Stuttgart Art Museum

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Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, August 2013
The art museum at night, the facade becomes transparent.
Art Museum, top floor, May 2005
The Kronprinzenpalais stood in place of the art museum until 1963 .

The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is a museum for fine arts in Stuttgart . It stands in place of the Kronprinzenpalais , which was demolished in 1963, and was opened in March 2005 as the successor to the Stuttgart City Gallery . The museum, located on Schloßplatz and Königstraße, shows selected works from the city's collection from the 19th century to contemporary art. In addition, thematic or monographic special shows are presented.

architecture

The museum building with 5000 m² of exhibition space was designed by the Berlin architects Hascher and Jehle . From the outside, during the day, it looks like a glass cube that absorbs the surroundings as a mirror. At night, the illuminated limestone walls made of Dietfurt limestone are visible inside. The natural stones from the Altmühltal are irregular crust plates with colored mineral oxidations. Another eye-catcher are the meter-high words and texts made of gray and red adhesive film, which are attached to the outside of the glass windows and change with each exhibition. The floor covering on the top floor is an Auer limestone, also known as Kelheim limestone , from the Altmühltal.

Regarding the quote "If you tear down the Kronprinzenpalais , the west side of the Schloßplatz loses half of its face" by Paul Bonatz in 1951, Dankwart Guratzsch commented on the design of the art museum in 1999: "You will not find it again now."

Building history

In place of the cube of the new art museum, the ruins of the Kronprinzenpalais, damaged in an air raid in 1944, stood until 1963 . It was the urban counterpart to the Wilhelmspalais , which is located at the other end of the plan. After the ruins were torn down, the plan was initially expanded into a six-lane road with four additional tunnels for cars and trams.

To make it easier for pedestrians to cross on Königstraße, the staircase-like Kleiner Schloßplatz was built in 1968 , but its function was never really accepted. For years there was discussion about the demolition of the building, which was considered superfluous, as the above-ground cross street had also been covered again. After 2000, the new building for the art museum closed this vacant lot next to the Königsbau along Königstraße.

collection

The museum's collection is based on the holdings of the previous “Gallery of the City of Stuttgart”. This goes back to a donation from Marchese Silvio della Valle di Casanova in 1924.

The holdings now also include the most important collection of works by the artist Otto Dix , which can largely be traced back to the former director of the “Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart”, Eugen Keuerleber . Two exhibition rooms have been specially reserved for them. The highlight of the collection is the triptych Großstadt , which Dix painted in 1927/28. In addition, the museum owns numerous works and a. by Willi Baumeister , Adolf Hölzel , KRH Sonderborg , Dieter Roth , Dieter Krieg , Joseph Kosuth , Rebecca Horn , Wolfgang Laib , Josephine Meckseper , Thomas Grünfeld , Ben Willikens , Haegue Yang .

Otto Dix's studio and home in Hemmenhofen (Gaienhofen) on the Höri on Lake Constance was redesigned in 2009 by the Stuttgart Art Museum. Until then, the Otto-Dix-Haus eV association had run the artist museum on a voluntary basis. It was reopened in 2013 as the Haus Dix Museum and is dedicated to the life of the entire Dix family. The association continues to support the house on a voluntary basis. The city of Stuttgart , the municipality of Gaienhofen , the district of Konstanz and sponsors invested a total of 1.5 million euros to save the house, which was in dire need of renovation.

