# Abteiberg Museum

The Museum Abteiberg is a municipal museum for contemporary art in the German city Mönchengladbach.
Since the 1970s, the museum has been known for its experimental and avant-garde exhibitions, starting with director Johannes Cladders (1967–1985), and also its museum architecture, designed by Austrian architect Hans Hollein – a highpoint of postmodern design.

## Directors of the Museum

* 1907‒1933 Carl Schurz
* 1933‒1945 Julius Koenzgens
* 1945‒1967 Heinrich Dattenberg
* 1967‒1985 Johannes Cladders
* 1985‒1994 Dierk Stemmler
* 1995‒2003 Veit Loers
* since 2004 Susanne Titz

## Collection
### Expressionism

* Ernst Barlach, Head of the Güstrow Memorial, 1927
* Wladimir Bechtejew, Two Bathing Women at the Beach, 1910
* Heinrich Campendonk, Shepherdess with Animals, around 1917
* Heinrich Campendonk, Red Shepherd with Animals, 1928
* Erich Heckel, Street in Berlin, 1911
* Erich Heckel, Beach at Osterholz, 1913
* Erich Heckel, Madmen eating, 1914
* Erich Heckel, Flandric Plains, 1916
* Alexej von Jawlensky, Lady with a blue Hat, 1912/13
* Anton Kerschbaumer, Möckernbrücke in Berlin, 1926
* Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Female Nude in the Greens, 1914/15
* Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Little Female Torso (Hagen Torso), 1910/11
* Franz Marc, Landscape with a rainbow, 1913
* Ewald Mataré, Large Lying Cow, 1930
* Otto Mueller, Forest, around 1923
* Heinrich Nauen, Garden, 1913
* Hermann Max Pechstein, Upcoming Thunderstorm, 1919
* Hermann Max Pechstein, Mother and Child (Artist's wife and son), 1920
* Christian Rohlfs, God Creating the first Man, 1916
* Christian Rohlfs, Hunted Man, 1918

### Constructivism

* Willi Baumeister, Plains (The Painter I), 1920
* Rudolf Belling, Sculpture 23, 1923/1966
* Karl Buchheister, Variation in Black and White, 1927
* Alexander Calder, Silverwhite, um 1953
* Otto Coenen, Still Life with Alarm Clock, 1931
* Otto Coenen, Landscape with a white House, 1932
* Sonia Delaunay, no title, 1916
* Otto Freundlich, Composition in Gray, um 1935
* Heinrich Hoerle, Rhenian Landscape, 1932
* Heinrich Hoerle, Standing Female Nude, um 1935
* Boris Kleint, Black and White Disk, 1938
* Frank Kupka, Panneau décoratif, before 1924
* Frank Kupka, Deux Gris I, 1928
* Bart van der Leck, Arbres, 1922/23
* Oskar Schlemmer, Abstract Figure (Grotesque), 1923/64
* Oskar Schlemmer, Three Nudes, 1929
* Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Feierabend I, 1925
* Nikolaj Michailowitsch Suetin, no title, around 1920
* Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Composition Nr. 149, 1945

### Dada

* Marcel Duchamp, La Mariée mise à nu par ses Célibataires, même (Boîte verte), 1934
* Marcel Duchamp, De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy, 1966
* Max Ernst, Arizona-Landscape, nach 1946
* Wasily Kamensky, Mousetrap, 1915
* Kurt Schwitters, The Whale, 1924

### Informel

* Peter Brüning, Composition 1/59, 1959
* Karl Fred Dahmen, Samum, 1957
* Karl Otto Goetz, Soel, 1964
* Wilhelm Nay, Corroborée, 1954

### Photography

* Man Ray, Portrait of James Joyce, 1922/59
* Man Ray, Kiki's Lips, 1929/59
* Man Ray, Tears, 1933/59
* Man Ray, Women with open Hair, 1931/59
* Man Ray, Selfportrait with Camera 1931/59
* Man Ray, Antique Head with Mirror, 1931/59

