State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg
The State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg is a state museum in the city of Oldenburg in Lower Saxony .
The State Museum has three closely spaced museum locations: Castle , Augusteum and Prinzenpalais . The State Museum was founded in 1921 and opened in the castle two years later. In 1981 the Augusteum became part of the State Museum. It was built by the Grand Dukes of Oldenburg as a location for their collections and later used by the Kunstverein. The Prinzenpalais has also been open to the public as a museum since 2003. The total inventory of the State Museum comprises over 30,000 paintings, graphics, objects of cultural history and arts and crafts.
Collections and Homes
In the castle ( Schlossplatz 1, 26122 Oldenburg ), the former residence of Count Anton Günther (1583–1667) and the Grand Dukes of Oldenburg until 1918/1919, is now the State Museum for Art and Cultural History. The formerly private Grand Ducal collections form the essential basis of today's museum. Around 800 cultural and historical exhibits show the diversity and uniqueness of the Oldenburger Land over the centuries, starting from the Middle Ages up to the 20th century. The arts and crafts collection is presented on 400 square meters. It includes medieval manuscripts, ivory carvings, Art Nouveau ensembles and Bauhaus design. The historical state rooms document the interior of the castle as the seat of the Oldenburg Grand Dukes, whose residence history ended with the First World War .
The Augusteum ( Elisabethstrasse 1, 26135 Oldenburg ), built in the Italian Renaissance style in 1856/57 and elaborately designed in the spirit of historicism , was the first art museum in Oldenburg. Now the building, which was specially built for this purpose, again houses parts of the former Grand Ducal painting collection, especially Italian, French, Dutch and German paintings from the 16th to the 18th centuries and European paintings from the Middle Ages to the modern era.
The Prinzenpalais ( Damm 1, 26135 Oldenburg ) on the Damm serves as an exhibition center for art from the 19th and 20th centuries. The focus of the collection is on German impressionism and expressionism by the artist group Die Brücke as well as the work of the Dangaster painter Franz Radziwill . In 2013, the State Museum received a gift of more than 750 autographs and other documents from the estate of the art historian Gerhard Wietek , who died in 2012 and was curator there from 1955 to 1959 . The donation includes a. Artist correspondence from the years 1908 to 1965, including around 450 letters and postcards from Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and letters from the painter Emma Ritter from Vechta .
management
Since 1921 the museum has had the following directors:
- 1921–1951: Walter Müller-Wulckow
- 1952–1978: Herbert Wolfgang Keizer
- 1978–1998: Peter Reindl
- 1999–2009: Bernd Küster
- On May 1, 2010, the art historian Rainer Stamm took over the management of the museum.
Special exhibitions
Special exhibitions of national importance, as well as exhibitions with a regional focus, regularly complement the museum's program. Since 2016, for example, the annual exhibition of the world's best press photos has been shown here for three weeks.
literature
- Heinz Liesbrock, Ludwig Zerull (Red.): Holdings. The collection of the Lower Saxony Savings Banks and Giro Association , Hanover: Th. Schäfer Druckerei, 1994
- Sebastian Dohe, Malve Anna Falk, Rainer Stamm (Hrsg.): The picture gallery Oldenburg. A European collection of old masters . Petersberg 2017
Web links
- Website of the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg
- State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg at Google Cultural Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview map ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 28, 2012
- ↑ The Oldenburg Castle ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 28, 2012
- ↑ The Augusteum ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 28, 2012
- ↑ Das Prinzenpalais ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 28, 2012
- ↑ Press release from February 15, 2013 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dirk Dasenbrock In: Oldenburgische Volkszeitung , March 8, 2013, p. 15.
- ↑ State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg - special exhibitions ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 20, 2013
Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 16 " N , 8 ° 12 ′ 59" E