Deutsche Barockgalerie
The German Baroque Gallery is located in the Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg and represents an important collection of works from the Baroque period; they includes paintings from the collection of the Municipal Art Collections and Augsburg on loan from private collectors.
History and ownership
The German Baroque Gallery was established after 1958, when the city of Augsburg had been given leave by the couple Wolfgang Lorenz and Hilda Sophia of Schaezler the Schaezlerpalais previously owned by the family. For the installation of the exhibition you used a hand with the extensive art collections in the city itself, which had largely survived the Second World War unscathed, and took the other hand, loans and donations from private collectors.
After a refurbishment and modernization of the Schaezlerpalais had become inevitable, the German Baroque Gallery has been closed for several years and reopened in February 2006 with the rest of the building next door and the other museums. The German Baroque Gallery is supported and maintained by the city of Augsburg.
Exhibition
The exhibition of the German Baroque Gallery focuses on Baroque paintings from the 16th to the 18th century, but in addition also shows other graphics since the 15th century. A special emphasis artists from Augsburg and Swabia, who worked here at this time and not only by their images also, for example, frescoed ceilings and altarpieces in churches were famous, among other things, Matthäus Günther, Johann Evangelist Holzer and Joseph Heintz the Elder.
Addition, however, the works of artists are exhibited, which acted throughout southern Germany and their names are now linked to the art of the Baroque, such as Johann Heinrich Schönfeld or Georg Philipp Rugendas. The overview of the Baroque painting is complemented by paintings of other celebrities such as Georg Flegel, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Anton Graff, Anton Raphael Mengs and Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder. Illustrated by Angelika Kauffmann, the collection also has works by a female artist, which was still quite rare at that time.
Location
The German Baroque Gallery was housed in the Schaezlerpalais, a former city palace of banker Benedict Adam Freiherr von Liebert, Edler von love Mayrhofen, in the Maximilian street in the heart of the old town of Augsburg. She shares the premises, among others, the graphic collection of the city of Augsburg and the State Gallery Old German masters.
Due to the central location of the Palace Museum by car can be reached only poor because parking is scarce. There is, however, removed by several tram and bus stops of the public transport of Stadtwerke Augsburg only briefly.