Lehmbruck Museum

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Lehmbruck Museum, entrance area; in the foreground Die Kniende by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, April 2005

The Lehmbruck Museum is a public museum in Duisburg with a focus on the work of the sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919). It has furthermore a collection of international sculpture of Modern and sculptures, sculpture and painting of the German Expressionism . The museum is located in the city's Immanuel Kant Park and is surrounded by a publicly accessible sculpture garden with over 40 open-air sculptures .

history

The Lehmbruck Museum goes back to the Duisburg Art Museum, which was founded in 1924 by the art historian August Hoff and was run as an increasingly independent institution until 1933. At that time, parts of the collections were moved from the Duisburg local history museum, which has resided in the new town hall since 1902, to Tonhallenstraße 11a. The local history museum was prepared, supported and accompanied by the museum association of 1902, which in turn emerged from the Duisburg antiquities commission of 1896.

The association, whose managing director Hoff became in 1924, had also turned to contemporary art since 1907. He began to build up a collection of works by the sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck , who was born in Meiderich (now a district of Duisburg) in 1881 . Hoff remained responsible for both museums until 1926, which initially had a common household. At the beginning of the 1930s, the museum association was converted into an art association and a sponsoring association of the art museum, which the city of Duisburg took over as sponsor in 1931. From the second location in Tonhallenstrasse, to which the Lehmbruck objects were also transferred in 1924, today's municipal art museum developed in just a few years. A few other impulses from the citizenship and municipal bodies from the time before the beginning and before the end of the First World War, as well as acquisitions from the estate of the eponymous artist, contributed significantly to the creation of the collection. A large number of objects in the collection were lost in 1937 as a result of National Socialist activities against the allegedly degenerate art .

International modern sculpture has also been included in the collection since 1958. Today's museum building on the edge of Immanuel Kant Park in Duisburg was built by Manfred Lehmbruck (1913–1992), a son of Wilhelm Lehmbruck. The large glass hall and the Lehmbruck wing were built in 1964. The support group of the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum e. V. was founded in 1968. In 1983 an extension was built, which was opened in 1987.

In 2000, the Duisburg Museum Association joined the sponsorship group to form the new Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum e. V. and the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Foundation was established. Thus, the former municipal museum is now owned by a legal foundation under civil law.

In 2009, Wilhelm Lehmbruck's estate, comprising 1,141 works, was acquired, consisting of sculptures, paintings and works on paper. This happened in cooperation with the Lehmbruck family, the museum, the city of Duisburg, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , the economy, several art foundations and public sponsors.

In 2012, 700,000 euros had to be temporarily withdrawn from the foundation's capital. A recovery plan was drawn up in 2013. In 2016, the museum received a grant of 100,000 euros from the city of Duisburg. This has reduced the foundation's total deficit by 950,000 euros.

Since then, the museum has increasingly positioned itself socio-politically: As chairwoman of the foundation's board, Söke Dinkla is the first signatory of the NRW Declaration of the Many campaign from November 2018, which promotes cohesion in art and culture as part of civil society engagement against right-wing populist and ethnic-national currents. As part of the exhibition The Walk by Jochen Gerz , a group of refugees was demonstratively included in the museum work in 2018/2019.

The collection

"Lehmbruck wing" - on the left the atrium (2010)

The museum's collection consists mainly of sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck and other national and international artists of the 20th century. Since it was founded, the house had been able to acquire around 165 works by Lehmbruck, mainly his sculptures. In 2009, 33 sculptures, 18 paintings, 11 pastels, 819 drawings and 260 prints were added from the artistic estate. Until then, these 1,141 works had only been available on loan from the Lehmbruck community of heirs.

The museum also has a collection of German paintings from the late 19th and 20th centuries, such as paintings by the Brücke artists Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Erich Heckel , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Max Pechstein and Otto Mueller, as well as paintings by August Macke , Alexej von Jawlensky , Oskar Kokoschka , Emil Nolde , Heinrich Campendonk , Christian Rohlfs and Johannes Molzahn as further representatives of Expressionism. Paintings from the Bauhaus School by Max Beckmann and Ernst Wilhelm Nay , as well as photographs and prints complete the collection.

