I visited an exhibition featuring treasures from the Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany

 

 At the Osthaus Museum Hagen 

founded 1902 by Karl Ernst Osthaus inside the Villa Folkwang

the museum exhibits its hidden treasures.

  

Fountain in the entrance hall of the historic villa

Sitzende, 1911/1912 

Seated Figure, by Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine (1887-1964)

The plaster model bought from a collector in  Düsseldorf; 

bronze casting authorized by the artist himself in 1956

 

Death and alive, 2002 by Micha Brendel.

Display case of glass, 12 filled cylinders, purchased from the artist

 

Death and alive are so-called Cryonicists, giving their bodies to be deepfrozen. Their hopes are to be brought back to life once there are cures for their illnesses. The display shall help those people to remember their past life. The artist questions the sense of being immortal.

 

 

Gene Pool (1992), given as a present by Dui Seid

 Dui Seid is the first American artist to address AIDS and human frailty.

 

 

White Field, 1964 - by Günter Uecker (1930-10.6.2025)

Kinetic art - even if the art doesn't move, but the viewer of art

 

Hans-Herrmann, 1974 - by Uwe Nickel (*1942)

Acrylic on canvas, purchased from the artist in 1974

 

On top: Shipboard, 1963 - Offset Lithography, purchsed from a gallery in 1968 

below:  Sunrise, 1965 (dto.)

Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was an American pop artist. He rose to prominence in the 1960s through pieces which were inspired by popular advertising and the comic book style. Much of his work explores the relationship between fine art, advertising, and consumerism.

 

Liz, 1964 - by Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Silkscreen, purchased from a gallery in 1968

 

Picture XD 1949, 1949 - by Fritz Levedag (1899-1951)

Oil on canvas, purchased from the artist's estate

 

Composition, 1922/23 by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Oil on canvas

 Donation from the Donors' Association in 1953

 

Rot Gegeneinander, 1928 - by Oskar Schlemmer (1988-1943)

Oil and Tempera on Canvas

  Donation from the Donors' Association in 1958

 

Small Worlds X, 1922 - by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Drypoint etching

Purchased in the art trade in  1952

 

Inkpot, silver and glass, 1909 - by Henry van de Velde (1853-1957)

Purchased from the Estate Erika Schulenburg, 2000

 

 

Everyday Art

Since ages there's an ashtray in front of the glass entrance. Once you pay to enter the exhibition, you receive a sticky, coloured dot which may be attached to your clothes. When people leave the museum it seems to be a common gesture to stick the coloured dot to the ashtray. And this mostly ugly thing turns into a coloured piece of art created by a thousand (and more) people.

 

In fact I don't know if the ever replace or remove the dots, but whenever I am at the museum the dots seem to explode over the whole ashtray. 

 

This is the same ashtray in February 2020 - just before Covid-19 rushed in....