Dresden Municipal Gallery

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The Landhaus is the seat of the Dresden City Gallery.

The Städtische Galerie Dresden - Art Collection is the art museum of the Saxon state capital . In mid-2002 Gisbert Porstmann was appointed founding director, and in 2005 the Dresden City Gallery was opened. The founding was decided in 2000 by the Dresden city council and implemented an idea from 1957, which goes back to the art historian Fritz Löffler (1900–1988) , to create an exhibition space for "what in more than 250 years Dresden has been a special achievement for the art of the world contributed ". In the Städtische Galerie the art possessions of the city ​​of Dresden receivedwith its important works of the 19th and 20th centuries its own appropriate exhibition space. The Städtische Galerie Dresden belongs to the museum association of the museums of the city of Dresden , which has been run as an independent office of the Dresden city administration since 2015. Office manager is in personal union with the management of the gallery Gisbert Porstmann.

Location

The presentation of the collection and the special exhibitions of the Dresden City Gallery are located on the first floor of the Dresden country house , which was built between 1770 and 1775 as a conference building for the Saxon estates based on designs by the court architect Friedrich August Krubsacius . Other Dresden museums nearby are the Dresden City Museum in the same building, the Dresden Fortress Museum and the state museums in the Albertinum .

history

View of the permanent exhibition of the Dresden City Gallery

The history of the art collection began with the Association for the History and Topography of Dresden and its Surroundings, which was founded in 1869. Its members have to collect evidence of the bourgeois urban culture as well as the first paintings. One focus was portraits of important personalities, as well as views of the city and landscapes of the surrounding area. The rapidly growing holdings of the municipal collections were housed in different buildings for years until they were housed on October 1, 1910 in the rooms around the atrium in the newly built town hall , where they remained until they were relocated during the Second World War due to the war .

The redesign of the art collection began with Paul Ferdinand Schmidt , who was director of the municipal collections from 1919 to 1924. Schmidt based his purchases on art-historical categories. Under his leadership, the Dresden City Collections emerged from the Dresden City Museum . Schmidt's focus was on the collection of contemporary art that he brought to life. He bought works by Erich Heckel , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Otto Dix , Oskar Kokoschka , Lasar Segall and Kurt Schwitters , among others , and thus built up a top-class collection on the art of German Expressionism .

During the “ Degenerate Art ” campaign, the National Socialists confiscated 498 individual works from the municipal art collection. Most of the art treasures are still considered lost today, only a few works were later found in important national and international museums. During the war and in the immediate post-war period, other important works of art were lost. A complete inventory and loss catalog is in progress.

After the Second World War, the city's art collection was integrated into the Institute and Museum for the History of the City of Dresden, which was renamed the City Museum Dresden in 1990 and was primarily dedicated to researching the city's history.

In 2000 the Dresden city council decided to found a municipal art museum. At the same time, a support association was established that celebrated the founding of the Dresden City Gallery on June 1, 2002. The Städtische Galerie took over the art holdings of the Dresden City Museum and was able to open its exhibition rooms on the first floor of the Landhaus on July 2, 2005. Since then, the art museum of the Saxon state capital has dedicated itself to the past and present of art in the region as well as the developments and tendencies of contemporary art in Germany and Europe. In a permanent exhibition in the west wing, works by painters and sculptors from 1900 to the 21st century are presented. In the east wing, the works of individual artists are presented in changing special exhibitions, as well as contemporary art and art-historical topics.

DREWAG Prize for Contemporary Art

With the opening of the municipal art museum, DREWAG donated the DREWAG Prize for Contemporary Art , which promoted artists whose main production facility is in the city of Dresden or its surrounding area. It included prize money, a solo exhibition in the Dresden City Gallery and the production of an exhibition catalog. The DREWAG Prize for Contemporary Art was awarded twice: in 2006 to the sculptor Sebastian Hempel and in 2008 to the artist Britta Jonas.

collection

The municipal art collection includes around 1,800 paintings, 800 sculptures and more than 20,000 works on paper. The periods of creation of the works range from the 16th century to the present day. The main goal is to continue the collection from now on through the acquisition of contemporary art.

