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Museum Angerlehner (2019)

The Angerlehner Museum is a private museum for contemporary art in Thalheim near Wels .

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The museum, which opened on September 14, 2013, presents the art collection of Heinz Josef Angerlehner from his more than thirty years of collecting work in the field of contemporary art.

The museum was set up on the site of the former corporate headquarters of the FMT Group in Thalheim. The 90 m long Angerlehner footbridge over the Traun , opened in August 2013, offers pedestrians and cyclists a new way to cross at the swimming pool and the Wels exhibition center . The LED lighting in the bridge railing was designed by Waltraut Cooper . A second, also publicly usable - but lockable - footbridge leads somewhat offset from the right bank path over the Aiterbach, parallel to the Traun, to the museum and Thalheim.

Wolf Architektur from Grieskirchen , together with the client, developed a stringent, open and modern art museum that preserves the character of the former industrial site.

The museum rooms, which were created from spring 2012 to autumn 2013, offer more than 2,000 square meters of exhibition space and generous and representative development opportunities. A 50-meter-long display depot with 161 pull-out sliding walls hung on both sides and a hanging area of around 6,000 square meters offers insights into the collection in addition to the presentation of the works of art in the respective exhibitions. The large hall is column-free and measures 1,000 m².

The elongated, 10 m high hall, built for the industrial assembly company, is spanned across by roof girders, which are supported by columns on the edge of the hall. At that time the facade was formed by light gray trapezoidal sheet metal . At a little more than half the height of the museum, a high mezzanine floor was drawn in on a central part of the area; a piece of a track of the former crane near the ceiling is visible next to it.

On the all-round black metal facade, shiny and differently matt elements alternate as stripes, so that the reflection of the surroundings and the reflective surface itself can be perceived. A vertical strip of light marks the entrance near the east of the building.

Architectural award

On November 12, 2014, the museum building in Upper Austria received the regional cultural prize building of the year. The Central Association of Architects in Austria nominated the building (as one of three per federal state) for the 2014 builder award.

Exhibitions

First presentation of the Angerlehner collection, comprising 2500 works:

Opening exhibition from September 13, 2013 to the beginning of August 2014 on the history of Austrian painting from 1950 in the 1,170 square meter hall on the ground floor, curator Florian Steininger from the BA Kunstforum .
Line art from the Angerlehner Collection: handwritten - figurative from September 13, 2013 to the end of November 2013 in two exhibition rooms on the upper floor, curator Peter Assmann .
Josef Bauer - Patrick Schmierer from September 13, 2013 to January 26, 2014 in two exhibition rooms on the upper floor, curator Johannes Holzmann together with the two artists.
In memoriam Karl Mostböck from December 5, 2013 on the upper floor.