Museum Ostwall

The Museum East Wall (MO) is the Museum of the City of Dortmund for the 20th and 21st centuries. It was founded in 1947 on the eponymous East Wall on a war-ravaged museum site and retained the " core name " when, as the art collection in the Capital of Culture year Ruhr.2010 moved from the eastern to the western part of the inner city wall ring in the newly opened Dortmunder U. Through donations, purchases and exhibitions could the " East Wall Museum in Dortmund U " in particular strengthen its importance as a place of Fluxus art.

History

Under the name " Museum on the East Wall ", the museum was established by decision of the Council of Dortmund in 1947. On the original site of the museum ( Eastwall 7) was before the widespread destruction in the Second World War, the building of the former state mining authority, which was built 1872-75 to a design by the Berlin architect Gustav garlic. From 1911 it housed after conversion according to the plans of the Commissioner of City Planning Friedrich Kullrich the Urban Collection of the Museum of Art and Cultural History. The new building of the museum building was performed using still existing parts of the building and building materials, in particular the so-called atrium with the original construction of the light blanket. He was already prepared again in 1947-49 with the active support of Dortmund citizens without public money. The atrium is the oldest and the most beautiful event hall of Dortmund and is the only surviving cultural building in Dortmund city center from the imperial period.

Under the leadership of founding director Leonie Reygers began in 1949 for the gradual creation of the collection and one of the first postwar German museums that were built for the art of the twentieth century, and the first exhibition was in 1949 are shown.

In June 2009, the museum closed its doors at the old location and re-opened in October 2010 at the Dortmunder U as " East Wall Museum in Dortmund U ". The guiding principle of Sammlungsneupräsentation is " The Museum as Kraftwerk".

No appropriate after-use of the building has yet been found for the discontinued location on East Wall. A citizens' initiative "Save the former museum at East Wall " is committed to the preservation of the building.

Collection

The collection was initially focused on works that were regarded as "degenerate art" in National Socialism. In 1957 the collection Gröppel, which included about two hundred paintings, sculptures and graphics acquired. Today, the collection includes paintings, sculptures, objects, and photos as well as over 2,500 graphical sheets from the expressionism and classical Modernism to the present.

Especially works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde and Karl Schmidt- Rottluff who had founded in 1905 the Dresden artists ' group "Brücke ", are part of the collection. The creation in 1912 launched avant-garde artists' group " Blauer Reiter " is shown by the work of Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, August Macke and Alexej von Jawlensky.

The museum now houses the second largest collection of works by the painter Alexej von Jawlensky in Germany after the Museum Wiesbaden as well as works from the environment of the "Blue Rider". It has 26 works by Pablo Picasso from the 1940s and 1950s. With individual works following artists are represented in the portfolio: Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka and Oskar Schlemmer. In the still lifes especially Christian Rohlfs is present, and the museum exhibits works by Joan Miró, Marc Chagall and Salvador Dalí.

In addition, the early 1990s were acquired over a thousand works by Marcel Duchamp to Joseph Beuys, by Günther Uecker to Jean Tinguely from the collection of Siegfried Cremer, which form a further focus of the museum in the fields of Informal Art, ZERO and Fluxus.

Museum Director

• Leonie Reygers (1947-1966)
• Eugen Thiemann (1967-1987)
• Dr. Ingo Bartsch (1988-2004)
• Prof. Dr. Kurt Wettengl (from 2005)

Exhibitions (selection)

Activities

In the field of arts education are to serve in the future art studios, media labs, seminars and events for art education. The focus of the educational work in the artistic and aesthetic range encounter with the exhibited art of the 20th and 21st century stands. The Youth Art Club ( JKC ) of the museum, which continues its work in early 2011 allows young people joint exhibition visits, meetings with artists and creative work in the museum's art workshop.

The non-profit association " Friends of the Museum Eastwall eV " supports the museum and helps build the collection. He financed the publication of art books and exhibition catalogs. The previous publications include:

• The Gap show. Young time-critical art from the UK
• Contemporary French drawings from the Frac Picardie collection
• Picasso - Matisse. Master graphs of classical Modernism
• Ines Hock. Sehstücke
• Benno Elkan. A Jewish artists from Dortmund
• Museum on the East Wall. Cremer Collection ( Volumes I -III)
• Ways to art. The collection Klüting
• Michael Bacht: installations, objects and images
• Bernhard Hoetger in the museum on East Wall
• Hartmut Böhm
• Norbert Tadeusz. Existence and passion. works 1962-2000
• Masterpieces of Expressionism and Classic Modern

2012 writes the patrons his new art prize in 2012 from which is endowed with 10,000 euros and is awarded for the first time in the fall of 2013. Should be considered especially young international artists who deal in their works with Dada, Fluxus and conceptual art. The price of the " Friends of the Museum East Wall " to be first awarded in the fall of next year. With the prize money, the work of the selected artist is purchased and therefore the museum Eastwall given.

Others

The museum made ​​headlines in November 2011 when the local cleaning lady a portion of the insured with 800,000 Euro work of art When it starts to drip from Martin Kippenberger, and destroyed irretrievably wiped clean through the roof.