Museum in the Kulturspeicher

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The museum in the Kulturspeicher in Würzburg shows art from the 19th century to the present day. It has been in the Kulturspeicher , a listed harbor warehouse , since 2002 .

Collections

The museum presents the municipal collection with art from the 19th century to the present on 3500 m² exhibition space in the north wing and the Peter C. Ruppert Collection . Concrete Art in Europe after 1945 ” from 23 different countries. Both collections are accompanied by special exhibitions on 460 m². In 2005 the museum received the Bavarian Museum Prize from the Bavarian Insurance Chamber .

Urban collection

The municipal collection was created after the First World War. The first collections were compiled by Heiner Dikreiter since the 1920s . In 1941, the Städtische Galerie was founded under the direction of Dikreiter . On April 1, 1943, he was appointed head of the municipal gallery . From 1952 he officially headed the gallery as director and reopened it in 1966 after the renovation. Works by artists of the 19th and 20th centuries with origins or activities in Würzburg and Mainfranken were collected. The municipal collection has been integrated into the museum in the Kulturspeicher since February 2002.

The focus of the municipal collection, which originally had a regional core, are landscapes from the 19th century, Biedermeier portraits, artists and subjects from the Leibl Circle , paintings from German Impressionism , including by Karl Heffner , Max Slevogt ("Palatinate Landscape" from 1923) and Ludwig von Same-sootworm .

From the purchases of Main Franconian art that were made between 1941 and 1945 there were, among other things, exhibits from the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich from 1939. For example, Die Schreitende by Peter Scheurle, The Discus Thrower by Fritz Russ, a Hitler bust by Arno Breker , a Hitler picture by Moritz Horn-Stauffer and a bust of Rudolf Hess by Hermann Joachim Pagels .

A hall on the second floor houses pictures of Würzburg before the bombing. In this respect, these also have historical significance. Erich Heckel's “View of the Marienberg Fortress” shows an unusual perspective of the fortifications.

The sculptures by the Würzburg-born sculptor Emy Roeder resemble figures from Barlach. Her artist friends Hans Purrmann, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff are represented with works.

Contemporary works include works by Stephan Balkenhol (“Large Head Relief Man and Woman” from 2000), Magdalena Jetelová , Camill Leberer , Dieter Stein , Rudolf Wachter , and Barbara Camilla Tucholski .

The museum has correspondence and bequests from the following artists in the Kulturspeicher: Ludwig von Gleichen-Rußwurm , Hugo von Habermann, Hans Haffenrichter , Hans Reichel , Emy Roeder , Gertraud Rostosky .

Peter C. Ruppert Collection

The Peter C. Ruppert Collection includes the most important Concrete Art artists from 23 European countries since the end of the Second World War , including Hans Arp , Max Bill , Anthony Caro , Günter Fruhtrunk , Auguste Herbin , Richard Paul Lohse , Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely . The focus of the collection is on Switzerland after 1945 and on the "Abstraction Geometrique" in Paris. Special features within the collection are the large group of works by concrete artists from Great Britain and the concrete photography department.

The Peter C. Ruppert Prize for Concrete Art in Europe is awarded every three years by the city of Würzburg. The prize money of € 15,000 is provided by the Peter C. Ruppert Foundation - Concrete Art Collection in Europe after 1945. Previous winners were the French artist François Morellet in 2008 , the German artist Heijo Hangen in 2011 and the Hungarian artist Dóra Maurer in 2013 .

Award

literature

  • Concrete art in Europe after 1945. Collection Peter C. Ruppert Museum in the Kulturspeicher. Edited by Marlene Lauter and with the collaboration of Beate Reese , Städtische Galerie Würzburg. With contributions by: Marlene Lauter, Beate Reese, Dietmar Guderian, Serge Lemoine, Hella Nocke-Schrepper, Margit Weinberg Staber. Published by Hatje Cantz, D-Ostfildern-Ruit. Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-7757-1191-0 .
  • Peter Manev and Max Bächer : The culture store . (With photographs by Peter Manev and André Mühling) Klinger, Passau 2002, 144 pages, ISBN 3-932949-13-7 .

Web links

Commons : Museum in the Kulturspeicher  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 196-289 and 1271-1290; here: pp. 258–260.
  2. ^ Stefan Kummer : Würzburg Collections. In: Tempora mutantur et nos? Festschrift for Walter M. Brod on his 95th birthday. With contributions from friends, companions and contemporaries. Edited by Andreas Mettenleiter , Akamedon, Pfaffenhofen 2007 (= From Würzburgs Stadt- und Universitätsgeschichte, 2), ISBN 3-940072-01-X , pp. 75–78, here: p. 78
  3. ^ Museum in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg: Museum brochure, Würzburg approx. 2013.
  4. Peter Weidisch (2007), p. 259 f.
  5. ^ Museum in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg: Museum brochure, Würzburg approx. 2013


Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 4.9 ″  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 20.5 ″  E