Abteiberg Museum
Illustration — Abteiberg Museum North Rhine-Westphalia 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.
Abteiberg Museum
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- 1902.
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- Mönchengladbach.
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Illustration — Abteiberg Museum North Rhine-Westphalia 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.
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Directors of the Museum
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
Expressionism
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
Constructivism
• Willi Baumeister, Plains (The Painter I), 1920 • Rudolf Belling, Sculpture 23, 1923/1966 • Karl Buchheister, Variation in Black and White, 1927 • Alexander Calder, Silverwhite, um 1953 • Otto Coenen, Still Life with Alarm Clock, 1931 • Otto Coenen, Landscape with a white House, 1932 • Sonia Delaunay, no title, 1916 • Otto Freundlich, Composition in Gray, um 1935 • Heinrich Hoerle, Rhenian Landscape, 1932 • Heinrich Hoerle, Standing Female Nude, um 1935 • Boris Kleint, Black and White Disk, 1938 • Frank Kupka, Panneau décoratif, before 1924 • Frank Kupka, Deux Gris I, 1928 • Bart van der Leck, Arbres, 1922/23 • Oskar Schlemmer, Abstract Figure (Grotesque), 1923/64 • Oskar Schlemmer, Three Nudes, 1929 • Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Feierabend I, 1925 • Nikolaj Michailowitsch Suetin, no title, around 1920 • Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Composition Nr. 149, 1945
Dada
Dada
• Marcel Duchamp, La Mariée mise à nu par ses Célibataires, même (Boîte verte), 1934 • Marcel Duchamp, De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy, 1966 • Max Ernst, Arizona-Landscape, nach 1946 • Wasily Kamensky, Mousetrap, 1915 • Kurt Schwitters, The Whale, 1924
Informel
Informel
• Peter Brüning, Composition 1/59, 1959 • Karl Fred Dahmen, Samum, 1957 • Karl Otto Goetz, Soel, 1964 • Wilhelm Nay, Corroborée, 1954
Op art
Op art
• Yaacov Agam, Ambiance, 1955 • Gerhard von Graevenitz, Moving Object, 1971 • Adolf Luther, 10 x 10 Concave Mirrors, 1968 • François Morellet, Wire Grating, 1959/60 • Jesús Rafael Soto, Vibration-Object, 1963 • Victor Vasarely, Alphard, 1957
Zero
Zero
• Heinz Mack, Silver-Dynamo, 1965 • Heinz Mack, White in White, 1959 • Otto Piene, Whitewhitewhite (Ton I), 1959/60 • Günther Uecker, Phantom I, 1963 • Günther Uecker, Great Wind, 1966
Nouveau Réalisme
Nouveau Réalisme
• Arman, Les tampons buvards, 1961 • Francois Dufrêne, Eye, 1960 • Raymond Hains, Affiche lacérée sur tôle, 1961 • Yves Klein, Monochrome bleu, 1959 • Yves Klein, Monogold, 1960 • Yves Klein, Victoire de Samothrace, 1962 • Martial Raysse, Supermarket, 1961 • Mimmo Rotella, Grande Comp, 1961 • Daniel Spoerri, Tableau piège chez Tinguelay, 1960 • Jean Tinguely, Hommage à Duchamp, 1960 • Jacques de la Villeglé, no title (Vér), 1962
Pop Art
Pop Art
• Richard Hamilton, Toaster, 1967 • Roy Lichtenstein, Bread in Bag, 1961 • George Segal, Man seated at table, 1960 • Tom Wesselmann, Still Life # 27, 1963 • Andy Warhol, Campell's Soup, 1962 • Andy Warhol, Louis M., Nr. 10 of 13 Most Wanted Men, 1963
Minimal Art
Minimal Art
• Carl Andre, 8001 Mönchengladbach Square 8002 Mönchengladbach Square, 1968 • Donald Judd, no title, 1973 • Bruce Nauman, Forced Perspective, 1975 • Sol LeWitt, Modular Piece, 1966
Further Departments
Further Departments
Library, classrooms for education, cafeteria (temporarily closed).
Buildings of the Museum
Buildings of the Museum
• Illustration — 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
About the architecture of the museum
About the architecture of the museum
* • Museumsverein Mönchengladbach (ed), 10 Jahre Museum Abteiberg ‒ 90 Jahre Museumsverein, Mönchengladbach 1992
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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
On the collection of the museum
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
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