Museum of the Darmstadt Artists' Colony

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Former main entrance of the Ernst-Ludwig-Haus with an outside staircase

The Museum Künstlerkolonie on the Darmstadt Mathildenhöhe is dedicated to the history of the Darmstadt artists' colony , its exhibitions and the artists of the colony.

history

The museum is located in the Ernst Ludwig House, which was reconstructed at the end of the 1980s, and is the group's joint studio building, which was built from 1900 onwards based on plans by Joseph Maria Olbrich for the exhibition “A Document of German Art” (1901). The museum, which opened in May 1990, documents the 15-year history of the Darmstadt artist community from 1899 to 1914 and provides an overview of the works of its 23 members.

In the foyer, a chronology of the artists' colony serves as an introduction; you then enter the small museum in the middle of three rooms. The wooden interior of one of the Mathildenhöhenhäuser from 1908 was installed there after it was torn out of its original location in the 1960s because the state wanted to be reconstructed there from 1901. The exhibits in the rooms to the right and left, furniture and other utensils, stand freely in the room on flat plinths and pedestals. An attempt was made to recreate the spatial dimensions of the living spaces for which the exhibited furniture, ceramics and metal objects were designed. Models also depict the settlement in various stages of development.

Each artist is briefly presented biographically and with his or her work.

Special exhibitions

Special exhibitions are held regularly in the museum. For example:

  • 1992: Eugen Bracht (1842–1921): landscape painter in the Wilhelmine Empire.
  • 2011: the splendor of an era. Art Nouveau jewelry by the seven pioneers of the artist colony
  • 2013: August Lucas - Who is looking for angels .
  • 2016/2017: Ludwig Meidner - Encounters .
  • 2017/2018: Otto Bartning (1883–1959). Architect of a social modern age .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the middle the brooch. In the FAZ of August 19, 2011, page 46
  2. ^ Travel to Italy in FAZ of October 8, 2013, page 38
  3. ↑ Everything falls. In the FAZ of October 31, 2016, page B4
  4. ↑ Refomer the Reformation in the FAZ of 23 November 2017 Page 34
  5. ^ For the benefit of users in the FAZ of December 27, 2017, page B3

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 35.3 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 5.5"  E