Special exhibitions

  • Vertigo. Op Art and a History of Fraud 1520–1970 (11/2019 - 08/2020)
  • Ragnar Kjartansson . Scheize - love - longing (07/2019 - 10/2019)
  • EKSTASE (09/2018 - 02/2019)
  • Reinhold Nägele . Chronicler of Modernity (01/2018 - 06/2018)
  • Patrick Angus . Private Show (12/2017 - 04/2018)
  • [unexpectedly. The art of chance (07/2016 - 01/2017)
  • Candice Breitz : Ponderosa (04/2016 - 05/2016)
  • Amie seal . Part 2. Ricochet (01/2016 - 05/2016)
  • I got rhythm. Art and jazz since 1920 (10/2015 - 03/2016)
  • Dieter Roth . Balle Balle Knalle (12/2014 - 05/2015)
  • Rudolf and Barbara Fakler Collection. Part 1 (11/2014 - 05/2015)
  • Cool place. Scharpff Collection (07/2014 - 11/2014)
  • Gego . Line as Object (03/2014 - 07/2014)
  • Willi Baumeister International (10/2013 - 03/2014)
  • Cube. Sparda Art Prize (05/2013 - 09/2013)
  • Fritz Winter . The interior of nature (04/2013 - 01/2014)
  • Andreas Magdanz . Stuttgart Stammheim (11/2012 - 03/2013)
  • The eye of the world. Otto Dix and the New Objectivity (11/2012 - 04/2013)
  • Raster search. The grid in art after 1945 (05/2012 - 10/2012)
  • Michel Majerus (11/2011 - 04/2012)
  • Ars Viva . Laboratory (06/2011 - 10/2011)
  • Kosmos Rudolf Steiner (02/2011 - 05/2011)
  • Camill Leberer (11/2010 - 01/2011)
  • Eat art . From food in art (092010 - 01/2010)
  • Elger Esser . Eigenzeit (11/2009 - 04/2010)
  • Concrete. The Heinz and Anette Teufel Collection (10/2009 - 01/2010)
  • Ben Willikens . Light and Dark (07/2009 - 10/2009)
  • Kaleidoscope. Hoelzel in the avant-garde (07/2009 - 10/2009)
  • Three. The triptych in modern times (02/2009 - 06/2009)
  • Christian Jankowski (09/2008 - 01/2009)
  • Dieter war . Fries and diamonds (04/2008 - 08/2008)
  • Met. Otto Dix and the art of the portrait (12/2007 - 04/2008)
  • Josephine Meckseper (07/2007 - 10/2007)
  • Cross-border. Photography and video art from the mumok (03/2007 - 06/2007)
  • Pictograms - The loneliness of signs (11/2006 - 02/2007)
  • Max Bill . A retrospective (09/2005 - 01/2006)
  • Otto Dix . Homage à Martha (09/2005 - 11/2005)
  • arrived - the collection in-house (03/2005 - 07/2005)

Frischzelle - exhibitions by young artists

management

The first director of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Marion Ackermann , became director of the Kunstsammlung NRW in Düsseldorf in 2009 . Ulrike Groos , former director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , took over the management of the art museum in 2010.

Visitor numbers

In the first year after the opening of the house, 330,000 visitors were counted. The art museum has even surpassed the State Gallery in Stuttgart . In 2015, the museum had around 161,000 visitors and the State Gallery 375,694. In 2017, the art museum visited 149,600 people (State Gallery: 223,700 visitors). A year later, in 2018, 199,827 visitors came to the State Gallery, which showed the free exhibition 175 Years of the State Gallery - #mein Museum as well as the exhibitions Meister von Meßkirch and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner . This year the art museum was able to hold the special exhibitions Reinhold Nägele . Chronicler of modernity and ecstasy, the Staatsgalerie overtook the Staatsgalerie in terms of visitor numbers with 223,700 visitors.

additional offers

  • Museum didactics
  • gastronomy
    • the »oT« in the foyer
    • the all-round glazed roof restaurant »Cube« (interior design / design Heinz Witthöft)

Movies

literature

  • Uwe Bogen (text); Thomas Wagner (photos): Stuttgart. A city changes its face. Erfurt 2012, pages 18-19.
  • Ludwig Krinn (editor): State capital Stuttgart, buildings 1994–2004. Munich 2004, page 8.

Web links

Commons : Kunstmuseum Stuttgart  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dankwart Guratzsch: How Stuttgart lost face
  2. ↑ State Gazette No. 12 of April 3, 2009, page 31
  3. ↑ https://kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de/index.php?site=Ausstellungen;Vorschau_Details&id=120
  4. ^ Wenke Böhm: Good year for Stuttgart's museums , stuttgarter-zeitung.de, accessed on November 25, 2016
  5. ↑ museums and museum-like institutions in Stuttgart since 1980 [Komunistabelle: 955]. March 24, 2019, accessed March 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 2018 balance sheet in Stuttgart: Museums count three million visitors - Stuttgart - Stuttgarter Nachrichten. March 24, 2019, accessed March 24, 2019 .
  7. ↑ 175 years of the State Gallery - State Gallery. March 24, 2019, accessed March 24, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 41.8 "  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 39.9"  E