West Coast Art Museum

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West Coast Art Museum

The Museum Art of the West Coast is located in Alkersum on the North Frisian island of Föhr . As a non-profit donor museum - the starting point of which is the historically oriented painting collection of the museum donor Frederik Paulsen - it collects, researches and communicates art that deals with the topic of "sea and coast". Based on Paulsen's collection of paintings, temporary exhibitions will be realized which will relate the works of the collection to other positions in European art history as well as to contemporary art.

The operator is the Det Paulsen Legaat non-profit GmbH ( Fering , German: "The Paulsen legacy"). The museum is donated by Frederik Paulsen junior, CEO of the pharmaceutical company Ferring . The Museum Art of the West Coast was opened in 2009 by founding director Thorsten Sadowsky, who was in charge until 2013. Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen has been director of the museum since May 2013. About 47,000 people visit the museum annually.

collection

The painting, graphic and photography collection includes more than 700 works from the period between 1830 and 1930 and from 1995 to the present day. They are shown in excerpts under changing themes. The focus is on the topic of “sea and coast” along the west coast from the Netherlands to Germany and Denmark to Norway. The collection includes works by artists from European art history such as Edvard Munch , Emil Nolde , Max Liebermann , Max Beckmann , Anna Ancher , Michael Ancher , Johan Christian Clausen Dahl , Peder Severin Krøyer , Christian Krohg , Hendrik Willem Mesdag , Jozef Israëls and Andreas Schelfhout . The museum collection also includes contemporary works of art on the subject of “Sea and Coast”, such as works by Fiona Tan and Yinka Shonibare .

architecture

The museum garden with the ensemble of buildings of the museum.
The museum garden with the ensemble of buildings of the museum.

Based on a design by the architect Gregor Sunder-Plassmann , the Museum of Art on the West Coast is designed as a multi-part building ensemble that brings together tradition and modernity. An exhibition area totaling 900 m² is available in six hall buildings.

The daylight museum contrasts with its rural surroundings. Other components of the overall complex are the museum garden and the Grethjens Gasthof, which was built in the style of a Scandinavian mansion from around 1900 and which houses the museum catering. The name goes back to Grethjen Hayen (1824–1910) who ran an inn in the same place for a long time. This inn was the residence and meeting point of several artists, such as the co-founder of the Berlin Secession , Otto Heinrich Engel , who stayed in the inn every summer between 1901 and 1907.

Publications

  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Museum Art of the West Coast (ed.): Fritz Overbeck and Hermine Overbeck-Rohte. The Worpswede artist couple on Sylt and Föhr, on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name. Heide 2017, ISBN 978-3-80-421463-7 .
  • Mila Teishaieva (Ed.): InselWesen. Photo book for the exhibition from June 26th - 8.1.2017 in the Museum Art of the West Coast. Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86-828847-6 .
  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Museum Art of the West Coast (ed.): Jochen Hein - About the depth. Exhibition catalog. Heide 2016, ISBN 978-3-80-421444-6 .
  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Museum Art of the West Coast (ed.): Max Liebermann and contemporaries. New works in the collection. Exhibition catalog. Heide 2016, ISBN 978-3-80-421438-5 .
  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Museum Art of the West Coast (Ed.): Hans Peter Feddersen (1848–1941). Of air and light. Of wind and clouds. Exhibition catalog. Heide 2016, ISBN 978-3-80-421428-6 .
  • Martina Nommsen, Museum Art of the West Coast (Ed.): Papermania. Paper as a medium in contemporary art. Exhibition catalog. Alkersum 2015, ISBN 978-3-94-287207-2 .
  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Museum Art of the West Coast (ed.): Paula Modersohn-Becker & Otto Modersohn. The Amrum trip 1903. Exhibition catalog. Heide 2014, ISBN 978-3-80-421407-1 .
  • Museum Art of the West Coast (ed.): Edvard Munch. Alpha & Omega. Exhibition catalog. Alkersum 2013, ISBN 978-3-94-287206-5 .
  • Thorsten Sadowsky (Ed.): Handwork. Material and symbolism. Exhibition catalog. Alkersum 2013, ISBN 978-3-94-287202-7 .
  • Thorsten Sadowsky (Ed.): Change of scene. Contemporary art in the Museum of West Coast Art 2009–2014. Exhibition catalog. Alkersum 2013, ISBN 978-3-94-287203-4 .
  • Thorsten Sadowsky (Ed.): Meeresteile - Seascapes. Exhibition catalog. Alkersum 2010, ISBN 978-3-98-129694-5 .
  • Thorsten Sadowsky (ed.): From mountains to mountains. Items from the West Coast Art Collection. Exhibition catalog. Heide 2009, ISBN 978-3-80-421294-7 .

Web links

Commons : Museum Art of the West Coast  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An art collection for the island. shz.de, August 31, 2008, accessed on March 22, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Official website , accessed June 5, 2013.
  3. ↑ Director leaves Museum Art of the West Coast on Föhr. Die Welt, October 15, 2012, accessed on March 22, 2013 .
  4. ^ Museum of West Coast Art in Alkersum: Painting more sea. Zeit Online, September 7, 2009, accessed March 22, 2013 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 29.5 ″  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 36 ″  E