Ostwall Museum

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Logo "Museum Ostwall" after the move
The Dortmunder U: New location for the “Museum Ostwall” collection since October 2010 with the animation “Flying Pictures” by Adolf Winkelmann , 2010

The Museum Ostwall (MO) is Dortmund's museum for the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. It was founded in 1947 on the Ostwall, which gave it its name, as the “Museum am Ostwall” on a war-torn museum location and retained the “core name” when the art collection moved from the eastern to the western part of the inner-city Wallring to the newly opened Dortmund U in the Ruhr.2010 year of culture capital . The “Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U” was able to strengthen its importance as a place of Fluxus art through donations, purchases and exhibitions .

history

At the original location of the museum (Ostwall 7) was the building of the former state mining office , which was built from 1872–1875 based on a design by the Berlin architect Gustav Knoblauch , before it was largely destroyed in World War II . From 1911 it housed the municipal collection of the Museum of Art and Cultural History, founded in 1883, after a renovation according to the plans of the town planning officer Friedrich Kullrich . His art collection was moved to various castles in the spring of 1943 and thus saved from destruction in the war. After the Second World War, a temporary solution was found with the Cappenberg Castle until the return to Dortmund in 1983. In 1945 there was initially no place in Dortmund for the city's art collections. Under the name “Museum am Ostwall”, the museum was founded by the Dortmund Council in 1947 in order to create a place where modern art, ostracized by the National Socialists, and also Dortmund art should be shown. The new construction of the museum building was carried out using existing parts of the building and building materials, including in particular the so-called atrium with the original construction of the light ceiling. It was restored as early as 1947–1949 with the active help of Dortmund citizens without public funding. This makes the atrium the oldest and most beautiful event hall in Dortmund and the only surviving cultural building in Dortmund's inner city from the imperial era.

Under the direction of founding director Leonie Reygers , the gradual development of the collection began in 1949 as one of the first German post-war museums for the art of the twentieth century. The first exhibition was shown as early as 1949. In the first few years, the director's activities were accompanied by discussions about the future of the house. Should it be an art gallery or a museum with its own collection? In March 1954, the State Museum Administration for Westphalia-Lippe advised the establishment of a museum. In view of the competition between the cities, an independent institution for modern art is particularly important in Dortmund. In June 2009 the museum closed its doors at the old location and was reopened in October 2010 as the “Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U” as part of the Ruhr.2010 cultural capital year . The central theme of the new collection is “The museum as a power plant”. With works of art from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, the Ostwall Museum sees itself on the one hand as a store of creative energies from the past. On the other hand, it would like to take up impulses from everyday life in the present and process them with the means of art. The Ostwall Museum aims to be a place of artistic and social debate in which the public can and should participate. The question of how art is influenced by social processes and how it in turn affects society is at the center of the exhibition concept.

A subsequent use as an architectural archive has now been found for the abandoned location on Ostwall . After the citizens' initiative "Save the former museum on the east wall" had campaigned for the preservation of the building, the city council withdrew its 2010 demolition decision on December 11, 2014 with votes from the SPD, Greens, Left and Pirates. A book by Sonja Hnilica published by Klartext Verlag in 2014 illuminates the history of the old museum on Ostwall.

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Panoramic photo of the former museum on Ostwall from 2013

collection

Steel sculpture by Heinz-Günter Prager on the museum meadow at the old location
August Macke: Tree in the Cornfield (1907)

The collection was initially focused on works that were considered " degenerate art " during the Nazi era. In 1957 the Gröppel Collection , which comprised around two hundred paintings, sculptures and graphics, was acquired. Today the collection includes paintings, sculptures, objects and photos as well as over 2500 graphic sheets from Expressionism and Classical Modernism to the present day.

Mainly works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Otto Mueller , Emil Nolde and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , who founded the Dresden artists' association “ Brücke ” in 1905 , are part of the collection. The work of the avant-garde artist group “ Blauer Reiter ”, founded in 1912 , is shown through works by Wassily Kandinsky , Franz Marc , August Macke and Alexej von Jawlensky .

