Saarlandmuseum

The Saarland Museum (proper spelling Saarland.Museum ) is a museum in the Saarland, Saarbrücken, which is supported by the Foundation Saarland Cultural Heritage. It currently has three sites, each with a different focus.

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Rudolf Born bill was first director of the Modern Gallery of the Saarland Museum. He is the creation of a collection of expressionist art owe to. His successor was George W. Költzsch its commitment to the Informal gathering in this direction particularly impressed. He was succeeded by Ernst G. Güse the major exhibitions of the works of Jean Dubuffet, Giorgio Morandi and Arnulf Rainer showed, underlining the previous high rank of the museum and its collections.

The Director Ralph Melcher was summarily dismissed in October 2011 for gross neglect of duty, after the prosecution had conducted an investigation against him for embezzlement of public funds in the way. Acting Director of the museum was from May 2011 to April 2013, the art historian and Director General of the World Heritage Volklingen Ironworks Meinrad Maria Grewenig. Since December 2013 Roland Mönig is the director.

Museum in the Castle Church

Housed in the Saarbrücken castle church museum of sacred art from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. Noteworthy are also the Baroque princely tombs and the colorful windows of Georg Meister man. The Castle Church was modernized in 2004 and, combined with a new glassy development tract, which is attached to the south side of the choir with the "Old Collection" in Kreisständehaus. Furthermore, the Saarland University of Music uses the premises of the castle church as a permanent venue for musical performances. In the nave of the Castle Church and contemporary art exhibitions are carried out since 2012. For example, Roland Fischer and Eberhard Bosslet

Old collection

The Old collection is housed in the Kreisständehaus next to the Saarbrücken Castle and focuses on artists from the 16th to the 19th century. Among Dutch painter Abraham Mignon, Joos de Momper, Gillis van Coninxloo or Johann Bouman are represented with landscapes and still lifes from the 16th and 17th centuries. However, one also regional artists such as Johann Christian von Mannlich are seen. The collection is organized thematically in different directions of the painting. A presentation of silver and porcelain objects, coins, miniatures and furniture complement the collection.

Modern Gallery

The Modern Gallery is located in a building was completed in 1979, which consists of three interconnected pavilions, on the banks of the Saar next to the Saarland State Theatre. Designed and implemented the complex was of the Saarland architect Hanns Schönecker. Exhibition focuses on the art of the 19th century to the present. In an exhibition pavilion regularly hosts temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art instead. Another pavilion houses the " Permanent Collection", which gives a representative overview of the natural resources of the museum in selection. The extensive graphic collection comprises around 18,000 works on paper. Among the most important groups of works include drawings and prints of the Berlin Secession, Expressionism and the informal art. The inventory also includes a collection of photographs that gets in their profiles with the estate of Monika von Boch, a student of Otto Steinert. Furthermore, the Saarland Museum has an extensive collection of works by the artist Alexander Archipenko.

The Modern Gallery was closed from February 2011 to May 2012 because the building should be rehabilitated. For cost reasons, it has postponed the renovation. Instead, the entire museum of contemporary art was opened and temporary exhibitions with national and international artists. In addition, was an extension, the Fourth pavilion planned. This is highly controversial in public. In the planning phase, a citizens' initiative has massively defended against the building, for which considers, in addition to architectural aesthetic criticism, one of the few in the city center of Saarbrücken green areas will be sacrificed irreversible. The cultivation keeps the policy in the capital and throughout the Saarland in breathing because its costs have risen excessively due to obvious miscalculation. In addition, irregularities have been reprimanded in the award process by the state audit of the Saarland.

Stele of Leo grain chest with texts by Felicitas Frischmuth

Modern Gallery, interiors at exhibition opening

Modern Gallery, Museum Store

" Blue Horse " by Franz Marc in the Modern Gallery

Exhibitions (selection)

Catalogs (Selection )

  • New Acquisitions for the Modern Gallery. Catalogue of the exhibition at the Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken 1961
  • German Informal. Informal Symposium. K.F. Dahmen, KO Götz, Hoehme, Bernard Schultze, Emil Schumacher, KRH Sonderborg, Fred Thieler. Publisher: George W. Költzsch, Berlin, Edition Galerie Georg rescues, 1986, 2nd edition, 294 pages, ISBN 3873299232
  • Hoehme. L' Etna myth and reality. Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken 1990
  • Bernard Schultze. Works from the Collection Rugo and the artist's studio. Publisher: Ralph Melcher, Saarland Museum, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 978-3-7757-1637-6
  • The bridge in the South Seas - Exotic color. Publisher: Ralph Melcher, catalog of the exhibition at the Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken 2005, ISBN 978-3-7757-1680-2
  • Ulrike Rosenbach. character / nature. Catalogue of the exhibition at the Saarland Museum, Zweibrücken 2007
  • The paintings of the old collection in the Saarland Museum. Publisher: Ralph Melcher, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken 2009, ISBN 978-3-932036-44-6
  • Museum of Prehistory and Early History. Old collection. Museum in the Castle Church. Guide to the collections. Publisher: Ralph Melcher, Dillingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-932036-45-3
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