Museum August Kestner

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Museum August Kestner
Kestner Museum Schild.jpg
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place Hanover , Germany
Art
opening 1889
operator
City of Hanover
management
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-163819

The August Kestner Museum is named after August Kestner (1777–1853). The oldest municipal museum in the state capital Hanover is enclosed by a listed glass-concrete facade from 1961. Inside there are still parts of the staircase and the side wings and - as a structural highlight - almost the entire entrance facade of the original first museum building from 1889.

The museum is located in the city center next to the New Town Hall and is the only museum in Hanover and a wide area that shows 6,000 years of applied art in four collection areas: Ancient and Egyptian cultures, applied arts with a design collection and one of the largest collections of coins and medals in northern Germany .

In order to avoid confusion with the Kestner Society, which is also based in Hanover , the house previously known as the Kestner Museum was given its current name in December 2007. Since November 2014, the museum has formed the “Museums for Cultural History Hanover” association with the Hanover Historical Museum and the Herrenhausen Palace Museum .

The friends and sponsors “Antike & Gegenwart eV” founded in 1979 support the work of the museum.

Stocks

Inside the museum there is a building in the neo-renaissance style (2014)

Ancient Egypt Collection

The Egyptian collection provides an insight into ancient Egyptian art and culture over the period from the 4th millennium BC. Until the Roman-Christian time. An extensive collection of reliefs, especially from the Amarna period , and sculptures, steles, vessels, amulets, papyri, items for grave equipment illustrates everyday life, religion and the cult of the dead.

Collection of ancient cultures

The classical cultures of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean area and the Middle East shape the collection 'Ancient Cultures'. The holdings of Greek vases and Etruscan art are world class. Bronze and terracotta statuettes, everyday objects - such as u. a. Glasses, clay lamps and bronze utensils - inform about life in the Mediterranean region from 1500 BC. Chr. To 500 AD. The gem collection is one of the largest in Germany.

Applied Art and Design Collection

Medieval manuscripts, textiles, bronzes, ivory, enamel and goldsmiths are an important focus of the European Applied Art / Design collection . All classic handicraft materials (ceramics, noble and base metals, glass, textiles and wood / furniture) are represented with excellent exhibits from all eras up to the present day. This department also includes an extensive collection of contemporary design.

Collection of coins and medals

With around 100,000 pieces, the museum's coin collection is the largest of its kind in northern Germany. It conveys 2600 years of monetary history starting with the oldest coins from ancient Greece. It also includes coins from the Roman Republic and Imperial Era as well as lead seals and coins from the Byzantine Empire. The bracteates and coins from the area of ​​today's Lower Saxony are to be emphasized on medieval coins . Special features are also the collections of ancient Greek coins from Olympia and German coins from the 19th century.

history

founder

August Kestner lived and worked for 36 years as the Hanoverian envoy in Rome. There, as a private collector, he brought together a considerable number of Egyptian and Greco-Roman small art as well as other art objects. After his death, his nephew, Hermann Kestner , received the collection with the task of handing it over to his hometown of Hanover and making it publicly accessible.

The holdings of medieval handicrafts and antique objects from another Hanoverian collector, that of Senator Friedrich Culemann , have been added. Both collections form the founding inventory of the Museum August Kestner, which has since been supplemented again and again through donations, endowments and acquisitions, such as B. 1935 the collection of Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bissing (1873–1956) with mainly Egyptian objects or the coin collection of the lawyer and notary Horst Egon Berkowitz .

Emergence

Plan from 1894
Signature of Carl Schuchhardt as director of the Kestner Museum on June 1, 1906

Art-interested citizens of Hanover contributed to the founding of the museum in the 19th century. It was inaugurated on November 9th, 1889 and at that time it had a neo-renaissance facade that is now hidden behind a modern facade. When it opened, it already had extensive art treasures from ancient Egypt , antiquity and the Middle Ages . The first director was Carl Schuchhardt , but in 1908 he moved to the Völkerkundemuseum in Berlin as director of the prehistory department .

The original old museum building still exists today in a special form. Its partial destruction by bombing during World War II was countered by a remodeling between 1958 and 1961. A conversion and extension with a glass-concrete facade with approx. 5,000 windows has been enclosing the remains of the building since then. This concrete cube is now a listed building .

Today it is one of the most important museums of applied arts in Germany. In order to “bring the museum closer to the present” (Schepers), increased attention was paid to product design during Wolfgang Schepers' directorate .

