Wilhelm Wagenfeld House
The Wilhelm-Wagenfeld-Haus is a widely used cultural facility in Bremen , in which only the subject of design is dealt with. It is located on the eastern edge of the Altstadt district, right next to the art gallery in the ramparts on the Am Wall street, which in this section is also known as the “culture mile” . The name goes back to the product designer Wilhelm Wagenfeld .
use
It serves as an exhibition and event platform for the Bremen Economic Development Corporation (WFB) as well as the headquarters of the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Foundation and Bremer Design GmbH , which is a WFB company and which is also responsible for the Bremen Design Center. The Society for Product Design eV Bremen (GfP) acts as the house's sponsorship group . The institution is of international importance and fame, as the foundation manages the estate of the internationally renowned product designer Wilhelm Wagenfeld there . This - but also the works of other artists - are presented to the public in the two-storey exhibition wing in the front part of the building on around 330 square meters of presentation area in changing work shows. A lecture room is integrated into these rooms. On the basis of its extensive collections and its archive, the foundation also conducts research into the context of design history and investigates complex problems in the planning and manufacture of industrial products in relation to the respective environment. Current and historical developments and tendencies in the field of design are discussed at lectures and other events in the Wilhelm-Wagenfeld-Haus. Regularly also presented here University of the Arts Project and Theses from.
On January 1, 2015, the Bremen Economic Development Corporation stopped paying grants - up to then 200,000 euros annually - to the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Foundation. The money is to be invested in other projects in the city's creative and cultural industries. If there is no government funding, the student presentations will no longer apply. However, the foundation plans to continue to cooperate with the university. At the same time, the city's cultural authority increased the direct institutional grant to the foundation. With the help of third-party funds, the foundation now wants to use the exhibition space entirely independently.
On the ground floor of the rear part of the building, some cells of the detention house have been preserved as a documentation center for the Ostertorwache prison .
history
The building of the museum was erected between 1825 and 1828 together with today's Gerhard-Marcks-Haus on the opposite side of the street according to plans by Friedrich Moritz Stamm as a classicist gatehouse ensemble of the guard and detention building of the Ostertorwache . It has been a listed building since 1973 .
In 1988 Wagenfeld offered his estate to the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . After his death two years later, the GfP (then: Center for Product Design) moved into the house now named after the artist in 1992, before the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Foundation was established by resolution of the Bremen citizenship on September 15, 1993. In March 1998 the public exhibition area finally opened its doors.
Individual evidence
Web links
- www.wwh-bremen.de - The company's official website
- www.wilhelm-wagenfeld-stiftung.de - The official website of the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Foundation
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 23 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 53" E