Chemnitz Art Collections - Museum on Theaterplatz
The Museum am Theaterplatz is part of the Chemnitz art collections . It is housed in the building of the König-Albert-Museum , which opened in 1909 , which can be seen on the south side of the Theaterplatz .
history
Beginning of the collection at the end of the 18th century
The Museum am Theaterplatz is an art history museum with a collection that has been created since 1866. The painting began at the end of the 18th century and that of the sculptures in the middle of the 19th century. The graphics focus on the 19th and 20th centuries ( Honoré Daumier , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Pablo Picasso , Wolfgang Mattheuer , Lyonel Feininger and others). The arts and crafts show the most heterogeneous inventory with Coptic fabrics from the 4th to 8th centuries and important European textile, poster and wallpaper collections.
The museum owns the world's only museum stocking collection with 4,000 pieces from the years 1880 to 1910. The region's financial prosperity coincided with the emergence of modernism. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976) was born in Chemnitz, Erich Heckel (1883–1970) and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) spent their school days here. A large number of valuable works of art by the company are also to be thanked for the patronage of wealthy Chemnitz entrepreneurs and art lovers. These include the Vogel family (Coptic fabrics, 1899), Erich Goeritz (1127 lithographs by Honoré Daumier , 1926), the Harald Loebermann family (300 works on paper by Lyonel Feininger , 2009) and Hartmut Koch (850 works by Wolfgang Mattheuer , 2002 / 2009). Milestones in the history of the repurchase of works of art included the head of a thinker by Wilhelm Lehmbruck , a view from the Villa Romana by Max Beckmann or Käte and Hugo Perls by Edvard Munch , which were withdrawn from the collection through the so-called " Degenerate Art " campaign.
Painting collection
The painting collection of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz with around 1400 works ranges from the art of the late 18th century to the present day. As early as the 1920s, the spectrum of the collection was geared towards the development of German art with a focus on classical modernism . Works by the expressionist artist group Die Brücke and its member Karl Schmidt-Rottluff determine the collection from the early 20th century. Paintings by contemporaries Ferdinand Hodler , Edvard Munch , Max Beckmann and Karl Hofer emphasize the international standing of the Chemnitz collection. Chronologically, the collection, with several hundred Romantic paintings from the first half of the 19th century, focuses primarily on the genre of landscape painting . The painters Caspar David Friedrich , Carl Gustav Carus , Johan Christian Dahl , Carl Blechen and Ernst Ferdinand Oehme are represented with examples of their works.
Around 1870, especially younger people, with knowledge of French Impressionist painting, came to a new artistic conception and opposed this to the predominant Nazarene and history painting . The collection also includes an extensive group of works with paintings by Louis Eysen , Wilhelm Claudius , Wilhelm Trübner , Fritz von Uhde and others, among others. Paintings by the main representatives of German Impressionism, Max Liebermann , Lovis Corinth and Max Slevogt , mark the climax of this extensive collection, which spans five decades. The broad spectrum of painting styles around 1900 is mainly represented by works of symbolism , especially by the artists Sascha Schneider , Oskar Zwintscher , Karl Mediz and Hans Unger who worked in Dresden . The renewal of German art that began with Expressionism at the beginning of the 20th century led to diverse artistic tendencies in the years of the Weimar Republic . This is reflected in the collection, among other things, in the works of the late Expressionists Georg Tappert , Wilhelm Rudolph and Max Kaus , and leads to the first abstract conceptions in paintings by Fritz Winter and Max Ackermann from the early 1930s.
The extensive collection of exhibits from the second half of the 20th century is characterized on the one hand by works created in the GDR and on the other hand by examples of Western European art: Both directions are represented by both objective and abstract artists. Paintings by Bernhard Heisig , Hartwig Ebersbach , Jörg Immendorff and Markus Lüpertz correspond with those by Willy Wolff , KO Götz , Eberhard Göschel , Carsten Nicolai , Georg Baselitz , Imi Knoebel and Günther Förg .
Sculpture collection
The sculpture collection includes pictorial works from the late 18th century to the present day, with works by German artists predominating, but contemporary art sculptures having an international character. One focus of the collection is on works from the first half of the 20th century. Thematically, the face of the collection is shaped by figurative art and expanded to include abstract positions at the end of the 20th century. The image genre of the portrait runs through the entire collection with its lines of development and begins with a Lauchhammer iron cast by Joseph Mattersberger . Around sixty years later, the head of Ernst Rietschel took a more classical approach to portraits.
Sculptures by the French artist Auguste Rodin were groundbreaking for modernism . In the second decade of the 20th century, Wilhelm Lehmbruck abandoned the realistic portrayal of a specific person and concentrated the statement on the content of the human spirit. Lehmbruck's stone cast sculpture "Head of a Thinker" from 1918 is one of the most important masterpieces of classical modernism in the Chemnitz art collections. Acquired in 1923 as a gift from a Chemnitz entrepreneur for the emerging collection of contemporary art and removed from the museum in 1937 as a result of the "Degenerate Art" campaign during National Socialism, the stone casting was acquired again in 1996 thanks to funding from public and private foundations.
The genesis of the nude figure from classical nude to body study of the 20th century is reflected in the collection , vividly illustrated in works by Edgar Degas , George Minne , Aristide Maillol , Georg Kolbe , Ernesto de Fiori , Hermann Blumenthal and Helmut Heinze . Since the 1980s, painter-sculptors like Georg Baselitz and Markus Lüpertz have been blurring the boundaries between the genres and painting their sculptures in color. Contemporary abstract works of art include the works of Günther Uecker and Tony Cragg .
Cross-genre
Since 2016 an extensive collection of the Russian avant-garde Vladimir Tsarenkov has been under the title Revolutionary! exhibited in the museum. The approximately 400 exhibits show works by 110 artists from the years 1907–1930, including paintings , drawings , prints , sculptures, architectural models , theater decorations , textile samples and book art . These include works by Kandinsky , Malewitsch , El Lissitzky , Jawlenski , Iwan Puni , Mikhail Larionow , and Alexander Deineka . And works by Russian painters are also represented: Lady with a Fan (1910) by Marie Vassilieff , Ruderer (1912) by Natalja Goncharova , picturesque architecture (around 1916) by Lyubow Popova , color composition (1921) by Alexandra Exter and other depictions by Olga Rosanowa , Varvara Stepanova and Nadezhda Udaltsova .
literature
- Friedrich, Thomas: Chemnitz Art Collections, Gunzenhauser Museum. Edited by Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. Prestel, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 3-791-33841-2 .
- Ingrid Mössinger , Brigitta Milde (Ed.): Revolutionary! Russian avant-garde from the Vladimir Tsarenkov collection. Exhibition catalog. Chemnitz art collections. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-95498-269-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rachel Spence: Vladimir Tsarenkov and his stellar collection. The Russian collector began buying art and ceramics from his native country 'for peanuts' in the 1980s. In: ft.com. Financial Times , September 23, 2016; archived from the original on January 5, 2017 ; accessed on July 12, 2018 (English).
- ^ Ingeborg Ruthe: Aesthetic revolt with a utopian goal. In: Berliner Zeitung . January 4, 2017, p. 20.
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