Dresden City Art Gallery
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The Dresden City Art Gallery (Städtische Galerie Dresden - Kunstsammlung) is the city art collection of Dresden
, housed in the city's Landhaus
. It was formed by the 19th and 20th century artworks in the Dresden City Museum
, split off from the Museum and given a separate display in 2000. In 2002 Dr. Gisbert Porstmann became its founding director and in 2005 the City Art Gallery officially opened.
, as a conference building for the Saxon estates. Other Dresden museums nearby are the Dresden Fortress Museum, and the Albertinum Museum.
The Collection began with the founding in 1869 of the Society for the History and Topography of Dresden and its surroundings. Its members gathered evidence both of bourgeois urban culture, and the first paintings. Emphasis was on portraits of important personalities, views the city, and the surrounding landscapes. The fast-growing municipal collection were housed in different buildings, until placed on 1 October 1910, in the rooms around the atrium of the newly built city hall, where they remained until their traveling during the World War II
.
Paul Ferdinand Schmidt, who was director from 1919 to 1924, of the municipal collections, began the redesign of the art collection.
Schmidt based his purchases of art-historical categories: he bought, works by Erich Heckel
, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
, Otto Dix
, Oskar Kokoschka
, Kurt Schwitters
and Lasar Segall
, and built up a world-class collection of art of German Expressionism
.
During the "Degenerate Art
" period, art was seized by the Nazis, including 498 individual works of the municipal art collection. The largest part of the art treasures are still regarded as missing, only a few works were found later in major national and international museums. During the war, and in the immediate postwar period more important works of art lost. A complete inventory and catalog of the loss is in progress.
After the Second World War, the city's art inventory, in the Institute and Museum of the History of Dresden, was moved to the renamed Dresden City Museum in 1990, which is primarily devoted to the exploration of the city's history.
In 2000, the Dresden city council established a municipal art museum.
In parallel, on 1 June 2002 they celebrated the founding of the Dresden Municipal Gallery, developed with sponsorships. The Municipal Art Gallery acquired the stock of the Dresden City Museum, and on 2 July 2005, their showrooms on the first floor opened. In the permanent exhibition in the West Wing, are works by painters and sculptors from 19 to the 21st Century. The east wing will hold temporary exhibitions.
On 10 December 2007, the Dresden Municipal Gallery announced a significant increase in their collection. With the acquisition of an extensive collection of works by A. R. Penck (Ralf Winkler) owned by Jürgen Braden, and a generous gift from the collector received the Städtische Galerie Dresden approximately 40 paintings, objects and assemblages, 330 watercolors and drawings, 340 overwriting, 80 graphic works and more than 100 works from the perimeter of the artist group "gap" in the AR Penck leading scientists.
, Katalin Deér, Eberhard Havekost
, Sabine Hornig, Kerstin Kartscher, Olaf Nicolai, Frank Nitsche, Manfred Pernice, Thomas Scheibitz
, Silke Wagner, made available a first graphics Edition. The Dresden edition published an edition of 50 copies, of which 33 numbered for sale. For the archival storage of graphic papers and photographs was developed jointly with the German workshops Hellerau in a special wooden box. The price of the edition is 3424 €. All proceeds from the sale of the edition is the acquisition of contemporary art for the collection of the Städtische Galerie Dresden.
The DREWAG Prize for Contemporary Art promotes artists, whose main production facility is located in the city of Dresden or the surrounding area.
The prize includes a cash award, and a solo exhibition at the Städtische Galerie Dresden, including the production of an exhibition catalog.
The first DREWAG Prize for Contemporary Art 2006 went to the Dresden sculptor Sebastian Hempel. The winner of the second DREWAG Prize for Contemporary Art 2008 was Britta Jonas.
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
, housed in the city's Landhaus
Landhaus (Dresden)
The Landhaus is a historical building in Dresden, eastern Germany. Designed to house the Saxony region's Landstand, it was built in the Baroque style between 1770 and 1776 by Friedrich August Krubsacius on the site of the former Palais Flemming-Sulkowski. In September 1775 the Obersteuerkollegium...
. It was formed by the 19th and 20th century artworks in the Dresden City Museum
Dresden City Museum
Dresden City Museum is the central city museum for the German city of Dresden. Its displays tell the 800-year story of the city and is the largest and most important of the Dresden State Museums...
, split off from the Museum and given a separate display in 2000. In 2002 Dr. Gisbert Porstmann became its founding director and in 2005 the City Art Gallery officially opened.
Location
The Städtische Galerie Dresden is located on the first floor of Dresden's city hall, built in 1770-1775 to designs by the court architect Friedrich August KrubsaciusFriedrich August Krubsacius
Friedrich August Krubsacius was a German architect and architectural theoretician.He was born at Dresden. In 1755 he was made court architect to the Duchy of Saxony, in 1764 professor of architecture at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and in 1776 chief architect of Saxony....
, as a conference building for the Saxon estates. Other Dresden museums nearby are the Dresden Fortress Museum, and the Albertinum Museum.
The Collection began with the founding in 1869 of the Society for the History and Topography of Dresden and its surroundings. Its members gathered evidence both of bourgeois urban culture, and the first paintings. Emphasis was on portraits of important personalities, views the city, and the surrounding landscapes. The fast-growing municipal collection were housed in different buildings, until placed on 1 October 1910, in the rooms around the atrium of the newly built city hall, where they remained until their traveling during the World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
.