Directors

Directors of the independent museum

Directors of the "Museums for Cultural History Hannover" association

See also

Individual exhibits:

literature

  • Brunswick-Hanover coins . In: Men from the Morgenstern Heimatbund at the mouth of the Elbe and Weser. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 3 . Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung, today Nordsee Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven 1931, p. 2 ( digital version [PDF; 4.2 MB ; accessed on October 16, 2018]).
  • Ulrich Gehrig : Annual Report 1977–1981. , In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 36, pp. 109–186
  • Ulrich Gehrig (Ed.): 100 Years of the Kestner Museum Hannover. 1889-1989. Kestner Museum, Hanover 1989, ISBN 3-924029-14-8 .
  • Esther Orant in collaboration with Wolfgang Schepers (editor): Mein Kestner. Museum visitors and their favorite piece. Accompanying document on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name from September 14 to December 17, 2006 in the Kestner Museum in Hanover Kestner-Museum, Hannover 2006, ISBN 978-3-924029-40-1 and ISBN 3-924029-40-7 table of contents .
  • Helmar Härtel: Manuscripts of the Kestner Museum in Hanover. (= Medieval manuscripts in Lower Saxony , Volume 11), Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04099-8 .
  • Eberhard Dziobek (Ed.): The mysterious grave 63. The latest discovery in the Valley of the Kings. Archeology and Art by Susan Osgood. Rahden 2009.
  • Simone Vogt : The coins of Augustus in the August Kestner Museum. Rahden 2009.
  • Christian E. Loeben , Sven Kappel: The plants in the ancient Egyptian garden. An inventory catalog of the Egyptian collection in the August Kestner Museum. Rahden 2009, ISBN 978-3-86757-452-5 .
  • Werner Seibt : A look into Byzantine society. The lead seals in the August Kestner Museum. Rahden 2011.
  • Britta Rabe : Between design and product. The Greco-Roman plaster molds from Egypt in the August Kestner Museum. (= Philippika , Volume 44), Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-447-06484-2 .
  • Marko Jelusić: A haven for world-famous art. Bad Wildungen as a salvage depot for the State Museum and the Kestner Museum Hannover during the Second World War. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter 65 (2011), pp. 111-134, ISBN 3-7752-5965-1 ( online at academia.edu).
  • Christian E. Loeben, Lothar Sickel: Kestner Museum - 125 Years - Museum August Kestner. Wehrhahn, Hannover 2014, ISBN 978-3-86525-440-5 .
  • Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt, Werner Seibt: The Byzantine man in his environment. Further lead seals from the Zarnitz Collection in the August Kestner Museum. Leidorf, Rahden 2015, ISBN 978-3-86757-457-0 .

Series collection catalogs of the Kestner Museum Hannover

  1. Christel Mosel: glass. Middle Ages, Biedermeier. Kestner Museum, Hanover 1979
  2. Ursula Liepmann: Glass of antiquity. Kestner Museum, Hanover 1982
  3. Christoph Battenberg: The collection of the seal stamp in the Kestner Museum Hanover. Kestner Museum, Hanover 1985, ISBN 3-924029-05-9
  4. Joachim Raeder : The Byzantine coins in the Kestner Museum Hanover. Kestner Museum, Hanover 1987, ISBN 3-924029-08-3
  5. Rosemarie Drenkhahn : Egyptian reliefs in the Kestner Museum Hanover. Kestner Museum, Hannover 1989, ISBN 3-924029-11-3
  6. Wendula Barbara Gercke: Etruscan art in the Kestner Museum Hanover. Kestner Museum, Hanover 1996, ISBN 3-924029-25-3
  7. Frank Berger : The coins of the Roman Republic in the Kestner Museum Hanover. Kestner Museum, Hanover 1989, ISBN 3-924029-12-1
  8. Alexander Mlasowsky : The antique clay lamps in the Kestner Museum Hannover. Kestner Museum, Hanover 1993, ISBN 3-924029-13-X
  9. Frank Berger: The antique gold coins in the Kestner Museum Hanover. Kestner Museum, Hanover 1991, ISBN 3-924029-15-6
  10. Alexander Mlasowsky: The ancient Tesseren in the Kestner Museum Hanover. Tokens, gaming and distribution tokens in ancient Rome. Kestner Museum, Hanover 1991, ISBN 3-924029-16-4
  11. Hela Schandelmaier: Lower Saxony faience I. The Lower Saxony manufactories. Braunschweig I and II, Hannoversch Münden, Wrisbergholzen. Kestner Museum, Hanover 1993, ISBN 3-924029-20-2 .
  12. Frank Berger: The medieval bracteates in the Kestner Museum Hanover. Part 1. Kestner Museum, Hanover 1993, ISBN 3-924029-21-0 .
  13. Frank Berger: The medieval bracteates in the Kestner Museum Hanover. Part 2. Kestner Museum, Hanover 1993, ISBN 3-924029-26-1 .

