The museums were closed for almost two months and with them a number of special exhibitions worth seeing. So they extended some houses. Time travel is possible again.
The nightmare of all curators: an exhibition is finally finished, the invitations for the opening are out, the sparkling wine is cold. And then the authorities close the museum. Indefinitely. That was almost two months ago, and the museums are now open again under certain conditions. And with them a number of special exhibitions worth seeing, which make thousands of years of art and cultural history visible. So here are some tips for those who haven’t seen everything yet and want to catch up now.
Museum Georg Schfer: Do women paint differently?
Is there a female view in art? Do women paint differently? The Schweinfurt Museum Georg Schfer asked and answered these questions in its special exhibition “Talent knows no gender Romantic painters at eye level”, which was extended until 12 July. The show shows 90 works, 56 of them painted by women. Except for one, they were born in the 18th century. That means: The old art historian prejudice, in which women would only play a role from around 1900, would be refuted.
Photo: Anand Anders
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Curator and museum director Wolf Eiermann places the images in direct competition with the works of male contemporaries, and occasionally the latter draw the eye. Women sometimes
Museum in the Kulturspeicher: The dazzling art dealer Wolfgang Gurlitt
A show about passion, sluggishness and Nazi entanglements: the museum in the Kulturzpeicher Wrzburg presents the dazzling art dealer Wolfgang Gurlitt under the title “Wolfgang Gurlitt. Zauberprinz” (extended until July 19). Gurlitt? It rings in the ears. Wolfgang Gurlitt was an art dealer like his cousin Hildebrand, whose collection as “Munich Art Find” attracted worldwide attention in 2013. But Wolfgang was rather in the dark, says Henrike Holsing, deputy director. First Recent research has made Wolfgang Gurlitt appear more dazzling than his cousin. Glamor. Sometimes he was a gambler, sometimes a precisely calculated networker.
Photo: Patty Varasano
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Both Gurlitts had Jewish roots and did business with the Nazis. In the Nazi era, they benefited from the trade in works from Jewish collections. The special exhibition shows paintings and graphics, portfolios and art books, but also focuses on the man who is associated with these works. His bright and dark sides as an art dealer, art sponsor, publisher, gallery manager and friend of Heiner Dikreiter, the controversial founding director of the Municipal Gallery. The exhibition title “Magic Prince” not only refers to his personality, but also to a lithograph by Oskar Kokoschka, on which Wolfgang Gurlitt is depicted in an oriental carnival costume.
Kunsthalle Schweinfurt: light sculptures by Ludger Hinse
“My crosses of light are not crosses that are depressing, but an attempt to capture the heavenly light.” That says the artist Ludger Hinse (born in 1948), whose works under the title “Lich T Raum” can currently be seen in some places in Schweinfurt, for example in the Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit, the Protestant St. John’s Church and the St . Joseph. But above all in the large hall of the Kunsthalle. They are transparent, brightly colored works made of plexiglass, which deal with the cross motif. “Hinse’s works, their mystically colored light and the remarkably simple interior design of the Kunsthalle blur into a contemporary overall work of art in the baroque sense”, says the press release.
Photo: Peter Leutsch
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Furthermore: Under the title “I don’t know a weekend”, the Kunsthalle is showing works by Joseph Beuys, KP Brehmer, K.H. Hdicke, Peter Hutchinson, Arthur Kpcke, Sigmar Polke and Wolf Vostell. It is a case, objects and graphic works that Beuys put together in 1971/72 at the suggestion of gallery owner Ren Block.
Museum for Franconia: prominent visitor from Munich
The Museum for Franconia on the Wrzburg fortress does not currently have a special exhibition. But a prominent new permanent loan: the painting “Mainlandschaft” by Hans Thoma from 1875. The award to Wrzburg initiated the state government, which wants to return Franconian works of art to Franconia, according to the museum. The picture shows a view of the Main from Schloss Mainberg near Schweinfurt. It stages a primeval, ideal river landscape, according to the accompanying text.
