Leopold Hoesch Museum

Before World War II

Front view of the museum building

Extension of the museum in July 2010

The extension seen from August-Klotz-Straße

The Leopold Hoesch Museum is an art museum in Düren , Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .

The Düren industrialist family Hoesch , represented by Kommerzienrat Wilhelm Hoesch (1845–1923), the son of Leopold Hoesch (1820–1899), donated 300,000 marks to the city of Düren for the construction of a museum after the father's death in 1899 .

building

The opulent neo-baroque building with rich sculptures and a remarkable staircase rotunda was designed by the Aachen architect Georg Frentzen and completed in 1905. The building formed the ensemble of buildings around Hoeschplatz with the Düren City Theater (architect: Carl Moritz) , which was donated by Leopold Hoesch's cousin, Eberhard Hoesch (1827–1907) and built from 1905 to 1907 (architect: Carl Moritz) and the Düren Church of St. The entrance area has been adorned by the two monumental bronze sculptures Studium (male figure to the right of the main entrance) and Fantasy (female figure to the left of the main entrance) by the Aachen professor and sculptor Karl Krauss .

During the air raid on Düren on November 16, 1944, the theater and St. Mary's Church were almost completely destroyed, the former was also not rebuilt; the Leopold Hoesch Museum was one of the few buildings in downtown Düren to survive the war, albeit badly damaged. The roofs, domes (only the glass, not the construction), parts of the east wing and parts of the upper central hall (but not the staircase and not the west wing) were destroyed. The reconstruction, completed in 1952, was carried out in a simplified form, dispensing with the domes. The listed building was renovated from 2007 to 2009 and, on the initiative of museum director Dorothea Eimert, was given an extension by the architect Peter Kulka , which was officially opened in June 2010. The extension increases the exhibition space of the museum to almost 3000 square meters and was made possible by the financial support of the Günther Peill Foundation .

The Orpheus statue was given to the Leopold Hoesch Museum on its 75th birthday in 1980 by the Düren industry and had stood to the right of the entrance since 1984, until the museum received the new extension. Then she was transferred to the music school.

The museum was closed from 2007 to 2010 due to renovation and in June 2010 the renovated and newly added rooms were inaugurated with a ceremonial opening. The new extension by the architect Peter Kulka, called Günther Peill Forum, is a stark contrast to the neo-baroque old building with its simplicity and clear lines. But both parts of the building are connected by a glass axis and bridges and thus reflect the exhibition concept of the newly appointed in January 2010 Museum director Renate Goldmann . The connection between old and new, between historical and modern architecture as well as between works from the inventory and contemporary art create new perspectives.

At the end of June 2011, the 80 t stone sculpture "Ursprung" by the artist Ulrich Rückriem was erected in front of the museum . It consists of Anröchter dolomite .

Collection and exhibitions

The Leopold Hoesch Museum was opened in 1905 - as was quite common at the time - as a "mixed" museum. The “Municipal Coin and Antiquity Collection” was shown, which was established in 1873 by a foundation by the pharmacist Damian Rumpel. Further excavation finds by the historian August Schoop were added, including foundations such as in 1906 by manufacturer Richard Schleicher, in 1907 the extensive coin collection of Eberhard Hoesch and in 1908 the 650 objects from the Lake Neuchâtel by manufacturer Benno Schoeller . The collection of the explorer Carl Georg Schillings , which he had brought back from numerous trips from East Africa, was exhibited in rotation. This collection still exists today and parts of it can be viewed in the Düren City Museum .

From 1906 the museum showed works of art from the private collection of citizens of Düren z. B. the collection of incunabula by Ida Schoeller. (This gave the painter Paul Adolf Seehaus, friend of August Macke, an opportunity to do research for his dissertation). Since 1906, the museum has shown several exhibitions every year, also on the then current art, B. Otto Modersohn , August von Brandis , Christian Rohlfs , Max Klinger , Ernst Barlach , Käthe Kollwitz , Emil Nolde . Museum director Helmut May (later Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne) “risked” exhibitions by the ostracized in the Third Reich , including the last possible solo exhibition by Expressionist Otto Mueller in 1935 . Through the activities of the museum association, which was founded in the year the museum opened, as well as private donations, the museum was able to significantly expand its holdings, also in the direction of its own art collection.

During the Second World War and the turmoil that immediately followed, the museum's holdings (with the exception of the prehistoric and early historical collection and the Schilling collection) were completely lost.

