City Museum Oldenburg

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City Museum Oldenburg
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place Oldenburg (Oldb) , Germany
Art
opening 1915
operator
City of Oldenburg
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ISIL DE-MUS-109513

The Stadtmuseum Oldenburg is a museum of the city of Oldenburg (Oldb) . It was created in 1915 as a foundation by the Oldenburg art collector Theodor Francksen (1875–1914).

The museum includes the Theodor Francksen Foundation, the Bernhard Winter Foundation, the City History Department, the New Gallery with temporary exhibitions and the museum library. The museum was headed by Andreas von Seggern until the middle of 2019, his successor is Steffen Wiegmann.

history

The wealthy Oldenburg merchant's son, lawyer and art collector Theodor Francksen (1875–1914) collected graphics, antiques, East Asian as well as paintings and handicraft objects with Oldenburg references from the 17th to the 20th century. His collection of prints alone comprised around 7,000 sheets, including the almost complete collection of prints by Max Klinger and Francisco de Goyas as well as an extensive collection of around a hundred sheets of Japanese woodblock prints from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Theodor Francksen furnished his parents' house with his collections, which was built in 1877 by the court architect Gerhard Schnitger (1841–1917) in Rosenstrasse (this northern part of Rosenstrasse was renamed Raiffeisenstrasse in 1950 ). When the Francksen Villa could no longer accommodate the collections, he acquired the neighboring villa of the merchant Jürgens in 1908 and had it connected to the Francksen Villa via an intermediate wing. In 1910 he made his private art and history collection accessible to interested visitors.

In 1914 he bequeathed his art possessions and his two villas to the city of Oldenburg. He combined this legacy with the obligation to develop a municipal museum from the private collection. The city of Oldenburg legally accepted the Theodor Francksen's foundation on January 1st, 1915 with all rights and obligations.

At first Helene Knoche, the long-time housekeeper of the Francksen family, ran the museum on a voluntary basis until 1938. She received technical support from Theodor Raspe , then director of the Oldenburg Museum of Applied Arts , and then, after the First World War, from Richard tom Dieck (1862–1943), the former curator of the grand ducal art collections. In 1938 Karl Orth took over the management of the museum, followed by Otto Müller in 1940. With Wilhelm Gilly , the city museum had a full-time director for the first time from 1956.

The museum received significant growth from the estate of the Oldenburg artist Bernhard Winter (1871–1964). In 1968 the new gallery was rebuilt with a large changing exhibition room on the then newly laid out street Am Stadtmuseum . In 1986 the city museum also received the Ballin'sche Villa (most recently Café Hassenbürger ) next to the Jürgens'sche Villa. With the construction of the new hall of the Claus-Hüppe-Foundation, the changing exhibition space of the museum could be doubled. The Horst Janssen Museum , which opened in 2000, is spatially and organizationally connected to the historical building ensemble and the city museum. In 2013, the city museum acquired a large part of the estate of the artist and inventor of the Mainzelmännchen Wolf Gerlach (1928–2012).

Other museums and art houses sponsored by the City of Oldenburg are the Horst Janssen Museum and the Edith Ruß House for Media Art.

Directors

literature

  • Oldenburg City Museum. Guide through the municipal art collections , published by Dieter Isensee in conjunction with the city of Oldenburg - Oldenburger Stadtmuseum / Städt. Art collections, text by Wilhelm Gilly, Verlag Isensee, Oldenburg 1977, ISBN 3-920557-22-0
  • Ewald Gäßler: The Oldenburg City Museum (Museums in the Northwest, Volume 3), Verlag Isensee, Oldenburg 2000, ISBN 3-89598-724-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Staff - Oldenburg City Museum. January 21, 2020, accessed on January 21, 2020 (German).
  2. ^ Homepage of the Oldenburg City Museum , accessed on July 25, 2013
  3. ^ Café Hassenbürger in Alt-Oldenburg , accessed on July 25, 2013
  4. ↑ Dr. Nicole Deufel starts as the new director of the museums. Press release. (No longer available online.) City of Oldenburg, September 22, 2016, archived from the original on October 15, 2017 ; accessed on October 15, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oldenburg.de

Coordinates: 53 ° 8 '40.2 "  N , 8 ° 12' 52.9"  E