Sinclair house

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Sinclair House in Bad Homburg

The Sinclair House in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe is an exhibition center for modern art and an institution of the Nantesbuch Foundation .

history

View from the White Tower

The building at Löwengasse 15 at the corner of Dorotheenstrasse was built in 1708 as a residence for the Hesse-Homburg government councilor , historical researcher and discoverer of the Saalburg Roman fort, Elias Neuhof.

Originally detached, two-storey house with mansard roof has with Eckquaderung combined facades and elegant in red sandstone hewn portal to the courtyard. Over time, the building was owned by well-known personalities such as Kasimir Wilhelm von Hessen-Homburg and Freiherr Creuz von Wuertz (the alchemical advisor to Friedrich III ). The historical Baroque ensemble is located opposite the Erlöserkirche and only a few meters from the east gate of the Bad Homburg Palace Gardens and is a cultural monument for reasons of local and architectural history.

In 1775, the later Homburg diplomat Isaac von Sinclair (1775-1815) was born in the house , who successfully represented the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg at the Congress of Vienna . He was a friend of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin .

The dilapidated late baroque ensemble, threatened with demolition, was acquired by Altana AG in 1978 on the initiative of Herbert Quandt , restored and named after Sinclair. Since opening in May 1982, the Sinclair House has shown changing exhibitions of national and international art from the 20th and 21st centuries with a focus on the theme of "nature". Each exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive program of literature and music, science and art. In 2002, the house was closed for a further thorough renovation, the planned exhibitions were shown in the Städelsche Kunstinstitut and in the Museum Giersch in Frankfurt am Main. Since the merger of the ALTANA Kulturstiftung with the Nantesbuch Foundation in 2017, the museum has been continued under the umbrella of the Nantesbuch Foundation , which was founded by Susanne Klatten . Andrea Firmenich was the managing director until October 31, 2019 . From February 15, 2020, Kathrin Meyer (previously at the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden ) will succeed her.

Exhibitions

Eduardo Chillida, Besarkada X (Embrace X) , sculpture in steel, in the courtyard of the Sinclair House
  • 1988: Karli Sohn-Rethel , paintings, gouaches, drawings
  • 1997: Chillida and music - builders of time and sound
  • 1997: KH Hödicke , havapaintamilkaday
  • 1999: Ernst Barlach , sculptures and drawings
  • 2000: Nolde , Schmidt-Rottluff and their friends , The Martha and Paul Rauert Collection
  • 2000: AR Penck , The plastic work, memory, model, monument
  • 2001: Arnulf Rainer , over- subscriptions to Victor Hugo
  • 2001: Julio Gonzáles , retrospective
  • 2001: Max Beckmann , Spectacle of Life - Works on Paper
  • 2005: Joan Miró , Fantastic Worlds - 125 prints from the Fundació Joan Miró
  • 2006: Karin Kneffel , Seduction and Distance
  • 2007: Gabriele Münter , "Transformation of Reality" - prints from the collection of the Lenbachhaus in Munich
  • 2008: Heribert C. Ottersbach , half of life
  • 2008: David Nash , sculptures and drawings
  • 2010: Young-Jae Lee, Shapes from the Earth
  • 2011: Edward Burtynsky, OIL (photographs)
  • 2011: nature and image
  • 2011/12: Franz Marc , Joseph Beuys and Ewald Mataré . In harmony with nature
  • 2012: Herbert Brandl . Landscapes .
  • 2012/13: In the glow of the infinite. Romance and present .
  • 2013: Franz Gertsch . Woodcuts - Torn from nature .
  • 2013/14: Still in motion , video art and old masters.
  • 2014: Travel Notes , Barbara Klemm - Photographs, Johann Wolfgang Goethe - Drawings.
  • 2014: Leiko Ikemura , Zwischenwelten - drawings, paintings, sculptures .
  • 2014/15: Branched , Trees in Contemporary Art
  • 2015: Ori Gersht , Nature violence, films and photographs
  • 2015: Summer night dream , women - landscapes
  • 2015/16: Himmelwärts , art above the clouds
  • 2016: Darren Almond , shadow and light, photography and film.
  • 2016: Sin and Knowledge , The Fruit in Art
  • 2016/17: The second skin
  • 2017: Thomas Wrede , model landscape. Photography, comprehensive overview of works.
  • 2017: After nature. Material, shape, structure .
  • 2017/18: Book Worlds .
  • 2018/19: Outlook - Insight. Look through the window .
  • 2019: Chiharu Shiota , lines of thought .

Catalogs

  • Marzik, Iris & Maria Busch-Müller, Karli Sohn-Rethel. 1882-1966. Paintings - gouaches - drawings , Altana Industrie-Aktien und Anlagen AG, 1988
  • David Nash, natural forms. Edition Scheffel, Bad Homburg 2008.
  • Heribert C. Ottersbach, half of life. Wienand Verlag, 2008.
  • Gabriele Münter, Transformation of Reality. The graphic work, Prestel Verlag, Munich 2007.
  • Bernd Koberling, Volume of Silence. Kerber Verlag, 2007.
  • Karin Kneffel, Seduction and Distance. Wienand Verlag, 2006.
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, first sight. From the collection of the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin , Prestel Verlag, 2004.
  • Juul Kraijer. Duality / twoness . Hirmer, ISBN 978-3-7774-3532-9 .

Web links

Commons : Sinclair House  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Nantesbuch Foundation
  2. ^ Message from the antiquities in the area and on the mountains near Homburg vor der Höhe / communicated, and with accurate drawings vers. by Elias Neuhof, Princely Hesse-Homburg Government Council. Publishing house of Ev. Reformed orphanage, Hanau 1777
  3. ↑ museum sinclairhaus
  4. ↑ Captivatingly simple beauty in FAZ of May 30, 2016, page B3

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 38 "  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 42.6"  E