Schroth collection

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The Schroth Collection is an art collection for concrete and post- minimal art based in Soest .

It was started by the industrial engineer and product designer Carl-Jürgen Schroth (* 1947 in Arnsberg ), former owner of Schroth Safety Products GmbH, in the 1980s. The collection of this art movement, to which Schroth is dedicated, is continuously being expanded. Works from the collection could be viewed in the former Marienschule on open days, now a listed building, in Soest until 2015.

RAUM SCHROTH in the Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest (2016)

Then followed the opening of the Schroth room in May 2016 as part of the Wilhelm Morgner Museum in the city of Soest . The works of the Schroth Collection can be seen there, as can external exhibitions.

Contents of the Schroth Collection

The collection contains around 400 works by around 90 artists from different countries, including Yves Klein , Hellmut Bruch , Heiner Thiel and Beat Zoderer . It is thus one of the 256 leading private collections worldwide and is represented in the BMW Art Guide, among other things. From the German art scene are u. a. Leo Erb , Günter Umberg , Lore Bert and Ulrich Rückriem represented. Catalogs appear for the new acquisitions exhibitions.

Conceptual Art Foundation

The Conceptual Art Foundation , based in Soest, was founded in 2014 and contains works from the Schroth Collection.

The founder, Carl-Jürgen Schroth, creates a foundation not only for his own collection, but also the opportunity for other collectors or artists' bequests from the field of conceptual art to donate their works and preserve them for posterity. Further donations are already being planned.

Since 2014, the Conceptual Art Foundation has significantly supported the Hellweg Konkret project , which was represented with a first cycle of exhibitions in Soest, Unna, Hamm, Ahlen and Arnsberg.

Exhibitions and catalogs

literature

  • Christopher Naumann: All sorts of beautiful things - factors influencing private art collecting and its changes in the 20th century. Naumann Beck, Verlag für Kluge Texte, Homburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-939755-33-3 , pp. 43–44: Carl Jürgen Schroth: Mathematics and Art .
  • Skadi Heckmüller: private access - private art collections in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Distance Verlag, Wuppertal 2011, ISBN 978-3-942405-08-9 , pp. 156–159.
  • Bettina Boronowsky: Home for Concrete Art. The retired industrial engineer Carl-Jürgen Schroth has amassed a collection of concrete and post-minimal art that is one of the 150 most important collections worldwide… . In: Wienand Geuking (Ed.): Art & Design. Westfalium-Verlag, Münster 2014, pp. 6-10.
  • BMW Group (Ed.): BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors , Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7757-4144-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ collectors from NRW , Artblog, Cologne, January 16, 2013. Viewed 11 August 2015
  2. ^ Art Forum International . Volume 228, 2014, p. 8. Viewed August 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ Patricia Susana Schnurr and Marion Ritter Soester Anzeiger , edition of September 3, 2013. Viewed August 11, 2015
  4. ↑ Spectacular: gray in gray. In: Westfalium , Münster, July 11, 2012. Accessed August 9, 2015.
  5. ↑ Detlef Schlüchtermann: Modern art in the old monastery. In: WAZ Arnsberg on May 30, 2012. Accessed March 29, 2016.
  6. ↑ Ralf Stiftel: Schroth Collection in the Morgner House Soest: Minimalist Art. In: Westfälischer Anzeiger , Hamm, July 16, 2013. Accessed August 9, 2015.
  7. ^ Exhibition Painting Black. Schroth Collection, accessed on October 26, 2018 .
  • Press release BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors 2015 [1]
  • Website of the BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors [2]