Museum in the Kleihues building
The museum in the Kleihues building in Kornwestheim ( Ludwigsburg district , Baden-Württemberg ) is a municipal museum. The collection mainly includes works of German art from the 20th and 21st centuries.
history
The "Gallery of the City of Kornwestheim" has existed since 1975, at that time without its own collection or exhibition location. In the 1970s and 1980s, changing exhibitions were presented in what was then the culture house.
After the city received an extensive donation with several hundred works from the Manfred Henninger estate , the municipal council decided in 1987 to build its own gallery building. The architect Prof. Josef Paul Kleihues was commissioned with the planning and the building was erected in 1988/89.
The Kleihues building was opened on November 24, 1989 with the large state exhibition on Philipp Matthäus Hahn . The first art exhibition in the house showed " Joseph Beuys - Plastic Pictures and Water Color Pictures " the following year (October 1990 to January 1991). This was followed by exhibitions with works by Josef Paul Kleihues (1991), AR Penck (1996), Tomi Ungerer (1996), Georg Baselitz (1997).
After being closed for almost three years from 2000, the house was reopened in 2003 as the “Museum in the Kleihues Building” and the collection has been continuously expanded in line with the new concept. Among other things, the redesign provided for a cultural and historical collection and presentation area anchored in the history of the city. In 2015 the art museum celebrated its 25th anniversary.
In June 2017 the museum in the Kleihues building was added to the list of cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. With this, the State Office for Monument Preservation praised the "high design quality and the careful design of the building", which goes from the architecture to the details of the furnishings, according to the authority in its justification.
Previous director of the museum
Barbara Strieder (1990-1993), Jens Kräubig (1993-1999), Dr. Irmgard Sedler (2003 - 2018), Saskia Dams (2018 -).
building
The Kleihues building is on the southeast corner of the Kornwestheim market square. The ground plan consists of a parallelogram with a 7 degree incline and a semicircle. The two-story parallelogram-shaped room represents the main exhibition room. The semicircular room, also known as the “gallery assembly room”, opens up in two directions to the garden and a terrace through flat glazing. It is available as a presentation room for museum purposes as well as for supporting events. The exterior walls of the building are clad with Cannstatt travertine . The art museum has an exhibition area of almost 400 m² on the ground floor and a further 320 m² on the upper floor. Both levels are connected by a staircase that tapers upwards. The lower exhibition room receives daylight through east-facing sloping glazing. On the upper floor, a curved light ceiling in a circular segment ensures optimal lighting conditions. Shed roofs catch the light source from the north and direct it into the exhibition hall.
collection
The museum's art holdings include almost 3,000 exhibits, mostly German art from the 20th and 21st centuries, from Max Ackermann and Ulrich Barnickel to Gert Fabritius and HAP Grieshaber to Manuela Tirler and Katharina Zipser.
The core of the collection consists of almost 700 works by the Swabian late impressionist Manfred Henninger (1894–1986), one of the co-founders of the Stuttgart New Secession (1929). The museum is supported in the scientific processing of the estate by the Manfred Henninger Association, which was founded in 2009.
A collection of contemporary art with a focus on the art scene in southwest Germany is currently being set up, as well as a further collection with works by well-known commercial graphic artists (Otto Glaser, Franz Weiss ) who were in the service of the Kornwestheim global corporation SALAMANDER in the 20th century. An extensive art library with over 2,500 volumes, a considerable photo and film collection and a collection of historical shoe fashion complete the inventory.
Exhibitions and publications
The museum in the Kleihues building presents changing exhibitions several times a year.
Selection of exhibitions since 1990
- 1990/91: " Joseph Beuys - Plastic Pictures"
- 1991: " Josef Paul Kleihues - Museum Projects (1972-1990)"
- 1993: " Günther C. Kirchberger - Pictures 1957 - 1993"
- 1995: "Klaus Kienold - Architectural Photography"
- 1996: " Tomi Ungerer - retrospective 1956 - 1995"
- 1996: " AR Penck - Drawings and Watercolors (1965-1977) from the Ludwig Forum Collection for International Art / Aachen and Paintings (1962-1989)"
- 1997: " Georg Baselitz - Early Works on Paper"
- 1998/99: "Artists of the group COBRA and SPUR "
- 1999: "Ingo Baumgarten - Painting"
- 1999: "Expressionism - Works from the Selinka Collection"
- 2005/06: "Audrey Hepburn - An Intimate Collection by Bob Willoughby "
- 2006/07: " Leni Riefenstahl - The Compromised Aesthetics"
- 2007/08: " Linda McCartney "
- 2008: " Shackleton - Photos from the Ice"
- 2010/11: " Cathleen Naundorf - art + fashion"
- 2011: " HAP Grieshaber - Between Heaven and Earth"
- 2012: "Marlene by Milton Greene "
- 2012: " Markus Lüpertz - Mythological"
- 2012: " Christopher Thomas - New York Sleeps"
- 2013: " Günther C. Kirchberger - In Focus"
- 2013/14: "Manuela Tirler - Weed Control II"
- 2014: "Katharina Zipser - Retrospective Kath"
- 2016: " Markus Lüpertz - Insights"
- 2017/18: " Werner Pokorny "
- 2018/19: " Laura Ford - Stories we tell ourselves"
Web links
- Museum in the Kleihues building on kornwestheim.de