Municipal gallery in Strünkede Castle Park

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The municipal gallery in the Strünkede Palace Park in Herne is one of the three locations of the Emschertal Museum and is represented in the RuhrKunstMuseen network .

history

The villa was built in 1896 on behalf of the von Forell family as a residential building in the immediate vicinity of Strünkede Castle next to the castle chapel, as the castle itself was no longer suitable for use by the family due to mountain damage. The brick building is lavishly designed through the structure of bay windows with half-timbered gables , terrace and winter garden. In 1900 the von Forell family left Herne. Afterwards the villa was inhabited by the directors of the Harpener Bergwerks-AG , which had taken over the house and castle.

Finally, the city of Herne acquired the villa in 1960 in order to be able to show special exhibitions in addition to the permanent collections in the neighboring Strünkede Castle, and set it up for exhibition purposes in 1961, and at the same time it became a home to the city's Emschertal Museum. At first occasionally, from 1964 onwards, group exhibitions of contemporary art and solo exhibitions by Herne and regional artists took place regularly under the auspices of the Volksbildungswerk, while exhibits on local history were shown on the upper floor. Ten exhibitions were organized annually around 1970. After it was renamed Städtische Galerie Herne, the city of Herne has been using the building since 1978 for exhibitions of paintings , drawings , prints and sculptures of 20th century art from the art holdings of the Emschertal Museum, as well as current graphics by German and international artists. In addition to changing exhibitions, cultural and historical compilations such as “Möbel en détail” (1995, on home decor) or “Pest im Ruhrgebiet” (1998) are presented.

On June 19, 1986, the building and the Strünkede Castle were entered in the list of architectural monuments of the city of Herne. From August 2016 to September 2017 the gallery was closed due to the rectification of static defects on the half-timbered gable.

collection

The house owns exhibits of classical modernism, works of naturalism , expressionism and object-related works, paintings by Max Clarenbach and sculptural works by Ingeborg Bukor , Adolf Luther , Gerhard Marcks , Bruno Unkhoff and Fritz Viegener .

The focus is on hand drawings and over 3,500 individual sheets of works on paper after 1945. Over 150 drawings by Albert Kelterbaum and over 60 lithographs by A. Paul Weber can be found in the caricature and critical graphics section. Salvador Dali is represented with 100 lithographs for "Dante's Divine Comedy". Among the graphic print products are works by Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall , which the city acquired in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as Max Ernst , Georges Braque , and Pierre Soulages . Further acquisitions in the 1990s were sheets by Joseph Beuys , Georg Meistermann and the ZERO group .

With Bruno Foltynowicz, Lothar Gambke and Jupp Gesing , painters from the regional artist group "Herner Künstler", founded in 1949, are represented, Gustav Deppe , Emil Schumacher , Heinrich Siepmann and Thomas Grochowiak from the Young West group founded in Recklinghausen in 1948, as well as Helmut Bettenhausen, Bernd Damke , Rolf Glasmeier , Kuno Gonschior , Friedrich Gräsel , Günter Tollmann and Ewerdt Hilgemann of the artist group "B 1" founded in Gelsenkirchen in 1969 and representatives of informal painting such as Rolf Cavael, Emil Cimiotti, Günter Drebusch and Fritz Winter .

Bernhard Heisig , Rolf Kuhrt , Wolfgang Schmitz , Ossip Zadkine and Horst Janssen , from whom the gallery owns two drawings and several etchings , are represented as draftsmen .

There are also a number of objects on the history and technology of printmaking. A reference library for art, culture and regional history with more than 20,000 volumes is housed in the administration building, which is also located in the palace gardens.

Exhibitions (selection)

Cubecrack, Karl-Brandt-Weg, Herne

literature

  • City of Herne (Ed.): 60 years of the Emschertal Museum. 1926 to 1986 . (= Emschertal Museum. Volume 20). 1986, ISBN 3-922987-15-X .
  • City of Herne (Hrsg.): Herne in the art. Art in Herne . Exhibition catalog. (= Emschertal Museum. Volume 60). 1999, ISBN 3-922887-59-1 .
  • City of Herne (Hrsg.): Drawings and works on paper. Holdings catalog 2: 1995–2003. (= Emschertal Museum. Volume 77). 2004, ISBN 3-922987-80-X .

Web links

Commons : Städtische Galerie Herne  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingo Hinze: (Art) history in the Herner area - history in the Herner area. In: Herne in art. Art in Herne. 1999, p. 7.
  2. ^ City of Herne (ed.): Review: Five Herne artists. Wilhelm Imhof, Heinrich Wurm, Edmund Schuitz, Robert Imhof, Günter Senge. Exhibition catalog. (= Emschertal Museum. Volume 52). 1999, ISBN 3-922987-49-4 , p. 6.
  3. ^ City of Herne (ed.): Robert Imhof. Retrospective . Exhibition catalog. (= Emschertal Museum, Volume 3). 1980, p. 7.
  4. ^ Gerhard Graulich: The development of the municipal art possession of Herne and Wanne-Eickel after 1945. In: Stadt Herne (Hrsg.): 60 years Emschertal Museum. 1926 to 1986 .
  5. ↑ Lower monument authority of the city of Herne: Open Monument Day 2012 - Strünkede Castle . Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  6. ↑ WAZ: Herne closes the municipal gallery due to building defects on August 25, 2016. Accessed October 26, 2016
  7. ^ RuhrKunstMuseen: Emschertal-Museum Herne, municipal gallery . Retrieved January 27, 2019
  8. ^ RuhrKunstMuseen : Emschertal-Museum Herne, municipal gallery . Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  9. ^ City of Herne: The municipal gallery . Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  10. ↑ City of Herne / Spielezentrum: Städtische Galerie im Schloßpark Strünkede ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 9, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spielezentrum.de
  11. ↑ Ruhr Guide: Strünkede Castle . Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  12. ↑ Alexander von Knorre: Foreword. In: Herne in art. Art in Herne. 1999, p. 5.
  13. ↑ Drawings and works on paper. Holdings catalog 2, 1995-2003. 2004, pp. 84-89.


Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 4.5 "  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 45.7"  E