Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen

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Main building of the LUDWIGGALERIE, December 2008
Small castle of the LUDWIGGALERIE, November 2012
Rear view of the small castle with the inscription LUDWIGGALERIE , in November 2012

The LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen is an art museum in Oberhausen . The gallery is located in the Kaisergarten of Oberhausen Castle .

history

The classical palace complex was built between 1804 and 1818 by the Münster master builder August Reinking for Count Max Friedrich von Westerholt-Gysenberg . Badly damaged in the Second World War, the building was restored and initially established as a municipal gallery in 1947. In the following decades, the municipal collection housed here grew strongly and in 1983 brought together around 2000 works of painting, sculpture and graphics. From the beginning of the 1980s, the collector couple Peter and Irene Ludwig became involved in the gallery and housed their collection of GDR art, which the Ludwigs had been collecting since 1975. With 700 works, the collection was the largest outside of the GDR. The gallery was renamed the Ludwig Institute for Art of the GDR .

In the 1990s, the Ludwigs initiated a realignment of the cultural institute. Since then, its extensive collection, which is spread across museums around the world, has formed the basis of the art exhibitions in the Ludwiggalerie. The architects Eller and Eller expanded the palace complex in 1998 with an extension made of glass and steel. At the end of 2011, the Ruhr Regional Association took it on the route of industrial culture - Oberhausen: Industry opens the city .

The Ludwig Collection

The Ludwig Collection is a comprehensive private collection that is linked to Oberhausen via the international network of Ludwig museums. In addition to special exhibitions on art and cultural-historical topics, another exhibition concept in the form of “one-room shows” honors individual pieces from the Ludwig Collection. The female candlestick from the Ludwig Collection , the Tödlein or the painting Ars bene moriendi from the Ludwig Collection represent this format, which documents the intensive collaboration between the Ludwig Houses beyond the exhibitions through the detailed scientific analysis of the exhibits.

In 2009 the gallery donated around 160 paintings and sculptures by artists from the former GDR (including Willi Sitte , Werner Tübke , Bernhard Heisig and Wolfgang Mattheuer ) to the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig. The works belong to a collection of more than 600 items by the collector Peter Ludwig and come from the time when the collector founded the "Ludwig Institute for Art of the GDR" in 1983. A second part of around 500 graphic sheets went to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg .

The popular gallery

The popular gallery, on the other hand, is dedicated to the presentation of comics , caricatures , illustration , poster art and photography . Important positions such as Gottfried Helnwein and Manfred Deix , but also Wilhelm Busch were shown, but also comics such as Tim und Struppi , Ralf König and Ulf K. were illuminated and book illustrations by Sabine Wilharm , Walter Moers or Cornelia Funke were the subject.

The photo gallery

Through the intensive expansion of photography, which originally belonged to the “Popular Gallery”, with exhibitions by internationally renowned photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson , Peter Lindbergh , Thomas Hoepker , Jim Rakete , Elliott Erwitt , Eve Arnold , Herlinde Koelbl , Weegee , Bert Stern , Sam Shaw and Linda McCartney got Dr. Christine Vogt established this today as the fourth mainstay of the LUDWIGGALERIE. Exhibitions by important Ruhr region photographers such as Rudolf Holtappel (2015) and Brigitte Kraemer (2016) were presented. The medium of photography was also staged in the exhibition rooms on a subject-related basis, including The Photographic View (2000) and Subjective Photography (2003).

The landmark gallery

The landmark gallery deals with the structural change in the Ruhr area . The former coal and steel area turned into a service center. Landmarks such as winding towers, chimneys or steelworks that once shaped the face of the district have disappeared. Others like the gasometer in Oberhausen, the winding tower of the Zeche Zollverein in Essen or Richard Serra's slab on Essen's Schurenbachhalde have become new landmarks. Changing exhibition projects and outdoor programs accompany this process.

Further facilities are connected to the Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen. The municipal painting school integrates children and young people into the exhibition program with an extensive and diverse program. Original works of art can be borrowed from the Artothek on favorable terms.

Directors

Pre-glazing of Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen during the vernissage of the exhibition "The Gesture"

Special exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Bernhard Mensch, Peter Pachnicke (Ed.): Collection Ludwig in museums of the world. Oberhausen 1996.
  • Bernhard Mensch, Peter Pachnicke (Ed.): Sleeping Beauty Sleep. Art and nature experience in the palace and Kaisergarten. Oberhausen 1994.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Oberhausen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietmar N. Schmidt (ed.): Modern art in NRW. A museum guide. Dumont, Cologne 2003, pp. 402-407
  2. ↑ Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen , Ruhr Art Museums, accessed on February 25, 2019
  3. ^ Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen , themed route “Oberhausen: Industry makes the city”, route industrial culture, accessed on February 25, 2019
  4. ↑ Ludwig Collection. Oberhausen sells GDR art . In: FAZ from August 19, 2009, accessed on June 4, 2011

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '31.4 "  N , 6 ° 51' 38.4"  E