Paper Museum Düren
The Paper Museum in Düren is one of seven museums in Germany that deal with paper or have a section on paper. The museum is located in the district town of Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia . The city of Düren is responsible for the museum. It is affiliated with the Leopold Hoesch Museum (art museum).
history
Papermaking can be traced in Düren without interruption from 1576 to the present day. All paper mills and factories (in the course of time there were 68) settled along the Rur , the soft water of which was particularly important for production. Düren was the city of paper in Germany until the 1970s . Suppliers for felt cloth, sieve cloth and machines as well as processors and finishers of paper are also concentrated in the region.
The region's paper industry took part in the exhibition The Paper - History - Production - Artistic Design in the Leopold Hoesch Museum in 1981 , and artists from many countries took part. From this initiative of the museum director Dorothea Eimert , the Förderverein Düren, Jülich, Euskirchener Papiergeschichte was formed in 1984 (chairman: manufacturer Heinrich August Schoeller from the Schoellershammer paper mill ) with the aim of founding a paper museum in Düren, as had already been started in 1939 Was destroyed in 1944. In addition, the International Biennale of Paper Art - PaperArt , developed from this first paper exhibition in 1981 .
On the initiative of the union secretary Peter Viehöver, who was himself a paper maker , the city council decided on September 24, 1987 to set up a paper museum in the former gas station and garage Theodor Meisenberg behind the Leopold Hoesch Museum on Wallstrasse . Peter Viehöver, Alfred Hoesch, Dorothea Eimert, Max Heyder and designer Herbert Titz set up the first so-called paper museum in Germany, in the completely renovated rooms directly on the old Düren city wall . It was inaugurated in March 1990. Years later, a media-friendly conversion took place (opened in June 2000) with the designer Reinold Dreekes and the technical support of Alfred Hoesch, Peter Viehöver and Dorothea Eimert.
In the Düren Paper Museum, both the traditional, handcrafted and the modern, industrial form of paper production are presented. The visitors vividly experience the path from papyrus and parchment to the material paper as we know it today. Paper, cardboard and cardboard can be experienced in their significance for cultural history and our everyday life using a wide variety of information stations. The regular guided tours through the paper museum followed by a workshop are a special experience. Here, small works of art or everyday objects are created from self-made paper.
The Düren Paper Museum is unique in that it also takes on paper art. The house's collection includes 30,000 sheets of watermarks from the 18th and 19th centuries, many perforated copperplate engravings and handicrafts made of paper. The PaperArt took place every two years in the paper museum and in the neighboring Leopold-Hoesch-Museum.
The foundation stone was laid on August 3, 2016 for a redesign and extension of the paper museum. The official inauguration took place on September 9, 2018. Since then, the new Paper Museum in Düren has appeared like a folded sheet of paper next to the Leopold Hoesch Museum in the city of Düren. The museum, which has reopened after a comprehensive redesign and fundamental architectural expansion, is dedicated to the material paper, the production and processing of which has a centuries-old tradition in Düren. In addition to the architecture, the Cologne architect Klaus Hollenbeck, together with curator Caroline Kaiser, also developed the interactive design of the interior: various stations make the permanent exhibition digital, haptic and auditory, especially for people with visual impairments. Paper art and the latest developments in the field of paper are also presented. The traditional paper scooping (Sundays, 1 pm–4pm) and the shop with a well-chosen range of paper goods round off the museum visit. Workshops and courses let the participants get creative with paper as a material.
The successor to the museum director Renate Goldmann was Anja Dorn on August 1, 2018 .
On September 8, 2019, the new building of the Düren Paper Museum celebrated its first anniversary with a party and the opening of the temporary exhibition "Passion for paper. The collection of paper maker and trade unionist Peter Viehöver". This could be seen until February 16, 2020 in the "Arts" section. Since May 7, 2020, the museum has been showing the temporary exhibition "Holy Pictures - devotional pictures as religious folk art", which can be seen until November 1, 2020.
literature
- Dorothea Eimert: History of Paper Art. PaperArt . Wienand Verlag, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-87909-358-X (published on the occasion of the 5th International Biennale of Paper Art, June 12 to September 25, 1994).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/grundstein-lege-ein-papiermuseum-aus-einem-guss-1.1418840
- ↑ https://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/viel-andrang-bei-der-eroeffnung-des-neuen-papiermuseums-in-dueren_aid-32832273
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 3 ″ N , 6 ° 28 ′ 46 ″ E
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