King Museum
 The KOENIG Museum below Trausnitz Castle |
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| place | Landshut |
| Art |
KOENIGmuseum
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| architect | Peter Gehring, Meike Gerchow |
| opening | 1998 |
| operator |
City of Landshut
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| management |
Stefanje Weinmayr
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| Website | |
| ISIL | DE-MUS-945413 |
The Koenigmuseum (until 2018 sculpture museum in the Hofberg ) is a museum for sculptures in Landshut . It houses the work and collections of the sculptor Fritz Koenig (1924-2017), which he contributed to the Fritz and Maria Koenig Foundation in 1993.
history
The museum was built on behalf of the city of Landshut by Peter Gehring and Meike Gerchow according to plans by Fritz Koenig.
The museum is a windowless structure and was driven into the mountain; hidden behind the exposed brickwork of the medieval city wall. The exposed concrete rooms contrast with this. The building covers a total area of 2200 square meters, around 1000 square meters are available for exhibition purposes.
After the three-year construction period, the museum opened on June 20, 1998 with a retrospective of Fritz Koenig's work. Until his death on February 22, 2017, various exhibitions on the work and collections of the sculptor and draftsman were shown. Koenig himself curated all of these exhibitions. Next
In 2018 the sculpture museum in the Hofberg was renamed the Koenigmuseum . An external location with objects from the collection of the Fritz-und-Maria-Koenig-Stiftung is located in the enclosure of the Cistercian Abbey Seligenthal in Landshut.
Exhibitions
In 1998 the sculpture museum opened with the exhibition “Fritz Koenig. Sculpture and Drawing 1942-1997 ”, a selection of works from the Foundation's collection. As a result, Fritz Koenig's Africa collection was launched under the title “My Africa. The Fritz Koenig Collection ”presented. It concluded with the exhibition “Drawings. Paper cuts. Cardboard Reliefs ”offers a cross-section of Koenig's extensive works on paper, with a good 300 works, only a small part of several thousand copies being exhibited.
In 2009, "Aufstellung 2008", an exhibition of his sculptures and sculptures set up by Fritz Koenig, was on view.
In 2018, the work won a new response in a major "Koenig²" project; In the Heiliggeistkirche the exhibition "Koenig in Heiliggeist" shows large sculptures by Fritz Koenig in the bright hall church of the late Gothic.
Since February 2019, the exhibition "Ganslberg - Future Perspectives" has been showing students drafts and models for the future of the Ganslberg, Fritz Koenig's home and work place.
Central room during the opening exhibition
Fritz Koenig, "The Sculptor", 1985/97, bronze
Web links
supporting documents
- ↑ Fritz Koenig. Cult image. From work and collection. - Museums of the city of Landshut. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ′ 0.3 ″ N , 12 ° 9 ′ 20 ″ E