Villa Tuebke

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Villa Tübke in Leipzig-Gohlis
Memorial plaque on the building

The Villa Tübke is an exhibition house in Leipzig . The painter Werner Tübke lived and worked in the building from 1977 to 2004.

The House

From 1903, today's villa district was built in the Gohlis district of Leipzig along the Kickerlingsberg . The Tübke Villa is located at Springerstraße 5 and was built in 1905/06 and is one of the Art Nouveau buildings . Over the years the house changed hands several times. Werner Tübke had used it as a home for living and working since 1977, where he lived with his third wife, Brigitte Tübke-Schellenberger. The living quarters of the Tübke family were on the ground floor and the painter had set up an artist workshop on the second floor. In 1988 the villa was expanded into a “residential and studio building with a museum character” on behalf of the Ministry of Culture (MfK) of the GDR . The completion took place on the occasion of Tübke's 60th birthday in July 1989. The renovation met the artist's need for security. The current studio, in which Werner Tübke worked until his death in 2004, was created by adding another storey. After Werner Tübke's death, his gallery owner Karl Schwind bought the property and renovated it in accordance with a listed building, in order to reopen it in 2006.

The Foundation

The Tübke Foundation Leipzig is a foundation under civil law, it was founded in May 2006 by Werner Tübke's widow , Brigitte Tübke-Schellenberger, in Leipzig and moved into the premises of the Tübke Villa in December of the same year. Brigitte Tübke-Schellenberger made nineteen paintings, sixty-seven drawings, sixteen watercolors and the artist's entire graphic work available to the foundation in accordance with the settlement dispute . In contrast, Tübke transferred his personal archive, including documents, exhibition catalogs and reproductions, to the archive for fine arts in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg while he was still alive . The chairman of the foundation is the current director of the Museum of Fine Arts Dr. Alfred Weidinger. Michael Triegel is Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Until 2010, the foundation's rooms were on the first floor of Villa Tübke. The foundation then moved into the former studio on the top floor.

Fritz P. Mayer Collection

In September 2010, a permanent exhibition with works from the private collection of the Frankfurt industrialist Fritz P. Mayer was opened on the first floor of the Tübke Villa . The collection of the so-called Leipzig School , assembled since 1994 , contains more than 100 paintings, among others by Hubertus Giebe , Ulrich Hachulla , Bernhard Heisig , Erich Kissing , Wolfgang Mattheuer , Wolfgang Peuker , Arno Rink , Johannes Rochhausen , Willi Sitte and Werner Tübke . The collection is complemented by sculptures by Waldemar Grzimek , Stephan Balkenhol , Wieland Förster , Fritz Cremer and Werner Stötzer . Parts of the collection were exhibited in 2007 at the Giersch Museum in Frankfurt am Main .

Mayer has given other works from the collection to German museums as gifts or on permanent loan. You can find them in the Städel Museum , Frankfurt am Main, the Chemnitz Art Collections , the New National Gallery , Berlin, the House of History , Bonn and the Mannheim Art Gallery . Mayer's works were mediated by the Frankfurt gallery owner Karl Schwind.

Schwind Gallery

The Schwind Gallery is located on the ground floor of Villa Tübke. This was founded in 1989 by Karl Schwind in Frankfurt am Main, where it is today at Fahrgasse 8. As one of the few gallery owners in the old federal states, Schwind represented Leipzig artists. After Werner Tübke's death in 2004, Schwind decided to buy the building at Springerstrasse 5, to renovate it and to establish another private art gallery there.

literature

  • Annika Michalski, Frank Zöllner: inventory catalog of the paintings. Tübke Foundation Leipzig. Plöttner, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-938442-46-3 .
  • Eduard Beaucamp , Annika Michalski, Frank Zöllner: Inventory catalog of drawings and watercolors. Tübke Foundation Leipzig. Plöttner, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-938442-73-9 .
  • Alexander Bastek (Ed.), Wolfgang Mattheuer (Ill.): Mattheuer, Tübke, Triegel - A Frankfurt Private Collection. Imhof, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-329-8 . (Catalog for the exhibition at the Museum Giersch, Frankfurt am Main, 23 September 2007 to 27 January 2008)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crush like Picasso . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1989, pp. 149 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Monika Flacke: Commissioned art of the GDR 1949–1990 . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Berlin 1995, ISBN 978-3-7814-0380-2 , p. 382

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '13 "  N , 12 ° 22' 9.1"  E