Prinzenpalais (Oldenburg)
The Prinzenpalais is an exhibition building of the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg. The building, originally built as a residence for the grandchildren of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig (1755–1829) from Oldenburg , now houses the New Masters Gallery.
The building
In June 1821, Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig commissioned the construction of an appropriate residence for his orphaned grandchildren, the Russian princes Alexander (1810–1829) and Peter (1812–1881). Under the direction of the court architect Heinrich Carl Slevogt (1787–1832), a pupil of Karl Friedrich Schinkel , a two-storey classicist building was built opposite the Oldenburg Palace between 1821 and 1826. The princes only lived in the palace for three years. After the death of his grandfather and brother in 1829, Prince Peter left Oldenburg and returned to St. Petersburg.
In 1852, Grand Duke Nikolaus Friedrich Peter (1827–1900) took over the building when he took office and had it expanded by the architect Carl Boos (1806–1883) in 1860/62 with a wing with a ballroom . 1865–67 further alterations were carried out by the architect Heinrich Strack (1805–1880). The Grand Duke lived in the now three-wing complex until his death in 1900. At the rear, not visible from the embankment, was a palace garden in the style of an English landscape garden, probably designed by the court gardener Julius Friedrich Wilhelm Bosse (1788–1864). Curved paths and evergreen trees invite you to take walks during the winter months spent in Oldenburg. The interiors were furnished in the historicizing style and corresponded to the princely way of life of the time.
In the following decades the building was used in different ways. From 1914 to 1919 it was used as a military hospital for those injured in the First World War, after which it was used as a school, today's old grammar school. After the palace housed various youth organizations during World War II, the Graf-Anton-Günther School moved in from 1946 to 1959 . From 1961, the building served the land registry office as the seat of the authorities for 40 years.
The temporary use as a hospital, school building and official headquarters resulted in a large number of installations and conversions. Based on historical plans and photographs by the court photographer Franz Titzenthalers from 1890/91, the Prinzenpalais was extensively renovated and the original sequence of rooms restored.
The New Masters Gallery
The former Prinzenpalais has been open to the public as a museum since 2003. As part of the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg, it presents the art of the 19th and 20th centuries as well as changing special exhibitions. The development of the fine arts in Germany from Romanticism to German art of the post-war period is illustrated on two floors.
The focal points of the collection include the works of the Worpswede artists' colony with paintings by all of the founding members as well as important works by Paula Modersohn-Becker . Of the German impressionists, Max Liebermann , Max Slevogt and Lovis Corinth are represented in the collection with excellent works. The Neue Meister gallery is showing an early landscape on Wangerooge by Max Beckmann .
The highlight of the collection is the room with works by the Brücke artists Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel from the period of their stays in Dangast. Works by the Expressionists and Brücke members Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Emil Nolde , Max Pechstein and Otto Mueller can also be seen . In addition, the Prinzenpalais houses the most important public collection of the Dangast painter Franz Radziwill in Germany.
The art after 1945 is represented by works by Ernst Wilhelm Nay , Wolf Vostell and Richard Oelze , while works by Bernhard Heisig , Walter Libuda and Volker Stelzmann represent the art of the GDR in the 1980s.
literature
- State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg (ed.), Das Prinzenpalais , Museums im Nordwesten Vol. 7, Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2005, ISBN 3-89995-026-7
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Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 11 ″ N , 8 ° 13 ′ 4 ″ E