Today the museum houses the second largest collection of works by the painter Alexej von Jawlensky in Germany after the Wiesbaden Museum as well as works from the environment of the “Blue Rider”. It has 26 prints by Pablo Picasso from the 1940s and 1950s. The following artists are represented with individual works: Otto Dix , Lyonel Feininger , Alberto Giacometti , Paul Klee , Oskar Kokoschka and Oskar Schlemmer . Christian Rohlfs is particularly prominent in the still lifes , and the museum can display prints by Joan Miró , Marc Chagall and Salvador Dalí .

In addition, in the early 1990s over a thousand works of were Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Beuys , by Günther Uecker to Jean Tinguely , François Dufrene , Raymond Hains , Mimmo Rotella , Villeglé and Wolf Vostell from the collection of Siegfried Cremer acquired, the other one Form the focus of the museum in the areas of informal art , ZERO and Fluxus .

The Ostwall Museum was able to expand and consolidate its focus on fluxus in 2012 thanks to the holdings of two private collections. Almost 400 works and documents from the property of the collector and publisher Wolfgang Feelisch were acquired for the house with funds from the Friends of the Ostwall Museum and the city of Dortmund. More than 800 works and documents by u. a. George Brecht , Dick Higgins , Alison Knowles , Ray Johnson and Robert Watts on long-term permanent loan to the Museum Ostwall. A two-volume publication was published on these private collections in 2013, which not only presents the two collections, but also provides insights into the life and work of the two collectors, who were themselves actors in the movement, and not least the importance of the two collections for the cultural landscape in the Highlights region.

In an interview Edwin Jacobs explains the further plans with the Museum Ostwall. When asked: Will the Ostwall Museum continue to exist as a power plant? , he replied that the museum area should no longer be seen as an individual institute: The Ostwall Museum is more of a building block in a new overall context and thus more of a public, participatory workshop, where the collection is of course the starting point.

Museum director

  • Leonie Reygers (1947–1966)
  • Eugen Thiemann (1967–1987)
  • Ingo Bartsch (1988-2004)
  • Kurt Wettengl (2005-2015)

Since January 1st 2017, the art scholar and general director of the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, the Dutchman Edwin Jacobs , has been running the Museum Ostwall.

Exhibitions (selection)

Collection in motion

Under the title “Collection on the move”, the Ostwall Museum presents a part of its collection anew at regular intervals. In this way, new connections between the familiar, new purchases, permanent loans and works from the depots can be discovered again and again.

Interactive image archive

The interactive picture archive of the Ostwall Museum is part of the new collection presentation. Its aim is to collect photographic and digital images. It is conceived as a project in which everyone can participate and offers a platform for negotiation and participation in an image discourse that also includes visual evidence of everyday life beyond the imagery of art. The Ostwall Museum sees itself as a place for public discussion about art and culture, history and the present, architecture and the city, today's society and future prospects. The focus of his collection presentation is on happenings and fluxus and thus questions about the relationship between art and society. Based on the leitmotif of the museum work “The Museum as a Power Plant”, participatory approaches to art are also part of the museum's self-image, as is the active exchange with visitors. The interactive picture archive offers the possibility to do this.

MO shop window

In the MO shop window, an approximately 50 square meter room on the fourth level in the U, works by contemporary artists can be seen every three months. The room can also be seen from the stairwell, the art vertical, through a large pane of glass, which is how it was named.

So far have been shown:

speaker

The sound art is an inter-media art form of modern and contemporary art. Musical compositions, everyday noises, instrumental sounds and tones find their way into artistic works such as sound installations and actions, music performances or audio pieces. The Ostwall Museum presents its sound art program daily and free of charge in the loudspeaker on the museum floor, level 4 of the Dortmunder U. With a view of the city, historical and contemporary sound art productions can be heard since 2011 during the opening hours of the Ostwall Museum. The program for the past two years has focused on newer and newest productions, some of which have been developed for this space. The internationally performing sound artists work very differently - with samples, noises, electronics, turntables or also classically. The speaker program is curated by the artist and composer Peter C. Simon . The MO sound art program ended in June 2016.

