Art Museum Solingen

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Art Museum Solingen (2007)

The Art Museum Solingen , until 2011 Museum Baden , has been an art museum in Solingen - Gräfrath since 1996 . The only center for persecuted arts in Europe opened on December 8, 2015 on the premises of the museum .

location

The Art Museum Solingen is located in the former town hall of Gräfrath , a building in the Neuberg style built between 1907 and 1908 , as well as its rear annex, which was built between 1995 and 1996. It is located on a hill above the historic town center of Gräfrath on Bundesstraße 224 .

history

The museum was officially founded on October 27, 1996 as Museum Baden . The name goes back to the founder couple Ilse and Kurt Baden, without whose commitment the museum could not have been realized. Rolf Jessewitsch has been the director of the museum since it opened.

Center for Persecuted Arts

The Center for Persecuted Arts, which opened on December 8, 2015, has been located in the building of the Art Museum Solingen since 2015. It was founded as a non-profit GmbH by the Rhineland Regional Council and the Blade City of Solingen . The center is in charge of the "Community Foundation for Persecuted Arts - Else Lasker Student Center - Gerhard Schneider Art Collection". This community foundation consists of the literary collection Die Verbrannten Dichter by journalist Jürgen Serke (acquired from the Else Lasker Schüler Foundation Burned and Exiled Poets / Artists - for a center of persecuted arts) and part of the art collection Discovered Modernism by collector Gerhard Schneider . On permanent loan from the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft, the Center for Persecuted Arts also houses the largest collection of original drawings by Else Lasker-Schüler outside of Israel. The collections u. a. of works by the Solingen-born painter Georg Meistermann , who was affected by the dictatorial cultural policy during National Socialism. Some works by the artist and resistance fighter Ernst Walsken and the emigrant Erwin Johannes Bowien (1899–1972) - a retrospective was dedicated to him in 2014 - belong to the municipal art collection and are also shown in the context of persecuted art.

In autumn 2013 the art museum organized the first festival of persecuted arts in cooperation with the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft. This was called Blown Tones and took place under the patronage of Konstantin Wecker . Participating artists included Winnie Böwe , Hamed Abdel-Samad , Robert Kreis and Ljavon Volski .

Municipal art collection

The art museum owns the Solingen municipal art collection with art from the 19th and 20th centuries (including local artists such as August Preuße ), the Arthur Dorp collection (29 works from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, for example by Lovis Corinth , Anselm Feuerbach , Wilhelm Leibl , Franz von Stuck , Hans Thoma , Wilhelm Trübner ).

Exhibitions of young art

In addition, current exhibitions of young art take place, including the annual International Bergische Kunstausstellung , which was founded in 1946 with regional artists as the Bergische Kunstausstellung .

Web links

Commons : Kunstmuseum Solingen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Stern magazine on the Serke Collection: [1]
  2. ↑ DER WESTEN on the Schneider Collection: [2]

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 25 ″  E