Ermacora (died 2016 in Innsbruck)
  • since 2009: Beate Reese

literature

  • Kai Rawe: 100 years of the (Art) Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr . Mülheimer Jahrbuch 2010, pp. 89–100.
  • Beate Reese (Ed.): At a glance. The Mülheim an der Ruhr art museum . Art Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr, 2011, ISBN 978-3-928135-54-2 .
  • Youth, Art & Museum. The Young Art Experts of the Mülheim an der Ruhr Art Museum . Ed. Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Beate Reese. Arr. Barbara Thönnes. Mülheim an der Ruhr 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the history of the museum. On the website of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr. Retrieved May 4, 2016
  2. ^ History of the museum. Mülheim an der Ruhr art museum with the Ziegler Collection Foundation. On the website of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr. Retrieved May 4, 2016
  3. ^ Art handbook for Germany. Directory of authorities, collections, educational establishments and associations for art, applied arts and antiquity. Berlin, 1904 p. 97
  4. ↑ Hajek fountain. Square design by Otto Herbert Hajek in front of the art museum. On the website of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr. Retrieved May 5, 2016
  5. ^ Ziegler Collection Foundation. On the website of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr. Retrieved May 4, 2016
  6. ↑ Themel Collection. On the website of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr. Retrieved May 4, 2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 46.4 ″  N , 6 ° 52 ′ 57 ″  E