Municipal Gallery Karlsruhe

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The hall construction with the seat of the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, in February 2006

The Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe is an art museum of the city of Karlsruhe . It occupies the southernmost of ten atriums of the large hall building, which also houses the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM). The focus of the collection is on German art after 1945 as well as graduates and teachers from the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . In addition to works of art owned by the City of Karlsruhe, the permanent exhibition also shows loans from private collections. There are also special exhibitions. Brigitte Baumstark, who has a doctorate in art history, is the director of the gallery.

history

The city of Karlsruhe already had an art collection in the 19th century. In 1895 an amount was set in the city budget for the first time for their inventory and expansion. The holdings could be expanded through donations and purchases of private collections. Since the city did not initially have a suitable exhibition building, the works of art were loaned to the State Art Gallery and hung in the city's official buildings. It was not until 1981 that the collection was given its own rooms in the Prinz-Max-Palais . By 1997 there were over 60 special exhibitions in the Städtische Galerie in the Prinz-Max-Palais . In 1997 the move to the larger rooms of atrium 10 in hall A of a former ammunition factory built in 1915 on Lorenzstrasse followed. The complex, which is over 300 meters long, was rebuilt to accommodate the ZKM and the gallery as well as the Museum of New Art and the Karlsruhe University of Design .

collection

The gallery owns an important collection of masterpieces of printmaking (copperplate engravings and etchings) by German, French, Italian and Dutch artists of the 15th to 18th centuries. In particular, it concerns the collection of the Karlsruhe lawyer Ferdinand Siegel (1783–1877), which came into the possession of the city of Karlsruhe in 1896 as a gift from the heirs. The artists represented include Martin Schongauer , Albrecht Dürer , Jacques Callot , Claude Lorrain , Annibale Carracci , Canaletto , Anthonis van Dyck and Rembrandt van Rijn, and from the 20th and 21st centuries HAP Grieshaber , Rudolf Schoofs , Shmuel Shapiro , Jörg Immendorff and Georg Baselitz .

The gallery has the collection of the couple Ute and Eberhard Garnatz on permanent loan, including works and complexes of sculptures, objects, paper works and photographs by Jörg Immendorff , Markus Lüpertz , Georg Baselitz , Per Kirkeby , Meuser , Günther Förg , Candida Höfer , Thomas Struth , Sigmar Polke , Rosemarie Trockel , AR Penck , Marlene Dumas , Anna and Bernhard Blume or Bernd and Hilla Becher . Since October 1997 the exhibits have formed an important part of the permanent exhibition of the municipal gallery.

The Karlsruhe artists represented in the gallery also include Karl Hubbuch and Willi Müller-Hufschmid .

Special exhibitions

Web links

Commons : Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe: From the municipal art collections to the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe in the Prinz-Max-Palais , accessed on June 19, 2012
  2. ^ Municipal Gallery Karlsruhe: Barbara Klemm. Retrospective - Photographs 1968–2008 , accessed on June 19, 2012
  3. ↑ Südkurier , May 16, 2014: Karlsruhe Realists - World politics is not an issue for your art , accessed on March 7, 2015

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