Sprengel Museum

The Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover is a modern art museum and, with focal points such as German Expressionism and French modernism to the most important museums of art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The museum is located in the immediate vicinity of the Maschsee on the north shore.

• 3.1 Painting and Sculpture
• 3.2 graphics
• 3.3 Photography and Media
• 3.4 Kurt Schwitters Archive

History

Starting point of the museum is a gift from Margit and Bernhard Sprengel, which are largely leaving the city of Hanover in 1969, their extensive art collection of modern art. The chocolate manufacturer Bernhard Sprengel supported the construction of the first museum section with one-tenth of the estimated Baupreises. The museum has taken over custody in Hanover collections of 20th-century city of Hannover and Lower Saxony art in his portfolio. The city of Hannover and Lower Saxony agreed to bear the construction and operation of the museum half each.

Director of the museum in 1975, the art historian Joachim Buchner, who resigned in 1989 for health reasons.

On the occasion of the 85th birthday of Bernhard Sprengel on 17 April 1984, the city of Hannover her museum, which until then was called " Art Museum Hannover Sprengel Collection " ruled in " Sprengel Museum Hannover " rename. With this step, the collector Bernhard Sprengel, without whose collection and donation the museum would not have arisen, was appreciated. From the decision on the construction and the opening of the Bernhard Sprengel has intensively followed the fortunes of the museum. The Foundation " collection Bernhard Sprengel " was founded in 1982 and equipped to the death Bernhard Sprengel with a series of works, some of which he kept in the gift of his collection to the city in 1969 still in his possession or which he purchased at a later date had.

Since 1993 Ulrich clutter is director of the museum. After his retirement came to February 1, 2014 [ deprecated] Reinhard Spieler office as the new director of the museum.

Construction

First phase

The architects of the building were in a two-stage competition determined. The first section was opened in 1979 and of the group of architects Peter and Ursula Trint (Cologne) and Dieter Quast (Heidelberg) is designed. From Maschsee and the Rudolf -von- Bennigsen -Ufer from the Sprengel Museum Hannover presented without Imposanz. The existing base supports doing little to uplift of the architecture. The construction of the Sprengel Museum stands less by its baukünstlerische form, but rather is characterized by the total idea of: A new way to enable urban life and strengthening of urban conditions. The restrained facade is partly explained by museum didactic principles of the 1970s. Not the Impression, but the invitation of the visitors was the stated goal.

Second phase of construction and extension

1992 was extended by a second phase of construction. At that time, the museum has maintained its large auditorium, which is also used today to many external events. The temporary exhibition hall was part of the second phase. A supplement to other phases of construction was planned from the outset. 2012 the addition of a third phase of construction has begun. The museum will be expanded by 4,350 m² of floor space, designed by the Zurich architects Meili and Peter. The ashlar is expected to cost around € 25 million. The initiative More Museum cares about providing the financing of € 5 million of that total by donors and sponsors. The financing of the main part of the extension is provided by the State of Lower Saxony, including EU funds, the city of Hanover and by conveyor. Construction began on 27 November 2012 and completion is scheduled for 2014. The extension is intended to give the opportunity to present including, among others, the unique documents the work of Kurt Schwitters and Niki de Saint Phalle. In addition, the extension to accommodate international exhibitions.

Collection

Painting and Sculpture

In addition to the Sprengel Museum collection includes works from the 20th century belonging to the State of Lower Saxony and the city of Hannover. With both stocks it is one of the most important centers of modern art in Germany. The collection includes significant groups of works, among others, Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, Emil Nolde and Kurt Schwitters. Impressive accents are important groups of artists such as The Bridge and Der Blaue Reiter as well as styles such as Cubism and Surrealism. Since about 1980, the inventory of the museum has been expanded to major movements in the post-1945 art, including works by Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, Ernst Marow, Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke. Highlights of the museum include the reconstruction of the legendary Merzbau of Kurt Schwitters and the light spaces by James Turrell.

In 1979, the Sprengel Museum, the ( reconstructed ) Abstract Cabinet of El Lissitzky and Alexander Dorner.

