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in the rooms of the former . Art of the 20th and 21st centuries is shown in temporary exhibitions on around 900 m² of exhibition space. The museum includes an 850 m²

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by contemporary artists Gerald Baschek, , , Friedrich Geiler, Bernhard Licini, , Michel Jouët and .

Foundation

In 2005, the former entrepreneur and art collector Jürgen A. Messmer founded the ''messmer foundation'' as a dedication to his daughter Petra, who died of cancer in 2003. The foundation is the institution behind the museum, which opened in June 2009. Every year, up to three exhibitions of classical modern art and contemporary art are presented. Exhibits from its own collection as well as loans from international private and museum collections are on display. In 1978 Messmer succeeded in acquiring large parts of the estate of the Swiss artist

André Evard Jean André Evard (1 June 1876 – 20 July 1972) was a Swiss painter and drafter. His special significance lies in the field of constructive art. He is counted among the first artists who did not work figuratively. In the course of his life he p ...

. Throughout his life he painted figuratively and abstractly and was regarded as a pioneering painter of Swiss Modernism. Through the artist, the entrepreneur found concrete-constructive art, which today forms the focus of his collection. The first exhibition of the kunsthalle messmer was a homage to Evard and showed only his works. In addition, the ''International André Evard Art Award'', founded by Messmer, was named to honor the artist.

Exhibitions (selection)

In addition to the estate of André Evard, the Messmer art collection includes works by

Max Bill Max Bill (22 December 1908 – 9 December 1994) was a Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer. Early life and education Bill was born in Winterthur. After an apprenticeship as a silversmit ...

Georges Braque Georges Braque ( ; ; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century List of French artists, French painter, Collage, collagist, Drawing, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with ...

Salvador Dalí Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí ( ; ; ), was a Spanish Surrealism, surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, ...

Otto Dix Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (; 2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and Printmaking, printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Alon ...

Günter Fruhtrunk Günter Fruhtrunk (1 May 1923 – 12 December 1982) was a German geometric abstract painter and printmaker whose work relates to op art. Born in Munich, Fruhtrunk studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule in Munich, which he gave up ...

François Morellet François Morellet (30 April 1926 – 10 May 2016) was a French contemporary abstract painter, sculptor, and light artist. His early work prefigured minimal art and conceptual art and he played a prominent role in the development of geometrica ...

A. R. Penck Ralf Winkler, alias A. R. Penck, who also used the pseudonyms ''Mike Hammer'', ''T. M.'', ''Mickey Spilane'', ''Theodor Marx'', "''a. Y.''" or just "''Y''" (5 October 1939 – 2 May 2017) was a German painter, printmaker, sculptor ...

Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...

, Gerd Grimm,

Sonia Delaunay Sonia Delaunay (; 14 November 1885 – 5 December 1979) was a French artist born to Jewish parents, who spent most of her working life in Paris. She was born in the Russian Empire, now Ukraine, and was formally trained in Russia and Germany, be ...

Joan Miró Joan Miró i Ferrà ( , ; ; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and Ceramic art, ceramist. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona ...

and

Victor Vasarely Victor Vasarely (; born Győző Vásárhelyi, ; 9 April 1906 – 15 March 1997) was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement. His work titled ''Zebra'', created in 1937, i ...

. Including these works, the museum has presented the following exhibitions, among others: * 2009: ''Hommage an

(Hommage to

)'' * 2009: ''

+ 50 Jahre konstruktive Kunst in Paris (

+ 50 years of constructive art in Paris)'' * 2010: ''Gruppenausstellung der Nominierten zum 2. Internationalen André Evard-Preis (Group exhibition of the nominees for the 2nd International André Evard Art Award)'' * 2010: ''

und die Allmacht des Traumes (

and the omnipotence of the dream)'' * 2010: ''Gerd Grimm – Mode, Mädchen, Metropolen (Gerd Grimm - Fashion, Girls, Metropolises)'' * 2011: ''Kinetik – Kunst in Bewegung (Kinetics – Art in Motion)'' * 2011: ''Wasser – Facetten eines Elements (Water - facets of an element)'' * 2012: ''

Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , ; ), was a Swiss-French architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture ...

und André Evard – Vom Jugendstil zur Moderne (

and André Evard - From Art Nouveau to Modernism)'' * 2013: ''

Marc Chagall Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; – 28 March 1985) was a Russian and French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with the School of Paris, École de Paris, as well as several major art movement, artistic styles and created ...

– Poesie und Traum (

- Poetry and dream)'' * 2013: ''Gruppenausstellung der Nominierten zum 3. Internationalen André Evard-Preis (Group exhibition of the nominees for the 3nd International André Evard Art Award)'' * 2014: '' Ernst Fuchs und

Friedensreich Hundertwasser Friedrich Stowasser (15 December 1928 – 19 February 2000), better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (), was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection ...

( Ernst Fuchs and

)'' * 2014: ''China im Spiegel der Zeit (China in the reflection of time)'' * 2015: ''

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (;''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''"Warhol" born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol ...

King of Pop Art'' * 2016: ''Gruppenausstellung der Nominierten zum 4. Internationalen André-Evard-Preis (Group exhibition of the nominees for the 4nd International André Evard Art Award)'' * 2016 ''

- Der leidenschaftliche Malerpoet (

- The passionate painter poet)'' * 2017: ''

Christo and Jeanne-Claude Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations, often large landmarks a ...

: Objekte – Zeichnungen – Fotos (

: Objects - Drawings - Photos)'' * 2017: ''

Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...

und die Frauen (

and the women)'' * 2017: ''Licht & Bewegung (Light & Movement)'' * 2018: ''Otmar Alt: Lebenswege (Otmar Alt: Life paths)'' * 2018: '' Dalí – Der Zauber des Genies ( Dalí – the Magic of the Genius'' * 2019: ''Hundert Jahre Bauhaus (One hundred years of Bauhaus)'' * 2018: ''Gruppenausstellung der Nominierten zum 5. Internationalen André-Evard-Preis (Group exhibition of the nominees for the 5nd International André Evard Art Award)'' * 2019: ''10 Jahre Kunsthalle Messmer – Ein Leben für die Kunst (10 Years of Kunsthalle Messmer - A Life for Art)''

Gallery Messmer

In 2013, Jürgen A. Messmer expanded the Kunsthalle to include a commercial gallery in the historic columned room of the former brewery, which sees itself as a platform for young artists. The programme includes works from the fields of concrete-constructive art and figurative painting or sculpture.

External links

Website of the Kunsthalle Messmer

Website of the Gallery Messmer

References

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