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The '''Museum Gunzenhauser''' is a [[museum]] and [[art gallery]] located in [[Chemnitz]]; third largest city of [[Saxony]]. It contains 2.459 artworks of 270 [[Modern art|modern]] artists of 20th century which have been collected by the art dealer Dr. Alfred Gunzenhauser. The Museum Gunzenhauser was inaugurated in [[December 2007]] in the presence of the [[President of Germany|German President]] [[Horst Köhler]] and is one of the most important museums of Modern Art in Germany. |
The '''Museum Gunzenhauser''' is a [[museum]] and [[art gallery]] located in [[Chemnitz]]; third largest city of [[Saxony]]. It contains 2.459 artworks of 270 [[Modern art|modern]] artists of 20th century which have been collected by the art dealer Dr. Alfred Gunzenhauser. The Museum Gunzenhauser was inaugurated in [[December 2007]] in the presence of the [[President of Germany|German President]] [[Horst Köhler]] and is one of the most important museums of Modern Art in Germany. |
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The Museum Gunzenhauser is a museum and art gallery located in Chemnitz; third largest city of Saxony. It contains 2.459 artworks of 270 modern artists of 20th century which have been collected by the art dealer Dr. Alfred Gunzenhauser. The Museum Gunzenhauser was inaugurated in December 2007 in the presence of the German President Horst Köhler and is one of the most important museums of Modern Art in Germany.
Building's history
The museum's building was constructed between 1928 and 1930 in the style of New Objectivity as former headquarter of the Sparkasse Chemnitz (Savings and loan association of Chemnitz) and has been one of the first high-rise buildings in Chemnitz. Fred Otto (1883–1944), head of the municipal planning and building control office between 1925 and 1944, purposely abandoned decorative elements and used bright, beige-coloured travertine for the facades. Thus, the building shows its balanced proportions and clear structure to advantage. The building's aesthetic centre is the former tills' hall being lighted by a glass roof. During the renovation, the architect Volker Staab has took advantage of the potentials of the existing building, structural addition and interventions have been minimised.
Exposition
The collection's main component are numerous artworks of Expressionism. The exhibition consists of works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, each of them attended school in Chemnitz and took part on the artists' group Die Brücke. The museum also contains the second largest collection of artworks of Alexej von Jawlensky and Gabriele Münter, both of them were members of Der Blaue Reiter. Both expressionist artists' group are completed by works of several other artists like Christian Rohlfs, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Helmut Kolle. Furthermore, the museum represents pictures of Max Beckmann drawn in the 1930s and 1940s. From the Weimar Republic period there are works of Karl Hubbuch, Franz Radziwill, Alexander Kanoldt, Georg Schrimpf and Gustav Wunderwald. 110 paintings originate from Conrad Felixmüller. The exhibition's centrepiece is the largest collection of 290 artworks of Otto Dix. The first self portrait drawn with oil in 1912, early paintings from the period of the art college in Dresden (Dresdner Kunstgewerbeschule), important Aquarelles und Gouaches from the period of the First World War as well as considerable works of the 1920s and the late work. From the period after the Second World War many works originate from Willi Baumeister, Fritz Winter, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Bernard Schultze and Emil Schumacher as well as from Karl Hofer, Johannes Grützke, Horst Antes, Klaus Fußmann, Karl Horst Hödicke and Rainer Fetting.