Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum
The Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum is an artists' museum in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Until summer 2019, it was in the Bergsdorf district of the Brandenburg town of Zehdenick . It is dedicated to Kurt Mühlenhaupt , who is best known as a Berlin milieu painter. Until he moved from Brandenburg to Berlin, the museum was located in the listed farmstead Bergsdorfer Dorfstraße 1, which was the painter's last creative place.
history
The museum was located near Zehdenick on the site of a former aristocratic manor , which was built in 1730 by those of Herfefeld as a community and feudal manor house. They were followed at the beginning of the 20th century by the Counts of Eulenburg , who used the building ensemble as a stately summer residence for their children. In 1858, due to financial problems of the Eulenburg family, the farm passed to the brickworks owner Wehrnitz, who quickly sold the property in the region around the Upper Havel after the clay was not used. At this time, the first commercial additions, such as the old dairy, were built.
After the end of the Second World War , the Soviet headquarters moved into the house for a short time . This was replaced by the Agricultural Production Cooperative (LPG) "Liberation Day", which took possession of the building complex as a result of the expropriations of private property. In the main house, in addition to the owner entered in the land register, six refugee families were quartered. Due to the lack of renovations and the management by the LPG, the building fell into disrepair until it was completely uninhabitable in 1984. The city of Zehdenick planned to convert it into a parish hall and kindergarten, but could not afford the high renovation costs.
At the invitation of their friends Eberhard Esche and Gotthold Gloger , Kurt and Hannelore Mühlenhaupt came to Bergsdorf in 1990 and bought the run-down estate. After several years of restoration and renovation work, the Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum, which has been registered with the German Museum Association since 1994, opened here. The museum should be home, studio, gallery and venue at the same time.
The museum is a private museum that has been run by his widow since the death of Kurt Mühlenhaupt. The Friends of the Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum Bergsdorf eV, founded in 1995, and the Kurt and Hannelore Mühlenhaupt gGmbH art foundation support the museum.
Monument protection
The house, a stable and a barn on the homestead are protected as architectural monuments. The house was built around 1800. It is a single-storey, plastered brick building with seven axes and a half-hip roof . In the house there is a wooden staircase from the time the house was built with a traljen railing . The stable on the eastern side of the courtyard was built from field stones in 1801/1850 and has a gable roof . A conversion took place in 1900. The barn on the south side of the courtyard was also built in 1858 from field stones and with a gable roof.
Move and start over
Since autumn 2019 the Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum has been located at Fidicinstraße 40 in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg on the site of a former brewery as part of an artist's courtyard with studios, workshops, rehearsal rooms and theaters. In addition to events, it shows a cross-section of Kurt Mühlenhaupt's artistic work in a smaller permanent exhibition. The museum is under construction. The areas are to be enlarged in the coming years and activities such as temporary exhibitions and the program of events are to be expanded and consolidated.
Exhibition (Bergsdorf) until 2019
The building ensemble in Zehdenick is a four-sided courtyard . These include a house, an old sheepfold, a stone barn, an old calf barn and an old dairy. The house was still used as such. Kurt Mühlenhaupt's last workplace was in the old sheepfold, the studio. The room was kept unchanged after his death. The painter's private objects were exhibited, pictures and letters documented his everyday life. Next to the studio was the gallery in which the Mühlenhaupt's graphics were exhibited and offered for sale. There was also a museum shop and a museum café.
The 70 m long stone barn was used for events. The floor consists of bricks from former demolished houses. The barn was renovated in the early 1990s with the help of government-subsidized jobs. This renovation was one of the largest job creation measures in Bergsdorf. A special exhibition was opened here twice a year. Annually until 2018 there was a guest performance by the Rheinsberg Castle Chamber Opera .
In the old calf barn that has been converted into a print shop, stood an old litho, litho stones , a etching press with star wheel, a Boston crucible on which arose the graphics Kurt Haupt mill and a high pressure press. These hand-painted pieces document Mühlenhaupt's pursuit of affordable art.
The old dairy housed the Hans-Pels-Leusden archive. The inner courtyard of the building ensemble was greened in the course of the renovation and converted into a museum garden. Ceramics and bronze sculptures by Kurt Mühlenhaupt were exhibited in the garden. In the "dwarf workshop", Mühlenhaupt's Du-Du dwarfs were painted by hand. The dwarfs are Mühlenhaupt's first sculptures and helped him develop his figures for the fire fountain in Berlin-Kreuzberg .
Special exhibitions
- 2000: Karl Oppermann
- 2001: Big Mill Main Show
- 2001: Kurt Mühlenhaupt "Other Worlds"
- 2003: Kurt Mühlenhaupt "A wide field"
- 2004: " Ingo Kühl - Visiting Kurt Mühlenhaupt"
- 2008: "Kiek sometimes there" - Heinrich Zille on his hundred and fiftieth birthday
- 2011: Kurt Mühlenhaupt / Günter Grass : Toads, rats and two friends
- 2011: Kurt Mühlenhaupt "Great Sky-Silent Land"
- 2011/12: Painted blind - works from the last creative years
- 2012: Kurt Mühlenhaupt - Sven Marquardt "Brothers"
- 2012: Sibylle Princess of Prussia - Gerald Uhlig Romero "ce n'est pas sans souci"
- 2013: " Gustavo - The other colors"
- 2013: “Brain Game” - an exhibition with works by Klaus Kehrwald
- 2014: Works by the painter Angela Zohlen
- 2014: Exhibition with works by Herta Müller
- 2014: Exhibition in the Brandenburg State Parliament
- 2015: " Wolfgang Beltracchi - In the Darkness of the Forests"
literature
- Yearbook for Brandenburg State History, Volume 61. State History Association, 2010, page 292.
- Mühlenhaupt, Kurt - A hodgepodge, Bolles Reich from 1990, Volume 11, Museum Bergsdorf.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (ed.): List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg - Oberhavel district . D) Monuments of other genres, ID number 09165409, December 31, 2018, p. 18 ( bldam-brandenburg.de [PDF; 276 kB ; accessed on May 13, 2019]).
- ↑ Entry in a company directory with addresses of companies, offices, organizations and associations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- ^ Monument database of the state of Brandenburg. ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2015 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.
- ^ Rheinsberg Chamber Opera visiting the Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum. Märkische Allgemeine .
- ↑ perspektiven21 Brandenburg books for economy and politics. Page 40 (PDF file).
- ^ Camilla Blechen: Hans Pels-Leusden - memory of a magician. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 19, 2008.
- ^ Public fountains in Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg: fire brigade fountain. Website of the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment.
- ^ Gustavo in the Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum. In: Märkische Online-Zeitung , May 7, 2013.
- ↑ Julia Friese: Herta Müller and a lot of glamor in Kärtchens Gutshof. Article on the exhibition by Herta Müller in the Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum. In: Berliner Morgenpost , August 5, 2014.
- ^ Oil paintings and graphics by Mühlenhaupt can be seen in the state parliament. Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, June 27, 2014.
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 14.2 " N , 13 ° 23 ′ 17.8" E