Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
15. May 2021 –
29. Aug 2021
On the occasion of the celebrations marking 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany and the 30th Jewish Culture Days in Chemnitz, the exhibition not only takes a look at important Jewish collectors, artists and art patrons, but also focuses on their donated works of art and relationships with each other.
Henry van de Velde Museum
18. Jun 2021 –
29. Aug 2021
December 2021 will see the 20th anniversary of the inauguration of the Henry van de Velde Museum in Villa Esche. To mark this occasion the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz and the Chemnitz concern GGG (current owner of the Villa Esche) have invited a class of art students to take an artistic approach – from their personal and contemporary perspective – to the different narratives and historical layers which the Villa Esche brings together. Under the direction of ...
Schloßbergmuseum
4. Apr 2021 –
30. Aug 2021
Klapperbrunnen fountain, Don Quixote, victorious working class: the sculptor Johann Belz inscribed himself into the cityscape of Karl-Marx-Stadt/Chemnitz in many different ways through his works. Those works, which he carried out preferably in metal, include individual sculptures, reliefs and fountains that to this very day co-shape the appearance of numerous spaces and ensembles in the city. They also continue to enjoy the approval both of the citizens and of visitors. Parallel to the travelling exhibition ...
Museum Gunzenhauser
24. Jul 2021 –
19. Sep 2021
Alfred Gunzenhauser was one of the most important collectors of Helmut Kolle’s works. His entire creative output spans a mere decade of his short life, but in that time he developed his own characteristic style, which adopts and makes use of Expressionist and Cubist influences.
Schloßbergmuseum
13. Apr 2021 –
26. Sep 2021
The special exhibition Works for the Stage with costume and stage designs by Ralf Winkler is dedicated to the life’s work of Ralf Winkler.
Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Presentation of the Collection
The Gallery of Modern Art The foundation of the Städtische Kunstsammlung in Chemnitz in 1920 marked the beginning of systematic museum collecting activities. As a municipal institute the Städtische Kunstsammlung was located in the new museum building, along with the Kunsthütte. The founder-director of the Städtische Kunstsammlung was Friedrich Schreiber-Weigand, who had directed the Kunstverein since 1911 and continued to be active in this capacity as well. The agenda he formulated involved »giving the collection ...
Museum Gunzenhauser
25. Feb 2020 –
3. Oct 2021
Museum Gunzenhauser is home to the art collection of the late Munich gallery-owner Dr Alfred Gunzenhauser, which features over 3,000 works by 270 artists with a focus on turn-of-the-last-century art, Expressionism, New Objectivity, and 20th-century abstract art. Moreover, with 380 works by Otto Dix, the museum has one of the world’s largest collections of works by that artist. It also holds one of the largest collections of paintings by Expressionist Alexej von Jawlensky, while large ...
Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
27. Jun 2021 –
3. Oct 2021
Simson, Diamant, Erika, Trabant, Wartburg, Robur and Heliradio … even 30 years after the fall of the Wall, these product names are firmly anchored in German design history and in the collective memory. They are inseparably linked with the life’s work of the Chemnitz designer Karl Clauss Dietel. In 2014, Dietel was the first and only designer from the former GDR to receive the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany for outstanding design.
Museum Gunzenhauser
17. Jul 2021 –
31. Oct 2021
The Gunzenhauser Museum will draw on the holdings of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz so as to mount a special exhibition devoted to the colour black, the international code for which is #000000. Black is the colour of night, death, magic and misfortune. Everything ends in black, decay and decomposition. In physics, black is the colour of a non-luminous object that absorbs light. From the viewpoint of depth psychology, black is the absolute border at which life ...
Schloßbergmuseum
27. Feb 2021 –
31. Oct 2021
Among the most valuable pieces of church furnisings are the vasa sacra, or sacred vessels, used to celebrate religious services and administer the sacraments. These objects were normally of elaborate design and made using precious materials. The decoration and inscriptions offer viewers insights into the spiritual world and daily life of the citizens who once donated these pieces. Over the course of centuries, many churches accumulated rich treasures of vessels, chalices, candelabra andcrucifixes. They also ...
Museum Gunzenhauser
Presentation of the Collection
After Expressionist, Futurist, and Dadaist beginnings in the artistic work of Otto Dix, around 1921 there is a formal calming-down noticeable. The artist developed his very own critical realism, combining old-masterly technique with biting social criticism, and he became one of the most important protagonists of New Objectivity. Immediately after the National Socialist takeover, he was the first German artist to be dismissed from his academy professorship, in Dresden. He fled with his family to ...
Schloßbergmuseum
Presentation of the Collection
Dank der großzügigen konzeptionellen Haltung der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden ist seit dem 21. Juni 2009 im Chemnitzer Schloßbergmuseum die einzigartige Sammlung Gotische Skulptur in Sachsen zu sehen.