Museum für Moderne Kunst explained

Museum für Moderne Kunst
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Coordinates:50.1117°N 8.6847°W
Location:Museumsufer, Altstadt, Frankfurt, Germany
Type:Art museum
Key Holdings:Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg
Collections:Modern art
Collection Size:4,500
Visitors:92,696 (2018)[1]
Director:Susanne Pfeffer
Architect:Hans Hollein

The Museum für Moderne Kunst (Museum of Modern Art), or short MMK, in Frankfurt, was founded in 1981 and opened to the public 6 June 1991. The museum was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein.[2] It is part of Frankfurt's Museumsufer (Museum Riverbank).Because of its triangular shape, the MMK is popularly called the German: Tortenstück ("piece of cake").[3] Since 2018, has been director of the MMK.[4]

History

The newest of Frankfurt's museums was founded in 1981.[5] The idea to set up a museum for modern art in Frankfurt came from Peter Iden, an influential theatre and art critic at the Frankfurter Rundschau and founding director of the museum (1978–1987). With the Mayor Walter Wallmann (CDU) and the Head of the Cultural department Hilmar Hoffmann (SPD) Iden found political advocates for his project. In 1989, the Swiss art historian and curator Jean-Christophe Ammann[6] moved from the Kunsthalle Basel to Frankfurt am Main and opened the new Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) Frankfurt am Main there on 6 June 1991. With a new exhibition model, the Change of Scene, which took place a total of 20 times with the help of private sponsors (Change of Scene I, 1992 until Change of Scene XX, 2001–02), the new museum gained international renown. At the change of scene exhibitions, the inventory of the museum was rearranged every six months and enriched with new additions, loans and special exhibitions.[7]

In 1983, Hollein won the competition for the Museum für Moderne Kunst;[8] three years earlier, his proposal for the city's Museum für angewandte Kunst had finished a close second behind Richard Meier's prize-winning design. The ground-breaking was delayed until 1987, and the new museum was eventually built at a cost of about $38 million.[9] It opened in 1991.[10]

The MMK Zollamt is a satellite exhibition site that since 1999 has belonged to the MMK and is located in a building directly opposite the museum that once was home to the City of Frankfurt's Main Customs Office. The building has been completely modernised and artistic positions by younger artists or "unknowns" have been presented here regularly since 2007 with the support of Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung.[11]

Architecture

Hollein molded a building to the three-sided space, so that the large rooms at the narrow end are wedge-shaped, producing 3500m2 of exhibition space.[9] The height of the three-storey building is adapted to the surroundings and is characterised by the "triangular shape" and facade design. The building houses three main levels for exhibitions and an administration area on the mezzanine, which is located above the entrance area and the cafeteria. The MMK library and archive are also located in this area. The entire area of the museum has a basement. There are workshops, depots and a lecture hall.[12]

Collection

The core of the museum is the legacy of German collector Karl Ströher with 87 works of Pop art and Minimalism.[13] The manufacturer Ströher had originally bequeathed to his native city of Darmstadt on condition that a museum be built to house them. When funds for the project were not approved, Ströher's heirs sold the choice ensemble to Frankfurt and donated the painting "Yellow and Green Brushstrokes" by Roy Lichtenstein to the museum as a gift.[14] Major artists since the 1950s from the Ströher Collection displayed,[9] including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Carl Andre, John Chamberlain, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Roy Lichtenstein, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselman and George Segal, with his Jazz Combo. Between 1981 and 1987, the museum's co-founder Peter Iden[15] expanded the collection by adding works from the seventies and eighties.[16] Later parts of the collection have been amassed by the museum's first director,[17] Jean-Christophe Ammann.[18] [19] In 2006 the Museum für Moderne Kunst, along with the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, acquired the private collection of Cologne art dealer Rolf Ricke, comprising works by Richard Artschwager, Bill Bollinger, Donald Judd, Gary Kuehn, und Steven Parrino. Today, the permanent collection includes over 4,500 works of international art, ranging from the 1960s to the present.[20]

Locations

Exhibitions

The museum and its director, Susanne Gaensheimer, were commissioned to curate the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and 2013.[22]

Bibliography

Lauter, Rolf: Bilder für Frankfurt: Bestandskatalog des Museums für Moderne Kunst, München, Prestel 1985, ;

Ausstellen, Aufstellen, Abstellen Überlegungen zur Aufgabe des Museums für Moderne Kunst. In: Museum für Moderne Kunst. Schriftreihe des Hochbauamtes zu Bauaufgaben der Stadt Frankfurt am Main. Der Magistrat der Stadt Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt 1991. .

Christmut Präger: Museum für Moderne Kunst und Sammlung Ströher. Frankfurt 1992

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Besucherzahlen der Frankfurter Museen 2018 . Stadtkind Frankfurt - Reflexionen aus dem urbanen Leben . 20 November 2019 . de . 19 December 2022.
  2. Web site: 129_Museum Moderner Kunst / museums/cultural buildings / Typology / Architecture / Home . hollein.com . 31 December 2022.
  3. Web site: Tortenstück . . 10 February 2005 . de . 31 December 2022.
  4. Web site: Mit jeder Ausstellung versuche ich das Museum neu zu denken . hr2.de . 5 April 2022 . de . 31 December 2022.
  5. Web site: Geschichte. www.mmk.art. 30 January 2020.
  6. [Rolf Lauter|Lauter, Rolf]
  7. Andreas Bee: Zehn Jahre Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main. DuMont, Köln 2003, .
  8. Web site: Offener Realisierungswettbewerb Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt 1983. Burgard. Roland. www.worldcat.org. en. 30 January 2020.
  9. David Galloway (6 July 1991), Museum à la Mode in Frankfurt International Herald Tribune.
  10. Web site: Frankfurter Tortenstück. 28 August 2020. www.kunstforum.de. de-DE.
  11. Web site: Jürgen Ponto Stiftung – zur Förderung junger Künstler. www.juergen-ponto-stiftung.de. 30 January 2020.
  12. [Hans Hollein|Hollein, Hans]
  13. Web site: Collection Ströher . Sammlung Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main . collection.mmk.art . 19 December 2022.
  14. Book: Lauter, Rolf. Das Museum für Moderne Kunst und die Sammlung Ströher. Zur Geschichte einer Privatsammlung. Societätsverlag. 1994. 978-3-7973-0585-5. Frankfurt. 88.
  15. Web site: Café Deutschland. Im Gespräch mit PETER IDEN.
  16. [Peter Iden|Iden, Peter]
  17. Rolf Lauter (ed.): Für Jean-Christophe Ammann, Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag, Societätsverlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2001.
  18. [Michael Kimmelman]
  19. Web site: Ammann, Jean-Christophe . Frankfurter Personenlexikon . de . 31 December 2022.
  20. https://collection.mmk.art/en/the-collection/ Online Collection
  21. Web site: Besuchen . MMK . de . 31 December 2022.
  22. Alexander Forbes (8 May 2012), Susanne Gaensheimer to Curate German Pavilion at 2013 Venice Biennale ARTINFO.

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