Villa Zanders

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Villa Zanders, in September 2006

The Villa Zanders is a former industrial villa of the entrepreneurial family Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach , in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

architecture

The Villa Zanders from the northeast with the Schnabelsmühle; Wood engraving by Brend'amour after CL Fahrbach around 1880

The three-storey brick building is structured by natural stone in the French Renaissance style. The formation of the risalit , the vertical emphasis and the motif of the triumphal arch are characteristic. The mansard roof is enlivened by dormers; the eaves and the chimney superstructures have not been preserved. The wood engraving on the right shows that the factory halls of the former Schnabelsmühle paper mill reached quite close to the southern side of the villa.

history

The stately villa was built from 1873 to 1874 as a town house for Maria Zanders , the widow of Carl Richard Zanders , based on designs by Hermann Otto Pflaume . It was originally located in the middle of a small park, of which only remnants have survived. In 1932 the property became the property of the old Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis and later that of the city of Bergisch Gladbach. For a long time it served as the administrative headquarters of the two authorities.

Villa Zanders art museum

From 1986 the building was renovated. Since then, the administration for the municipal museums and especially the Villa Zanders art museum , which has been managed by the art historian Petra Oelschlägel since September 1, 2012, has been located here. This also includes the archives of the museums as well as literature, maps and images. A valuable fossil collection from the Paffrath lime trough is stored in the cellar, a small part of which can be seen in an exhibition in the Bergischer Löwe community center . Then the house offers different art on three floors:

  • In the historical ambience of the ground floor, mainly late Romantic paintings from the Düsseldorf School of Painting from the time of Maria Zanders are shown, for example Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , Carl Ludwig Fahrbach and Johann Wilhelm Lindlar from Bergisch Gladbach .
  • The two neutrally designed upper floors are intended for the presentation of changing exhibitions of modern art. Exhibitions of young artists and presentations of classical art take place here.
  • First and foremost, however, is the in-house collection of paper as an artistic medium . It contains around 300 works of art by international artists and is a reminder of the city's 400-year tradition as a place for paper production.
  • The Artothek holds over a thousand works of art on loan. For a limited time you can, for example, borrow an original by Joseph Beuys for your own four walls.

Special exhibitions

  • 2010/2011: The multiplied nature. Schirmer and printmaking, 2010, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. From the Rhineland into the world
  • 2011: Heinz Zolper , Perception and Belief I Variations on the Lemniscate
  • 2012/2013: Salon pieces RELOADED. Artist rooms
  • 2013: Norbert Prangenberg . "Winter trip"
  • 2014: Monika Grzymala . - dismantling
  • 2016: Heike Weber - 23
  • 2016: Attention, cultural assets. The Art from Paper Collection
  • 2016: Undeclared work - The magic of the dark
  • 2017: Karin Sander - Identities on Display
  • 2017: Friends meet - revisited. Manfred Boecker, Rainer Gross, Wolfgang Niedecken
  • 2017/18: in the series on-site meeting Mary Bauermeister . Signs, words, universes
  • 2018: Reinhold Koehler - Décollages
  • 2019: Tina Haase . absolutely
  • 2019: ART is always an assertion. COLLECTING too. 50 years of the Kraft Collection , curator Hartmut Kraft
  • 2019: Stefan Wewerka - Deconstruction of Modernity
  • 2020: reorganized; New acquisitions, gifts, permanent loans and more

Red salon

The Red Salon is also available for civil weddings. It can also be rented daily from 6 p.m. together with other rooms and a winter garden.

monument

The Villa Zanders was entered as No. 20 in the list of architectural monuments in Bergisch Gladbach .

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Vomm: Die Musenvilla , in: Bürgerburg und Musenvilla, accesses to historical manorial buildings in Bergisch Gladbach, Bergisch Gladbach 2006, ISBN 3-9809631-8-7 , pp. 151-196.
  2. ↑ Imprint Homepage Gallery , accessed on October 29, 2012.
  3. ↑ Internet Archive: Exhibition Monika Grzymala ( Memento from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 27, 2015
  4. ↑ Rental Roter Salon , accessed on December 27, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Villa Zanders  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 27 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 50 ″  E