As early as the 1950s, it was possible to position the present core of the museum collection, initially with the purchase of 462 sheets of graphic collection from the Düren painter Hans Beckers; in it were watercolors and drawings z. B. von Menzel, Spitzweg, Slevogt, Liebermann, Corinth, Kubin, Ensor and many expressionists. The museum association and industry acquired paintings of classical modernism , especially German expressionism , for the museum collection , such as works by Emil Nolde , Oskar Kokoschka , Max Beckmann , Lovis Corinth , Otto Mueller , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Max Pechstein , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Wassily Kandinsky , Alexej von Jawlensky , Marianne von Werefkin , Otto Dix , Karl Hofer and others. The central holdings in line with Richard May's focus were the Dr. Paul Troch (1887–1953) with works by Charles Crodel , Karl Hofer, Oskar Kokoschka, Max Liebermann , Emil Nolde and Christian Rohlfs . The museum has always remained committed to contemporary art, an orientation that intensified as classic modern art became increasingly unaffordable in the 1960s and 1970s. Nevertheless, with the help of the Josef Zilcken Foundation, it was possible to purchase works of classical modernism, some by Heinrich Maria Davringhausen , Paula Modersohn-Becker , Richard Seewald, Carlo Mense, and Karl Hubbuch.

Since the early 1980s, the Leopold Hoesch Museum, under the direction of Dorothea Eimert, has established a new focus with paper art. Düren is also known as the city of the paper industry and the related exhibitions received support from regional and national paper manufacturers and processors. In 1981 the first exhibition on paper art was shown. In 1986 the "I. International Biennale of Paper Art “ PaperArt , which was shown eight more times in Düren until 2005 and made the museum one of the centers for paper art. The Association of German Paper Mills (VDP) always supported the project and also organized the “Paper Art Prize of the German Paper Industry”. The technical and cultural-historical side of paper and its production has been shown since 1990 in the Düren Paper Museum, which is affiliated with the Leopold Hoesch Museum .

As in its beginnings, the museum benefits today from the patronage of Düren citizens and families and has three private foundations:

The Günther Peill Foundation (founded in 1986) awards the Peill Prize for contemporary art and grants scholarships to young artists.
The Josef Zilcken Foundation (founded in 1989) supports the purchase of works of classical modernism while
the Hubertus Schoeller Foundation (founded in 2004) undertakes the same in the field of concrete, constructive art.

The Leopold Hoesch Museum is also receiving great support from the Museumsverein Düren eV

management

Directors of the Leopold Hoesch Museum since it was founded

1906-1931	Johannes Huff	Architect in the municipal building department
1931-1933	Max Ernst Schneider	Architect in the municipal building department
1933-1936	Helmut May	as deputy also in 1938 and 1971
1936-1938	Hans Peters
1938-1968	Heinrich Appel	Drafted for military service 1941–1945
1968-1971	Manfred Tripps
1972-1988	Wilhelm Lehmbruck
1978-2009	Dorothea Eimert	from 1990 at the same time for the Düren Paper Museum
2010-2017	Renate Goldmann	at the same time for the Düren Paper Museum
since August 1, 2018	Anja Dorn	at the same time for the Düren Paper Museum

