Museo Castello San Materno
The Museo Castello San Materno - Fondazione per la cultura Kurt e Barbara Alten is a museum in Ascona , Canton Ticino , Switzerland , which is affiliated to the Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna in Ascona. The director of both houses is the art historian Mara Folini.
After restoration of the building, the Castello San Materno of Ascona was opened in April 2014. Since then it has become the home of the art collection of the Kurt and Barbara Alten Cultural Foundation, Solothurn . A permanent exhibition shows works by artists from the Worpswede artists' colony , German impressionism and expressionism. You can see paintings by Paula Modersohn-Becker , Otto Modersohn , Fritz Overbeck and Hans am Ende , as well as Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth and by artists from the Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter artists' group , such as Erich Heckel , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Hermann Max Pechstein and Alexej by Jawlensky . The artists Christian Rohlfs , Emil Nolde and August Macke are represented with watercolors .
A special exhibition has been taking place in the Museo Castello San Materno during the summer months since 2016.
Foundation, endowment
The Kurt and Barbara Alten Cultural Foundation was founded on April 17th, 2002 in Solothurn. The foundation pursues exclusively and directly charitable purposes and aims to promote art and culture in the Espace Mittelland area. Every two years a sponsorship award is given to talented young artists in particular.
Collector
The art collection was founded by the German entrepreneur and engineer Kurt Alten (1925–2009) and his wife Barbara Alten, b. Gernß (1937–2016) mainly compiled in the 1980s and 90s.
Castello San Materno
The Castello San Materno is located on a hill at the beginning of Ascona. The eventful building history extends into the 6th – 8th centuries. Century back. The medieval castle with the Romanesque chapel of San Materno underwent changes, extensions and at the same time structural decline.
The French Enrico de Loppinot brought the Castello back to life around 1850. Together with his wife, he expanded and restored the building. In August 1919, the German silk merchant Paul Bachrach, who came from Belgium , bought the castle and the surrounding park with his wife Elvira and daughter, the dancer Charlotte Bara . From now on, the palace was a meeting place for writers, musicians, artists and dancers.
After the death of the expression dancer Charlotte Bara, the community of Ascona acquired the property in 1987. The building was left to its own devices, a renewed decline was to be feared. At the initiative of Urs Ris, the German art dealer Hubertus Melsheimer, the notary and lawyer Burkhard Scherrer, the founder Barbara Alten, the cultural foundation Kurt and Barbara Alten and the mayor Luca Pissoglio, the first discussions took place in the spring of 2011 - the Museo Castello San Materno was realized become.
With financial support from the foundation, the canton of Ticino and the municipality of Ascona, the historic property was restored to its former glory.
Ascona Museo Castello San Materno - Fondazione per la cultura Kurt e Barbara Alten
Ascona Museo Castello San Materno - Fondazione per la cultura Kurt e Barbara Alten
Ascona Museo Castello San Materno - Fondazione per la cultura Kurt e Barbara Alten
Ascona Museo Castello San Materno - Fondazione per la cultura Kurt e Barbara Alten
Works of art
In the apse of the Romanesque chapel of San Materno there are remains of a fresco painting - a representation of Majestas Domini - from the 11th century.
A modern ceiling fresco, created by Andreas Jawlensky , son of the Russian painter Alexej von Jawlensky, is located on the upper floor.
Special exhibitions
- Giorgio Morandi - forms, colors, space, light - paintings, watercolors, drawings, etchings, May 20 - September 18, 2016, curator: Mara Folini
- Images of Modern People - From Lovis Corinth to Alexej von Jawlensky, June 17 - October 15, 2017, curator: Harald Fiebig
- Marianne Werefkin as guest at Castello San Materno, October 26th - December 30th, 2017 and March 3rd - May 27th 2018, curator: Mara Folini
- Max Liebermann - Pioneer of German Impressionism, June 9 - September 30, 2018, curator: Harald Fiebig
- Marianne Werefkin and Anna Iduna Zehnder, October 11 - December 30, 2018, curator: Mara Folini
- Carl Weidemeyer (1882 - 1976) - Between Modernism and Bauhaus, March 2 - May 12, 2019, curator: Mara Folini
- Lyonel Feininger - On a long journey, May 26th - September 29th 2019, curators: Harald Fiebig, Achim Moeller, with the assistance of Sebastian Ehlert
Collection artist
Worpswede artists' colony
Hans at the end - Otto Modersohn - Paula Modersohn-Becker - Fritz Overbeck
German impressionism
Lovis Corinth - Max Liebermann
expressionism
Christian Rohlfs
bridge
Erich Heckel - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Emil Nolde - Hermann Max Pechstein - Karl Schmidt-Rottluff *
The blue Rider
Alexej von Jawlensky - August Macke - Gabriele Münter *
* Not yet issued
Exhibited works (selection)
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Children in the Meadow (around 1902)
Fritz Overbeck, Group of Birch Trunks (around 1896)
Max Liebermann, On the beach at Noordwijk (1908)
August Macke, Rocky Landscape (1914)
Alexej von Jawlensky, Church in Prerow (1911)
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literature
- Castello San Materno. Fondazione per la cultura Kurt e Barbara Alten, inventory catalog, with a foreword by Luca Pissoglio and Sabine Alten, introductory text by Mara Folini, catalog editing by Harald Fiebig and Hubertus Melsheimer, Kulturstiftung Kurt and Barbara Alten, Solothurn (eds.), Ascona 2014, ISBN 978- 3-033-04452-4
- Lyonel Feininger. A vele spiegate, on a long journey, ed. v. Harald Fiebig and Ilse Ruch, exhib.-cat. Museo Castello San Materno Ascona - Fondazione per la cultura Kurt e Barbara Alten 2019, Ascona 2019, ISBN 978-88-7713-850-7
- Max Liebermann. Pioneers dell'impressionismo tedesco, trailblazers of German impressionism, ed. v. Harald Fiebig and Ilse Ruch, exhib.-cat. Museo Castello San Materno Ascona - Fondazione per la cultura Kurt e Barbara Alten 2018, Ascona 2018, ISBN 978-88-7713-808-8
- Peter P. Riesterer: Charlotte Bara Ascona. Life and Dance, Ascona 1985
- Michela Zucconi-Poncini: Ascona, Bern 2003, ISBN 3-85782-744-0
Web links
Coordinates: 46 ° 9 ′ 40 " N , 8 ° 46 ′ 28" E ; CH1903: seven hundred and three thousand one hundred eighty / 113 059