Museum in the warehouse

The museum in the warehouse

The museum in the warehouse in St. Gallen , Switzerland is a museum for Swiss naive art and Art brut . The sponsor is the Foundation for Swiss Naive Art and Art Brut, founded on February 1, 1988 by the collectors Erna (1907–1995) and Curt Burgauer (1908–2002), Wilhelmina (Mina) and Josef John as well as Simone and Peter Schaufelberger-Breguet has been established. For twenty years, Simone and Peter Schaufelberger-Breguet, as heads and presidents of the Board of Trustees, ran the museum in the warehouse on a voluntary basis and built up an extensive collection. The museum team and the board of trustees also work on a voluntary basis.

Museum and Collection

The museum in the warehouse collects, preserves and mediates Swiss naive art, Art brut and Outsider Art by contemporary and deceased artists. The artists represented in the museum are amateur / self-taught without any academic artistic training. Peasant naive art is also exhibited in the museum. At least three temporary exhibitions and one collection exhibition are shown each year. The collection was greatly expanded in 2014 with the acquisition of Mina and Josef John's private collection. Since 2016, visitors have been able to use augmented reality guides, i.e. view additional text and film material and works that are not on display on a tablet .

In 2018, in the 30th year of its existence, the museum showed works from the collection of the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961), who had collected works of art from his patients.

The museum in the warehouse has a collection of around 30,000 works by more than 180 people, including works by Fritz Aebersold , Heinrich Aerne , Pietro Angelozzi , Angelus , Charlotte Bachmann , Helmut Bachmann , Berta Balzli , Werner Baptista , Mireille Barrière , Anton Bernhardsgrütter , Martin Bickel , Therese Bickel , Carl Binder , Heinrich Bleiker , Ulrich Bleiker , Reni Blum , Pierre Bonard , Benjamin Bonjour , Édouard Boschey , Elisabeth Bourquin , Anny Boxler , François Burland, Aloïse Corbaz , Adolf Dietrich , Samuele Giovanoli, Adam Keel , Hans Krüsi , Edmond Engel, Pya Hug, Linda Naeff, Michel Nedjar, Hans Schärer, Gérard Sendrey , Paul Schlotterbeck, Erich Staub, Louis Soutter , Karl Uelliger, Niklaus Wenk , Alois Wey , Scottie Wilson and Adolf Wölfli . There are also separate bundles such as 18,000 sheets by John Elsas , 200 works by Franz Hartl or a bundle of 169 works by the Swiss writer Adelheid Duvanel .

organization

The museum is supported by the Foundation for Swiss Naive Art and Art Brut. It was founded on February 1, 1988 by the collector couple Erna (1907-1995) and Curt Burgauer , Wilhelmina and Josef John and Simone and Peter Schaufelberger-Breguet. For twenty years, Simone and Peter Schaufelberger-Breguet ran the museum in the warehouse on a voluntary basis as director and president of the board of trustees and built up an extensive collection. The museum team and the board of trustees are also volunteers. In 2008 Monika Jagfeld became the full-time director of the museum. Yvonne Hauser has been the part-time administrative manager since 2010.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2019: Antonio Ligabue - the Swiss Van Gogh. Antonio Ligabue retrospective
• 2018: In the land of the imagination . Exhibits from the “Collection of the CG Jung Institute Zurich”, with works by patient Carl Gustav Jung
• 2017/2018: Prinzhorns Swiss . Swiss exhibits from the Prinzhorn Collection
• 2017: Art, Krautrock and Tarot - Walter Wegmüller . Retrospective Walter Wegmüller
• 2016: Art Stories . Works by Hugo Affolter, Eugène Ionesco , Paul Stamm, Alfons Karl Zwicker
• 2016: The von Gurs . Art from the Gurs internment camp in the Elsbeth Kasser collection
• 2013/2014: collect madness . Exhibits from the “ Dammann Collection ”, with works by August Walla , Oswald Tschirtner , Johann Hauser , August Klett , Heinrich Anton Müller , Paul Goesch and Horst Ademeit, among others
• 2013: Naive Switzerland - Suisse Brut . Anniversary exhibition for the 25th anniversary of the museum, with works by Felix Brenner, Adolf Dietrich, Adolf Wölfli, Aloise Corbaz, Louis Soutter, Heinrich Anton Müller, Ida Buchmann, Fritz Soltermann, Felix Anton Brander, among others
• 2011: encounters . Works by Julius Süss, Gertrud Schwyzer, Hans Brühlmann , Günther Uecker

Web links

Commons : Museum in the warehouse  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the museum in the warehouse

Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ′ 11 "  N , 9 ° 22 ′ 2"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and forty-five thousand five hundred and seventeen  /  253,887

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mission statement , website of the museum, accessed on August 3, 2018.
2. ↑ [1] .
3. ↑ Report on arttv.ch from June 16, 2017, accessed on August 3, 2018.
4. ↑ Outsider Art. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung on March 23, 2018, accessed on August 3, 2018.
5. ↑ Collection , accessed August 3, 2018.
6. ^ Museum , website of the museum, accessed on August 3, 2018.
7. ↑ Walter Wegmüller's Gypsy Magic in the St. Gallen Museum in the warehouse . In: Aargauer Zeitung of August 28, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2018
8. ↑ Collection Dammann - collecting madness: Soul engraver full of dignity - “ Collecting madness ” in the St. Gallen Museum in the warehouse . Retrieved August 20, 2018
9. ↑ Lagerhaus shows "Best of" . In: Verein Saiten, March 26, 2013. Retrieved August 20, 2018
10. ^ Exhibition archive of the museum in the warehouse: Archive . Retrieved August 20, 2018