Museum Gunzenhauser
29. Sep 2024 – 16. Mar 2025

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Otto Dix, Bildnis des Malers Zienert, 1914, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz-Museum Gunzenhauser, Eigentum der Stiftung Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz, Foto: Archiv Museum Gunzenhauser © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 © (c) VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

Best of
Part I: Curator's favourites

With more than 3,000 works, the Gunzenhauser Collection is one of the most important private collections in Germany. Founded by the Munich gallery owner Alfred Gunzenhauser, the collection is not least representative of his taste and interests – influences that guided him when buying art. The Gunzenhauser Museum is now exploring this treasure trove of art in two different exhibitions.

To mark the start of the European Capital of Culture year 2025, Best of. Part I: Curator’s favourites, the (specialist) staff set out the selection criteria: which work of art has travelled the furthest, which is the smallest, the largest, the youngest or the oldest? In the process, bizarre objects and rare treasures from the collection come to light. Art that has not yet been in the spotlight will be on display for the first time. The employees’ favourite pictures will find a place in the exhibition and visitors will be able to vote for their favourites.

However, the extensive holdings of New Objectivity – that contribute significantly to the international reputation of the collection – will not be neglected in the presentation. The second floor is dedicated entirely to the famous New Objectivity artist Otto Dix, whose works the collector acquired on a grand scale. The Gunzenhauser Museum has one of the world’s largest collections of works by Dix. In addition to the highlights of this multifaceted artist, the collection offers a rare insight into the development of his painting, from the first self-portrait to landscape painting in the post-war period.

In the second part of the exhibition series in the European Capital of Culture under the heading “Part II: Visitors’ Favourites”, the perspective on the collection will be reversed.

Gallery

Rupprecht Geiger, 744a/82, 1982, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Museum Gunzenhauser, Eigentum der Stiftung Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz, Foto: Archiv Museum Gunzenhauser © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
Rupprecht Geiger
744a/82, 1982
Otto Dix, Bildnis des Malers Zienert, 1914, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz-Museum Gunzenhauser, Eigentum der Stiftung Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz, Foto: Archiv Museum Gunzenhauser © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 © (c) VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
Otto Dix
Bildnis des Malers Zienert, 1914

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