LWL Museum for Art and Culture

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LWL Museum for Art and Culture
LWL Museum for Art and Culture Münster, Neubau-1030.jpg
New building of the state museum
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place Muenster
architect Volker Staab
opening 2014
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management
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The LWL Museum for Art and Culture is an art museum in Münster / Westphalia . The regional association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) is the sponsor . It has been located on Münster's Domplatz since 1908 . Until 2013 it was called the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History .

history

Today's museum developed as the “State Museum of the Westphalian Provincial Association” of the Province of Westphalia from the collections of the Association for the History and Antiquity of Westphalia and the Westphalian Art Association , which has been part of the museum since then. The first director was Adolf Brüning in 1905 . On March 17, 1908, the new building built by the Hanoverian architect Hermann Schaedtler was inaugurated. The second director was Max Geisberg from 1910 to 1934 . After his dismissal in 1934, the museum was renamed the "State Museum for Art and Cultural History", partially destroyed in World War II and rebuilt after 1945.

The original building from 1908 on Domplatz was expanded in 1974 by the Kösters & Balke office under museum director Paul Pieper according to designs by the architect Hans Spiertz , the building of the Westphalian Museum of Archeology was added and its modernization was completed in 1999; the Westphalian Museum of Archeology moved to Herne in 2003 ( LWL Museum of Archeology ); The post-war modern museum architecture, which was demolished in 2009, was replaced by a new building erected by the architectural office of Volker Staab and opened in 2014.

After Max Geisberg, Robert Nissen (1934–1939), Wilhelm Rave (provisional 1939–1946), Walther Greischel (1946–1954), Hans Eichler (1956–1971), Paul Pieper (1971–1977), Peter Berghaus (1977– 1984) and Klaus Bußmann (1985-2004) the museum. Hermann Arnhold has been director since 2004 .

During the Nazi era were different according to records 41 or 90 works by artists Christian Rohlfs , Peter August Böckstiegel , Otto Pankok , Eberhard Viegener and Karel Niestrath as " degenerate art confiscated". Museum exhibitions such as “Das deutsche Danzig” (1937) or an exhibition with looted weapons (1942) were politically and ideologically oriented. After a bomb strike in 1941, the museum's holdings were relocated to various locations, so that the losses during the Second World War were comparatively low.

collection

Main entrance of the extension of the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History from 1972, demolished in 2009, with the two over-portals by Josef Albers (1974)

The museum shows works of art from the early Middle Ages to the present day. The museum owns more than 300,000 exhibits

The historical holdings include works of art from the region and neighboring areas, including the family portrait of Count Johann II von Rietberg , fragments of the Liesborn altar and the Marienfeld altar .

A medieval collection shows a cross-section of medieval art: panel paintings and glass paintings, sculptures and reliefs made of wood, stone, precious metal and ivory, liturgical implements and vestments. The museum shows the Soest Antependium , pictures by Conrad von Soest and the Romanesque glass windows by Master Gerlachus from the collection of Freiherr vom Stein .

Further focus is on Romanesque and Gothic monumental sculpture ( Heinrich and Johann Brabender , Evert van Roden , the masters of Osnabrück ) and early Westphalian panel painting, for example by Conrad von Soest, Johann von Soest and Johann Koerbecke .

In addition to some German ( Lucas Cranach ) and Dutch ( Jan Gossaert ) works, Renaissance art is mainly represented by works by Westphalian artists. The museum shows the painterly work of the artist family tom Ring from Münster, supplemented in the field of sculpture with works by the Münster sculptors Heinrich and Johann Brabender.

The Baroque painting is represented by all genres. The handicrafts of the era are shown through goldsmiths from Augsburg and Münster , early glass as well as chest and cupboard furniture, including u. a. a Wrangel cabinet made in Augsburg , an inlaid cabinet furniture made around 1566 . Historical events in Westphalia such as the Anabaptist period and the Peace of Westphalia are reflected in the collection as well as the aristocratic and bourgeois culture of the Baroque period. Symbolism is represented with the painting Shores of Oblivion by Eugen Bracht .

