Pomeranian Foundation

The Pommern Foundation was a public law foundation established in Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein) in 1966 , which was dissolved in 2000. The collections of this foundation were transferred to the Pommersches Landesmuseum Foundation in Greifswald .

tasks

The Pomeranian Foundation was dedicated to maintaining and expanding the art collection of the former City Museum of Stettin and expanded the foundation's holdings by means of targeted purchases to include cultural-historical evidence and documents relating to the history of Pomerania . The cultural heritage of the Prussian province of Pomerania was to be made accessible to the public through exhibitions and publications .

Rant Zauberau of Kiel Castle (west wing), built 1695
Photo from 2007, looking north

history

The Pomeranian Foundation was established on December 16, 1966 by law of the State of Schleswig-Holstein as a foundation under public law. The seat of the foundation was the Rant Zauberau in Kiel Castle .

The founding holdings of the foundation consisted of paintings, drawings and graphics from the former City Museum of Szczecin . In March 1945 these pictures were brought from Stettin to Coburg , where they were stored in the Veste Coburg until 1970 . The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation then looked after the collection. After negotiations between the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hans-Georg Wormit , and several cities and museums, Kiel was awarded the contract because the Rant Zauberau appeared to be a suitable collection location and the State of Schleswig-Holstein had taken on the sponsorship of Pomerania in 1954. The Coburg State Foundation received three images as a "custody fee". In 1972 the collection was presented to the public in an exhibition in Kiel.

In addition to the Szczecin art holdings, the foundation built up an extensive cultural history collection and library on Pomerania.

With the establishment of the Pommersches Landesmuseum Foundation in Greifswald in 1996, the holdings of the Pommern Foundation should be present in Western Pomerania again. After the opening of the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald, the Pommern Foundation was dissolved by law on December 31, 2000. The legal successor to the foundation is the state of Schleswig-Holstein. Half of the foundation capital was given to the State of Schleswig-Holstein and half to the Pomeranian Central Association. V. supplied. The collection items owned by the Pomeranian Foundation were transferred to the Pommersches Landesmuseum Foundation.

Collections

The holdings brought to the Pomerania Foundation from the Szczecin Collection comprised around 200 paintings , 300 drawings and 600 sheets of prints . The beginnings of the collection go back to the 19th century, when the Art Association for Pomerania, founded in 1834, bought pictures of the then current art. The foundation's gallery showed works from the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries by artists of the Romantic period , the Munich and Düsseldorf Schools of Painting , from Classical Modernism to the present day. Paintings and graphics by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller , Theodor Hosemann , Wilhelm Leibl , Carl Schuch , Wilhelm Trübner , Fritz von Uhde , Max Slevogt , Max Liebermann , Frans Hals , Georg Flegel , Jakob Philipp Hackert , Caspar David Friedrich , Philipp Otto Runge , André Derain , Maurice Utrillo , Vincent van Gogh , Lyonel Feininger testify to a modern collection strategy.

The cultural history collection included maps , views of towns, coins , medals , autographs and an image archive. The library had around 20,000 books and writings on Pomeranian history and regional studies . The Pomeranian Landsmannschaft had compiled parts of the library's holdings before the foundation was established . The foundation expanded the library stock through acquisitions and bequests.

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  Georg Flegel : Still life with herring and Bartmann's jug

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  Jacob Philipp Hackert : The Ponte a Mare in Pisa (1799)

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  Caspar David Friedrich : Neubrandenburg in the Morning Fog (1816/17)

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  Vincent van Gogh : Avenue near Arles with houses

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  Carl Schuch : At Seddiner See near Kähnsdorf (around 1880)

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  Fritz von Uhde : Let the little children come to me 1885

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  Carl Gustav Carus : Bare tree in the autumn mist

See also

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  Portal: Pomerania  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the subject of Pomerania
• Pomerania
• Pomeranian Province
• Pommersches Landesmuseum in Greifswald

literature

• Renate Paczkowski: Catalog of the paintings - Pomeranian Foundation . Neumünster 1982.
• Christa Pieske: The prints of the City Museum Stettin until 1945 . Neumünster 1997.
• Helga Wetzel, Paul Mohns, Horst Schliesske, Michael Rudolph: Museum Foundation Pommern Kiel . MAGAZINPRESSE Verlag, Munich 1987.
• Helga Wetzel: 30 years of the Pomeranian Foundation, 1967 - 1996 . Kiel 1996.
• Pomeranian Foundation: Picture gallery of the Pommern Foundation in the Rant Zauberau of Kiel Castle . Neumünster 1972.
• Pomeranian Foundation: 20 years of the Pomeranian Foundation 1967 - 1986 . Kiel 1986.

Web links

• Literature about the Pomeranian Foundation in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ^ Law on the establishment of the "Pommern Foundation" of December 16, 1966. In: Law and Ordinance Gazette for Schleswig-Holstein , 1966, No. 18, pp. 258-259