Museum of Applied Arts (Frankfurt am Main)

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Museum of Applied Arts, Photo: Anja Jahn (2014)
Interior view after the renovation. Photo: Uwe Dettmer (2013)

The Museum Angewandte Kunst is a museum in Frankfurt am Main that is dedicated to applied arts , design in handicrafts , design , fashion , book art , graphics and architecture , lifestyles and the performative. It is located on the museum bank of the Main metropolis.

history

In 1877 the Central German Arts and Crafts Association laid the foundation for the museum collection. The city of Frankfurt took over the association's collection in 1921 and a few years later created the Museum of Arts and Crafts from it . Due to the fact that the premises were destroyed in the Second World War, the collection had to be temporarily stored. In 1965 it was visible again in the Villa Metzler before moving into the new building of the museum in 1985.

In January 2000, the museum was renamed the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt and the abbreviation MAK was introduced as part of a new concept developed by Canadian director James Bradburne . The reopening of the house after renovation was on May 10, 2000. Bradburne managed the museum until 2002. After a transition period during which Margrit Bauer was acting director, the art historian Ulrich Schneider became director of the museum in 2003. He managed the house until 2012, when the position of Matthias Wagner K passed. Under his leadership and after the interior renovation from December 2012 to April 2013, the name of the house was shortened to Museum Angewandte Kunst .

"Elementary parts. From the collections ”. Photo: Anja Jahn (2014)
Directors

Collections

The museum's collections include around 65,000 works from five millennia. Her focus is on European handicrafts and design from the 12th to the 21st century. Other focal points are book art and graphics ( Linel Brothers Collection ), Islamic and East Asian art.

Fashion, body, performatives. Here: “Outside in the dark. Fashion after fashion ”. Photo: Dieter Leistner (2013)

architecture

main building

Aerial view of the Villa Metzler and the cubes of the Museum Angewandte Kunst

The museum building was designed by the American architect Richard Meier , which is one of the architect's first museum buildings and his first project in Germany. An important criterion for choosing Meier's design was the careful handling of the trees in the park and the integration of the proportions of the Villa Metzler into the overall concept. The three interconnected white cubes of the new building are modeled on the proportions of the classicist villa of the museum. A glazed transition on the first floor connects the new building to the rear of the villa. The new building also includes the museum restaurant at the rear facing the park. A workshop building, which was later added to, remained untouched by the new building project.

Renovation of the building in 2013

The premises of the Richard Meier building were obstructed by static built-in showcases. Whole window and terrace fronts were closed to protect the collection objects, visual axes for orientation were blinded. In 2013 the Richard Meier building of the museum was returned to its original state, 27 years after its construction. In consultation with the architect Richard Meier, all structures were removed, visual axes and views reopened, and the transparency of the building restored. A museum shop was set up in the modified foyer and a bistro on the second floor .

The historic Villa Metzler

Villa Metzler, the old building

The Historic Villa Metzler, which was renovated and refurbished in 2008, is part of the Museum of Applied Art and served Richard Meier as the starting point for the proportions and scale of the new building that was built in 1985. With the style rooms. The collections show examples of historical living culture, from baroque to art nouveau.

Museum park

The museum park was also designed by Meier. It is located between Schaumainkai and Metzlerstrasse (north-south). The park extends, with its green space, from the Museum of World Cultures to the Museum of Applied Arts (West-East). Its special feature is a right-angled, cross-shaped footpath to connect the two streets and both museums, as well as a white fountain in the axis of the intersection. In 2013 the park was renamed "Metzlerpark".

  • Well from the west

  • Well from the north

Icon Museum Frankfurt

As a branch, the Museum Angewandte Kunst also looks after the Icon Museum Frankfurt, founded in 1990 in the former refectory of the Teutonic Order House .

