Art collection of the University of Göttingen
The art collection of the University of Göttingen at the Department of Art History of the University of Göttingen is a collection of paintings , graphics and sculptures . It is the oldest university art collection in Germany explicitly set up as a teaching collection.
History of the collection
The collection arose largely from two foundations in the 18th century: Johann Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach died in 1769 and bequeathed his collection of drawings and prints to the University of Göttingen. In 1796, more than 270 mostly Dutch paintings from the inheritance of Johann Wilhelm Zschorn came into the possession of the University of Göttingen. Since 1987 the paintings have been housed in the auditorium building on Weender Landstrasse, and the graphics in the Art History Seminar on Nikolausberger Weg.
On April 15, 2011, the collection was made accessible to the public again after renovation work that had lasted from the beginning of 2008. Due to the renovation work, the works were outsourced, but not completely withdrawn from the public: Every first Sunday of the month, a work from the collection was explained and discussed in more detail in the specially created lecture series Artwork of the Month . The reopened collection is presented on 5000 square meters in a permanent exhibition. In addition to the enlargement of the exhibition space and the use of colored partition walls, many works from the depot are shown that have never been made accessible to the public.
In addition to the in-house (permanent) exhibition, various exhibitions are organized and smaller projects and lectures are held.
A masterpiece by Jan Brueghel the Elder , stolen in 1973 , was bought back in 2019 after 46 years.
The collection
Their inventory includes around 300 paintings, 2,500 drawings, 15,000 prints and around 100 sculptures. There are also around 150 works by international video artists . The represented artists include a. Albrecht Dürer , Sandro Botticelli , Rembrandt van Rijn , Hendrick Goltzius , Hans von Aachen , Lorenzo di Credi , Jan van Goyen and Francisco de Goya , as well as Lovis Corinth , Emil Nolde , Max Beckmann , Max Pechstein and Paula Modersohn-Becker .
literature
- Johann Dominik Fiorillo : Description of the painting collection of the University of Göttingen . Göttingen 1805.
- Gerd Unverfetern: art collection of the University of Göttingen. The Dutch paintings . Goettingen 1987.
- Christian Scholl, Ann-Kathrin Sors: Academic rigor and artistic freedom. The paintings of the 19th century in the art collection of the University of Göttingen . Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86395-102-3 .
- Werner Schnell: The art collection of the Georg August University. In: “Completely designed for studying.” The museums, collections and gardens of the University of Göttingen. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3892444528 , pp. 99-109.
Web links
- Homepage of the art collection
- Online catalog of the painting collection on Opal-Niedersachsen.de
- The art collection on the server of the SUB Göttingen
- Article in the Göttinger Tageblatt on the reopening of the museum
- University art collection Scientific collection
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html?id=5668
- ↑ https://www.rtl.de/cms/uni-goettingen-gestohlenes-meisterwerk-nach-46-jahren-zurueck-4429233.html
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