Museum of Contemporary Art - Hurrle Collection

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Museum of Contemporary Art - Hurrle Collection
Data
place Almstrasse 49
77770 Durbach, Germany
Art
Art museum
operator
Vier Jahreszeiten Durbach GmbH & Co. KG
ISIL DE-MUS-030328
The collection is on the 4th floor of the hotel
Four Seasons House (rear view)

The Museum of Contemporary Art - Hurrle Collection was an art museum in Durbach near Offenburg .

history

The Museum of Contemporary Art - Hurrle Durbach Collection near Offenburg was set up in 2010 on the top floor of a former rehabilitation clinic, the residence of which is now a hotel destination, on an area of ​​1700 m². The founder of the museum is the entrepreneur Rüdiger Hurrle , who developed his passion for collecting as early as the 1960s. The Hurrle Collection now includes over 2000 works, mainly sculpture and painting of German art after 1945 and their forerunners from the early 1920s, as well as art from the Upper Rhine region, including Switzerland and Alsace. With the end of the "KunstKosmos Oberrhein" exhibition, the museum was closed on October 13, 2019.

collection

The focus of the collection is on German art after 1945 and its forerunners from the early 1920s. With major works of German Informel from the 1950s and 1960s, among others by artists from the groups “ Quadriga ” and “ ZEN 49 ”, as well as the “ Salon des Réalités Nouvelles ”, which was emerging in France at the same time , “ Lyrical abstraction ” is a focus of the collection. Great attention is also paid to the breaks and continuities in the development of figuration in the 1920s and after World War II.

Relationships between artists are also part of the collector's interest - friendships, conflicts, teacher-student relationships and artist groups - beyond the blue-chip requirements of the art market. The collection contains a large proportion of works by the CoBrA group , the first group of artists after the World War, as well as the Munich groups SPUR , WIR , Geflecht and Kollektiv Herzogstraße and finally the Karlsruhe group Kriegfried . Another important item is the art of the GDR: Representatives of the Leipzig and New Leipzig Schools such as Werner Tübke , Arno Rink and Michael Triegel are represented here, as are AR Penck , artists of the 1st Leipzig Autumn Salon and Clara Mosch, as well as exceptional figures such as Gerhard Altenbourg .

In addition to the permanent exhibition, which illustrates the development of art after the Second World War, there are two special exhibitions that change several times a year: The series “Profiles in Art on the Upper Rhine” presents important artists from the trinational region. The large changing exhibition shows art movements such as the “Informel phenomenon” and groups of artists such as CoBrA as well as outstanding individual works such as Dieter Krieg and Arno Rink . In 2014 and 2015, the exhibition “Separate Worlds - Forms of Stubbornness. Art in East and West before the fall of the wall ”, in which, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall and the 25th anniversary of reunification, the art on both sides of the wall is highlighted.

Works by Paul Kleinschmidt , Karl Hubbuch , Otto Laible and Karl Hofer clearly illustrate the continuation of a “tradition of modernity”. There are important works by the following artists in the Museum of Contemporary Art: Horst Antes , Walter Becker , Jürgen Brodwolf , Lothar Fischer , Günther Förg , Rupprecht Geiger , Karl Otto Götz , HAP Grieshaber , Johannes Grützke , Harald Häuser , Axel Heil , Karl Horst Hödicke , Karl Hofer, Karl Hubbuch, Jörg Immendorff , Jacqueline de Jong , Gustav Kluge , Bernd Koberling , Dieter Krieg , Markus Lüpertz , Wolfgang Mattheuer , Helmut Middendorf , Heino Naujoks , Georg Karl Pfahler , Wolf Pehlke , Heimrad Prem , Neo Rauch , Emil Schumacher , KRH Sonderborg , Walter Stöhrer , Helmut Sturm , Theodor Werner and many more

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Self-portrait of the Museum of Contemporary Art Hurrle Collection - Hurrle Collection Durbach near Offenburg
  2. ^ Badische Zeitung: Rüdiger Hurrle closes his museum for current art - Offenburg - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Collection Blocks
  4. ↑ Current exhibitions

Coordinates: 48 ° 29 '32.2 "  N , 7 ° 59' 48.2"  E