Special exhibitions

Since the move to the Dortmund U, the Museum Ostwall has more exhibition space on the 6th level, which can also be used alternately by the other partners in the U. A wide range of special exhibitions have been held there since 2010.

  • Frame by frame - film and contemporary art. From the collection of the Center Pompidou . (December 18, 2010 to April 25, 2011)
  • Alex Katz : The perfect moment. In cooperation with the Albertina Vienna (February 20, 2012 to April 9, 2012)
  • Heinz Mack - Between the Times (May 6, 2012 to July 29, 2012)
  • Fluxus - art for EVERYONE! (August 25, 2012 to January 6, 2013)
  • City in Sight - Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection. From Feininger to Gursky . (April 20, 2013 to August 4, 2013)
  • Noah's Ark. About animals and humans in art. (November 15, 2014 to April 12, 2015)
  • Dieter Roth : Nice shit. Amateur masterpieces (May 21 - August 28, 2016)
  • “I am a fighter.” Images of women by Niki de Saint Phalle (in cooperation with the Sprengel Museum Hannover and the Niki Charitable Art Foundation ), December 10, 2016 - April 23, 2017.

Education and communication

The area of ​​"education and communication" plays a central role in the Museum Ostwall. With his offers he perceives mediation as a substantial task of the museum: The art mediation of the Museum Ostwall sees itself as educational work in the artistic and aesthetic field, the focus of which is the encounter with the exhibited art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The aim of the art mediation of the Museum Ostwall is to relate three different attitudes to the reception of art: The intensive consideration of works of art, the conversation about what has been seen and the own creative practice in the art workshop, which the Museum Ostwall has since moved to Dortmunder U on level U2 - cultural education is available. A varied and broad methodological vocabulary helps to set these various processes in motion.

Friends of the Ostwall Museum

The non-profit association “Friends of the Ostwall Museum e. V. ”supports the museum and helps to build up the collection. It co-finances the publication of art books and exhibition catalogs. The publications published so far include:

  • The Gap Show. Young time-critical art from Great Britain
  • Contemporary French drawings from the Frac Picardie collection
  • Munch revisited. Edvard Munch and today's art
  • Picasso - Matisse . Master graphics of classical modernism
  • Ines Hock . Visual pieces
  • Benno Elkan . A Jewish artist from Dortmund
  • Museum on the east wall. Cremer Collection (Volumes I – III)
  • Paths to Art. The Klüting Collection
  • Michael Bacht : installations, objects and pictures
  • Bernhard Hoetger in the Museum am Ostwall
  • Hartmut Boehm
  • Norbert Tadeusz . Existence and passion. Works 1962-2000
  • Masterpieces of Expressionism and Classical Modernism
  • Fluxus - art for EVERYONE! The Feelisch Collection
  • Fluxus - art for EVERYONE! The Braun / Lieff Collection

MO art award

In 2012, the Friends' Association announced its new “Follow me Dada and Fluxus” art prize, which is endowed with 10,000 euros and was first awarded in January 2014. Above all, young international artists who deal with Dada , Fluxus and conceptual art in their works should be considered . The prize money will be used to purchase a work by the selected artist and thus donate it to the Ostwall Museum. The first recipient of the award (2014) was Geoffrey Hendricks . The 2015 awardee was Benjamin Patterson . The 2016 award winner was the Viennese artist and musician Albert Mayr . In 2017, the video artist Bastian Hoffmann , born in Frankfurt am Main in 1983, received an award. In 2018 the MO Art Prize was awarded to the artist Lili Fischer .