The "Modern Gallery", which has been built up since 1950, includes a portfolio of paintings from German Impressionism with Liebermann, Slevogt and Corinth, Expressionism ( Die Brücke and Blauer Reiter with special emphasis on August Macke from Westphalia ) through the Bauhaus period and art from the fifties to to the international avant-garde .

The original Provincial Museum, which was founded for the preservation and research of the history and art of the Westphalia landscape as part of the cultural policy of the Prussian self-government, gained attention beyond the region. The now international prestige has developed on the basis of the collection and above all through the exhibitions of the house.

Otto Piene : Silver Frequency (1970/1971), rear front and colonnade on Pferdegasse (demolished in 2009)

Graphic collection

The historical collections include the Diepenbroick portrait archive, the life's work of Hans-Dietrich von Diepenbroick-Grueter (1902–1980), who gave the museum in his will his collection of printed portraits (approx. 120,000 pieces) using various techniques (copperplate engravings, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs and drawings , Watercolors and silhouettes) and approx. 150 portrait engravings as well as anthologies and adhesive tapes from the 16th to 20th centuries.

Coin collection

The core of the museum's coin collection goes back to the collection started in 1825 by the Association for the History and Antiquity of Westphalia and primarily contains coins and medals from Westphalia and the region as well as Roman coins and coins from the Ottonian and Salian times (10th and 11th centuries ). The Münzkabinett (around 130,000 objects from antiquity to the present: coins, medals, paper money, stamps, seals and seal impressions) also processes coin finds in Westphalia.

Library

The museum's library contains over 130,000 books, the oldest of which dates from around 900 AD.

Restitution cases

In November 2009, the federal government has the painting Siesta at the court of the Medici of Hans Makart from the collection of the National Museum as part of the restitution of Nazi-looted art returned to the heir of the former owner. The Jewish owner, persecuted by the Nazi regime, was forced to sell the work in 1940, but was unable to freely dispose of the sales proceeds. The work of art had been on loan from the federal government in the State Museum since 1966. After the return, the museum contacted the rightful owner to purchase the work.

Two overhangs by Josef Albers, new location: side of the new building (2014), Pferdegasse, with graffiti toy (anonymous, September 17, 2017)

The rightful owners of the painting Romantic Landscape with Ruins by Carl Blechen have also been identified and the picture returned to them. It came from the art collection of the Jewish merchant Julius Freund in Berlin, who emigrated to England in 1939. After his death, his heirs had the painting auctioned in Switzerland in 1942. The museum was able to acquire the painting from the heirs living in Canada in 2010, with support from the German Federal Cultural Foundation .

August Macke: fashion store

Exhibitions (selection)

Large exhibitions have attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors in recent years.

Chaim Soutine's retrospective (1981/1982) is still the standard today. The August Macke exhibition (1987), with over 400,000 visitors, co-founded the phenomenon of successful special exhibitions. The retrospective of the American painter Ellsworth Kelly (1992), which Münster developed in cooperation with the Center Pompidou in Paris and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, was cited in the media as an excellent example of international cooperation.

