Museum Georg Schäfer

The Museum Georg Schäfer in Schweinfurt houses the private collection of the industrialist Georg Schäfer of German painting of the 19th century, with emphasis on the late rococo classicism and romanticism to Impressionism.

History of the collection

Shepherd had already inherited from his 1925 eponymous father died a few paintings of old German painting. Since the 1950s, he invested much of his acquired assets with roller bearings in the collection, which found a home in his castle Obbach. The core inventory of paintings and prints by the 19th century it was the Schweinfurt Museum. In 1988 the city of Schweinfurt and the Family Shepherd agreed on the establishment of a museum. But the plans had to be put on ice, as FAG ball Fischer in 1993 found itself in a crisis and jeopardizing the collection was pledged to banks.

The original of the collection Schäfer is not completely identical with the paintings of today's " Rally- Dr. -Georg -Schäfer- Foundation ", which are exhibited in Schweinfurt, since 2000. Of the non- transferred into the foundation members 42 old German paintings by Dürer were acquired in 2003 by the Free State of Bavaria for the art collections of the Veste Coburg. More paintings from peripheral areas of the collection were auctioned at Neumeister in Munich (1999 and 2005) and Christie's in Dusseldorf (2000); the proceeds of this painting was more than 12 million euros. 2005 was carried out by the Shepherd family a remarkable donation of paintings that had been acquired in recent years on the art market. Curator of the collection is the Kiel art historian Jens Christian Jensen. Museum director since 2000, Dr. Sigrid Bertuleit.

History of the Museum

In the late 1950s, the Karlsruhe architect Erich Schelling presented plans for a shepherd Museum. A design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1964 was not realized because the city council did not want to take over the maintenance costs for the museum. This plan was finally implemented as a New National Gallery in Berlin.

In the early 1990s laid the Munich architect Alexander von Branca a new draft. This foresaw the coming of the 16th century Ebracher court as a museum site. Once it was the Schweinfurt Mayor Gudrun Grieser 1996 managed to secure funds from the privatization proceeds of the Free State of Bavaria for the project, and the heirs had introduced after overcoming the company crisis the central part of the Collection Georg Schäfer on 29 December 1997 in an Foundation, could the project can be realized. From a new architectural competition Volker Staab was the winner on February 1, 1997. After two years of construction, the museum was opened on 23 September 2000. It is located at the southern entrance to the city center, close to the town hall.

Architecture

The building is one of the important museum buildings of today and is one of the masterpieces of the Berlin architect Volker Staab, who was awarded the BDA award Bavaria in 2001 and the Architecture Prize of concrete 2001. Staab designed a " treasure chest " that is so, in Oliver Herwig " through massive cuts, corners and edges, ramps and steps ." "Besides the great paintings, the architecture bears the atmosphere of the house ." "Intro Four Animal T and closed, then open again for the environment that blends in carefully recessed insights and perspectives [ ... ] in the Collection Georg Schäfer". " If you wanted to create a catalog of the ideal exhibition space, the museum Schäfer in Schweinfurt filled him: Skylight halls in which the collection was moved to the beam, vie with staged suites of rooms, stairways and clear materials that give the treasures of the 19th century is a fitting. From the outside, the museum displays as a monolith am Main. On a mighty pedestal stands the house, and only a section through the building reveals [ ... ] the profane basis on which the superstructure rests belles. "

The Collection

The collection includes an extensive Spitzweg collection of 160 paintings and 110 drawings, in addition, works by Caspar David Friedrich, Ferdinand Georg forest Muller, Carl Rottmann, Domenico Quaglio, Albrecht Adam, Wilhelm von Hess Peter, Fritz von Uhde, Wilhelm Leibl, Adolph Menzel, Franz Spranger, Hans Thoma, Heinrich von reins to Lovis Corinth, Max Liebermann, Max Slevogt and Max Beckmann.

In addition to changing exhibitions, the focus of the permanent stock presentation is mainly due to the arising in German-speaking painting of the 19th century, from the late rococo classicism and romanticism to the German Impressionism.

Exhibits

Franz Pforr Sulamith and Maria, 1811

Wilhelm von Hess Peter: Hunter in the alps, 1828

Caspar David Friedrich: flat landscape on the Bay of Greifswald ( Seascape, Evening on the Baltic Sea ), about 1830-1834

Carl Gustav Carus: View of Dresden from the Brühl Terrace to 1830-1831

Friedrich Overbeck: Italia and Germania to 1840/50

Carl Spitzweg: The Bookworm In 1850

Carl Spitzweg: The Cactus Friend, before 1858

Adolph von Menzel: The beer garden, 1883

Lovis Corinth: Wilhelmine in traditional costume, 1913