Abteiberg Museum

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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, um 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

• 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
• Sonja Delaunay-Terk, 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

• 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

• 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

• Yaacov Agam, Ambiance, 1955
• Gerhard von Graevenitz, Moving Object, 1971
• Adolf Luther, 10 x 10 Concave Mirrors, 1968
• Francois Morellet, Wire Grating, 1959/60
• Jesús Rafael Soto, Vibration-Object, 1963
• Victor Vasarely, Alphard, 1957

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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 (Hrsg.), Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Braunschweig 1982
• Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (Hrsg.), Sammlung Etzold ‒ Ein Zeitdokument, Mönchengladbach 1986
• Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (Hrsg.), Kunst der Gegenwart. 1900 bis 1960, Bestandskatalog, Mönchengladbach 1988
• Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (Hrsg.), Kunst der ersten Jahrhunderthälfte. 1900 bis 1960, Bestandskatalog, Mönchengladbach 1990
• Museumsverein Mönchengladbach, Jahresgaben des Museumsvereins. 1972‒1991, Bestandskatalog, Mönchengladbach 1992
• Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (Hrsg.), Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach 2002
• Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (Hrsg.), Skulpturengarten. Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach 2003

About the architecture of the museum

• Wolfgang Pehnt, Hans Hollein. Museum Mönchengladbach. Architektur als Collage, Frankfurt am Main 1989
• Museumsverein Mönchengladbach (Hrsg.), 10 Jahre Museum Abteiberg ‒ 90 Jahre Museumsverein, Mönchengladbach 1992

External links

• Official website of the municipal Museums Abteiberg Mönchengladbach
• Official website of the society on behalf of the museum, Museumsvereins Mönchengladbach
• BLOG (Internet-Tagebuch) eines Museumsbesuchs

Coordinates: 51°11′34″N 6°25′59″E / 51.19278°N 6.43306°E / 51.19278; 6.43306