Niki de Saint Phalle, who has become known for her Nana sculptures, the Sprengel Museum Hannover enriched by their donation in 2000. Than 400 works all key phases of the century artist are represented, including assemblages, shooting paintings, sculptures and drawings.

August Macke: Large bright showcase, 1912

Franz Marc: Small composition (II ) ( house with trees ), 1914

Ernst Marow: Portrait of the painter Arnold Leissler 1977

Graphic

The rich holdings of graphics at the Sprengel Museum Hannover are due in large part Bernhard Sprengel, who created some of the artists extensive convolutions and thus a comprehensive presentation and representation allowed them artistic activity. Other collectors and artists were inspired by the articulated mainly by priority Graphic Collection of the Museum to give the house valuable new convoluted and thus to preserve the character of the collection and deepen. In the past, the Sprengel Museum Hannover has repeatedly the focus of the collection of the Graphic Arts presents exhibitions and documented by catalogs. Thus, the stocks of the house of the artist Horst Antes, Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Emil Nolde, Pablo Picasso and Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd and the "Brücke " and the "Blue Rider " Been in large and extensive presentations to see. Even smaller collections that provide an overview of the work of an artist using typical plants have already been presented. These include exhibitions, including the works of Abraham David Christian, Lyonel Feininger, Joan Miró, TA Steinlen, Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec, Käthe Kollwitz and Ernst Barlach.

Photography and Media

In 1972, Joachim Giesel, Peter Gauditz and Heinrich Riebesehl the Spectrum Photo gallery, in the newly opened Sprengel Museum was built in 1979 and there formed the basis of the collection of photography and media. Since 1993 acquisitions for the collection of photography and media are made regularly. It will work long-term to the formation of working groups of international photographers and photographers from the mid- 1970s. The contemporary and historical photography has since been shown in numerous presentations, including solo exhibitions of the work of, inter alia, El Lissitzky, Hein Gorny, Gisèle Freund, John Gossage, Nicholas Nixon, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Judith Joy Ross, Thomas Ruff, Stephen Shore, Stephan Balkenhol, Max Baumann, Lutz Dammbeck, Luc Delahaye, Hans -Peter Feldmann, Thierry Geoffroy- Colonel, Helga Paris, Boris Mikhailov, Shirana Shahbazi, Heidi Specker and Gediminas Urbonas and Nomeda.

Kurt Schwitters Archive

Since 1994, the Sprengel Museum in Hanover houses the archives of the Hanoverian artist Kurt Schwitters and has the most extensive documentation on the life and work of the artist. In the Kurt Schwitters Archive the catalog raisonné of the artistic oeuvre has been developed by Schwitters. In addition, the Sprengel Museum Hannover 's artist-designed rooms offers a special attraction.

Exhibitions

• 2001: The Street. Italian Futurism 1909-1918

• 2003: Niki de Saint Phalle. The Birth of the Nanas. The Art of Niki de Saint Phalle in the 60s

• 2004: Ward Picasso
• 2005: Ward Chagall

• 2006: Sprengel is serious. The collection of Max Ernst

• 2007: Made in Germany

• 2008: SPECTRUM International Prize for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony 2008: Helen Levitt
• 2009: Marc, Macke and Delaunay. The Beauty of a Fragile World (1910-1940)

• 2010: A look at Fränzi and Marcella. Two models of the Brücke artists Heckel, Kirchner and Pechstein

• 2011: Richard Deacon. The Missing Part

• 2012: Michael Morgner. Drawings
• 2012: Bernhard Fuchs. Portraits / cars / roads and paths
• 2012: A Return to Painting. A return to painting. Ilya Kabakov, 1960-2011
• 2012: MADE IN GERMANY ZWEI - International Art in Germany (in cooperation with the Kestner Society and the Kunstverein Hannover)
• 2012/13: White feathers, black fur. Animals in representations of the 20th century
• 2013: Meret Oppenheim. Above the trees
• 2013/14: Alfred Flechtheim.com. Art dealer of the avant-garde
• 2014: Michael Raedecker. tour