Weimar New Museum

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Weimar New Museum
Aerial view of the New Museum Weimar

The Neues Museum (1920 to 1990s: State Museum ) is a museum for contemporary art in Weimar ( Thuringia ). It was the first museum in this field in the new federal states and belongs to the Weimar Classic Foundation .

history

Grand Ducal Museum / Thuringian State Museum

Opening of the exhibition of the German Association of Artists in the Grand Ducal Museum, 1906

The first museum building in Thuringia was built as the Grand Ducal Museum between 1864 and 1869 by the Prague architect Josef Zítek . Since it was a public building, the building project was under the supervision of the Grand Ducal Senior Building Director Carl Heinrich Ferdinand Streichhan . The construction management lay with Carl Martin von Stegmann. Mostly contemporary forms of the neo-renaissance were used.

“When the museum was officially opened on June 27, 1869, the press did not spare praise: The result was“ a magnificent building of rare purity of style and beauty of form. ”Zítek had created a work that was convincing in every respect based on the style of the Italian High Renaissance in terms of its structural design, vocabulary of forms and furnishings. The contemporaries also emphasized the “material construction” and the exquisite polychromy achieved here as something particularly remarkable. With the Weimar Museum, his first work, Zítek had not only set new standards in the small royal seat (...), but also won a place in the German, even international architecture scene. "

- Kerstin Vogel (2009) on Zitek's building

The museum initially housed the art collection of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach ; later it exhibited works from the Weimar School of Painting .

After the abdication of the Weimar ducal family, the museum was renamed “Thuringian State Museum” in 1919.

The controversial avant-garde was presented here in the 1920s .

Gauforum and air raids

New Museum and Gauforum Weimar

From 1937 on, it was incorporated into the Weimar Gauforum . During the air raids on Weimar in March 1945, air mines damaged the roof of the building.

Decay of the building in the post-war period and in the GDR

The building could be repaired for the 1st Thuringian Art Exhibition in 1946. After that, the expansion of all usable materials for other buildings began. The rebuilt German National Theater received the museum's heating system. From 1948 this led to the building's decline. During the GDR era, the building degenerated into (post-war) ruins and there were considerations about demolishing it.

Reconstruction and current use

Statues by Friedrich Nietzsche in front of murals by Friedrich Preller the Elder

Even before the Peaceful Revolution 1989/1990 the demand was for Weimar by activists reconstruction raised the museum. In 1988, renovation work began on the decaying building. The reconstruction then took place on the still solid building fabric between 1996 and 1998.

In 1999 the building was reopened as the "New Museum" . When naming the museum, however, Volker Wahl advocates giving it the name "Landesmuseum" again.

Until 2017, temporary exhibitions on various topics were shown in the building .

In April 2019 the permanent exhibition "Van de Velde, Nietzsche and Modernism around 1900" was opened, which presents the art of early modernism from the Weimar School of Painting to Henry van de Velde .

The Neues Museum Weimar has been part of the "Quartiers Weimarer Moderne" since 2019 .

interior

Goethe and Psyche (statue by Carl Steinhäuser , 1851)

The most important interiors include the paintings by Friedrich Preller the Elder , which depict themes from Homeric epics. There is also a bust of him there. The monumental sculpture Goethe and Psyche can be seen in the stairwell , which Carl Steinhäuser designed in 1851 based on a design by Bettina von Arnim . At the entrance, the 2.5 m high bronze sculpture Großer Geist Nr. 4 , created by Düsseldorf artist Thomas Schütte in 2004, bows to the visitor and the art on display.

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibitions

  • Van de Velde, Nietzsche and Modernism around 1900 (since April 2019)

Special and changing exhibitions

  • "... time becomes space here" - Günther Uecker, stage sculptures and optical scores (April 8, 2001 - July 8, 2001)
  • Norbert Tadeusz, review Italy (05/17/2003 - 08/03/2003)
  • Art of the Weimar Republic - Masterpieces from the National Gallery Berlin (August 22, 2004 - October 24, 2004)
  • The first look, the GAG ​​collection (03/19/2006 - 07/16/2006)
  • The night and its children (08/27/2006 - 11/15/2006)
  • Candida Höfer, Weimar Rooms (October 18, 2007 - February 17, 2008)
  • From laboratory to project - exhibition, symposium, Faculty of Design, Bauhaus University Weimar (October 16, 2009 - November 29, 2009)
  • Franz Ehrlich - A Bauhaus member in the resistance and concentration camp (August 2, 2009 - October 11, 2009)
  • Out into nature! Barbizon, the Weimar School of Painting and the Departure to Impressionism (03/14/2010 - 05/30/2010)
  • Hans-Christian Schink - Photographs 1980 to 2010 (April 8, 2011 - June 13, 2011)
  • Arte Povera - from the collection of the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (08/18/2012 - 09/21/2012)
  • Farewell to Icarus. Imagery in the GDR - seen again (October 19, 2012 - February 3, 2013)
  • Henry van de Velde - Passion, Function and Beauty and his Contribution to European Modernism (03/24/2013 - 06/23/2014)
  • Walter Sachs - Review of the present (02/28/2014 - 04/21/2014)
  • StipVisite - Thuringian scholarship holders for visual arts 2013 (03/21/2014 - 05/11/2014)
  • Claus Bury, my point of view (May 11, 2014 - June 22, 2014)
  • War of the Spirits - Weimar as a symbol of German culture before and after 1914 (08/01/2014 - 11/09/2014)
  • What remains? - An attempt at the present (08/08/2014 - 03/11/2014)
  • Winckelmann - Modern Antiquity (07.04.2017 - 02.07.2017)
  • Ways out of the Bauhaus - Gerhard Marcks and his Circle of Friends (08/17/2017 - 11/05/2017)

