Museum of East Asian Art (Cologne)

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Museum of East Asian Art, May 2010
View from the museum café towards Aachener Weiher with a plastic flag in the wind , in May 2010

The Museum for East Asian Art in Cologne specializes in East Asian art and is located at Universitätsstrasse 100. It goes back to the collection of Adolf Fischer (1856–1914) and his wife Frieda (1874–1945).

history

Museum of East Asian Art - Adolf-Fischer-Strasse (right) and Gereonswall (1914)

Fischer's collection was first housed in the old building of the Kunstgewerbemuseum at Hansaring 32 across from Hansaplatz , where the present-day Museum of Applied Arts and Museum Schnütgen (No. 32a) originally displayed their collections. After the foundation stone was laid on January 24, 1911, the museum building for East Asian art designed by Franz Brantzky was opened on October 25, 1913 at the corner of Adolf-Fischer-Strasse and Gereonswall. Josef Frank designed the interiors in 1912 on the recommendation of Josef Hoffmann , designed showcases and platforms for statues. The aim of the museum was to show all of East Asian art in a closed form. After Adolf Fischer's death in 1914, his wife Frieda took over the management of the museum until she was released by the National Socialists in 1937. The collection, comprising 900 exhibits, was saved from the war damage in April 1944. Since then, the collection has been without a permanent exhibition location for a long time. In 1976, according to the plans of the Japanese Kunio Maekawa, a new building was built at the Aachener Weiher and opened on December 2nd, 1977, which still houses this collection today. The outdoor facilities, a small Japanese garden with rocks and water , were designed by the artist Masayuki Nagare (1923–2018), including the stone sculpture The Flag in the Wind from 1980. The interior was designed by the Austrian architect Josef Frank , it was also one of his first public contracts he took over. Roger Goepper was director of the museum from 1966 to 1989, followed in 1991 by Adele Schlombs, who has a doctorate in sinology .

After extensive renovation and renovation work, the museum was reopened on May 16, 2014 on the occasion of its 100th anniversary with the special exhibition From Istanbul to Yokohama : The Journey of the Camera to the East .

Support association

The museum is ideally and financially supported by the support group of the Museum for East Asian Art in Cologne. V ..

Special exhibitions

  • 2007: Treasures of Liao 907-1125. China's Forgotten Nomad Dynasty (January 27 to April 22, 2007)
  • 2010/2011: The perfect brush. Chinese painting 1300 to 1900 (October 16, 2010 to February 20, 2011)
  • 2011: discovery of Korea ! Treasures from German museums (July 15 to October 3, 2011)
  • 2012/13: splendor of the emperors of China. Art and Life in the Forbidden City (October 20, 2012 to January 20, 2013, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People's Republic of China and the 25th anniversary of the city partnership between Cologne and Beijing )
  • 2014: From Istanbul to Yokohama. The journey of the camera to Asia 1839–1900. (May 17 to September 7, 2014)
  • 2014/15: From Japonism to Zen . Paul Klee and the Far East (October 18, 2014 to February 1, 2015)
  • 2015: BORO. Fabrics of Life - The Fabric of Life (March 28 to August 2, 2015)
  • 2015: white gold. Porcelain from China: 1400 to 1900 (May 9 to August 2, 2015)
  • 2015/16: All about Girls and Tigers. Leiko Ikemura (September 26, 2015 to February 28, 2016)
  • 2016: Magic of Signs. 3,000 years of Chinese writing (April 23 to July 17, 2016)
  • 2016/17: Passions in East Asian Art (August 13, 2016 to January 29, 2017)
  • 2018: The printed picture. The flowering of Japanese woodblock print culture (March 1 to September 30, 2018)
  • 2018/19: Everything under heaven. 40 years of the Museum for East Asian Art at the Aachener Weiher (November 17, 2018 to October 6, 2019)
  • 2019/20: Drunk on sobriety. Tea and Wine in Chinese Art (November 13, 2019 to May 3, 2020)

literature

Web links

Commons : Museum for East Asian Art (Cologne)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marlene Ott-Wodni: Josef Frank 1885-1967: Interior design and furniture design . Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79647-3 ( google.de [accessed September 30, 2019]).
  2. ^ Maria Welzig, Josef Frank: Josef Frank (1885-1967): the architectural work . Böhlau Verlag Wien, 1998, ISBN 978-3-205-98407-8 ( google.de [accessed September 30, 2019]).
  3. ↑ museenkoeln.de: Dawn of a New Era: The Founding of the Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 24, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museenkoeln.de
  4. ↑ Homepage Museenkoeln.de , accessed on October 20, 2012
  5. ^ Museum for East Asian Art Service , accessed on May 16, 2014
  6. ^ Homepage Museum for East Asian Art Cologne , accessed on October 27, 2012
  7. ↑ http://www.museenkoeln.de/museum-fuer-ostasiatische-kunst/default.asp?s=320&tid=127&kontrast=&schrift=

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 6.7 ″  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 31.9 ″  E