City Museum Hofheim am Taunus

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The City Museum Hofheim am Taunus at Burgstraße 11 is a museum for art, archeology and city history in Hofheim am Taunus .

The museum is run by the district town of Hofheim am Taunus, and financial support is provided by the Stadtmuseum Hofheim am Taunus e. V.

History and buildings

The city museum, located on the site of a former Electoral Mainz cellar yard, is located on the edge of Hofheim's old town in the immediate vicinity of the historic cellar building. The listed two-storey mansard roof building, which dates from the late 18th century, was built as a residential building, after changing uses from 1990 onwards, a new building was added and turned into a museum.

Exhibitions

The museum shows the permanent exhibitions

  • Art: Hanna Bekker vom Rath and the artists' group of the Blue House
  • Archeology: The Romans in Hofheim
  • City history: in the field of tension between the big cities
  • City history: leather industry in Lorsbachtal

as well as changing exhibitions. Every year three to four special exhibitions on art, city and cultural history topics take place. The presentations are each framed by accompanying events and an extensive museum educational program.

  • Ottilie W. Roederstein. Park behind the Städel, 1910

  • Aerial photograph Hofheim am Taunus, 1914

  • Workforce at the Wirz & Kathrein leather factory, 1906

  • Fresco bust of Bacchus, around 100 AD

art

Hanna Bekker. Self-portrait with hat, 1948

Works of art from the first half of the 20th century are shown on the ground floor. They are related to the Hofheim artist circle, which was brought into being by the painters Ottilie W. Roederstein (1859–1937) and Hanna Bekker vom Rath (1893–1983) in the first quarter of the 20th century. Since 1920, Hanna Bekker vom Rath lived with her husband, the conductor, artistic director and music critic Paul Bekker (1882–1937) in a country villa at Kapellenstrasse 4. In 1924 the house was given its color scheme, which is characteristic to this day. The “Blue House”, Ida Kerkovius coined this term, developed into the temporary work domicile of many important artists, including Alexej von Jawlensky , Ludwig Meidner , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Ida Kerkovius, Emy Roeder and later also Ernst Wilhelm Nay .

After 1945, many well-known artists followed the attraction of the “Blue House”. Hanna Bekker vom Rath, for example, got in touch with Ludwig Meidner again in 1948. He returned to Germany and after his stations in Hamburg and Frankfurt she was able to find him a former locksmith's shop in Hofheim-Marxheim, where he lived from 1955 to 1963. Ernst Wilhelm Nay created the so-called "Hekate" pictures during his time in Hofheim (1945–1952). Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and his wife Emy came to Hofheim for the first time in 1932 and returned every year until 1972 (except for 1943–46). Hanna Bekker left her studio to him, and he painted oil paintings and watercolors of the house, the garden, the city and the landscape of the Taunus . Here Schmidt-Rottluff, who was also one of the ostracized artists of the Third Reich, felt free enough to be able to paint. He often met his chosen few friends in Hofheim, especially Erich Heckel and Emy Roeder.

Works from the municipal collection illustrate the artist friendships and document their stays in Hofheim am Taunus. Works by other artists related to the circle of artists in the “Blue House” are shown alternately, for example by Siegfried Shalom Sebba, Günter Schulz-Ihlefeldt, Max Beckmann , Heinz Battke , Marta Hoepffner and individual painters and sculptors living in Hofheim today.

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View of the permanent exhibition `Hanna Bekker vom Rath and the artists' group of the Blue House` Hofheim City Museum

archeology

The second floor is dedicated to the important site of the Hofheim fort . A thematically diverse presentation shows a large number of objects that have been excavated in the course of more than 150 years of archaeological research, and illustrates the development of Hofheim from an early military post (earth camp, stone fort) on the border of the Roman Empire to a civilian settlement (vicus ). Wall paintings in fresco technology from an officer's quarters as well as the tombstones of a lance rider and a mounted archer are of particular quality.

City history

The urban history department on the first floor takes up exemplary development stages in Hofheim - from the medieval regional center to the preferred residential town in the countryside. The leather industry department in Lorsbachtal conveys the geographical, historical and economic conditions for the development and decline of fine leather production using the example of Hofheim and its district of Lorsbach. Large machine objects that were used in leather production and leather finishing are shown.

