Lenbachhaus
The Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus is an art museum of the Bavarian capital Munich. It is housed in Lenbachpalais, the Grade II listed mansion of the " painter prince " Franz Spranger in Luis Street 33 in Maxvorstadt, built 1887-1891, designed by Gabriel von Seidl 1927-1929 by Hans Grässel and again from 1969 to 1972 by Heinrich Volbehr and Rudolf Thönessen was extended. Some rooms have been preserved in their original state and can also be visited as part of a visit to the exhibition.
Until the re-opening on May 8, 2013, the Lenbachhaus was renovated and see an extension of the architecture firm Foster Partners.
Director of the museum is Mühling Matthias, who took over the post of the year 2013/14 by Helmut Friedel.
- 2.1 The Villa of St. Francis of Lenbachplatz
- 2.2 Origin and growth of urban art gallery
- 2.3 Development after the Second World War
- 2.4 Kunstbau
- 2.5 cube
- 2.6 overall renovation and expansion
Collection
Permanent collection / exhibition
His worldwide fame owes the Lenbachhaus a unique collection of works by the group Der Blaue Reiter with numerous pictures of Alexei Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, Franz Marc, August Macke, Marianne von Werefkin and Paul Klee.
The museum also displays works by painters working in Munich in particular the 18th and 19th century. So has the Lenbachhaus including works by Jan Polack, Christoph Schwartz, George Desmarees ( Countess Holstein 1754), Wilhelm von Hess Peter, Johann Georg von Dillis, Carl Rottmann, Carl Spitzweg, Eduard Schleich, Carl Theodor von Piloty, Franz von Stuck, Franz Spranger, Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Wilhelm Leibl, Wilhelm Trübner and Hans Thoma. The 19th century painting from among the so-called Munich school can be seen in the north wing. Even members of the Munich Secession, founded in 1892, as Lovis Corinth, Max Slevogt or Fritz von Uhde are issued.
However, one also works with the New Objectivity works by Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlichter and more can be seen.
Temporary exhibitions
In another part of the room changing exhibitions. Since the 1970s, the museum major trends and artists of the international contemporary art scene began in his exhibitions to present and collect contemporary art. The museum is focusing its acquisitions on the work of individual artists to present them with work groups, an important acquisition in 1980 was the installation show your wound by Joseph Beuys.
This was followed by installed rooms and work groups by, inter alia, Franz Ackermann, Dennis Adams, Christian Boltanski, James Coleman, Lovis Corinth, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Cerith Wyn Evans, Valie Export, Dan Flavin, Günther Förg, Günther Fruhtrunk, Rupprecht Geiger, Genzken, Liam Gillick, Katharina Grosse, Michael Heizer, Andreas Hofer, Jenny Holzer, Stephan Huber, Leiko Ikemura, Asger Jorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Anselm Kiefer, Alfred Kohler, Michaela Melian, Gerhard Merz, Maurizio Nannucci, Roman Opalka, Sigmar Polke, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhard Richter, Michael Sailstorfer, Richard Serra, Katharina Sieverding, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Viennese action and Martin Wöhrl.
Some art works from the collection
Lovis Corinth Portrait of the pianist Conrad Ansorge, 1903
August Macke Portrait with apples, 1909. The painting shows Elisabeth Macke.
August Macke Zoological garden, 1912
August Macke Turkish Café, 1914
August Macke St. Germain in Tunis, in 1914
Franz Marc Grazing Horses I, 1910
Franz Marc Nude with cat, 1910
Franz Marc Deer in the Snow, 1911
Franz Marc Blue Horse I, 1911
Franz Marc The Tiger 1912
Franz Marc Cows yellow-red- green, 1912
Franz Marc In the rain, 1912
History of the House
The Villa of St. Francis of Lenbachplatz
The place where Franz Spranger had built his mansion was chosen deliberately by him. Directly opposite the classicist place with the Propylaea he created a residence that he wanted to make it a center of art in Munich. " I intend to build me a palace, which will provide the competitors in the shade; the powerful centers of European great art should be connected there to the present. "- so Lenbachplatz in a letter in 1885 in the neighborhood, the art patron Adolf Friedrich von Schack, the poet Paul Heyse and other artists and art lovers had settled.
The villa, which he designed together with the architect Gabriel von Seidl had an L- shaped plan, with a studio building at the Briennerstraße, which was completed in 1888, and in 1890 completed the main building. Before the two buildings by a structured fountain garden was created. Building and garden, a late flowering of historicism are modeled on the whole of the Italian Renaissance, with many decorative elements according to ancient models. Possibly Lenbachplatz was also from the residence of Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp, which he had visited in 1877, influence.
