Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund

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MKK Dortmund, entrance (2014)
Municipal art and trade museum on Ostwall Color 1922
Cappenberg Castle, main building

The Museum for Art and Cultural History ( MKK ) is a municipal museum in Dortmund ; it is located in the former municipal savings bank built by Hugo Steinbach in 1924 . The collections of paintings, sculptures, furniture and handicrafts give an insight into the cultural history of the city of Dortmund.

In terms of time, the collection includes exhibits from prehistory and early history through to exhibits from the 20th century. The Förderkreis Vermessungstechnisches Museum maintains a permanent exhibition on the history of surveying and presents rare geodetic instruments. The premises of the museum are regularly used for the presentation of nationally important art and cultural exhibitions.

history

Municipal art and trade museum

At the suggestion of the historian and grammar school teacher Eduard Roese , the city council decided on June 25, 1883 to create a “collection point” for historical and artistic objects. The first director was the drawing teacher Albert Baum , who put on an extensive collection.

The collection has seen several moves. Between 1899 and 1905 it was based in the then freshly restored Old Town Hall . In 1911 it was housed in the Oberbergamt , which had just become vacant , which had been built from 1872–75 based on a design by the Berlin architect Gustav Knoblauch and which had been rebuilt for new use according to the plans of the City Building Councilor Friedrich Kullrich . The “Municipal Art and Trade Museum” consisted of 70 rooms and at that time comprised archaeological finds as well as arts and crafts and local history objects.

Realignment as an art museum

Mainly under the direction of the art historian Rolf G. Fritz, who was initially appointed provisionally in 1934, the collection was reorganized and expanded to include art objects, especially paintings from the Romantic period. During the war the collection was relocated and thus saved from destruction. During this time the collection was given its current name.

Cappenberg Castle

In 1945 the Ostwall Museum was badly damaged in a bomb attack; After the reconstruction from 1947, the art of the twentieth century found its place there. The outsourced collection was shown in rented rooms in Cappenberg Castle near Lünen from 1946 . The holdings were supplemented by art treasures from various destroyed churches in Westphalia, such as the Marien Altar by Conrad von Soest from the Marienkirche Dortmund , with the museum's workshop participating in the restoration and research of these important church works of art.

In 1966 Horst Appuhn succeeded Rolf G. Fritz. Due to a lack of funds for a new museum building in Dortmund, Appuhn initially developed a small permanent exhibition in Cappenberg. The collection was expanded primarily to include historical furniture from Westphalia, which was intended to document living spaces from Gothic to Art Nouveau.

Relocation to the old city savings bank

In 1977 the city council passed the decision in principle to move the collection to the building of the old city ​​savings bank on the lower Hansastraße, which was built in the Art Deco style and registered as a monument in the monument list of the city of Dortmund . The new museum was opened in November 1983. From 1982 to 1986, the later Lord Mayor of Dortmund, Gerhard Langemeyer, was the director . The integration of the works of art into the presentation of handicrafts and historical finds was widely praised. The museum placed particular emphasis on educational work with children and young people.

Caspar David Friedrich , Winter Landscape (1811)
Exhibition Cézanne Manet Schuch

Exhibitions

On the occasion of its 100th birthday, the Dortmund Museum Society for the Care of Fine Arts gave the museum the altar panel " The Holy Family " by Jan Baegert (active from around 1505 to 1530). The work of art is part of an altarpiece that was only separated into four parts in the 20th century , one part of which was already in the museum's possession. The two remaining parts from the possession of the Hamburger Kunsthalle are on loan to the museum, so that the entire retable is currently on display in the museum.

Permanent exhibitions

  • Cultural history in fast motion
  • The small National Gallery (branch of the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin )
  • Exhibition on the history of surveying

Departments

  • Ground floor - Back to the Stone Age; Antiquities; Cafe Fluxus
  • 1st floor - The old city; Christian Art in the Middle Ages; Culture from 16. -18. Century
  • 1st and 2nd intermediate level - 19th century paintings with CD Friedrich, Slevogt, Corinth, von Werner and others
  • 2nd floor from Sunday and everyday life; pharmacy
  • 3rd floor Beautiful living in the 19th century; applied arts since 1900
  • 4th floor - the new city; Survey history

Special exhibitions (selection)

  • And if they haven't died ..., pictures of Grimm's fairy tales (November 18, 2006 - January 7, 2007)
  • Beauty from the fire, tile art from eight centuries in the studio (August 12, 2006 to October 29, 2006)
  • Distant Worlds - Free City. Dortmund in the Middle Ages (April 2, 2006 to July 16, 2006)
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : Drawings, watercolors and photographs (June 27, 2004 - September 5, 2004)
  • FK Waechter and Rudi Hurzlmeier : Satirical Drawings and Caricatures (September 2, 2000 - January 7, 2001)
  • Cézanne Manet Schuch: Three Paths to Autonomous Art (May 30, 2000 to July 30, 2000)
  • Objects of Desire: Jewelery by Miriam Haskell , New York (May 20, 2000 to July 30, 2000)
  • Frank Lloyd Wright : The Living City
  • Yves Boucard: Fantastic Furniture (January 23, 1999 to March 14, 1999)
  • Benno Elkan - A Jewish artist from Dortmund (March 18, 2011 to May 22, 2011)
  • manu factum (July 14, 2013 to September 8, 2013)
  • Right-wing extremist violence in Germany 1990-2013 (September 7, 2013 to October 27, 2013)
  • DEW21 Art Prize 2013 and Prize Winners Exhibition Barbara Hlali (September 21, 2013 to November 3, 2013)
  • 200 years of Westphalia - now! (August 28, 2015 to February 28, 2016)
  • In the intoxication of beauty. The Art of Art Nouveau (December 9, 2018 to June 23, 2019)

Web links

Commons : Museum of Art and Cultural History  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ No. A 0292. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 18, 2014 (size: 180 kB). 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

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 59.9 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 46.8 ″  E