Zwickau art collections

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King Albert Museum in Zwickau 1918

The Zwickau - Max Pechstein Museum art collections are a department of the Zwickau Municipal Museum founded in 1925 , which was inaugurated on April 23, 1914 as the King Albert Museum .

prehistory

The new building by the architect Richard Schiffner was initially built to house the council school library , the mineral collection donated in 1868 , the manuscripts of the council archives and the art objects owned by the municipality and the collection of the antiquity association. Today it houses the art collections (including the sculpture collection), the geoscientific department , which goes back to the mineral collection of the Zwickau mountain factor Ernst Julius Richter , and the council school library.

Development of the art collections

Museum in Zwickau

From 1925 to 1930 the art historian Hildebrand Gurlitt headed the König Albert Museum. Gurlitt's appointment in 1925 was to mark the beginning of building up a targeted art collection. He focused on the works of contemporary painters and organized numerous exhibitions. In 1925 he presented works by Max Pechstein , in 1926 the focus was on Käthe Kollwitz and the young Dresden, in 1927 works by Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff were shown and in 1928 an exhibition was dedicated to Emil Nolde . Gurlitt was in close personal contact with numerous artists of his time, such as Ernst Barlach , whom he tried to win over in 1937 for the design of the tympanum of the St. Peter's Church in Hamburg , which Barlach refused, however, in order to avoid difficulties for his patrons like Hermann F. Reemtsma bring to.

Gurlitt had the Bauhaus in Dessau design and paint the Zwickau Museum; this redesign, which was presented to the public in 1926, met with national approval. In part, the local press was less impressed - not only by the redesign of the museum, but also by Gurlitt's progressive taste in art. Press campaigns against the modern art that Gurlitt preferred to acquire also brought the financial bottlenecks of the city of Zwickau into play, which played a role in addition to his not purely “Aryan” origins when he was released on April 1, 1930 .

Gurlitt's successors Sigfried Asche and Rudolf von Arps-Aubert then acted in a much more restrained manner and preferred more harmless collection areas during the Nazi era . Gertrud Rudloff-Hille and Marianne Vater , who worked for the museum in the post-war period, partly followed Gurlitt's line again, but also expanded the art collection after 1945 to include numerous works from the Romantic period . An exhibition on the works of Max Pechstein and the award of an honorary doctorate to this artist in 1947 can also be seen as a continuation of Gurlitt's efforts for the Zwickau collection. In the 1960s and 1970s, however, such efforts in the GDR were associated with difficulties and did not take place under the folklorist Richard Wolf, who was in office from 1963 to 1986.

The only exception was a gift from Fritz Bleyl in 1966, who in addition to his own works also provided the museum with woodcuts by Erich Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner . In 1971 the art collections received the Old Masters collection of paintings from the estate of the art historian Walter Hentschel .

After the fall of the Wall, efforts were made to fill in the gaps in the stocks. In 2003, the city history department of the museum moved to the “Priesterhäuser” museum complex, while the art collections are still housed in the now listed building of the King Albert Museum.

In autumn 2011, the “plastic hall” of the museum was reopened as a display collection of late Gothic and early baroque sculptures.

In April 2014, the Max Pechstein Museum opened in the Zwickau art collections. Since then, the house has been officially known as the Zwickau Art Collections - Max Pechstein Museum .

building

The main entrance is on the southern side of the central domed building facing the fairground (formerly Hindenburg-Platz, today Platz der Völkerfreundschaft). From the dome, which is closed by a viewing platform, there are three wings located at right angles to each other, of which the eastern one houses the Zwickau council school library and the city archive including reading room. The basement of the west wing houses the mineralogical-geological collections, the sculpture collection on the ground floor and the painting collection on the upper floor. The single-storey north wing houses special exhibitions and storage rooms. The eclectic representative building with its neo-baroque facade decoration is a listed building.

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literature

  • Michael Löffler: Hildebrand Gurlitt (1895–1946), first Zwickau museum director. Zwickau Municipal Museum, Zwickau 1995.
  • Isgard Kracht: In action for German art. Hildebrand Gurlitt and Ernst Barlach. In: Maike Steinkamp, ​​Ute Haug (ed.): Works and values. About trading and collecting art under National Socialism. (= Writings of the research center “Degenerate Art” 5) Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-004497-2 , pp. 41–60.

Web links

Commons : Kunstsammlungen Zwickau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kunstsammlungen Zwickau: Mineralogical-Geological Collections ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 22, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstsammlungen-zwickau.de
  2. ↑ Städtisches Museum Zwickau , zwickau2000.de, accessed on March 13, 2013.
  3. ↑ Kunstsammlungen Zwickau ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. HP of the museum, history section @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstsammlungen-zwickau.de
  4. ↑ Isgard Kracht: The Fight for German art. Hildebrand Gurlitt and Ernst Barlach. In: Maike Steinkamp, ​​Ute Haug (ed.): Works and values. About trading and collecting art under National Socialism. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-004497-2 , p. 53.
  5. ↑ Kunstsammlungen Zwickau: History ( Memento of the original from November 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 4, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstsammlungen-zwickau.de
  6. ↑ Kunstsammlungen Zwickau ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstsammlungen-zwickau.de
  7. ↑ Sculpture Collection ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 4, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstsammlungen-zwickau.de
  8. ^ City of Zwickau: Finally! Zwickau opens the Max Pechstein Museum and the well-traveled family celebrates. In: www.zwickau.de. April 11, 2014, accessed March 12, 2015 .
  9. ↑ https://www.kunstsammlungen-zwickau.de/de/kontakt/
  10. ^ Dehio, p. 1098.

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 32.9 "  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 23"  E