Museum Bochum - art collection

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Bochum Art Museum, March 2004

The Bochum Museum - Art Collection (also known as the Bochum Art Museum ) was opened in 1960 in the Villa Marckhoff-Rosenstein and expanded in 1983 with a new building by the Danish architects Jørgen Bo and Vilhelm Wohlert . The collection includes works of art from the 20th century, including works by Francis Bacon and Roberto Matta .

Villa Marckhoff-Rosenstein, September 2015

The double villa Marckhoff-Rosenstein was built in 1900 in the style of historicism and was inhabited for a long time by the influential Rosenstein and Marckhoff families. It is commonly said that the composition of the facade of the villa is based on the (old) Paris Opera, the so-called Opéra Garnier . In fact, the construction and design are closely related to the bank building built by Hermann Otto Pflaume (1860–1863) for the Schaaffhausen'sche Bankverein in Cologne. In 1854 the bank played an important role in the transformation of the Mayer & Kühne company into the “ Bochumer Verein für Bergbau und Gußstahlfabrikation” company. The villa suffered severe damage during the Second World War , but was soon repaired. The city acquired the building around 1960.

The roof structure that was newly erected after the war put too much strain on the outer walls. In February 2003 the Moritz Fiege private brewery in Bochum launched the “Villa Marckhoff Initiative” to renovate the facade.

Since March 2014 the museum and the villa have been listed in the Route of Industrial Culture , themed route Bochum .

The art historian Hans Günter Golinski has been director of the museum since 1997 . Opposite the museum is the Bochum city park with art objects made of steel.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Welt from August 3, 2014 NRW: Hans Günter Golinski: Director of the Art Museum , accessed on April 26, 2018

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 14.7 "  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 16.4"  E