literature

Museum history and permanent exhibitions

  • Catalog of the Grand Ducal Museum in Weimar. 3. Edition. Hof-Buchdruckerei, Weimar 1873 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  • Rolf Bothe: New Museum Weimar - History and Outlook. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-422-06211-4 .
  • Hendrik Ziegler: Karlsruhe as a role model? The Grand Ducal Museum in Weimar and its origins. In: Gert-Dieter Ulferts, Thomas Föhl (Ed.): From Berlin to Weimar. Volume 2: From the Kunstkammer to the Neues Museum. 300 years of collections and museums in Weimar. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2003, DNB 968475167 , pp. 126-143 ( PDF ).
  • Thomas Föhl, Wolfgang Holler, Sabine Walter (eds.): New Museum Weimar - Van de Velde, Nietzsche and Modernism around 1900 (= volume accompanying the permanent exhibition of the same name). Hirmer, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-7774-3277-9 .

Special and changing exhibitions

  • Ulrike Bestgen (Ed.): "... time becomes space here" - Günther Uecker, stage sculptures and optical scores. G + H Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-931768-60-0 .
  • Thomas Föhl (Ed.): Norbert Tadeusz, Italy sichten. Weimar Classics Foundation and Art Collections, Weimar 2003, DNB 97426475X .
  • Moritz Wullen, Maren Eichhorn (Ed.): Art of the Weimar Republic - Masterpieces of the National Gallery Berlin. DuMont, Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3-8321-7499-6 .
  • Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Ulrike Bestgen (ed.): The first look, the GAG ​​collection. Klassik-Stiftung Weimar, Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-7443-0133-6 .
  • Jörg Völlnagel, Moritz Wullen (ed.): The night and its children. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin et al., Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-88609-538-X .
  • Gerda Wendermann, Wulf Kirsten: Candida Höfer, Weimar. Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8296-0327-0 .
  • Volkhard Knigge, Harry Stein (ed.): Franz Ehrlich - A Bauhausler in the resistance and concentration camp. Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-935598-15-6 .
  • Gerda Wendermann: Out into nature! Barbizon, the Weimar School of Painting and the dawn of impressionism. Kerber, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-86678-381-2 .
  • Siegfried Gronert, Thomas von Taschitzki (ed.): From laboratory to project - exhibition, symposium, faculty of design, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Bauhaus-Universitätsverlag, Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-86068-459-7 .
  • Ulrike Bestgen et al. (Ed.): Hans-Christian Schink - Photographs 1980 to 2010. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-2826-3 .
  • Friedemann Malsch (Ed.): Arte Povera - from the collection of the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-21000-7 .
  • Karl-Siegbert Rehberg, Wolfgang Holler, Paul Kaiser (eds.): Farewell to Icarus. Imagery in the GDR - seen in a new way. König, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86335-224-0 .
  • Thomas Föhl, Sabine Walter: Henry van de Velde - passion, function and beauty and his contribution to European modernism. Weimarer Verlagsgesellschaft, Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-86539-685-3 .
  • Klassik Stiftung Weimar, City of Weimar (Ed.): Walter Sachs - Review of the Present. Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Weimar 2014, ISBN 978-3-7443-0182-4 .
  • Nicole Mende (Ed.): Claus Bury, my point of view. Wienand, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86832-218-7 .
  • Wolfgang Holler, Gerda Wendermann, Gudrun Püschel: War of the Spirits - Weimar as a symbolic place of German culture before and after 1914. Sandstone, Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95498-072-7 .
  • Michael Merkel: What remains? - An attempt at the present. Lucia Verlag, Weimar 2014, ISBN 978-3-945301-19-7 .
  • Elisabeth Décultot, Martin Dönikeu. a. (Ed.): Winckelmann - Moderne Antike. Hirmer, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7774-2756-0 .
  • Anke Blümm, Ulrike Bestgen et al. (Ed.): Ways out of the Bauhaus - Gerhard Marcks and his circle of friends. Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Weimar 2017, ISBN 978-3-7443-0305-7 .

Web links

Commons : Neues Museum Weimar  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At that time newspaper advertisements with old names
  2. ↑ Page 146 in: Kerstin Vogel: Carl Heinrich Ferdinand Streichhan - architect and chief building director in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach 1848 to 1884. Dissertation, Weimar 2009.
  3. ↑ a b c New Museum Weimar - History. In: Klassik-Stiftung.de. Accessed January 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Götz Eckardt (ed.): Fates of German architectural monuments in the Second World War. A documentation of the damage and total losses in the area of ​​the German Democratic Republic. Volume 2. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1980, p. 501.
  5. ^ Günter Wermusch : spoils of war from the Goethe city. In search of the stolen art treasures: an action around the world . In: Die Zeit of November 30, 1990.
  6. ↑ Volker Wahl: Weimar's variety of new museums raises the question of name. In: PressReader.com. Thüringische Landeszeitung, July 8, 2019, accessed on January 2, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Van de Velde, Nietzsche and the modern around 1900. In: Klassik-Stiftung.de. Accessed January 2, 2020 .
  8. ^ Quartier Weimarer Moderne. In: Klassik-Stiftung.de. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 19, 2012.

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