  • The LWL Museum for Art and Culture is a co-sponsor of the international exhibition Sculpture.Projects , which has been carried out every ten years for art in public spaces since 1977.
  • “Mixed up - masterpieces from the collection in dialogue” (23 August 2009 to 1 July 2012)
    The museum presented a selection of its main works in the old building on Domplatz. The exhibition no longer showed the works of art in chronological order, but across epochs. Thematic, formal and mood and feeling-creating similarities and certain aspects were criteria for their selection and grouping.
  • “Golden splendor. Medieval Treasure Art in Westphalia ”(February 26, 2012 to May 28, 2012)
    Together with the Cathedral Chamber of the Diocese of Münster and the Cluster of Excellence “ Religion and Politics ”at the University of Münster , the museum showed (art) historical, social, functional and technical facets of the Medieval goldsmith's work from Westphalian bishopric and Hanseatic cities since the 13th century: reliquary shrines and reliquaries , liturgical implements such as chalices and monstrances , crucifixes , book covers, coat clasps, secular jewelry and council silver . The exhibition venues were the LWL Museum for Art and Culture and the Cathedral Chamber of the Münster diocese.
  • “Places of Longing - Traveling with Artists” (September 28, 2008 to January 11, 2009)
    On the occasion of the museum's 100th anniversary, this exhibition was dedicated to the theme of the artist's journey : artists such as Albrecht Dürer , Peter Paul Rubens , Paul Gauguin and Paul Klee have traveled to different destinations and processed their local experience in their works. The anniversary exhibition showed more than 550 works by more than 200 artists from the late Middle Ages to the present. Almost 100,000 visitors saw the exhibition.
  • “PALERMO - Who knows the beginning and who knows the end” (February 27, 2011 to May 15, 2011)
    In collaboration with the Palermo Archive in America, the museum showed works by the artist Blinky Palermo . The theme of the exhibition was the open, permeable and fleeting application of paint . The museum was concerned with the picturesque aspect of Palermo's work, but not actually with pictures. The exhibition comprised around 60 - partly multi-part - picture objects and drawings ( watercolors ) from all of the painter's creative periods. The title of the exhibition “Who knows the beginning and who knows the end” was one of his work titles.
  • “Das nackte Leben” (November 8, 2014 to February 22, 2015)
    The first exhibition after the reopening deals with painting in London from 1950 to 1980. Works by Francis Bacon , Lucian Freud , Frank Auerbach , Leon Kossoff and David Hockney and Richard Hamilton can be seen.
  • Jürgen Stollhans: Future II - The Time Machine (January 24, 2015 to March 22, 2015)
  • "Tell me what kind of animal is that?" Gruffalo & Co. (March 14, 2015 to August 9, 2015)
  • Otto Piene. Light (May 13th to September 20th, 2015)
  • Ariel Schlesing - Stolpersteine ​​(September 9, 2015 to February 7, 2016)
  • Ernst Hermanns (October 7, 2015 to October 18, 2015)
  • Propaganda meets trench warfare. Poster art around 1945 (September 11, 2015 to January 10, 2016)
  • Wilhelm Morgner and the Modern Age (November 13, 2015 to March 6, 2016)
  • RARAR: Jan Hoeft - Curiosity Gap (October 31, 2015 to January 17, 2016)
  • Cremer Price: FORT. Retired (January 29, 2016 to June 5, 2016)
  • RARAR: Effrosyni Kontogeorgou - Unfolding (February 6, 2016 to May 1, 2016)
  • Sculpture Projects Archive: Autonomous and Profane. Sculpture projects in the territory of the church (March 4, 2016 to April 23, 2017)
  • Homosexuality_en (May 13, 2016 to September 4, 2016)
  • RADAR: Tomoko Mori - Ostkreuz <-> Hikkaduwa (May 21, 2016 to July 3, 2016)
  • RADAR: Verena Issel - Aset in Tadmor (July 21, 2016 to September 18, 2016)
  • Monetissimo! From the vaults of the Münzkabinett (October 6, 2016 to February 19, 2017)
  • RADAR: Israel Aten: BLAST VALIANT (October 8, 2016 to November 20, 2016)
  • The work as a place. On the creation of communicative spaces (November 19, 2018 to September 29, 2019)
  • Shell and core. Multiples by Joseph Buys (November 29, 2018 to September 19, 2019)
Turner: Peace - Burial at Sea
Commons : Turner. Horror and Delight  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
  • The exhibition Turner.Horror and Delight took place from November 8, 2019 to January 26, 2020 . Works by the British painter JMW Turner were shown at the exhibition . 1000 visitors came to the official opening and 600 tours had already been booked. Thanks to the exhibition, the museum was able to book a new visitor record of 1.9 million people in 2019. In the first two months of the exhibition, 65,000 people viewed the exhibition, making it the most successful exhibition in 5 years.