Selection of exhibitions

View of the exhibition “Das Frankfurter Zimmer”. Photo: Norbert Miguletz (2013)
  • 1962: Masterpieces of Korean Art.
  • 1985: Turkish art and culture from the Ottoman period
  • 1993 : YAYLA. Shape and color in Turkish textile art
  • 1995: YU-ICHI. Economic growth
  • 1996: Islamic Art & Patronage. The Kuwait Treasury
  • 2000: monks, monsters, beautiful ladies. Japanese painting, book and woodcut art from the 16th to 18th centuries in Frankfurt am Main
  • 2002: Firebirths. Early Chinese ceramics in mak.frankfurt
  • 2004: Initial: Tlön's second encyclopedia
  • 2004: almir da silva mavignier. additive posters
  • 2004: Books of hours of the Linel collection
  • 2005: The right book. Johannes Gachnang as publisher
  • 2005: souls on the move. Masterpieces of Joseon Period Buddhist Art from the National Museum of Korea
  • 2005: elegance and renunciation. White pottery in Joseon Dynasty Korea
  • 2006: happiness. Paintings and albums by Burgi Kühnemann
  • 2006: THE souvenir. Remembrance in things from relic to memento
  • 2007: ornament without ornament. Franz Bette - jewelry
  • 2007: Gunter Rambow. Posters
  • 2007: Kveta Pacovska. Maximum contrast
  • 2008: Mangamania. Comic culture in Japan 1800–2008
  • 2008: GA-NETCHÛ. The Manga Anime Syndrome
  • 2008: FRAGILE The table of the tsars and the porcelain of the revolutionaries
  • 2008: tulips, caftans and levni. Court fashion from the Topkapı Palace, Istanbul
  • 2009: Sit in China. A journey through 500 years of sitting culture
  • 2009: André Charles Boulle (1642-1732). A new style for Europe
  • 2009: Heroes of the stage and beauties of the night. Masterpieces of Japanese woodcut from the Otto Riese and Johann Georg Geyger collections
  • 2010: Less and More. Dieter Rams' design ethos
  • 2010: Tobias Rehberger . flat - posters, poster concepts and murals
  • 2010: Tradición Argentina - Argentine silversmithing from pre-Columbian times to today and Visión Argentina - Argentine product design
  • 2011: The i-Kosmos. Power, myth and magic of a brand.
  • 2011: Double Intensity. 30 years of Brinkman & Bose Publishing
  • 2011: Lacquer - masterpieces from China from the 12th to 18th centuries
  • 2011: Sharp edge - design in Iceland
  • 2012: Tokyo Art Directors Club 2011
  • 2012: Book Art Total / Collection Total. First presentation of the entire book inventory from the depot
  • 2012: Chinese Stuff. In cooperation with the Popcorn Idea Factory, Communication University of China / Beijing
  • 2013: Out in the dark. Carry on according to fashion
  • 2013: Korea Power. Design and identity
  • 2013: 1607 - From the early days of globalization
  • 2013: The full life. Ukiyoe from the JG Geyger and O. Riese collections
  • 2013–2015: Design in Frankfurt from 1925 to 1985. The Frankfurter Zimmer
  • 2013: alex wollner. brasil design visual
  • 2014: The Kramer principle. Design for variable use
  • 2014: The Weather Diaries. 3rd Nordic Fashion Biennale
  • 2014: Elementary parts. From the collections
  • 2014: Julian Barnes : From the end of a story , world premiere, directed by Lily Sykes, adaptation by Lily Sykes, Henrieke Beuthner, actor P. Schröder
  • 2014: Tokyo Art Directors Club Award 2013
  • 2014: Give Love Back. Ata Macias and Partners
  • 2014: Depot Show. Product and Society: White
  • 2014: childhood spaces. Childhood dreams
  • 2014: Depotschau Eating and Drinking: Soup
  • 2014: The plump life II. Ukiyoe from the JG Geyger and O. Riese collections
  • 2015: Buddha. 108 encounters
  • 2015: Richard Meier. A style room
  • 2015: hamsters. Hipster. Mobile phone. Under the spell of the cell phone
  • 2015: About hiding
  • 2015: Imagine Reality. RAY photography projects 2015
  • 2015: Fashion moves images. The Fashion Film Effect
  • 2015: Sense of Doubt. Against forgetting
  • 2016: ZeitRaum. Based on "Here" by Richard McGuire
  • 2016: Depotschau: Luck and Promise
  • 2016: everything new! - 100 years of new typography and new graphics in Frankfurt am Main .
  • 2016: Stefan Sagmeister . The Happy Show
  • 2016: Under arms. Fire & Forget 2
  • 2016: Thinking Tools. Design as a process: How writing implements are made
  • 2016/2017: Yokohama 1868–1912. When the pictures learned to shine . Catalog.
  • 2017: Picnic time .
  • 2017: SUR / FACE. Mirror .
  • 2017: Cartography of Dreams. The art of Marc-Antoine Mathieu .
  • 2017/18: Jil Sander : Present tense .
  • 2018: RAY 2018. Extreme. Bodies .
  • 2018: Lore Kramer. I couldn't live without ceramics .
  • 2018: Robbed. Collected. Deceived. The Pinkus / Ehrlich Collection and the Museum of Applied Art .
  • 2018/19: Michael Riedel . Graphic as an event .
  • 2018/19: Lara protects me. A Georgian story .
  • 2019: Moderne am Main 1919-1933 .
  • 2019: Contemporary Muslim Fashions .
  • 2019: Sagmeister & Walsh . Beauty .
  • 2019: Seven Treasures. A cabinet of curiosities of Japanese cloisonné .
  • 2019: House of Norway