### Op art

* Yaacov Agam, Ambiance, 1955
* Gerhard von Graevenitz, Moving Object, 1971
* Adolf Luther, 10 x 10 Concave Mirrors, 1968
* François Morellet, Wire Grating, 1959/60
* Jesús Rafael Soto, Vibration-Object, 1963
* Victor Vasarely, Alphard, 1957

### Zero

* Heinz Mack, Silver-Dynamo, 1965
* Heinz Mack, White in White, 1959
* Otto Piene, Whitewhitewhite (Ton I), 1959/60
* Günther Uecker, Phantom I, 1963
* Günther Uecker, Great Wind, 1966

### Nouveau Réalisme

* Arman, Les tampons buvards, 1961
* Francois Dufrêne, Eye, 1960
* Raymond Hains, Affiche lacérée sur tôle, 1961
* Yves Klein, Monochrome bleu, 1959
* Yves Klein, Monogold, 1960
* Yves Klein, Victoire de Samothrace, 1962
* Martial Raysse, Supermarket, 1961
* Mimmo Rotella, Grande Comp, 1961
* Daniel Spoerri, Tableau piège chez Tinguelay, 1960
* Jean Tinguely, Hommage à Duchamp, 1960
* Jacques de la Villeglé, no title (Vér), 1962

### Pop Art

* Richard Hamilton, Toaster, 1967
* Roy Lichtenstein, Bread in Bag, 1961
* George Segal, Man seated at table, 1960
* Tom Wesselmann, Still Life # 27, 1963
* Andy Warhol, Campell's Soup, 1962
* Andy Warhol, Louis M., Nr. 10 of 13 Most Wanted Men, 1963

### Minimal Art

* Carl Andre, 8001 Mönchengladbach Square 8002 Mönchengladbach Square, 1968
* Donald Judd, no title, 1973
* Bruce Nauman, Forced Perspective, 1975
* Sol LeWitt, Modular Piece, 1966

## Further Departments

Library, classrooms for education, cafeteria (temporarily closed).

## Buildings of the Museum

* 1901‒1904 Rooms within the city hall of Mönchengladbach
* 1904‒1925 Former Protestant school on the Fliescherberg (demolished)
* 1926‒1944 Karl-Brandts-Haus on the Kaiserstraße (demolished in World War II)
* 1924‒1934 and 1945‒1982 Oskar-Kühlen-Haus on the Bismarckstraße 97
* since 1982 Städtisches Museum Abteiberg on the Abteistraße

## Literature
### On the collection of the museum

* Sabine Kimpel-Fehlemann, Walter Kaesbach-Stiftung. 1922‒1937 ‒ Die Geschichte einer expressionistischen Sammlung in Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach 1979
* Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (ed.), Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Braunschweig 1982
* Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (ed.), Sammlung Etzold ‒ Ein Zeitdokument, Mönchengladbach 1986
* Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (ed.), Kunst der Gegenwart. 1900 bis 1960, Bestandskatalog, Mönchengladbach 1988
* Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (ed.), Kunst der ersten Jahrhunderthälfte. 1900 bis 1960, Bestandskatalog, Mönchengladbach 1990
* Museumsverein Mönchengladbach, Jahresgaben des Museumsvereins. 1972‒1991, Bestandskatalog, Mönchengladbach 1992
* Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (ed.), Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach 2002
* Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (ed.), Skulpturengarten. Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach 2003

## About the architecture of the museum

* Pehnt, Wolfgang (1986). Hans Hollein Museum in Mönchengladbach : Architektur als Collage (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch. ISBN 3-596-23934-6. OCLC 13656060.
* Museumsverein Mönchengladbach (ed), 10 Jahre Museum Abteiberg ‒ 90 Jahre Museumsverein, Mönchengladbach 1992