Paul Clemen Museum

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The Paul Clemen Museum is the art history museum of the University of Bonn that opened in 2013 .

history

The facility is named after the art historian Paul Clemen , who began systematically building up the collection as early as 1902. A sculpture hall was opened for this purpose in 1916. By 1944, around 600 plaster casts from the Middle Ages , Renaissance and Modern times had been collected for teaching purposes. However, the hall was destroyed by a bomb attack in October 1944 . Remnants of the collection were stored in the rooms of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in the 1950s.

In 1987, Heijo Klein began to scientifically process the objects that remained after the World War. The pieces were shown to the public again for the first time in 1989 in the exhibition “A look at the cast collection of the Art History Institute”. With the support of the Siegburg City Museum, it was then possible to refurbish a sculpture hall. In 1993, Heijo Klein opened the permanent exhibition with 50 exhibits in the foyer of the institute.

With the appointment of Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck in 2008, the systematic development of the museum began . On November 7, 2013, the Paul Clemen Museum was officially opened.

Today the museum shows around 300 plaster casts in the permanent exhibition and regular special and changing exhibitions .

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul Clemen Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Paul Clemen Museum opens. In: Uni-Bonn.de. October 30, 2013, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Kliemann: Art historians open their Paul Clemen Museum for the cast collection. In: General-Anzeiger-Bonn.de. November 8, 2013, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  3. ^ Permanent collection of the Paul Clemen Museum. In: Uni-Bonn.de. Retrieved March 19, 2019 .
  4. ^ Exhibition archive of the Paul Clemen Museum. In: Uni-Bonn.de. Retrieved March 19, 2019 .