Publications (selection)

  • LOOK AT TODAY. Taunus Art Triennale 1st exhibition, catalog, Stadtmuseum Hofheim, Hofheim am Taunus 2019.
  • Hauptstraße Hofheim am Taunus - A street changes its face. Exhibition, catalog, Stadtmuseum Hofheim, Hofheim am Taunus 2019.
  • Painting grounds - Hofheim as a motif. From Coppa to Schmidt-Rottluff. Exhibition, catalog, Hofheim City Museum, Hofheim am Taunus 2018.
  • Ev Grüger. Vision and form. Exhibition, catalog, Hofheim City Museum, Hofheim am Taunus 2018.
  • Seduction. Marta Hoepffner Prize for Photography 2017. Exhibition, catalog, Hofheim City Museum, Hofheim am Taunus 2017.
  • Youth and old age. Ludwig Meidner's portraits from the 1950s and 1960s. An exhibition as part of the joint project "Ludwig Meidner - Seismograph". Exhibition, catalog, Hofheim City Museum, Hofheim am Taunus 2016.
  • Traces of history. Hofheim in the First World War. Exhibition, catalog, Hofheim City Museum, Hofheim am Taunus 2014.
  • Jade and salt. The Hofheimer Kapellenberg and its history. Publication accompanying the exhibition of the same name, Hofheim am Taunus 2013.
  • Over generations. Imagery black and white. Exhibition, catalog. Hofheim City Museum, Hofheim am Taunus 2012.
  • BRIDGE and Blue House. Heckel, Kirchner, Schmidt-Rottluff and the collector Hanna Bekker vom Rath, exhibition catalog. Stadtmuseum Hofheim, Frankfurt am Main 2010.
  • Art limitless. The exhibition trips of Hanna Bekker vom Rath 1952–1967. Exhibition, catalog. Hofheim City Museum, Hofheim am Taunus 2008.
  • Dieter Reuschling and Roswitha Schlecker: Citizen's will against arbitrariness. Hofheim am Taunus - a small town between the French and German revolution. Hofheim am Taunus 2007.
  • Käthe Kollwitz - printmaking. Selected in 1947 by Hanna Bekker vom Rath from the Helmut Goedeckemeyer collection. Exhibition, catalog. Hofheim City Museum, Hofheim am Taunus 2006.
  • Anna Schmidt: Hofheim 1933–1945. Seven parishes under National Socialism. Hofheim am Taunus 2005.
  • Forest time. About living with the forest. Exhibition, catalog. Hofheim City Museum, Hofheim am Taunus 2003.
  • Hofheim and its history. Double volume in texts and pictures. Manfred Becht: Volume I, Roswitha Schlecker: Volume II. Hofheim am Taunus 2002.
  • Refugium - artist stays in Hofheim and in the Taunus. Exhibition, catalog. Hofheim City Museum, Hofheim am Taunus 2001.
  • Eva Scheid: Leather industry in the Lorsbachtal. Vache, sole and fine leather production 1750–1990. Hofheim am Taunus 2000.
  • Barbara Rök: Ottilie W. Roederstein (1859–1937). An artist between tradition and modernity. Catalog raisonné on CD-ROM, Marburg 1999.
  • Light images - images of light. Marta Hoepffner, photo artist and educator. Exhibition, catalog. Hofheim City Museum, Hofheim am Taunus 1997.
  • Youth and old age. Ludwig Meidner's portraits from the 1950s and 1960s. Catalog City Museum Hofheim, Hofheim am Taunus 2016.

literature

Web links

Commons : Stadtmuseum Hofheim am Taunus  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Burgstrasse 11 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse . Retrieved January 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ The life data of Hanna Bekker vom Rath on stein-steinfeld.de. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
  3. ^ Klaus Gallwitz (Ed.): Ernst Wilhelm Nay, the Hofheimer years: 1945–1951. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit near Stuttgart 1994.
  4. ^ Refugium - artist residencies in Hofheim and in the Taunus. Exhib. Kat. Stadtmuseum Hofheim, Hofheim am Taunus 2001, pp. 39–43.

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 13.4 "  N , 8 ° 26 ′ 47.6"  E