Abteiberg Museum

Art museum in Mönchengladbach, Germany
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Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia

The Museum Abteiberg is a municipal museum for contemporary art in the German city Mönchengladbach.

Since the 1970s, the museum has been known for its experimental and avant-garde exhibitions, starting with director Johannes Cladders (1967–1985), and also its museum architecture, designed by Austrian architect Hans Hollein – a highpoint of postmodern design.

Directors of the Museum

  • 1907‒1933 Carl Schurz
  • 1933‒1945 Julius Koenzgens
  • 1945‒1967 Heinrich Dattenberg
  • 1967‒1985 Johannes Cladders
  • 1985‒1994 Dierk Stemmler
  • 1995‒2003 Veit Loers
  • since 2004 Susanne Titz

Collection

Expressionism

  • Ernst Barlach, Head of the Güstrow Memorial, 1927
  • Wladimir Bechtejew, Two Bathing Women at the Beach, 1910
  • Heinrich Campendonk, Shepherdess with Animals, around 1917
  • Heinrich Campendonk, Red Shepherd with Animals, 1928
  • Erich Heckel, Street in Berlin, 1911
  • Erich Heckel, Beach at Osterholz, 1913
  • Erich Heckel, Madmen eating, 1914
  • Erich Heckel, Flandric Plains, 1916
  • Alexej von Jawlensky, Lady with a blue Hat, 1912/13
  • Anton Kerschbaumer, Möckernbrücke in Berlin, 1926
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Female Nude in the Greens, 1914/15
  • Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Little Female Torso (Hagen Torso), 1910/11
  • Franz Marc, Landscape with a rainbow, 1913
  • Ewald Mataré, Large Lying Cow, 1930
  • Otto Mueller, Forest, around 1923
  • Heinrich Nauen, Garden, 1913
  • Hermann Max Pechstein, Upcoming Thunderstorm, 1919
  • Hermann Max Pechstein, Mother and Child (Artist's wife and son), 1920
  • Christian Rohlfs, God Creating the first Man, 1916
  • Christian Rohlfs, Hunted Man, 1918

Constructivism

Dada

Informel

  • Peter Brüning, Composition 1/59, 1959
  • Karl Fred Dahmen, Samum, 1957
  • Karl Otto Goetz, Soel, 1964
  • Wilhelm Nay, Corroborée, 1954

Photography

  • Man Ray, Portrait of James Joyce, 1922/59
  • Man Ray, Kiki's Lips, 1929/59
  • Man Ray, Tears, 1933/59
  • Man Ray, Women with open Hair, 1931/59
  • Man Ray, Selfportrait with Camera 1931/59
  • Man Ray, Antique Head with Mirror, 1931/59

Op art

Zero

Nouveau Réalisme

Pop Art

Minimal Art

Further Departments

Library, classrooms for education, cafeteria (temporarily closed).

Buildings of the Museum

Detail of the museum
  • 1901‒1904 Rooms within the city hall of Mönchengladbach
  • 1904‒1925 Former Protestant school on the Fliescherberg (demolished)
  • 1926‒1944 Karl-Brandts-Haus on the Kaiserstraße (demolished in World War II)
  • 1924‒1934 and 1945‒1982 Oskar-Kühlen-Haus on the Bismarckstraße 97
  • since 1982 Städtisches Museum Abteiberg on the Abteistraße

Literature

On the collection of the museum

  • Sabine Kimpel-Fehlemann, Walter Kaesbach-Stiftung. 1922‒1937 ‒ Die Geschichte einer expressionistischen Sammlung in Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach 1979
  • Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (ed.), Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Braunschweig 1982
  • Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (ed.), Sammlung Etzold ‒ Ein Zeitdokument, Mönchengladbach 1986
  • Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (ed.), Kunst der Gegenwart. 1900 bis 1960, Bestandskatalog, Mönchengladbach 1988
  • Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (ed.), Kunst der ersten Jahrhunderthälfte. 1900 bis 1960, Bestandskatalog, Mönchengladbach 1990
  • Museumsverein Mönchengladbach, Jahresgaben des Museumsvereins. 1972‒1991, Bestandskatalog, Mönchengladbach 1992
  • Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (ed.), Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach 2002
  • Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (ed.), Skulpturengarten. Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach 2003

About the architecture of the museum

  • Pehnt, Wolfgang (1986). Hans Hollein Museum in Mönchengladbach : Architektur als Collage (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch. ISBN 3-596-23934-6. OCLC 13656060.
  • Museumsverein Mönchengladbach (ed), 10 Jahre Museum Abteiberg ‒ 90 Jahre Museumsverein, Mönchengladbach 1992

External links

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  • Official website (in German and English)
  • Official website of the society on behalf of the museum, Museumsvereins Mönchengladbach
  • BLOG (Internet-Tagebuch) eines Museumsbesuchs

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