Many important artists and art movements of the 20th and 21st centuries are represented in the sculpture collection of the museum: Alexander Archipenko , Ernst Barlach , Joseph Beuys , Hermann Blumenthal , Constantin Brâncuși , Eberhard Bosslet , Christo , Abraham David Christian , Salvador Dalí , Raymond Duchamp- Villon , Max Ernst , Naum Gabo , Alberto Giacometti , Julio González , Duane Hanson , Antonius Höckelmann , Menashe Kadishman , Käthe Kollwitz , Ludwig Kasper , Henri Laurens , Jacques Lipchitz , Ewald Mataré , Franz Marc , László Péri , Antoine Pevsner , Pablo Picasso , Alexander Michailowitsch Rodchenko , and Richard Serra .

Works by Wilhelm Lehmbruck (selection)

  • Sleep (1907)

  • Standing female figure (1910)

  • Female torso (torso of the tall standing) (1910)

  • Kneeling (1911)

  • Great Minds (1913)

  • Young Man Ascending (1913)

  • The fallen (1915/16)

  • Portrait head Fritz von Unruh (1918)

Classical modern and contemporary art (selection)

Sculpture garden (selection)

There are over 40 sculptures by internationally renowned artists in the museum's sculpture courtyard and in the green areas of Immanuel Kant Park .

Under the project, '' City Light Light Art '' by 2004 the light artist installed Claudia Wissmann also "5000 small" mirror "in the Katalpa on the sculpture courtyard" of the Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum and transformed the Katalpa as a Glitter Tree .

Museum building

The museum building on the edge of the Immanuel Kant Park in Duisburg was built in three stages by Manfred Lehmbruck (1913–1992) - a renowned museum architect and son of Wilhelm Lehmbruck. The large glass hall from 1964 to the right of the entrance contains rooms for the collections of sculpture and painting. It extends over several levels and walkways and was intended for the collections, but also for temporary exhibitions.

The Lehmbruck wing was also built in 1964. For this part of the building on the left side of the ticket hall, Manfred Lehmbruck designed a reinforced concrete building for the sculptural and picturesque life's work of his father, which digs deep into the earth on several gallery levels with long flights of stairs. "Around an open central atrium, which is designed as a strict square, the interior spaces on the north and south sides are bounded by two curved concrete shells offset from one another."

Soon after the museum opened, it became clear that the constantly growing collections and needs within the museum called for expansion. In May 1983 a new building was built, which was built according to the design by Manfred Lehmbruck and in cooperation with the Dortmund architect Klaus Hänsch . "For this complex, which, as planned in the first museum planning, once again enhances the sculpture courtyard as a central interior space and expands it to the south, three differently sized, windowless cubes on a square floor plan were interlocked with one another."

The extension was opened in 1987. The plan was to house the private collection of the writer Lothar-Günther Buchheim in this new area , but he withdrew his offer before the extension was completed.

In 2010, the museum was freed from numerous fixtures and fittings from previous years after several months of renovation, so that the original walls made of brown bricks, white pebbles and gray exposed concrete came out again in the two early buildings. In March 2012, the building supervision of North Rhine-Westphalia ordered the museum to be closed for a few weeks due to acute defects in the ceiling tiles from 1964.

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View of the Immanuel Kant Park

Directors

Web links

Commons : Lehmbruck-Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duisburger Lehmbruck-Museum financially consolidated. In: waz.de. June 10, 2016, accessed September 5, 2017 .
  2. ↑ NRW Declaration of the Many . Lehmbruck Museum. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
  3. ↑ Who needs good employees? . Lehmbruck Museum. Archived from the original on April 20, 2019. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
  4. ↑ Thomas Richter: Refugees work on the exhibition in the Duisburg Lehmbruck Museum . NRZ. July 19, 2018. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
  5. ↑ New lighting planning for a Duisburg city quarter: Lichtboulevard Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse and lighting design in Kant Park, In: Stadtlicht, Lichtkunst, Christoph Brockhaus (editor), Wienand Verlag: Cologne, 2004, ISBN 3-89279-604-1 , Pp. 188-193.
  6. ^ Lehmbruck Museum: "The Architecture of the Lehmbruck Museum"
  7. ^ Lehmbruck Museum: "The Architecture of the Lehmbruck Museum"
  8. ^ Duisburg: Lehmbruck Museum closed due to construction defects . In: Immobilien Zeitung online, March 12, 2012. Retrieved March 13, 2012.

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