Christian Art Foundation Wittenberg
The Christian Art Foundation in Wittenberg owns an important collection of graphics of Christian art or with religious - existentialist content by internationally known artists from the 20th century to the present day. The foundation has its headquarters and exhibition rooms in Wittenberg Castle .
history
The Christian Art Wittenberg Foundation was founded in 2001 by the entrepreneurial couple Gisela Meister-Scheufelen and Ulrich Scheufelen from Baden-Württemberg in the Lutherstadt Wittenberg .
The foundation's first location was in the Cranachhaus , Schlossstrasse 1. From 2003 to 2017, the exhibition rooms were in the Old Town Hall . The Christian Art Foundation in Wittenberg has had its headquarters in the south wing of Wittenberg Castle since May 2017. The exhibition rooms can be reached via the visitor information desk in the castle church and castle.
The Christian Art Foundation in Wittenberg is run on a voluntary basis by a board of directors. Jutta Brinkmann from Wittenberg has been the chairman of the board since 2001.
collection
The foundation of the collection, which comprises more than 400 works, was donated to Wittenberg by the Scheufelen couple in 2001 and has grown steadily through donations from private collectors or artists, as well as through purchases and loans.
The collection today includes works by the following artists:
Ernst Barlach , Franca Bartholomäi , Georg Baselitz , Willi Baumeister , Max Beckmann , Katerina Belkina , Joseph Beuys , Bernard Buffet , Manfred Butzmann , Marc Chagall , Lovis Corinth , Fritz Cremer , Otto Dix , James Ensor , Paul Gauguin , Günter Grass , HAP Grieshaber , George Grosz , Keith Haring , Erich Heckel , Katharina Heise , Bernhard Heisig , Damien Hirst , Karl Hofer , Alfred Hrdlicka , Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Arthur Illies , Bernd Jansen, Bodil Kaalund , Wassily Kandinsky , Ernst Kaufmann , Antanas Kmieliauskas , Edgar Knobloch , Oskar Kokoschka , Käthe Kollwitz , Queen Margrethe II of Denmark , Wilhelm Lehmbruck , Wladimir Lemport , Edouard Manet , Franz Marc , Gerhard Marcks , Wolfgang Mattheuer , Ludwig Meidner , Michael Morgner , Kurt Mühlenhaupt , Palle Nielsen , Emil Nolde , Bjørn Nørgaard , Herbert Paasche , Otto Pankok , Wieland Payer , Max Pechstein , Pablo Picasso , Arnulf Rainer , Robert Rauschenberg , Odilion Redon , Erich Fritz Reuter , Christian Ro hlfs , Georges Rouault , Antonio Saura , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Kurt Schumacher , Paul Sinkwitz , Max Slevogt , Thomas Straub, Stefan Szmaj , Werner Tübke , Michael Triegel , Lesser Ury
For conservation reasons, only parts of the collection are presented.
Exhibitions
In addition to the permanent exhibition entitled “Christian Messages from Chagall to Beuys”, special exhibitions are also shown again and again. In addition, many loans from the collection are shown at various locations in Germany and abroad.
Special exhibitions
| 2020 | Creed. Paul Sinkwitz - The religious work |
| 2019 |
Art after 1945. The Gerd Gruber Collection: Pacifism Meets Religion
Between love and despair. Maria in the modern age - from Chagall to Kollwitz |
| 2018 | Theses. Danish contemporary artists in dialogue with the Reformation |
| 2017/18 | Because through love man becomes better. Highlights and new acquisitions |
| 2017 | Ernst Barlach / Käthe Kollwitz. Beyond the limits of existence |
| 2016 | Epiphany. Leipzig artists and religion |
| 2015 | Cranach and the modern |
| 2014 | Michael Triegel. Paintings - graphics - watercolors |
| 2011 | 2001–2011 "10 years of the Christian Art Foundation in Wittenberg"
The patriarchs. Four contemporary Danish artists in dialogue with old biblical stories Jos Hendrickx 1906–1971. A Flemish loner in Europe Bodil Kaalund. Images of the Bible |
| 2010 | New messages. Endowments and new acquisitions |
| 2009 | “We didn't have that!” Anti-Semitism in the GDR
PASSION from Manet to Beuys |
| 2008 | "Via crucis" Waldemar Otto - bronze sculptures, Karl-Ludwig Lange - paintings and drawings |
| 2007 | Christian motifs in the art of the GDR |
| 2006 | The Cross - Prints and Sculptures of Expressionism and Modernism |
| 2005 | Marc Chagall - The Bible |
Exhibitions in other places
| 2018 |
Friedenskirche Ludwigshafen : Grieshaber Passion in dialogue with works of the 20th century.
