Ulm Museum

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Museum Ulm (2015)

The Museum Ulm (formerly the Ulmer Museum) is a museum for art, archeology and urban and cultural history in Ulm .

It was founded in 1924. His exhibitions include the archaeological collection with finds from the prehistory and early history of the Ulm area (including the “ Lion Man ”), painting and sculpture from the late Gothic and Renaissance periods from Ulm and Upper Swabia . Evidence of handicrafts from the 16th to the 19th century from the history of Ulm's handicrafts, guilds and cities are also collected and presented.

history

The founding director and first art historian at the museum was from April 1, 1924 the conservator and university professor Julius Baum . So, according to Erwin Treu, “its real story” began. “An institute emerged from a junk room”. After Baum was dismissed in 1933, the museum was managed by Adolf Häberle until 1945 .

collection

prehistory

The lion man , discovered in 1939 during an archaeological excavation in the Hohlenstein barn in the Lone Valley , is kept and presented in an elaborately designed chamber in the Ulm Museum

The archaeological museum's permanent collection has been redesigned in 2014 after more fragments of the 35,000 to 41,000-year-old sculpture of mammoth - ivory at the original location in the Lone Valley were recovered. The partly animal, partly human figure is referred to as a lion man and represents an upright human being with the head and limbs of a cave lion . In an extremely complex restoration process in 2012/13, the figure was completely reassembled from over 300 fragments and revealed now many other details not known before.

In addition to the lion man from the Hohlenstein-Stadel , his surroundings on the Swabian Alb are also presented . Numerous ancient to Neolithic exhibits, including the finds from the neighboring Bockstein Cave , are shown. Above all, this includes the exhibit of a Neanderthal thigh bone. This is the only bone of this human form in Baden-Württemberg so far. There are also Mesolithic burials from the Bockstein cave and from the Hohlenstein barn .

Middle Ages and Modern Times

Jörg Stocker: Carrying the Cross (Ulmer Museum)
Not only August Macke's watercolor with a yellow jacket from 1913 belongs to the inventory of the Ulm Museum, but also other representative works of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Many important representatives of the Ulm School are presented in the Museum Ulm . The entire development of late Gothic art from Master Hartmann and Hans Multscher to Martin Schaffner , Michel Erhart , Hans Schüchlin , Jörg Stocker , Niklaus Weckmann , Bartholomäus Zeitblom to Daniel Mauch is demonstrated in the museum through valuable exhibits. The Upper Swabian and Allgäu cultural landscape of the late Gothic is represented by works by Bernhard Strigel and others, which allows good direct comparisons and style studies.

Representative works from the 20th and 21st centuries also belong to the Ulm collection, such as Paul Klee , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , August Macke and Franz Marc .

The museum repeatedly presents thematic special exhibitions that make the complicated connections of Ulm's late Gothic visible. Research focuses on the Ulm artist families around Hans Multscher, Jörg Syrlin (the elder) , Jörg Syrlin (the younger) , Michel Erhart , Gregor Erhart and Daniel Mauch.

Since November 14, 1999, a new presentation on the subject of “European and American Art after 1945” has been on view in the extension. In addition, graphics of the 20th century are presented with classic modernism in changing exhibitions .

  • Michel Erhart: Reliquary bust of St. Maria Magdalena, Ulm, around 1475–1480, limewood

  • Enthroned Maria with child, Upper Swabia, beg. 13th century, limewood

  • Meister Hartmann: The Duke of Saxony, Ulm, around 1420–1425, sandstone

  • Hans Multscher: The King of Bohemia, Ulm, around 1427–1433, sandstone

  • Michel Erhart: St. Christophoros, Ulm, around 1480, sandstone

  • Niklaus Weckmann: St. Katharina, Ulm, around 1510, linden wood

  • Daniel Mauch: Standing angel with cornucopia, Ulm around 1520, lime wood

Friends of the Ulmer Museum e. V.

The association “Friends of the Ulmer Museum e. V. “was founded in 1982 in Ulm. It supports the special interests of the Ulm Museum and promotes its scientific work.

Special exhibitions (selection)

  • 1995: The Lion Man . The opposite tension of yesterday and today: the lion man, 32,000 years ago: to the latest technology: the youngest and the oldest. In cooperation with the Museum of Modern Art Munich , January 20th - March 5th
  • 2003: Tamara Grcic - videos, films, installations, July 20 - September 28
  • 2003: Ulmer citizens & Söflinger nuns, August 30th - November 23rd
  • 2004: Carol Rama - Appassionata , September 12th - November 14th
  • 2004: Arno Schmidt , Four times four - photographs from Bargfeld, December 4, 2004 to January 30, 2005
  • 2005: Emil Nolde , eye contacts, early portraits, April 2 - August 15
  • 2005: Leiko Ikemura , sculpture-painting-drawing, February 12th - April 24th
  • 2006: Charlotte Salomon , Life? Or theater? In cooperation with the Joods Historisch Museum , Amsterdam, (stops: March 16 - June 3, 2007 Taxispalais , Innsbruck; October 22, 2006 to February 11, 2007 Ulmer Museum; October 12, 2005 to January 15, 2006 Sprengel Museum , Hanover ; March 11, 2005 to May 16, 2005 Chemnitz Art Collections ; June 18 - August 22, 2004 Das Städel , Frankfurt)
  • 2006: Karin Kneffel , Seduction and Distance // Seduction and Distance, (stations: Mönchehaus Museum , Goslar, Museum Sinclair-Haus , Bad Homburg)
  • 2007: The cabinet of curiosities of Christopher Weick man, Reflections on a collection - FEBRUARY 17 April 29 2007
  • 2008: Michaela Melián : Speicher, April 19 - June 22, 2008
  • 2009: Cosmos and Marionette. Paul Klee and Romanticism, March 8th - May 17th, 2009
  • 2011: Die Weissenhofer : Radical Research - The roots of science, April 3 - May 29, 2011
  • 2015: MACK . The light of my colors, September 11, 2015 to January 10, 2016
  • 2017: Walt Disney Fantasies Never Get Old, May 20 - September 17, 2017
  • 2017: Expect Miracles! The museum as a cabinet of curiosities and Wunderkammer , 20 May to 15 October 2017

Publications

  • Catalogs of the Ulm Museum. 1981-
  • Erwin Treu (Ed.): Ulmer Museum, Catalog I: Sculpture and Painting from the 13th Century to 1600 , Ulm 1981
  • Brigitte Reinhardt (eds.): Michel Erhart & Jörg Syrlin d. Ä. - Late Gothic in Ulm . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1718-1

Web links

Commons : Ulmer Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Kanold: Interjection: The Ulm Museum is now called Museum Ulm. swp.de, May 10, 2017, accessed June 9, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Erwin Treu: History of the Ulmer Museum , in: Ulmer Museum. Catalogs of the Ulmer Museum, Catalog I, Sculpture and Painting from the 13th Century to 1600 , Ulm 1981, p. 12.
  3. ^ Ice Age archeology on the Swabian Alb. The sites in the Ach and Lone Valley and in their surroundings , ed. by Nicholas J. Conard , Michael Bolus, Ewa Dutkiewicz and Sibylle Wolf, Kerns Verlag Tübingen, 2015, p. 255, ISBN 978-3-935751-24-7
  4. ^ Ulm city information
  5. ↑ Friends of the Ulmer Museum e. V.

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 ′ 49.3 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 41.3"  E