Murnau Castle Museum
The Murnau Castle Museum is a museum in the Bavarian market of Murnau am Staffelsee . It is housed in the Murnau Castle . This has a distinctive logo on all of his publications. It is an “M” inclined to the left, derived from Wassily Kandinsky's oil painting Study for Winter II . This is the motif of the roofs of the castle, which Kandinsky depicted with a few abstract brushstrokes, seen from the Münter house in 1910/11 .
The museum belongs to the MuSeenLandschaft Expressionismus , together with the Museum of Imagination ("Buchheim Museum") in Bernried am Starnberger See , the Franz Marc Museum in Kochel am See , the Museum Penzberg and the Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus .
history
The core of the Murnau museum building is a medieval residential tower of the former castle . It was given its current appearance in the 16th century through additions. The tower, its sliding windows, which are unique in Germany, and archaeological finds, pottery and oven ceramics, glass, coins and animal bones, provide information about castle construction in Upper Bavaria from the 13th to the 19th century. For more than 400 years Murnau Castle was the official residence and residence of the keepers of the Ettal Monastery , in whose name they exercised jurisdiction. After secularization (1803), the complex was used for residential and school purposes until 1980. In 1991 and 1992 the castle was converted into a museum as part of the Murnau market.
Departments
Murnauer landscape / Murnauer Moos
This section gives an insight into the formation and the unique diversity of flora and fauna on the northern edge of the Alps with the Murnauer Moos . In addition, the traditional economic use, industrial rock mining in the 20th century and efforts to preserve this landscape as an important nature reserve are presented.
Markt Murnau / commercial and domestic business
In addition to the history of the settlement and the development of the Murnau market , three house trades are highlighted as local specialties: reverse glass painting in the region, embedded in the overarching, centuries-long history of reverse glass art, the traditional production of feather flowers and gingerbread . The development of Murnau into a summer resort in the 19th century is also explained , where townspeople settled in comfortable country houses and numerous artists gathered.
Behind glass picture collections Dammert and Gartner
Beyond the regional history of reverse glass painting , the Udo and Hedi Dammert collection and the Wilhelm Gartners show the diversity and quality of this art in an international context. The exhibits from the major European centers of the 18th and 19th centuries - Bavaria , Black Forest , Alsace , Switzerland , Upper Austria , Bohemia , Moravia , Romania , England , the Netherlands , Italy , Spain - are glass pictures from Iran , China , India , Indonesia and Japan juxtaposed.
Painting in the 19th century
In the 19th century, numerous Munich painters found their motifs in the charming Alpine foothills, e.g. B. Franz Kobell , Eduard Schleich the Elder , Adolf Heinrich Lier , Carl Spitzweg . From Murnau itself came Johann Michael Wittmer , who as a painter and son-in-law of Joseph Anton Koch spent his further life in the circle of the German Romans , and Philipp Sporrer (1829–1899), who taught at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts .
New artists' association Munich and Der Blaue Reiter
The two artist couples Gabriele Münter / Wassily Kandinsky and Marianne von Werefkin / Alexej Jawlensky stayed in Murnau for their first joint painting stay in the summer of 1908. “Under the stylistic and technical influence of Werefkin and Jawlensky”, Münter and Kandinsky were then “inspired” to make that “great leap from painting nature more or less impressionistically to feeling a content, to abstracting to give an extract” that Münter spoke of. They became expressionists . In the winter of 1908, the idea for the New Munich Artists' Association was born in the Werefkin's Munich salon. Founded in 1909, it is ultimately the forerunner of the Blue Rider . From 1908 until the outbreak of World War I , these artists found many of their motifs in Murnau, its population and its surroundings. The down-to-earth reverse glass painting, which was still practiced at that time by the Murnau reverse glass painter Heinrich Rambold (1872–1953), is of particular importance for the painting of Kandinsky and Münter .
Gabriele Münter
With more than 70 paintings, drawings, reverse glass pictures and graphics, the most extensive publicly shown collection of works by Gabriele Münter from her entire creative period is presented. Between 1908 and 1914 Gabriele Münter lived with Wassily Kandinsky in Murnau. Her house on Kottmüllerallee became a meeting point for artist friends (including Arnold Schönberg , Heinrich Campendonk and Paul Klee ). After lengthy interruptions, she spent the rest of her life from 1931 until her death in 1962 in Murnau again, together with her partner Johannes Eichner (1886–1958), in the Münter house that is now accessible .