In times without guided tours and educational events, the museum invites you to explore the collection with the “Explorer’s Booklet”, solve puzzles and, in the end, look forward to a little surprise. Families in particular find it difficult to activate themselves and the children again and again and to open new jobs.
Siebold Museum commemorates the destruction of Wrzburg, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Siebold Museum in Wrzburg was able to open his special exhibition “Wrzburg in Trmmern an artistic view of the ruined city” on March 14th, but then no longer show it. Now it is extended until May 31st. It commemorates the destruction of Wrzburg 75 years ago, but also the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that took place a few months later.
On view are paintings, watercolors, woodcuts, screen prints and photographs by well-known, but also completely unknown, artists who deal with the air raid of March 16, 1945, the destroyed city and the beginning of the reconstruction of Wrzburg. A large part of these previously unknown pictures comes from private property and was made available to the public for the first time on the occasion of the round anniversary, according to a message from the museum.
Photo: Ulrich Kneise, Eisenach
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Museum am Dom: The two stars of late Gothic
Until August 30, the Museum am Dom in Wrzburg is showing its special exhibition “Riemenschneider X Stoss”, which juxtaposes the “two most well-known artists of German late Gothic”, said dice curator Wolfgang Schneider. Schneider has long wanted to have an exhibition about these two artists. The opportunity now came through the restoration of the medieval glass windows in the choir of the parish church of Mnnerstadt, in which both artists were active. The altar has been dismantled, the works by Tilman Riemenschneider and the paintings by Veit Sto have been moved to the Museum am Dom and can now be admired up close.
Photo: Jens Bttner
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Martin von Wagner Museum: The sound of antiquity
In the Martin von Wagner Museum in the Wrzburger Residenz you can listen and try out for yourself how music was made over 10,000 years ago. Ancient scientists use antique originals and reproduced instruments in the exhibition “Mus-ic-on!” To show what our ancestors played with. The beginnings: horns, scrapers, rattles, drum sticks made of bone, shells, ivory or antlers. The oldest musical instruments in the world according to the current state of affairs are the famous bird bone flutes and clarinets from the Swabian Jura, around 38,000 years old. And then: oriental clay rattles and Egyptian sounds, Hittite lyre, Greek kitharas, Roman flutes and water organs.
Opening times and corona rules
Corona rules: Masks are mandatory in all museums. A distance of at least 1.5 meters from other people must be maintained, no groups may be formed. The number of visitors is limited to one person per 20 square meters, depending on the admission regulations there may be waiting times. Group tours, workshops, concerts, museum educational events, exhibition openings and the like are currently suspended.
Museum Georg Schfer, Schweinfurt: “Talent knows no gender Romantic painters at eye level”. Extended until July 12th. Open Tues. 10 a.m. – 8 p.m., Wed.-Sun. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The catalog (Hirmer) costs 29.90 euros. The bookstore is open, the caf initially only has to-go operations.
Museum in the Kulturspeicher, Wrzburg: “Wolfgang Gurlitt Magic Prince”. Extended until July 19th. Tue 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., Wed. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Fri./Sat./Sun. 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. MS satisfaction (museum caf) is closed, the museum shop is open.
Kunsthalle Schweinfurt: Ludger Hinse, “Lich Dream”. Until July 5th. Tue-Sun 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thurs. to 9 p.m. The accompanying program must largely be omitted.
Museum for Franconia, Wrzburg: Tue-Sun 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Siebold Museum Wrzburg: “Wrzburg in ruins an artistic view of the ruined city”. Extended until May 31st. Tue-Sun 2.30pm-5.30pm.
Museum am Dom, Wrzburg: “Belt cutter X push”. Until August 30th. Tue-Sun 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Martin von Wagner Museum in the Wrzburger Residenz: “Mus-ic-on! Ancient sound”. Until July 12th. Tue-Sat 1:30 p.m. – 5 p.m., Sundays every 2 days 10 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. (May 31, June 14 and 28, July 12).
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