Jerke Museum

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The modern museum building in the midst of historical surroundings (2016)

The Museum Jerke is a privately financed and operated art museum in Recklinghausen . According to the Polish Institute in Düsseldorf , it is the first museum outside of Poland to exclusively show modern Polish art. It is located in the heart of the old town opposite the Provost Church of St. Peter and in the vicinity of the Icon Museum at Johannes-Janssen-Straße 7.

History of origin

The museum is named after and founded by the art collector Werner Jerke (* 1957), who moved from Upper Silesia to the Federal Republic in 1981 and works as an ophthalmologist in Herten . Jerkes personal ideas about the use and his design ideas for the museum building were implemented in concrete building plans by the architect Reinhard Waadt. The museum, built between 2014 and 2016 on the site of a demolished older corner house, opened on April 24, 2016.

Werner Jerke established a foundation in 2014, the Jerke Art Foundation gGmbH, to ensure the museum and the associated restaurant .

building

The modern structure of the museum with a pointed gable roof stands in contrast to the historically grown surrounding buildings in the old town of Recklinghausen in Crimea and was therefore not undisputed in Recklinghausen at the beginning.

Both the facades of the three-storey building and the roof areas are completely uniformly clad with rectangular slabs made of gray-blue Kosseine granite with a rough surface structure. The Polish artist Wojciech Fangor designed the irregularly shaped colorful window in the north-western gable in 2015. The exhibition areas are on the two upper floors of the building; there is a restaurant on the ground floor.

Exhibitions

On a total of 400 m², the museum shows paintings, sculptures and installations from Werner Jerkes’s private collection of over 600 pieces in changing exhibitions, which includes works of Polish modernism from 1960 onwards, but also rarities from the Polish avant-garde of the 1920s. The highlights of the exhibition are works by well-known artists such as Katarzyna Kobro , Władysław Strzemiński , Alina Szapocznikow , Tadeusz Kantor , Wilhelm Sasnal , Edward Krasiński, Hendryk Stażewski and Andrej Wróblewski, which have already been shown in renowned museums around the world.

Through close cooperation with young Polish artists and curators, the museum is also intended to become a platform for presenting the most interesting phenomena in Polish contemporary art, according to the museum's founder, Jerke. The painter, poet and graphic artist Ryszard Grzyb (2016), the painter Aleksandra Waliszewska (2017) and the painter, graphic artist and illustrator Radek Szlaga (2018) presented their work in special exhibitions.

Every year the museum takes part in the “Recklinghausen lights” light campaign in cooperation with other institutions.

reception

The new museum attracted national media attention, for example on Deutschlandfunk , in Focus magazine and in the newspaper Die Welt . Specialist publications from the construction industry, such as the Deutsche Bauzeitung and the internet guide Baukunst-nrw operated by the North Rhine-Westphalia Chamber of Architects, as well as media related to Poland, reported on the project. The Jerke Museum is now also listed in travel guides under the sights of Recklinghausen.

Web links

Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 55 "  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 48.4"  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Museum Jerke: The only museum for Polish modern art in Germany. In: PolenJournal. May 5, 2016, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b baukunst-nrw editors: Museum Jerke. In: baukunst-nrw. 2018, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Werner Jerke: Articles of Association Jerke Art Foundation gGmbH. 2014, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  4. ^ Alfred Pfeffer: Art in the window. Highlights of the museum facade . In: Recklinghäuser Zeitung . November 27, 2015.
  5. ^ Thomas Frank: Private Museum for Polish Art opened - "A work of art does not belong to you alone". In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de. April 24, 2016, accessed November 9, 2018 .
  6. ↑ DPA-RegiolineGeo: Culture: New Museum in Recklinghausen shows Polish art. In: Focus Online. April 22, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
  7. ↑ dpa-infocom GmbH: New Museum in Recklinghausen shows Polish art. In: Die Welt Online. April 22, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
  8. ^ Anette Kolkau: Marco Polo Travel Guide Ruhr Area . Mairdumont, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8297-7719-3 , pp. 88 ( online ).