Art education and cultural program

The LWL Museum sees its main tasks as preserving, collecting, researching and communicating as well as providing regional identity.

An accompanying cultural program of the museum includes artist talks, lectures, panel discussions, concerts and performances , family days, a night for schoolchildren and students as well as events such as the “Long Night”, during which the museum is open until midnight. The “FilmGalerie” was founded in 2005 with the aim of creating a place in the LWL Museum for film as an independent art form and to bring the cinematic visual language closer to a broad audience. In cooperation with the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, the Catholic Film Commission and the LWL Media Center for Westphalia , the State Museum shows twice a year film series that thematically take up the museum's collection and exhibition policy or set their own thematic priorities.

Sponsor

The sponsors of the museum are the Friends of the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History eV, the Provincial Foundation LWL State Museum, the foundation kunst³ and the Society for the Promotion of Westphalian Cultural Work .

Movies

literature

  • The State Museum of the Province of Westphalia. Festschrift for the opening of the museum on March 17, 1908. Munster 1908.
  • Guide through the State Museum of the Province of Westphalia , ed. by the management, edited by Burkhard Meier . Regensberg, Münster 1913 ( digitized version ).
  • Picture books of the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History. 37 booklets. Münster 1984-2007.
  • Gisela Weiss: Creating meaning in the provinces. Westphalian museums in the German Empire. Schöningh, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 978-3-506-71781-8 .

Web links

Commons : LWL Museum for Art and Culture  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Loy: Surrender to an abbreviation: The former Westphalian State Museum is now called "LWL Museum for Art and Culture". In: Westfälische Nachrichten , February 9, 2013, online .
  2. ↑ a b c d e lwl.org: Website of the museum: History of the museum . Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  3. ↑ Martin Kalitschke: Return from exile: Administration moves into the new building of the state museum / trucks have delivered 2500 moving boxes. ( online ), In: Westfälische Nachrichten, April 12, 2013.
  4. ↑ Information on the coin cabinet ; Peter Ilisch : The Münzkabinett in Münster 1825–1907. In: Numismatisches Nachrichtenblatt, 49, 2000, pp. 379–382.
  5. ↑ a b Martin Kalitschke: The library is already set up: the new state museum will open on September 20th / 1800 works of art in 51 halls. in: Westfälische Nachrichten Münsterischer Anzeiger, January 31, 2014.
  6. ^ Ruhr Nachrichten : Museum returns picture to heiress of Nazi victims. ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2014 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. November 25, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruhrnachrichten.de
  7. ↑ Kulturstiftung der Länder: key work by Carl Blechen for Münster. April 23, 2010; lwl.org: Museum press release , April 23, 2010.
  8. ↑ lwl.org: Almost 100,000 people saw the anniversary exhibition in the LWL State Museum , press information | Kultur, Münster, lwl, January 12, 2009.
  9. ↑ a b Westfälische Nachrichten: State Museum opens its doors: The new building will be presented to the public for the first time on the “Schauraum” weekend / free admission ( online ), Münster, Münster, August 19, 2013
  10. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten: Flagship is ready to be launched: Keys are handed over at the State Museum , Münsterischer Anzeiger, Münster, Johannes Loy, August 31, 2013
  11. ↑ LWL - Review - LWL Museum for Art and Culture. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  12. ^ LWL - Turner. Horror and Delight - LWL Museum for Art and Culture. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  13. ^ Martin Kalitschke: Turner inspires Münster. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  14. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: More visitors than ever in LWL museums. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  15. ^ Lwl.org: Museum website: The Museum
  16. ^ Lwl.org: Museum website: program
  17. ↑ lwl.org: Museum site: Movie Gallery

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