Lettl Museum

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Lettl Museum (2019)

The Lettl Museum for Surreal Art ( spelling : LETTL Museum for Surreal Art ) is an art museum in Augsburg with works by the painter Wolfgang Lettl , which opened in 2019.

location

The museum is located at Zeuggasse 9 in the Augsburg city center district, St. Ulrich Cathedral , between Königsplatz and the Augsburg armory . Before the rooms were converted into a museum, there was a furniture store there.

Emergence

The museum is a successor to the Lettl-Atrium , which existed in Augsburg from 1993 to 2013 in the rooms of the Swabian Chamber of Commerce and Industry . After this previous museum closed for renovation and renovation work, new rooms were sought and found in Augsburg in the following years. The new Lettl Museum opened on December 18, 2019, on the 100th birthday of the artist who died in 2008.

exhibition

The museum shows 131 works from the years 1942 to 2007 on 650 to 700 square meters (the surface area varies). In addition to the surrealist pictures for which Lettl is known, there are also impressionistic works and others that were not previously in the permanent exhibition of the Lettl- Atriums could be seen.

There are deliberately no explanations for the individual pictures, since, according to Lettl's wish, they speak for themselves and encourage the viewer to interpret their own. An audio tour is offered that provides information on individual images. Most of these come from Wolfgang Lettl himself and some of them are recorded by him. The texts are not explanations, but thoughts that are parallel to the images. The exhibition also presents some quotes from the artist.

A 35-minute film about Wolfgang Lettl is shown in a cinema room.

Reopening on May 17, 2020

After a two-month break due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany , the Lettl Museum reopened on May 17, 2020 with the special exhibition: “Can rain be beautiful?” Up to 30 people can enter the museum at the same time. There are currently no tours, but an audio guide.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Surrealist Wolfgang Lettl gets his own museum in Augsburg. In: br.de. BR24, 2019, accessed March 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Alois Knoller: A light lock for the surrealist Wolfgang Lettl. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. Augsburger Allgemeine, accessed March 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: When the imagination spills overboard. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche.de, accessed on March 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Examples: The murder of Ludwig XIV., 1977 , Lilofee, 1986 , Philosophen, 1987
  5. ↑ reopening Lettl Museum - Lettl Museum of surreal art - findART.cc. In: altertuemliches.at. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .

Web links

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

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 57.3 "  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 45.6"  E