Series Museum Kestnerianum

  1. Elke Niewöhner: Islamic Art , Kestner Museum, Hanover 1991, ISBN 3-924029-18-0
  2. Regine Marth: The treasure of the Golden Plate , Kestner Museum, Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-924029-22-9
  3. Elisabeth Reissinger: Porcelain from Fürstenberg , Kestner Museum, Hanover 1997, ISBN 3-924029-27-X
  4. Claudia Caspers: REAL. Forgeries and originals from the Kestner Museum , Kestner Museum, Hanover 2001
  5. Hans-Georg Aschoff : In the footsteps of August Kestner , Kestner Museum, Hanover 2003, ISBN 3-924029-33-4
  6. Anette Brunner: Renaissance. Reception of antiquities in the applied arts of the 15th to 19th centuries , Kestner Museum, Hanover 2003, ISBN 3-924029-35-0
  7. Manfred Gutgesell , Anne Viola Siebert : Olympia - Money and Sport in Antiquity , Kestner Museum, Hanover 2004, ISBN 3-924029-36-9
  8. Sabine Schmidt: Gold - coconut - stainless steel. Kunstkammer treasures yesterday and today , Kestner Museum, Hanover 2005, ISBN 3-924029-37-7
  9. Thorsten Henke: Religious worlds of images. Medieval textiles and manuscripts in the Kestner Museum , Kestner Museum, Hanover 2005, ISBN 3-924029-38-5
  10. Angelika Dierichs , Anne Viola Siebert: Fragrance notes. What got the Greeks and Romans in the nose , Kestner Museum, Hanover 2006, ISBN 3-924029-39-3
  11. Esther Orant: Art Nouveau. Art Nouveau. Modern style , Kestner-Museum, Hannover 2007, ISBN 978-3-924029-42-5
  12. Esther Orant: Silver for the altar. 1900 until today. The model collection of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover , Museum August Kestner, Hanover 2009, ISBN 978-3-924029-47-0
  13. Tina Pandorf: 100 highlights. European silver from 4 centuries , Museum August Kestner, Hanover 2009, ISBN 978-3-924029-48-7
  14. Anne Viola Siebert: August Kestner, Etruria and Etruscology , Museum August Kestner, Hanover 2010, ISBN 978-3-924029-49-4
  15. Christian E. Loeben : The Egypt Collection of the Museum August Kestner and their (war) losses. Leidorf, Rahden 2011, ISBN 978-3-86757-454-9 .
  16. Anne Viola Siebert: Story (s) in tone. Roman architectural terracottas , Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-2579-1
  17. Sieke Ehlers: Form + material = product. Materials in Design , Museum August Kestner, Hanover 2012, ISBN 978-3-924029-51-7
  18. Anne Viola Siebert, Bärbel Morstadt , Johannes Gilhaus: From Aphrodite's island. Cypriot antiquities in the August Kestner Museum. Museum August Kestner, Hannover 2013, ISBN 978-3-924029-52-4 .
  19. Wolfgang Schepers : Citizens' Treasures. Collect for Hanover. 125 years of the August Kestner Museum. Museum August Kestner, Hannover 2013, ISBN 978-3-924029-53-1 .
  20. Eva glasses: departure, upheaval, style break? 1950s and 1960s design. Museum August Kestner, Hannover 2014, ISBN 978-3-924029-55-5 .
  21. Florian Ebeling, Christian E. Loeben: O Isis and Osiris. Egypt's Mysteries and Freemasonry. Leidorf, Rahden 2017, ISBN 978-3-86757-022-0 .
  22. Thorsten Henke: Magnificent pieces - art & culture of the baroque era. Museum August Kestner, Hannover 2019, ISBN 978-3-924029-66-1 .

Series of civilization patterns

  1. Detlev Büttner, Eva Gläser, Christian E. Loeben, Anne Viola Siebert, Andreas Urban, Simone Vogt: Power, powerlessness. A reading book for viewing. Museum August Kestner, Hannover 2016, ISBN 978-3-924029-56-2 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ MAK boss Wolfgang Schepers is taking early retirement after 15 years ; March 14, 2014, accessed December 19, 2014.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 5 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 11"  E