Kolumba
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4 April to 5 October 2003
150 Years! – Donations Sterne für Kolumba - Part 4 A retrospective and also perspectives of a moving history of our museum stand at the centre of our big anniversary celebration. The historical facts are all there to be read in a magazine which we are selling for a symbolic 150 cents. In the magazine you can find out why the museum was founded on 2 April 1853 by the “Society for Christian Art in the Archbishopric of Cologne”, how the purchase of an empty sugar factory came about, what was behind the “Xylographic Studio” and what people thought about the exhibition in St. Thomas’ Chapel. You can read how the museum flourished in the 1920s, how the collection survived the Second World War and the “Madonna with the Violet” was rescued just in time before Hermann Göring could seize it. Or follow the long history of the plans for the new building after we reopened at our old location at Roncalliplatz 2. A very different approach is provided by Vladimir Nabokov’s story “A Visit to the Museum” in which he presents the museum as a “Chamber of Curiosities”. In line with this story, the anniversary exhibition understands itself as a pleasant stroll through all times and genres, as an homage to our patrons, to whom we are grateful for the extraordinarily wide range of the collection. It reaches from late antiquity to the present, from Romanesque sculpture to room installation, from medieval panel painting to “radical painting”, from devotional objects to functional items which are now, thanks to the latest donation, the “Schriefers collection”, thoroughly integrated for the first time. Moreover, thanks to the support of patrons of the arts, we were able to restore several important works of the collection. They are now on exhibition for the first time in several years. | Art museum of the
Archdiocese of Cologne Current events Architecture Exhibitions Gallery Videos Audio Tracks Information Chapel Museums-History Publications Essays Events Education 02/24 Peace upon you, Jerusalem 1-8/24 Required Reading 11/23 Sound Workshop 11/23 For All Souls 5 10/23 A different view of art 08/23 A Ukrainian Kolumba 06/23 Un Film Dramatique 01/23 The Reading Room 11/12 Sound Workshop 11/22 For All Souls 4 07/22 Lecture by Linda Wiesner 05/22 Vortrag Rolf Lauer 08/21 New Ocean Sea Cycle 06/21 BODY TALE 02/21 Tonspur_Achim Lengerer 11/18 Circumstance 12/17 Renate König Donation 08/17 Ten Years Kolumba 04/17 Artist Talk 01/17 Series of Concerts 11/16 10th Soundworkshop 06/16 Eric Hattan & Julian Sartorius 06/15 FORSETI feat. subsTANZ 06/15 Cologne Opera 03/15 Animated Cartoon Workshop 11/14 Soundtrack (Achim Lengerer) 11/14 Edith Stein Conference 11/14 Sound Workshop 10/14 Philosophical Discussion 10/14 Albert-Talk 10/14 Seminar on Philosophy 06/14 Visiting Schools III 02/14 Barlach-Haus 11/13 Dance performance 11/13 Sound Workshop 10/13 E-MEX-Ensemble 10/13 4th Albert-Discussion 05/13 Performances 03/13 Horatiu Radulescu 11/12 Sound Workshop 10/12 E-MEX-Ensemble 09/12 Girls' Choir 08/12 Cage: Empty Words 08/12 Hosting Schools II 08/12 Many thanks to all of the... 07/12 Table Talks 06/12 Table Concert 06/12 The chamber of meditation 05/12 episteme 05/12 new talents 04/12 Cage: A Collection of Rocks 03/12 Cage: Number Pieces 03/12 Hans Otte 11/11 Sound Workshop 09/11 Imploding Desk 07/11 Finissage 07/11 Schulen zu Gast I 11/10 Sound Workshop 11/10 Joseph Marioni 06/10 Steffen Krebber 05/10 Holy-Spirit Retable 02/10 Bernhard Leitner 02/10 Ash Wednesday 11/09 Sound Workshop 11/08 Workshop 10/08 Donaueschingen Festival 06/08 Kolumba is singing! 04/07 Art Cologne 08/05 1st view! 12/04 The Pietà from St. Kolumba 11/03 Schauspielhaus Köln |
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