Paul Ferdinand Schmidt, who was director from 1919 to 1924, of the municipal collections, began the redesign of the art collection.
Schmidt based his purchases of art-historical categories: he bought, works by Erich Heckel
Erich Heckel
Erich Heckel was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the Die Brücke group which existed 1905-1913.-Biography:Heckel was born in Döbeln . His parents were born in Saxony...
, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th century art. He volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suffered a...
, Otto Dix
Otto Dix
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.-Early life and...
, Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.-Biography:...
, Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as...
and Lasar Segall
Lasar Segall
The artist Lasar Segall was a Brazilian Jewish painter, engraver and sculptor born in Lithuania. Segall's work is derived from impressionism, expressionism and modernism...
, and built up a world-class collection of art of German Expressionism
German Expressionism
German Expressionism refers to a number of related creative movements beginning in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin, during the 1920s...
.
During the "Degenerate Art
Degenerate art
Degenerate art is the English translation of the German entartete Kunst, a term adopted by the Nazi regime in Germany to describe virtually all modern art. Such art was banned on the grounds that it was un-German or Jewish Bolshevist in nature, and those identified as degenerate artists were...
" period, art was seized by the Nazis, including 498 individual works of the municipal art collection. The largest part of the art treasures are still regarded as missing, only a few works were found later in major national and international museums. During the war, and in the immediate postwar period more important works of art lost. A complete inventory and catalog of the loss is in progress.
After the Second World War, the city's art inventory, in the Institute and Museum of the History of Dresden, was moved to the renamed Dresden City Museum in 1990, which is primarily devoted to the exploration of the city's history.
In 2000, the Dresden city council established a municipal art museum.
In parallel, on 1 June 2002 they celebrated the founding of the Dresden Municipal Gallery, developed with sponsorships. The Municipal Art Gallery acquired the stock of the Dresden City Museum, and on 2 July 2005, their showrooms on the first floor opened. In the permanent exhibition in the West Wing, are works by painters and sculptors from 19 to the 21st Century. The east wing will hold temporary exhibitions.
On 10 December 2007, the Dresden Municipal Gallery announced a significant increase in their collection. With the acquisition of an extensive collection of works by A. R. Penck (Ralf Winkler) owned by Jürgen Braden, and a generous gift from the collector received the Städtische Galerie Dresden approximately 40 paintings, objects and assemblages, 330 watercolors and drawings, 340 overwriting, 80 graphic works and more than 100 works from the perimeter of the artist group "gap" in the AR Penck leading scientists.
Edition
At its opening, of Dresden City Art Gallery, ten artists: Franz AckermannFranz Ackermann
Franz Ackermann is a German painter and installation artist based in Berlin. He makes cartoonish abstraction....
, Katalin Deér, Eberhard Havekost
Eberhard Havekost
Eberhard Havekost is a contemporary German painter based in Berlin and Dresden. In 1985 he completed an internship as a stonemason. He studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden from 1991-1996, where he became a master student under Professor Ralf Kerbach in 1997...
, Sabine Hornig, Kerstin Kartscher, Olaf Nicolai, Frank Nitsche, Manfred Pernice, Thomas Scheibitz
Thomas Scheibitz
Thomas Scheibitz is a German painter and sculptor. Together with Tino Sehgal he created the German pavilion on the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. He lives and works in Berlin.-External links:...
, Silke Wagner, made available a first graphics Edition. The Dresden edition published an edition of 50 copies, of which 33 numbered for sale. For the archival storage of graphic papers and photographs was developed jointly with the German workshops Hellerau in a special wooden box. The price of the edition is 3424 €. All proceeds from the sale of the edition is the acquisition of contemporary art for the collection of the Städtische Galerie Dresden.
DREWAG Prize for Contemporary Art
With the opening of the Städtische Galerie Dresden DREWAG (Stadtwerke Dresden GmbH DREWAG) donated the first prize for contemporary art, which is awarded every two years.The DREWAG Prize for Contemporary Art promotes artists, whose main production facility is located in the city of Dresden or the surrounding area.
The prize includes a cash award, and a solo exhibition at the Städtische Galerie Dresden, including the production of an exhibition catalog.
The first DREWAG Prize for Contemporary Art 2006 went to the Dresden sculptor Sebastian Hempel. The winner of the second DREWAG Prize for Contemporary Art 2008 was Britta Jonas.
Literature
- Gisbert Porstmann, Städtische Galerie Dresden – Führer durch die Sammlung der Gemälde. (Städtische Galerie Dresden - Guide to the collection of paintings). Prestel Verlag, Munich / Berlin / London 2005, ISBN 3791333941
- Bertram Kaschek, "Das muss man gesehen haben!", in: Die Zeit. Museumsführer. Die schönsten Kunstsammlungen in Deutschland ("This must be seen" in: Die Zeit. Museum guide. The finest art collections in Germany), ed. v. Hanno Rauterberg, Die Zeit, Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co. KG, 2010, p. 86-89
External links
- Städtische Galerie Dresden, German wikipedia
- Gallery webpage