The rich interior consisted of ancient sculptures, medieval paintings, tapestries and carpets, as well as copies of ancient works of art. 1892 took the decommissioned Chancellor Otto von Bismarck from the balcony of the villa opposite from the ovations of the people of Munich.
1900 studio and main house were connected by a harmoniously einfügenden intermediate tract.
Emergence and growth of urban art gallery
Franz died in 1904 Spranger. His widow, Charlotte ( Lolo ) Spranger sold the house in 1924 to the city of Munich. After the conclusion of the negotiations they gave the city a large number of works of art from the inventory of the house. These images, and an extensive inventory of paintings Lenbachs, formed the basis for a new city gallery.
A year after buying the villa, the city a sum of money for the purchase of additional works of art available in the following years doubled each. The city was designed by the architect Hans Grässel another wing, the north wing opposite the studio wing build. Grässel opted for a conservative historicist form, adapted to the style of the other wing. In 1929, the new Lenbachhaus the public has been made available.
Development after the Second World War
In the last years of the war 1944/1945 large parts of the house were destroyed. After rapid reconstruction could be shown in 1947 in the north wing, exhibitions. 1952, the studio building was renovated inside, then restored the skylight halls in the Northwest.
On February 19, 1957 on her 80th birthday, Gabriele Münter gave the city a big part of the life work of her partner Wassily Kandinsky: more than 90 oil paintings, over 330 watercolors and drawings, sketchbooks, paintings on glass, as well as most of its printed graphics. There were 25 paintings, many drawings and prints by Münter itself as well as a collection of photographs of the artist couple and his friends. Furthermore, included many works of fellow artists like Alexej von Jawlensky, Franz Marc, August Macke and Werefkin the donation. All of a sudden the house thus became a museum of international standing.
More stock images from Macke, Jawlensky, Marc and Jean- BLÖ Niestlé reached in 1965 by Bernhard Koehler Foundation in the possession of the gallery. With the means of Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner -Stiftung other works of the main representatives of the Blue Rider and classical modernity could be purchased in the following years.
In 1971, the Kubin Archive of Hamburg collector Kurt Otte be bought. In addition to work by Alfred Kubin it contains extensive correspondence with avant-garde artists. 1969-1972, an extension was created to showcase the enormous grown collection appropriately.
In 1996, some rooms are renovated in the center of the first floor in the central block. With precious wall fabrics, wooden ceilings and dark -held images they convey in their black and red an impression Lenbach'scher decorative art - and a taste of that era, from the artists of the budding Modern wanted to break away.
Kunstbau
In 1994, the possibilities of the gallery have been considerably enhanced in the Lenbachhaus with the opening of the art construction. The spacious exhibition area is located in a previously unused portion of the mezzanine level of the subway station king place very close to the Lenbachhaus and is used for large temporary exhibitions mostly modern or latest art.
During the construction of the deep underground station, an empty space of the same dimension was left on the station. The 110 meters long, slightly curved and divided by a center row of columns into two areas space was expanded from 1992 to 1994 by the architects Kiessler Partner (Munich ) on behalf of the City of Munich to a branch of the Lenbachhaus. The previously closed end faces were showcase at the escalators of metro station. Visitors travel from the mezzanine level of the subway station in the foyer of the art building and from there via a downward ramp leading into the exhibition space. For the transport of works of art a freight elevator has been installed on the adjacent property of a municipal vocational school. The atmosphere of the only artificially lit exhibition space is determined by the raw untreated concrete surfaces of the columns and the ceiling in combination with a maple parquet floor and white wall panels, behind which the duct system air technology hides. An accent in the outline of the exhibition space is the accessible via a staircase round space for multimedia presentations, which was built seemingly floating about in the middle of the western range.
Cube
Mid-2005 was opened in Petuelpark the cube of the Lenbachhaus. In the building, art magazines, free exhibition spaces and academy classes had quarterly option to curate this exhibition space at the invitation of the Lenbachhaus and an accompanying program to be drawn up in early 2011.
Total renovation and expansion
Due to extensive renovation and conversion work, the Municipal Gallery was closed in Lenbachhaus from the end of February 2009 to May 2013. In Kunstbau further exhibitions were held. 2009 also began work on an extension to the British architects Foster Partners. It also includes a lobby that takes over the function of a new reception area for the collection and exhibition spaces.
The Lenbachhaus is one of the first museums that are exclusively lit with LEDs and light. Here, the artificial light allows an imitation of daylight as well as incandescent lamps. The lighting was funded by the BMBF with two million euros.
October 31, 2010
April 1, 2012
April 3, 2012
Mediation program
The educational program of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and the art construction is conducted in cooperation with the Munich Community College, the Museum Education Center and KUKI - done art for children.