Neues Museum Nürnberg

The Neues Museum - State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg ( NMN ) is a state museum of Art and Design in Nuremberg. It is supported by the " Support Foundation Neues Museum in Nuremberg" and the association " Museum Initiative - friends and supporters of the Neues Museum in Nürnberg eV ". It essentially consists of two collections, the collection of art ( international contemporary art ), which emerged from an art collection of the city of Nuremberg, and a collection of design held by the Neue Sammlung Munich - added more private foundations.

History

The art collection of the New Museum goes back to the collection begun in the sixties by Dietrich Mahlow at the Kunsthalle Nürnberg. Purpose of the collection is international contemporary art since the 1950s. This foundation has been extended to large donations of works by German artists since the 1960s from the private collection of the Nuremberg gallery owners Marianne and Hans Fried Defet even before the opening, were added in the first years of permanent loans of around 150 works from the international collection of the Berlin gallerist and curator René Block from 2002 to 2005, 200 works by some 70 mostly American artists of the Cologne gallery Rolf Ricke. More purchases, donations and loan extended since then the stock continuously.

The main building, designed by the architect Volker Staab with a 100 m long glass facade blends in despite its modern architecture generally considered sensational in the historic center one. It was completed in 1999. The museum was opened on 15 April 2000 under the founding director Lucius Grisebach.

In the first five years of existence, the museum had about 500,000 visitors. His partners in the museum building are the Institute of Modern Art and the Nuremberg Nuremberg Design Forum. In the museum you will find, among other works by Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys and Neo Rauch. As one of the masterpieces of the collection art is the painting " Telephone" by Richard Lindner from the year 1966.

The museum serves, inter alia, the estate of the painter Gerhard Wendland.

New Acquisitions, gifts and loans

• Large Donation of 1999, 2000 and 2004 by the Nuremberg entrepreneurs, art collectors and gallery owners Marianne and Hans Fried Defet
• Since the end of February 2003 is located at the lower lounge, a 4.50 -meter-high sculpture named " Elliptic pillar " of the artist Tony Cragg
• Acquired in 2001 The instrument No.1, May 16, 2000 of artist Jürgen Albrecht
• The photo "substrate 1I " from 2002 by artist Thomas Ruff
• The large, three-part picture " Psycho Gram " gave the German - American painter Karl Hagedorn the NMN shortly before his death in 2005
• 2004 acquired the NMN the painting " Random Distribution of 40,000 Squares", 2006 picture " 2 trames 0 ° -90 ° " by François Morellet

Sculpture Garden

In the kennel between Star gate and Frauentor, just steps away from the New Museum, 2004, a sculpture garden was opened. There are nine sculptures of artist Hiromi Akiyama, Johannes Brus, Bernd Klötzer, Alf Lechner, Horst Münch, Karl Prantl, Rückriem, Alf Schuler and Timm Ulrichs. They are freely accessible during the day.

2010 existing granite sculpture Bleu de Vire, together with other works by the artist, rearranged differently, issued for the third time Ulrich Rückriem of eleven stone cubes.

Management

• Lucius Grisebach from 1 October 1997 to 31 August 2007
• Angelika Nollert since 1 October 2007