Publications

  • Kurt Wettengl (ed.): The museum as a power plant . Museum am Ostwall in Dortmunder U, Dortmund and Bönen 2010.
  • Kurt Wettengl (Ed.): Fluxus - Art for All . Museum am Ostwall in Dortmunder U, The Feelisch Collection. Kehrer, Heidelberg and Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86828-449-2 .
  • Nicole Grothe, Daniela Ihrig (Ed.): Dieter Roth . Nice shit. Dilettante masterpieces . Dortmund 2016, ISBN 978-3-925998-58-4 .
  • Regina Selter, Ulrich Krempel (ed.): “I am a fighter.” Niki de Saint Phalle 's images of women . Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7757-4243-6 .

Others

The museum hit the headlines in November 2011 when a cleaning lady there cleaned part of Martin Kippenberger 's work of art, which is insured with 800,000 euros, when it begins to drip through the ceiling, and thus irrevocably destroyed it.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Fluxus-Kunst - 300 objects were purchased", press release of the city of Dortmund from August 20, 2012, accessed on March 28, 2014
  2. ↑ “Follow me Dada and Fluxus” Art Prize from the Friends of the Museum Ostwall eV, entry date: January 21, 2014, accessed on March 29, 2014
  3. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dortmund.de
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Sonne, Chair of GTA at TU Dortmund University, The Old Museum on Ostwall - New Research on Its History, accessed on March 31, 2014 ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rettet-das-ostwall-museum.jimdo.com
  5. ↑ http://www.dortmund.de/de/freizeit_und_kultur/museen/museum_ostwall/das_museum_mo/geschichte_mo/index.html
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  7. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dortmund.de
  8. ↑ Baukunstarchiv NRW planned - Old Museum Ostwall in Dortmund finally saved from demolition
  9. ↑ Citizens' initiative “Save the former museum on the Ostwall” website ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rettet-das-ostwall-museum.jimdo.com
  10. ^ "This city is more than Borussia", Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 28, 2014, accessed on March 31, 2014
  11. ↑ The almost unknown building history of the old Ostwall Museum - a book at the right time. revierpassagen.de, October 1, 2014, accessed on July 30, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Dufrene, Hains, Rotella, Villeglé, Vostell . Torn posters from the Cremer Collection, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1971.
  13. ↑ Cremer Collection
  14. ↑ http://www.dortmund.de/de/freizeit_und_kultur/museen/museum_ostwall/museumsshop_mo/ausstellungskataloge_ab_2010/index.html
  15. ↑ Peter Ortmann: For me, Schlingensief is a hero. In: www.choices.de. February 22, 2018, accessed February 23, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Homepage City of Dortmund: null New director for the Dortmunder U: Edwin Jacobs comes from Utrecht - Council will decide in autumn , accessed on December 28, 2016
  17. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dortmund.de
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  19. ↑ Printable press photos "Florian Hüttner: Reviere ums U" ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dortmund.de
  20. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dortmund.de
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  22. ↑ http://www.dortmund.de/de/freizeit_und_kultur/museen/museum_ostwall/bildung_kommunikation/index.html
  23. ↑ http://www.dortmund.de/de/freizeit_und_kultur/museen/museum_ostwall/freunde_mo/index.html
  24. ↑ http://www.dortmund.de/de/freizeit_und_kultur/museen/museum_ostwall/nachrichten_mo/detail_mo.jsp?nid=338257
  25. ↑ New MO art award. on: dortmund.de
  26. ↑ Next generation. Fluxus Prize to Albert Mayr in FAZ on September 3, 2016, page 13
  27. ↑ Video tutorials. Dortmund honors Bastian Hoffmann in FAZ on May 10, 2017, page 9
  28. ↑ Kippenberger installation scrubbed away: Die Putzufelin. In: Spiegel Online . November 3, 2011, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  29. ↑ Artwork destroyed, cleaning lady keeps job
  30. ↑ A cleaning lady asks - what is art? : Image of the artwork

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