Hohenkarpfen Art Foundation

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Hohenkarpfen Art Museum with a sculpture by Jürgen Knubben

The Hohenkarpfen Art Foundation is an art foundation anchored in the Black Forest-Baar-Heuberg region and, in addition to general art-historical tasks, focuses on the maintenance of south-west German landscape painting .

The carried thereby Kunstmuseum Hohenkarpfen , housed in a farm building of the former Württemberg rule management on the Hohenkarpfen , organized on these topics regularly two to three exhibitions per year, in the context of those particular style- and school-building graduates of art academies in Stuttgart , Karlsruhe and Munich considered and which can have around 10,000 visitors annually. The exhibited artists include, for example, Paul Kälberer , HAP Grieshaber , Otto Reiniger , Albert Kappis , Christian Landenberger , Peter Jakob Schober , Erwin Henning , Edmund Steppes , Franz Frank , August Babberger , Hermann Stenner , Julius Exter , Johann Baptist Kirner , Johann Baptist Pflug , Hans Purrmann , Emil Rudolf Weiß , Albert Weisgerber , Heinrich von Zügel , Hugo Troendle , Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , Hans Thoma , Adolf Hölzel and Rudolf Levy .

The foundation was established in 1984 on the initiative of its chairman Friedemann Maurer , and the art museum began its exhibition operations in 1986.

In the area of ​​art-historical processing of south-west German landscape painting, the foundation and the museum it supports attract national and international attention. Most recently, the foundation received the 2006 Hypo Real Estate Foundation Prize for Art and Science from the Württembergische Hypothekenbank .

The foundation does not award the Hofgut Hohenkarpfen scholarship (since 1996 with associated symposium / workshop ), as part of which art installations, sculptures and sculptures are regularly created in the open area on the Hohenkarpfen, for example by Bernhard Luginbühl (2000) - this is supported by the Hotels Hofgut Hohenkarpfen awarded.

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  1. ↑ The Art in Purgatory ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2008 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. - Tim Sommer in art magazine Jan. 2001 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.g26.ch
  2. ↑ http://www.hohenkarpfen.de/index.php?article_id=8&clang=0

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Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 19 ″  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 8 ″  E