Corporate Design

Shortly before the opening of the new building in 1985, the first corporate design was introduced, which always used black font on a white background and a stylized ginkgo leaf as the logo, the font used was Baskerville . The logo and graphic appearance of the Museum of Applied Arts Frankfurt, which was valid from 2005 to 2012, was developed by the Parisian design office Vier5 , behind which the artists Marco Fiedler and Achim Reichert stand. Characteristic for this appearance were the computer font 025aPlotter in the form of typographical playfully overlapping elements and high-contrast color accents. In 2013, the appearance changed to a calmer typeface using the Suisse BP International font. The designer Jasmin Kress is responsible for this.

Kunstgewerbeverein in Frankfurt am Main e. V.

On March 25, 1877, the "Central German Arts and Crafts Association" was founded by Frankfurt citizens. In 1878 it was accepted as an independent institute in the circle of the Polytechnic Society . Here Frankfurt citizens had come together "for the promotion of useful arts and the sciences that refine them". You support the Museum of Applied Art with new acquisitions and special projects such as the restoration of the historic Metzler Villa. Among other things, the members are informed about current projects and new acquisitions and receive free entry to the museum's exhibitions as well as special guided tours and demonstrations.

Museum of Applied Arts Foundation

The Museum Angewandte Kunst foundation has sponsored exhibitions, educational programs and events at the Museum Angewandte Kunst since 2013. Four individual support groups - Frankfurter Balkon, Frankfurter Küche , Frankfurter Zimmer and Frankfurt Salon - serve the exchange as well as the joint development and promotion of ideas.

Web links

Commons : Museum of Applied Arts  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daland Segler: Playground and learning area. The newly designed Museum of Applied Arts will reopen on May 10th. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . May 9, 2000.
  2. ↑ Claudia Michels: The old villa should be a highlight. Sylvia von Metzler is the godfather for a collection campaign in favor of the main building in the Museum of Applied Arts . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . September 24, 2004.
  3. ↑ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Mission wake-up call. Matthias Wagner K wants to fundamentally renew the Museum of Applied Art from tomorrow. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 29, 2012, p. R6.
  4. ↑ Michael Hierholzer: Museum of Applied Art: Frankfurter Zimmer, Korean design, full life . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 24, 2013.
  5. ^ Sylvia Staude: Museum of Applied Art: finished in record speed . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . April 25, 2013.
  6. ↑ Arcspace.com: The Undiscovered Richard Meier: The Architect as Designer and Artist. ( Memento from February 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (Exhibition report from March 3, 2003, English)
  7. ^ Richard Meier: Museum of Arts and Crafts Frankfurt am Main. Introduction by Norbert Huse. Ernst, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-433-02245-3 .
  8. ↑ journal-frankfurt.de: Report on the renaming of the museum park (German, accessed on August 23, 2013)
  9. ↑ Frankfurt Superstar in FAZ of April 21, 2016, p. 14.
  10. ↑ Japan, how it snaps and carves in FAZ of October 7, 2016, page 14.
  11. ^ Homepage of the Kunstgewerbeverein; accessed on August 28, 2019


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