Exhibitions

2010: interior. Retrospective Andreas Schulze
2010: Otto Piene . Le Rouge et le Noir
2010/2011: Claus Richter . Nothing is easy & Selected Works from the Hoesch Collection
2011: I hate Paul Klee. Works on paper from the Speck Collection
2011/2012: Dialogue across borders. The Riese Collection
2011/2012: Imre Kocsis - One room. Hubertus Schoeller Foundation
2011/2012: Sergey Vutuc. Something in Between
2011/2012: Aley Müller. Cassiopeia and the Alberich
2012: Ulrich Rückriem . New work.
2012: Heidi Specker . Terms.
2012: Alexander Esters . Head with revolving door
2012: Moi Who. Collection Ann and Jürgen Wilde
2012: Dirk Skreber . NDAA * The Na (h) tanzhummer II
2012: Zefrey Throwell. Sucked Up in the Devil's Bed
2012: Our values. New additions to collections and foundations
2012: Özlem Altin : Rhythm of Resemblance
2012: Peill Prize Winner 2010: David Claerbout
2012: ZERO on paper
2012: Collection Wilhelm Otto Nachf. - Workrooms from Kai Althoff to Thomas Zipp
2013: From Lucas Cranach to Wilhelm Trübner masterpieces from the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie
2014: Axel Kasseböhmer . Landscapes .
2014: Modern. World war. Madhouse .
2015/16: Figure on Display. Stephan Balkenhol & Jeff Wall
2015/16: Hubertus Schoeller Foundation: Jan Kubíček
2015/16: Hoesch Talents 2015 Annual Donations Museum Association Düren 2015
2017: Impulse Paris. Egon Karl Nicolaus
2017: Heijo Hangen. painting
2017: Our values? Provenance research in dialogue: Leopold Hoesch Museum and the WALLRAF
2017: Niki de Saint Phalle and the Theater - At Last I Found the Treasure (in cooperation with the Art and Culture Foundation Opelvillen Rüsselsheim and the Jena Art Collection )
2017–2018: Saâdane Afif. Ici. / Là-bas.
2017-2018: Beyond the Box. Dohmen collection
2018: Günther Uecker - Tribute to Hafez
2018: Claudia Kallscheuer. Clear and Cloudy. Art Prize of the Düren District 2017
2018: Speaking of paper: Matthias Lahme - Portraits
2018: Speaking of paper: Ignacio Uriarte - office artist
2018: Mixed Use with Manuel Graf
2018: Hubertus Schoeller Foundation: Miloš Urbásek. Painting - A position of the Czech post-war avant-garde
2018: Speaking of paper: Nora Schattauer - obviously not obvious
2018: Paul Sochacki "Gurbet", Raphaela Vogel "Il mondo in cui vivo" (scholarship holders of the Günther Peill Foundation 2016-2018)
2018–2019: Hoesch Talents 2018
2018–2019: Thomas Arnolds, ductus-induced
2019: Speaking of paper: Willem Oorebeek, JoëlleTuerlinckx, Heimo Zobernig
2019: Peter Zimmermann, abstractness
2019–2020: Hoesch Talents 2019
2019–2020: On life in industrial landscapes - A photographic inventory
2020: Speaking of paper: Jimmy Robert - Plié
2020–2021: Pictograms, signs of life, emojis: The society of signs

literature

Dorothea Eimert, Irmgard Gerhards: 100 years of the Leopold Hoesch Museum. 100 years of the Düren Museum Association. Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren 2005, ISBN 3-925955-49-6 .
Interior. Andreas Schulze retrospective. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König , Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86560-879-6 .
Renate Goldmann (Ed.): Our values. Collections and foundations. Leopold Hoesch Museum & Paper Museum Düren. (Inventory catalog) Wienand, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-386832-128-9 .

Web links

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

50.8015 6.4793333333333Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 5.4 " N , 6 ° 28 ′ 45.6" E

Individual evidence

^ Leopold Hoesch Museum. Retrieved November 5, 2012 .
^ Hartwig Beseler, Niels Gutschow: War fates of German architecture, Volume I: North. Neumünster: Karl Wachholtz Verlag, no year, p. 421.
↑ Not an everyday spectacle in front of the Hoesch Museum. Retrieved November 5, 2012 .
↑ https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj20118863 Helmut May 1948 at the First German Art History Conference in 1948 with the publisher Seemann and his daughter on the terrace of Augustusburg Castle in Brühl, on the right Hans Wentzel.
↑ https://www.wienand-verlag.de/out/media/9783868323801.pdf Provenance research Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren and Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne.
^ Art needs friends - the Museumsverein Düren e. V. Retrieved November 5, 2012 .
↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/professorin-anja-dorn-soll-neue-leiterin-der-duerener-museen-haben-1.1860440

[1] Leopold Hoesch Museum. Retrieved November 5, 2012 .

[2] Hartwig Beseler, Niels Gutschow: War fates of German architecture, Volume I: North. Neumünster: Karl Wachholtz Verlag, no year, p. 421.

[3] Not an everyday spectacle in front of the Hoesch Museum. Retrieved November 5, 2012 .

[4] ttps://www.bildindex.de/document/obj20118863 Helmut May 1948 at the First German Art History Conference in 1948 with the publisher Seemann and his daughter on the terrace of Augustusburg Castle in Brühl, on the right Hans Wentzel.

[5] ttps://www.wienand-verlag.de/out/media/9783868323801.pdf Provenance research Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren and Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne.

[6] Art needs friends - the Museumsverein Düren e. V. Retrieved November 5, 2012 .

[7] ttp://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/professorin-anja-dorn-soll-neue-leiterin-der-duerener-museen-haben-1.1860440