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Kunsthalle Mannheim
The Kunsthalle Mannheim is a museum of modern and contemporary art, built in 1907, established in 1909 and located in Mannheim, Germany. Since then it has housed the city's art collections as well as temporary exhibitions – and up to 1927 those of the local Mannheimer Kunstverein as well as its administration.
The Kunsthalle's own collection comprises around 1,500 works by artists including Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, George Grosz and Wassily Kandinsky. The extension building from 2018 shows a major collection of works by Anselm Kiefer, 38 pieces on long-term loan from the businessman Hans Grothe.
Designed by Hermann Billing, the building was erected as a temporary structure to serve an "International Art Exhibition" of 1907, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the foundation of the city. Originally meant to be torn down after this exhibition, the building was later transformed into a municipal art gallery. In 1909 the museum and the collection were opened under the first director Fritz Wichert.
In 1983 Heinz Fuchs, Director of the Kunsthalle from 1959, handed over an extension building, designed especially for the sculpture collection by architect Hans Mitzlaff, to his successor Manfred Fath.
A new building, 13,000 sq ft (1,200 m2) in size with seven exhibition halls and a 22m-high glass-roofed atrium designed by the Hamburg-based architects Gerkan, Marg and Partners opened in 2018. The concrete, glass and steel structure is enveloped in a bronze mesh.
Fritz Wichert (1909–1923)
Fritz Wichert, who completed his doctorate in 1907 in Freiburg, became director of the Kunsthalle in Mannheim as early as 1909, where he expanded the collection to include paintings from the 19th century with a focus on French Modernism. In the First World War Wichert belonged to the diplomatic service. After the war, he returned to the Mannheim Kunsthalle and now put the collection focus on the Expressionists. In 1923, Wichert was appointed as director of the Städelschule in Frankfurt.
Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub (1923–1933)
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Kunsthalle Mannheim
The Kunsthalle Mannheim is a museum of modern and contemporary art, built in 1907, established in 1909 and located in Mannheim, Germany. Since then it has housed the city's art collections as well as temporary exhibitions – and up to 1927 those of the local Mannheimer Kunstverein as well as its administration.
The Kunsthalle's own collection comprises around 1,500 works by artists including Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, George Grosz and Wassily Kandinsky. The extension building from 2018 shows a major collection of works by Anselm Kiefer, 38 pieces on long-term loan from the businessman Hans Grothe.
Designed by Hermann Billing, the building was erected as a temporary structure to serve an "International Art Exhibition" of 1907, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the foundation of the city. Originally meant to be torn down after this exhibition, the building was later transformed into a municipal art gallery. In 1909 the museum and the collection were opened under the first director Fritz Wichert.
In 1983 Heinz Fuchs, Director of the Kunsthalle from 1959, handed over an extension building, designed especially for the sculpture collection by architect Hans Mitzlaff, to his successor Manfred Fath.
A new building, 13,000 sq ft (1,200 m2) in size with seven exhibition halls and a 22m-high glass-roofed atrium designed by the Hamburg-based architects Gerkan, Marg and Partners opened in 2018. The concrete, glass and steel structure is enveloped in a bronze mesh.
Fritz Wichert (1909–1923)
Fritz Wichert, who completed his doctorate in 1907 in Freiburg, became director of the Kunsthalle in Mannheim as early as 1909, where he expanded the collection to include paintings from the 19th century with a focus on French Modernism. In the First World War Wichert belonged to the diplomatic service. After the war, he returned to the Mannheim Kunsthalle and now put the collection focus on the Expressionists. In 1923, Wichert was appointed as director of the Städelschule in Frankfurt.
Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub (1923–1933)
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