Selection of represented artists:

Painter and graphic artist:

Romance:

Impressionism:

New Objectivity:

Dresden artists of the 20th century:

Contemporary:

Sculptor:

On December 10, 2007, the Dresden City Gallery announced a significant addition to its collection. With the acquisition of an extensive collection of works by AR Penck (Ralf Winkler) from the possession of Jürgen Schweinbraden and a generous donation from the collector, the Städtische Galerie Dresden received around 40 paintings, objects and assemblages, 330 watercolors and drawings, 340 overpaintings, 80 prints Works as well as over 100 works from the circle of the artist group " Lücke ", in which AR Penck played a key role.

Edition Dresden

The Städtische Galerie Dresden has been committed to contemporary art in Dresden since it was founded. On the occasion of the opening of the gallery, ten artists - Franz Ackermann , Katalin Deér , Eberhard Havekost , Sabine Hornig , Kerstin Kartscher , Olaf Nicolai , Frank Nitsche , Manfred Pernice , Thomas Scheibitz and Silke Wagner - each have one work available for a first graphic edition posed. The Edition Dresden appeared in an edition of 50 copies, of which reach 33 numbered in the sale. The price of the edition is 3,424 euros. The entire proceeds from the sale of the edition will be used to purchase contemporary art for the collection of the Dresden City Gallery.

Previous exhibitions

  • 2005: The opening - 200 years of art in Dresden
  • 2006: see what's there - images of people by Dix and others from the Frieder Gerlach collection
  • 2006: Willy Wolff for the hundredth
  • 2006: 1st DREWAG Prize for Contemporary Art 2006 - Sebastian Hempel "Strom"
  • 2006: Conrad Felixmüller & Peter August Böckstiegel - Working Worlds
  • 2006: Jürgen Schön - Im Winkel
  • 2007: Gegenwelten - Informal Painting from the GDR. The example of Dresden
  • 2007: Learning from Moscow - Positions of Contemporary Art from Moscow
  • 2007: Günter Horlbeck - 40 years of Dresden
  • 2008: Being and being - the unknown AR Penck
  • 2008: 50 years of the Dresden graphics workshop. A universe in the refuge
  • 2008: 2nd DREWAG Prize for Contemporary Art 2008 - Britta Jonas - The Papagoyen Circle Dances
  • 2009: silence. Wood cracks and paintings by Werner Wittig
  • 2009: look - painting and drawing by Gerda Lepke
  • 2009: Sermon in Pictures. A rediscovered cycle of paintings from the Dresden Sophienkirche
  • 2010: Hans Jüchser - Friedrich Press . Confession in form and color

Project space Neue Galerie

Catalogs are published to accompany the exhibitions, which highlight important, interesting topics in art history in Dresden.

literature

  • Gisbert Porstmann: A new foundation on the way - the "Städtische Galerie Dresden". In: Dresden history book . Edited by the Dresden City Museum , Altenburg 2003, Vol. 9, pp. 241-254.
  • Gisbert Porstmann (ed.): Städtische Galerie Dresden - guide through the collection of paintings. Munich / Berlin / London 2005, ISBN 3-7913-3394-1 .
  • Johannes Schmidt: Artists, Art and Art Acquisition. The municipal art collection from 1924 to 1933. In: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch. Edited by the Dresden City Museum. Altenburg 2007, Vol. 12, pp. 181-202.
  • Johannes Schmidt: "Germans" instead of modern art. Art in Dresden and the municipal art collection in the years 1933 to 1935. In: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch. Edited by the Dresden City Museum. Altenburg 2008, Vol. 13, pp. 191-218.
  • Bertram Kaschek: You have to see it! In: The time . Museum guide. The most beautiful art collections in Germany. Edited by Hanno Rauterberg. Hamburg 2010, pp. 86-89.
  • Johannes Schmidt: Between artist funding, commissioned art and city documentation. The municipal art collection after 1945. In: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch. Edited by the Dresden City Museum. Altenburg 2011, Vol. 16, pp. 208-232.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ as quoted in Gisbert Porstmann, A new foundation on the way - the "Städtische Galerie Dresden", in: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch Volume 9, Dresden 2003, pp. 241-254, p. 243.
  2. ↑ database. March 27, 2009, accessed November 16, 2018 .