Evangelical Academy Lutherstadt Wittenberg: The prophetic gaze. |
| 2017 |
Michaelskirche, Ottobrunn : Searching for traces: Christian messages from Chagall to Beuys
Evangelical Academy Lutherstadt Wittenberg: Paul Sinkwitz. Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde : Jesus Reloaded - The Image of Christ in the 20th Century. |
| 2016 |
Liesborn Abbey Museum : Jesus Reloaded - The Image of Christ in the 20th Century.
Evangelical Academy Lutherstadt Wittenberg: "The Flood" Works by Lovis Corinth and Wieland Payer. |
| 2015 | Municipal gallery in the empty bag, Regensburg: Jesus Reloaded - The image of Christ in the 20th century.
Prüsse Foundation, Jakob-Kemenate Braunschweig : "Jesus 2.0." The image of Christ in the 20th and 21st centuries, art - commerce - caricature Evangelical Academy Lutherstadt Wittenberg: Otto Dix. Passion sequence from the portfolio "The Gospel according to Matthew" |
| 2014 | Koninklijke Piet Staut Kring, Beveren (B): "1880 - 1907" Art in the late 19th century
Bossard Art Center , Jesteburg : From Gauguin to Baselitz. Images of Christ in the 20th century Evangelical Academy Lutherstadt Wittenberg: Michael Morgner "ECCE HOMO" Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm : “Images of God. Images of man. ”Modern graphics from the Christian Art Foundation in Wittenberg |
| 2013 |
Kunsthaus Stade : Jesus Reloaded - The Image of Christ in the 20th Century.
Evangelical Academy Wittenberg: HAP Grieshaber - Stations of the Cross |
| 2012 | Ev. Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia in Berlin: Kurt Mühlenhaupt - Passion 2000
Evangelical Academy Lutherstadt Wittenberg: Kurt Mühlenhaupt - Passion 2000 |
| 2011 | Kunsthalle Rostock : George Rouault's “Passion” portfolio for the CREDO exhibition |
| 2010 | Mariagerfjord Art Center, Hobro (DK): Religious impressions from the 20th century |
| 2009 | Koninklijke Piet Staut Kring, Beveren (B): Religious impressions from the 20th century |
| 2008 | Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel : Christian art of the 20th century |
| 2007 | Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig (DK): Passion cycles in the 20th century |
| 2006 | Koninklijke Piet Staut Kring, Beveren (B): Marc Chagall - prints on biblical subjects
Art Association Korsør (DK): Marc Chagall - prints on biblical subjects Kunstverein Haderslev (DK): Marc Chagall - prints on biblical subjects Bretten : Marc Chagall - prints on biblical subjects |
Art awards
Every 4 years an art prize is awarded to an artist who has made a name for himself in the field of Christian art.
- Previous winners
- 2014: Michael Triegel , Leipzig
- 2010: Thomas A. Straub, Cologne
- 2006: Michael Morgner , Chemnitz
In 2018 the art prize was not awarded.
Furthermore, the Christian Art Foundation Wittenberg announces a competition on a given topic to promote art with religious content.
- Previous competitions and award winners
- 2014/15: " International Cranach 2.0 Competition ". Announced jointly by the Lutherstadt Wittenberg, the Lucas-Cranach-Stadt Kronach , the Cranach Foundation Wittenberg and the Foundation Christian Art Wittenberg. Winner of the Christian Art Foundation Prize Wittenberg: Edgar Knobloch , Leipzig
- 2008: "Swords to Plowshares". No prize could be awarded.
- 2004: "Deluge", 3 prizes were awarded (one first and two second):
- 1st prize to Susanne Theumer
- 2nd prize to Regina Maria Stiegeler
- 2nd prize to Wieland Payer
- Special prize: Franca Bartholomäi
literature
- To the collection
- Christian messages from Chagall to Beuys. Christian Art in the Century of Modernism , ed. by the Christian Art Foundation in Wittenberg with texts by Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann, Lutherstadt Wittenberg 2011 (collection catalog).
- Christian art in the 20th century . Conception Ulrich Scheufelen with the scientific assistance of Claus Zoege von Manteuffel, ed. from the Christian Art Foundation in Wittenberg, Lutherstadt Wittenberg 2002 (collection catalog).
- Jesus Reloaded. The image of Christ in the 20th century, works by the Christian Art Foundation in Wittenberg , ed. by Ina Hildburg and Sebastian Möllers for the Kunsthaus Stade with texts by Tom Beege and Andrea Fromm, Cologne 2013 (exhibition catalog for the exhibition of the same name), ISBN 978-3-86832-183-8
- To the special exhibitions
- Theses. Danish contemporary artists in dialogue with the Reformation, ed. vom Forlaget Wunderbuch, with texts by Lisbeth Bonde and Henrik Wivel, editor: Dagmar Warming, translation of the German edition: Ulrike Brinkmann. Skive 2017 (exhibition catalog in Danish and German).
