Gunzenhauser Museum

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Building after the renovation
Gunzenhauser Museum, aerial view

The Gunzenhauser Museum of the Chemnitz Art Collections is an art museum of classical modernism in Chemnitz . It comprises the collection of the Munich art dealer Alfred Gunzenhauser , which consists of 2,459 works by 270 artists of the 20th century . Of these, 300 works are in the permanent exhibition. The Gunzenhauser Museum was opened on December 1, 2007 in the presence of Federal President Horst Köhler , making it the first collector's museum in the new federal states . The management is in the hands of the Chemnitz Art Collections. The museum is not far from Falkeplatz , on the corner between Stollberger and Zwickauer Straße.

Building history

Museum at night

The museum building was built between 1928 and 1930 as the former headquarters of Sparkasse Chemnitz in the New Objectivity style and was one of the first high-rise buildings in Chemnitz. Fred Otto (1883–1944), City Planning Officer for structural engineering from 1925 to 1944, deliberately avoided anything decorative and used light, beige-colored travertine for the facades . So the balanced proportions and the clear structure of the building came to the fore. The aesthetic center of the building is the former ticket hall, which is illuminated through a glass roof. During the conversion to a museum, which cost 9.5 million euros, the spatial potential of the existing building was optimally used by the Berlin architect Volker Staab and structural additions and interventions were kept as small as possible.

collection

In July 2003, the Munich gallery owner Alfred Gunzenhauser signed the contract for the permanent presentation of his collection in Chemnitz. The exhibition opened in December 2007. The main part of the private collection is a comprehensive inventory of works of expressionism . In line with the local roots of the “ Brücke ”, the exhibition also includes works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , who were connected to one another through their school days in Chemnitz. Works by Alexej von Jawlensky - with 76 works the second largest collection of the Russian artist in the world - and Gabriele Münter from the " Blauer Reiter " with 55 paintings, reverse glass paintings and prints are represented more quantitatively . The Jawlensky collection is the second largest in Germany. Both expressionist artist groups are complemented by works by various artists such as Christian Rohlfs , Paula Modersohn-Becker and Helmut Kolle . Max Beckmann is represented with interesting paintings from the 1930s and 1940s . Works by Karl Hubbuch , Franz Radziwill , Alexander Kanoldt , Georg Schrimpf and Gustav Wunderwald come from the time of the Weimar Republic . 114 works are by Conrad Felixmüller .

The heart of the museum is one of Otto Dix's largest museum collections with 290 works . The entire 3rd floor of the museum is dedicated to him. The first self-portrait painted in oil from 1912, early paintings from the time at the Dresden School of Applied Arts , important watercolors and gouaches from the time of the First World War as well as important works from the 1920s , works from the time of the inner emigration and representative examples from the later work are included in this collection. Works by Willi Baumeister , Fritz Winter , Ernst Wilhelm Nay , Bernard Schultze and Emil Schumacher as well as by Karl Hofer , Johannes Grützke , Horst Antes , Klaus Fußmann , Karl Horst Hödicke and Rainer Fetting date from the period after the Second World War . The works by Lovis Corinth on display are also worth mentioning .

Special exhibitions

literature

Web links

Commons : Museum Gunzenhauser (Chemnitz)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 43 ″  N , 12 ° 54 ′ 55 ″  E