Leonhardi Museum

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Building of the Leonhardi Museum

The Leonhardi Museum is located in the former Hentschelmühle ("Rothe Amsel") in the Loschwitz district of Dresden . The museum is named after the founder of the museum, the late romantic landscape painter Eduard Leonhardi (1828–1905).

View into the inner courtyard of the Leonhardi Museum
Memorial stone in honor of Ludwig Richter (1803-1884)

history

There were already some watermills in Loschwitzgrund in the 16th century , including the Hentschelmühle, the later museum building. It was the deepest mill and belonged to the miller family Hentschel from 1785 until it was bought by the Leonhardi family in 1879.

Initially only used as a residential building, the mill was converted into a studio and exhibition space in 1882–84 and, according to the original concept, was to be used as an artist's house for free rent for young and poor artists. The plan was not fully implemented, but the highly talented painter Charles Palmié (1863–1911) lived for a long time in the now named Red Blackbird , which he also adorned with all sorts of sayings and historical decorations. The name came about after a festival in Amselgrund in Saxon Switzerland . The red name-giving blackbird is on the lantern under a wooden knight figure. Not to be confused with the nearby Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz .

In September 1963, Claus Weidensdorfer , Manfred Schubert, Fritz Skade , Horst Weber and Günter Tiedeken founded an "active visual artist of the Dresden-East district" with the intention of holding exhibitions in the skylight hall of the studio building of the late romantic painter Eduard Leonhardi . From then on, the exhibition building operated under the name Leonhardi Museum was mainly used by young artists for public presentations of their works until 1990.

From 1991 to spring 2002, the painter and restorer Ulrike Haßler-Schobbert managed the municipal gallery with the museum section under the original name of the Leonhardi Museum on behalf of the City of Dresden's Department of Culture. During the renovation work from autumn 2001 to spring 2003, the exhibition was held in the Bräustüberl on the nearby Körnerplatz. In autumn 2003, the Leonhardi Museum was reopened after the renovation with an exhibition about Hermann Glöckner .

Thanks to the Leonhardis community of heirs and the efforts of the city of Dresden, the museum is now a municipal gallery and is usually redesigned every 6 weeks. On the upper floor there is a collection with pictures by Leonhardi. Bernd Heise has been director of the Leonhardi Museum since 2002.

In the garden there is a memorial stone in honor of Ludwig Richter (1803-1884), who was a great model for the art of Leonhardi.

The Leonhardi Museum is also a place for promoting and performing new music . It is a member of the KlangNetz Dresden . The ensembles Neue Dresdner Kammermusik and the elole piano trio perform there regularly .

Personal exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Ulrike Haßler-Schobbert, Anja Römisch, Angelika Weißbach: Leonhardi-Museum: Documentation of the exhibition work 1991-2002. Ed .: Association of Friends and Supporters of the Leonhardi Museum eV, Dresden 2004.
  • Angelika Weißbach: Breakfast in the open air - freedom in the official art business of the GDR: the exhibitions and actions in the Leonhardi Museum in Dresden 1963 - 1990 . Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3860042373 .
  • "If you don't love nature and art, you live half-lost on earth" The painter, entrepreneur and benefactor Eduard Leonhardi. Elbhangkurier November 1995, p. 10.

Web links

Commons : Leonhardi Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernd Rosner: The Leonhardi Museum . In: Eckart Gillen, Rainer Haarmann (Hrsg.): Art in the GDR . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1990, ISBN 3-462-02068-4 , pp. 291-292 .
  2. ↑ Angelika Weißbach: Breakfast in the open air - free spaces in the official art business of the GDR. The exhibitions and actions in the Leonhardi Museum Dresden 1963–1990. From the Q series of the Humboldt University Berlin; 2009 (PDF)
  3. ^ Uta Grundmann: Leonhardi Museum - Dossier: Autonomous Art in the GDR. In: bpb.de. September 6, 2012, accessed April 13, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 18.4 ″  N , 13 ° 49 ′ 0.5 ″  E