Municipal Gallery Neunkirchen

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The Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen is an institution of the city of Neunkirchen .

history

The gallery is sponsored by Neunkircher Kulturgesellschaft gGmbH. For decades it was housed in the city's former district court. In 2007, the non-profit association “Förderkreis Städtische Galerie / Museum Neunkirchen eV” was set up with the aim of improving the conditions for high-quality exhibition work and an attractive educational offer by creating new spaces. In 2015, the gallery in the former “Bürgerhaus”, which included a newly established Hüttenstadt Museum, the city library and a rehearsal stage, was named “KULT. Kulturzentrum Neunkirchen “was opened, a new domicile. The spatial expansion to around 500 square meters of floor space made it possible to permanently show extracts from the "Wolfgang Kermer Donation" in addition to the temporary exhibitions. The art historian Nicole Nix-Hauck is the director of the Städtische Galerie.

Exhibitions

The Städtische Galerie organizes four to six changing exhibitions every year. Following a broad program based on current international art trends, the balance sheet has recorded almost one hundred solo and themed exhibitions since 1992, in which artists from all over Germany, various European countries and South Korea have been presented. The gallery also opens up to the regional art scene, among other things it is one of the presentation locations of the Saarland state art exhibition. A special focus is contemporary photography. The exhibitions are mostly accompanied by catalog editions.

collection

Originally the gallery did not have any collection. The art historian Wolfgang Kermer from Neunkirchen donated works of art from his private collection to his hometown in 2005.

In 2008 the Neunkirchen painter Ruth Engelmann-Nünninghoff (1915–2016) presented a selection of her own works to the gallery as a gift.

As a second donation from Kermers, Fritz Arnold's graphic cycles, which had been lost for decades, followed in 2010 . With the third and final part of the Stuttgart Encounters exhibition in 2011, the gallery once again expanded its art portfolio with drawings, prints, collages, photographs and sculptures.

The inventory catalog of the "Donation Wolfgang Kermer" presented in 2011 lists around 300 works by 114 artists, including a. by Peter Ackermann , Albrecht Ade , Klaus Arnold , Herbert Baumann , Moritz Baumgartl , Gerlinde Beck , Bernd Berner , Franz Bernhard , Gunter Böhmer , Karl Bohrmann , Jürgen Brodwolf , Holger Bunk , Peter Chevalier , Peter Dreher , Paul Uwe Dreyer , Erwin Eisch , Klaus Franz , Eugen Funk , Wolfgang Gäfgen , Peter Grau , Thomas Grünfeld , Cordula Güdemann , Rudolf Haegele , Friedemann Hahn , Otto Herbert Hajek , Rudolf Hoflehner , Alfred Hrdlicka , Horst Egon Kalinowski , France Kermer , Wolfgang Kermer, Emil Kiess , Dietrich Klinge , Volker Lehnert , Wilhelm Loth , Markus Lüpertz , Erich Mansen , Erich Mönch , Heinz Mohl , Chris Newman , Oswald Oberhuber , Hugo Peters , Arnulf Rainer , Imre Reiner , Gert Riel , Karl Rössing , rosalie , Jürgen Rose , Fritz Ruoff , Michael Sandle , Ludwig Schaffrath , Rudolf Schoofs , Karl-Henning Seemann , Gustav Seitz , KRH Sonderborg , Peter Steiner , Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen , Bernd Stöcker , Niklaus Troxler , Micha Ullman , Arno Votteler , H olger Walter , Ernst Weil , Herbert Wentscher , Leo Wollner and Jörg F. Zimmermann . Most of the artists come from southern Germany and represent both different generations of artists and a wide range of styles, from expressive figuration to informal gestures to geometric abstraction .

Literature (selection)

  • Stuttgart encounters: the Wolfgang Kermer donation . Municipal Gallery Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen 2005 (exhibition catalog)
  • Wolfgang Kermer: Fritz Arnold: the graphic work 1917-1920 . With a foreword by Nicole Nix-Hauck and a contribution by Nina Pirro. Edited by the Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen on the occasion of the donation and exhibition of the same name, Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, June / August 2010. Saarbrücken 2010 ISBN 978-3-941715-03-5
  • Donation Wolfgang Kermer: inventory catalog . Edited by the Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen 2011 ISBN 978-3-941715-07-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cathrin Elss-Seringhaus: Neunkircher Ambition: Industrial history and modern art: Today the “Kult” cultural center opens . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung, No. 289, 12./13. December 2015, page B 4.
  2. ↑ Sabine Graf: "Every picture stands for an encounter": The district town of Neunkirchen has been culturally enriched. The artist and art historian Wolfgang Kermer gave her his graphic and glass collection . In: Employees - Journal of the Saarland Chamber of Labor, 54th year, issue 2, April 2006, p. 39.
  3. ↑ Gerd Meiser: Neunkirchen artist Fritz Arnold returns with his work: second donation by Wolfgang Kermer . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , June 14, 2010. - Cathrin Elss-Seringhaus: Welcome home: Fritz Arnold exhibition: Neunkirchen shows the graphic work of someone who has been forgotten . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung, June 25, 2010.
  4. ↑ “A stroke of luck for the city!”: Wolfgang Kermer hands over a second donation . In: Info-Brief Nr. 1, ed. from the support group Städtische Galerie / Museum Neunkirchen e. V., June 2010, p. 3.
  5. ↑ Stuttgart Encounters III: third part of the donations from Wolfgang Kermer in the Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen . In: Wochenspiegel , Neunkirchen edition, vol. 25, No. 47, November 23, 2011.
  6. ↑ Entry in the Baden-Württemberg State Bibliography , accessed on January 12, 2018
  7. ^ Entry in the catalog of the German National Library , accessed on January 27, 2018
  8. ^ Entry in the catalog of the German National Library, accessed on January 26, 2018

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