Ratingen Museum

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Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 55.6 ″  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 49.6 ″  E The Ratingen Museum houses the municipal collection of modern art and the cultural-historical exhibition on the history and development of Ratingen . The museum is located in the immediate vicinity of the historic city center . Not far from there are parts of the historic city wall and defense towers . Alexandra König, who holds a doctorate in art history, was the director from 2011 to 2019. In 2019, the deputy director and art historian Wiebke Siever took over the management of the museum.

history

The Ratingen Museum was founded in 1926 as a local museum . Was housed the first small collection in the so-called community center , the medieval core, 1751 renewed City Hall building in the market square. In 1977 the museum moved to its current location, initially limited to the historical rooms on Lintorfer Straße. The small town house from the mid-19th century and an adjoining office building served as improvised exhibition space. In 1978 an extension was built on Grabenstrasse. The striking architecture of the new city ​​museum with exposed walls, concrete ceilings and exposed ventilation pipes corresponded to the taste of the time that the Center Pompidou , which had just opened in Paris , was celebrating. In 1990 the museum was expanded to include additional exhibition space, so that today it presents its collections and temporary exhibitions on an area of ​​around 1,600 m 2 .

In 2012, the Ratingen Museum was renovated from January to September. In addition to a new fire and burglar alarm system , a flexible rail system for lighting was installed, which reacts to the different requirements of the internal structure of exhibitions.

Art collection

Modern art from the post-war period after the Second World War in Germany to the present day forms the focus of the collection of paintings , drawings and graphics . Particular attention is paid to the work of the informal painter Peter Brüning from Ratingen . Sculptures are particularly illuminated in the project "Kunstweg" in relation to the surrounding landscape . The museum also houses the legacies of the sculptors Maria Fuss and Doris Rücker. The extensive porcelain collection of Johann Peter Melchior , a porcelain modeler of the late 18th century, ultimately forges a close connection between art and handicrafts .

Exhibitions

  • January 11, 2004 - February 15, 2004: “ Marcus Schwier : works. Architecture & Landscape "
  • March 16 - August 24, 2014: " Anatol . Works from the Gertz Collection"
  • May 23 - October 19, 2014: " Barbara Heinisch - The Origin of Painting"
  • July 31, 2015 - November 1, 2015: “The boy and the stranger. Hann Trier on his 100th birthday "
  • September 25, 2015 - January 31, 2016: “Broadcasting - Stone Age sample, image and sound. Birgit Jensen and Jörg Steinmann "
  • January 29, 2016 - May 22, 2016: “Disassembled! Assembled! Photo collages by Nadin Maria Rüfenacht , Anett Stuth and Christopher Muller "
  • September 7, 2018 - January 6, 2019: " Renata Jaworska : SuperLand, superRheinland"
  • April 12, 2019 - October 10, 2019: " Marcus Schwier : Ratingen-West" A city portrait
  • June 28, 2019 - October 6, 2019: " Boris Nieslony : That it happens"

Exhibition catalogs

  • Museum Ratingen, friends and sponsors of the Museum Ratingen (ed.): Art after 1945 in the Museum of the City of Ratingen - A stocktaking. Cologne 2011.
  • Museum Ratingen (Ed.): Still life. Carl Schuch and contemporary still life photography. Ratingen 2013.
  • Museum Ratingen, LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn (ed.): The boy and the unknown. Hann Trier on his 100th birthday. Dortmund 2015.
  • Museum Ratingen (Ed.): Renata Jaworska SuperLand, SuperRheinland. Ratingen 2018
  • Museum Ratingen (ed.): Marcus Schwier: Ratingen-West. Ratingen 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. RP online from August 10, 2019: Ratingen: New boss in the city's museum , accessed on August 10, 2019