Wilhelm Morgner House

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Wilhelm Morgner House, Soest (2010)

The Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus in Soest home to the Wilhelm Morgner Museum and the space Schroth of since May 2016 Foundation Conceptual art with the collection Schroth .

The building was built in 1962 according to the plans of the Wiesbaden architect Rainer Schell and, as a typical structure from the early 1960s, is one of the youngest monuments in the city of Soest.

A permanent exhibition shows important works by the Expressionist Wilhelm Morgner , who was born in Soest . The collection contains 60 paintings as well as 400 graphic works and drawings .

Other works from municipal property in different styles are also presented. Sculptures, sculptures , graphics and paintings of the Westphalian Expressionism, regional landscape paintings and works of Modernism after 1945 through to contemporary art will find a stage here. The municipal art collection kept here documents the regional art of the 19th and 20th centuries in detail. The art collection of the city of Soest extends to more than 3,500 works of art by various artists who were related to Soest or exhibited here; These include Heinrich Aldegrever , Christian Rohlfs , Emil Nolde , Otto Modersohn , Paula Modersohn-Becker , Franz Nölken , Johannes Molzahn , Arnold Topp , Eberhard Viegener , Wilhelm Wulff , Max Schulze-Sölde , Paul Werth , Josef Albers , Karl Fred Dahmen , Günter Drebusch , Hans Kaiser , Federico Schiaffino , Jochem Poensgen , Emil Schumacher , Fred Thieler , Günther Uecker , Hans D. Voss and Fritz Winter .

There are also changing special exhibitions as individual or group exhibitions.

Those interested can borrow pictures in the Artothek in the house .

Until May 2016, the Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus was closed to visitors due to renovation and expansion work. On September 9, 2015, the city council of Soest decided to rename it to “Museum Wilhelm Morgner”, before that it was called “Kunstmuseum Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus”.

The building has been registered as an architectural monument in the city ​​of Soest's list of monuments since 1999 and was named Monument of the Month in Westphalia-Lippe by the LWL Monument Preservation, Landscape and Building Culture in Westphalia in January 2017 .

literature

The Ottonian core of the old town (outlined in green): 1) Nikolaikapelle , 2) St. Patrokli Cathedral , 3) Wilhelm Morgner House , 4) Location of the Old Palatinate , 5) St. Petri Church , 6) Town Hall with four parts of the building from different centuries; lower left a corner of the great pond
  • North Rhine-Westphalia Yearbook , vol. 11 (2010). K. G. Saur Verlag, p. 48, ISSN  1438-2881 .
  • Ulrike Fleischmann, Ralph Lueger, Christian Scharf: Sauerland, Siegerland (HB-Bildatlas; Vol. 268). 2nd edition HB-Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-616-06498-7 .

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  1. ↑ Denis Kretzschmar: Monument of the month: The Wilhelm Morgner Museum in Soest. (No longer available online.) LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia , archived from the original on February 2, 2017 ; accessed on February 2, 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.lwl.org


Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 16.1 ″  N , 8 ° 6 ′ 29.9 ″  E