Ödön from Horváth
The only public documentation on the life and work of the writer and playwright Ödön von Horváth shows how closely he was connected to Murnau, where he came to spend his summer holidays in 1920 and lived mainly from 1924–1933. Local life gave him essential inspiration for his work. The exhibition therefore particularly documents his time in Murnau and the references to Murnau events, personalities and locations in the 1920s and 1930s. Against this background, several of his world-famous pieces such as "Italian Night" and "To the beautiful view" as well as the novel "Youth without God" were created. When Murnau became a stronghold of National Socialism , there were clashes between Murnau National Socialists and Horváth, which finally forced him to leave Murnau in February 1933.
Special exhibitions
Since the castle museum opened on July 1, 1993, there have been around 3–4 special exhibitions a year, which are documented in catalogs and other publications.
Support associations
Murnau Castle Museum Foundation
In order to support the Murnau market and to be able to guarantee the quality of the museum work in the long term, the “Murnau Castle Museum Foundation”, a non-profit foundation under public law, was set up in 1994. The foundation promotes the art and cultural history work of the castle museum. It maintains and communicates the local cultural work of Murnau, as well as that of world art and world literature, in the castle museum. The purpose of the foundation is realized through the donation of money and material resources. The foundation uses its income to support: the acquisition of exhibits, the issuance of relevant publications, the financing of special exhibitions, restorations and necessary conservation measures.
Murnau Castle Museum sponsorship group
With the establishment of the Castle Museum in 1993, Markt Murnau took on the cultural responsibility of giving its citizens access to the works of the artists who live here. Since such measures are connected with financial resources and follow-up costs, the question arose very soon of how the budget could be relieved. The “Förderkreis Schloßmuseum Murnau eV” was founded in November 1994. The idea was very well received by the citizens of Murnau and so the support group now has over 700 members. The association operates selflessly and, with its membership fees and additional donations from patrons, enables financial support both in expanding the collection as well as in museum educational measures to introduce young people to art and culture.
Private foundation, Murnau Castle Museum
The work of the castle museum is also supported by the "Private Foundation Schloßmuseum Murnau", which was founded by private individuals at the end of 2007. The company was given initial capital to secure its financial base in the long term.
literature
- Johannes Goldner / Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger: Murnau am Staffelsee . Freilassing 1985.
- Brigitte Salmen: Wassily Kandinsky - Gabriele Münter. Artist of the "Blue Rider" in Murnau . A cultural guide from the Murnau Castle Museum. Murnau 2003.
- Brigitte Salmen (ed.): 1908–2008, 100 years ago, Kandinsky, Münter, Jawlensky, Werefkin in Murnau . Exhibition catalog. Murnau 2008.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The painting is in the Lenbachhaus in Munich, Inv. No .: GMS 47
- ↑ Brigitte Salmen, Schloßansichten, in: Schloß Murnau, A building from the Staufer era and its history, Murnau 1994, p. 86
- ↑ MuSeenLandschaft Expressionism. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Peter KW Freude, Greetings from Murnau, The market on old postcards, Murnau 1999
- ↑ Gisela Kleine, Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky, biography of a couple, Frankfurt / M. 1990, p. 316
- ↑ Bernd Fäthke, Werefkin and Jawlensky with son Andreas in the “Murnauer Zeit”, in exhib. Cat .: 1908-2008, 100 years ago, Kandinsky, Münter, Jawlensky, Werefkin in Murnau, Murnau 2008, p. 54
- ↑ Johannes Eichner, Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter, From origins of modern art, Munich 1957, S. Johannes Eichner, Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter, From origins of modern art, Munich 1957, p. 89
- ↑ Brigitte Salmen and Annegret Hoberg, Around 1908 - Kandinsky, Münter, Jawlensky and Werefkin in Murnau, in exhibition cat .: 1908-2008, 100 years ago, Kandinsky, Münter, Jawlensky, Werefkin in Murnau, Murnau 2008, p. 16
- ^ Nina Gockerell, Das Münter-Haus, behind glass pictures, carvings and wooden toys, Munich / London / New York 2000; Helmut Friedel and Annegret Hoberg, Das Münterhaus in Murnau, Munich 2000
- ↑ Elizabeth Tworek / Brigitte Salmen, Odon von Horvath, a cultural guide of the castle museum Murnau, Murnau 2001
Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 39 ″ N , 11 ° 12 ′ 10 ″ E