- Ernst Barlach / Käthe Kollwitz. On the Limits of Existence, Exhibition Texts and Historical Chronology, ed. by the Ernst Barlach Society Hamburg 2017 (booklet accompanying the exhibition).
- Epiphany. Leipzig artists and religion, ed. by the Christian Art Foundation in Wittenberg with texts by Ulrike Brinkmann, Lutherstadt Wittenberg 2016 (booklet accompanying the exhibition of the same name).
- Cranach and the modern. Contemporary artists in dialogue with Lucas Cranach the Younger, ed. by the Christian Art Foundation Wittenberg with texts by Ulrike Brinkmann, Lutherstadt Wittenberg 2015 (booklet for the exhibition of the same name).
- The Patriarchs: patriarchs of Christianity. Edited by the Museum for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig u. Christian Art Foundation Wittenberg with texts by Ulrike Brinkmann and Rasmus Kjærboe, Lemvig / Lutherstadt Wittenberg 2010 (exhibition catalog in Danish and German), ISBN 9788791691188 .
- Marc Chagall - prints on biblical subjects. Edited by the Christian Art Foundation in Wittenberg with texts by Ulrike Brinkmann and Friedrich Schorlemmer, Lutherstadt Wittenberg 2005 (exhibition catalog).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Corinna Nitz: Christian Art Foundation: Now it is packed . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on October 16, 2017]).
- ^ Foundation Christian Art Wittenberg - Foundation - Foundation. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
- ^ Foundation Christian Art Wittenberg - Museum - Museum and Collection. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
- ^ Stiftung Christian Art Wittenberg - Artists - Artists of the Collection. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
- ^ Foundation Christian Art Wittenberg - Special exhibitions - Review - Credo. Paul Sinkwitz - The religious work. Retrieved March 23, 2020 .
- ^ Foundation Christian Art Wittenberg - Special exhibitions - Review - Art after 1945. The Gerd Gruber Collection: Pacifism meets religion. Retrieved March 23, 2020 .
- ^ Foundation Christian Art Wittenberg - Special exhibitions - Review - Between love and despair. Maria in the modern age - from Chagall to Kollwitz. Retrieved March 23, 2020 .
- ^ Foundation Christian Art Wittenberg - Special exhibitions - Outlook - Outlook. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
- ^ Corinna Nitz: Christian Art Foundation: New exhibition moves into the castle . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on October 16, 2017]).
- ^ Corinna Nitz: Christian Art: Kollwitz-Barlach-Show opened . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on October 16, 2017]).
- ^ Works by Leipzig artists on religion. Der Sonntag (Saxony), accessed on October 16, 2017 .
- ^ Corinna Ritz: Christian Art Foundation Wittenberg: Dialogue with Cranach . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on October 16, 2017]).
- ↑ corinna nitz: Christian Art: Foundation Award for Michael Triegel . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on October 16, 2017]).
- ↑ The brothers. Guilt and Sorrow, Jørgen Haugen Sørensen, Christian Art Foundation Wittenberg, Wittenberg Armory »» ⇒ Faith + Home. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Events Friedenskirche. Retrieved March 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Franziska Gerlach Ottobrunn: Dogs that bark at Jesus . In: sueddeutsche.de . July 20, 2017, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed October 16, 2017]).
- ↑ State Bishop pays due respect for the new exhibition in the Kunsthaus . ( thueringer-allgemeine.de [accessed on October 16, 2017]).
- ↑ The Liesborn Abbey Museum is showing the exhibition "Jesus reloaded" . In: https://www.wa.de . September 7, 2016 ( wa.de [accessed October 16, 2017]).
- ^ "Jesus 2.0" exhibition in the jakob-kemenate . In: Unser38.de . ( Unser38.de [accessed on October 16, 2017]).
- ^ Edwin Scharff Museum: Images of God Images of People. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 16, 2017 ; accessed on October 16, 2017 .
- ↑ JESUS RELOADED | The image of Christ in the 20th century. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 16, 2017 ; accessed on October 16, 2017 .
- ^ Foundation Christian Art Wittenberg - Art Awards - Art Awards. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
- ^ Gallery Schwind: Michael Triegel Art Prize. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 16, 2017 ; accessed on October 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Thomas Straub. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Corinna Nitz: International Lucas Cranach Prize: Award for Katerina Belkina . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on October 16, 2017]).