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The Kolumba (previously Diözesanmuseum, "
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Bettina Carrington, '' Architectural Record'', January 2008. Until 2007 it was located near Cologne Cathedral. Its new home, built from 2003–07, was designed by Peter Zumthor and inaugurated by Joachim Meisner. The site was originally occupied by the romanesque Church of St. Kolumba, which was destroyed in World War II and replaced in 1950 by a
Steve Rose, '' The Guardian'', 19 November 2007. The new structure Peter Zumthor built for the museum now shares its site with the ruins of the Gothic church and the 1950s chapel, wrapping a perforated grey brick facade like a cloak around both, the museum and old church. The sixteen exhibition rooms possess varying qualities with regard to incoming daylight, size, proportion, and pathways. The work on the project yielded the following reduction: light gray brick walls (Kolumba stones) and clay plaster, flooring made of Jura limestone, terrazzo, and mortar, ceilings made of a poured mortar shell, window frames, doors, casings and fittings of steel, wall paneling and furniture of wood, textiles and leather, curtains of leather and silk.
The collection includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, decorative art and religious icons from Late Antiquity to the present. Apart from a few works on permanent display, the presentation features a regularly changing selection of the museum's holdings. The items are generally displayed without accompanying text, and in no particular chronological or stylistic order.
Highlights include:
*The Hermann Ida Cross, an 11th-century processional cross made of gilded bronze.
*A 12th-century ivory crucifix in romanesque Rhenish or Mosan style.
*A collection of
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The Kolumba (previously Diözesanmuseum, "Diocesan Museum
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") is an art museum in Cologne, Germany. It is located on the site of the former St. Kolumba church, and run by the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is one of the oldest museums in the city, alongside the Wallraf-Richartz Museum.Kolumba, Kölnkulturkenner.de.
History
The museum was founded by the Society for Christian Art in 1853, and taken over by the Archdiocese of Cologne in 1989.Kolumba, Art Museum of the Archdiocese of CologneBettina Carrington, '' Architectural Record'', January 2008. Until 2007 it was located near Cologne Cathedral. Its new home, built from 2003–07, was designed by Peter Zumthor and inaugurated by Joachim Meisner. The site was originally occupied by the romanesque Church of St. Kolumba, which was destroyed in World War II and replaced in 1950 by a
Gottfried Böhm
Gottfried Böhm (; 23 January 1920 – 9 June 2021) was a German architect and sculptor. His reputation is based on creating highly sculptural buildings made of concrete, steel, and glass. Böhm's first independent building was the Cologne ...
chapel nicknamed the "Madonna of the Ruins".The perforated palaceSteve Rose, '' The Guardian'', 19 November 2007. The new structure Peter Zumthor built for the museum now shares its site with the ruins of the Gothic church and the 1950s chapel, wrapping a perforated grey brick facade like a cloak around both, the museum and old church. The sixteen exhibition rooms possess varying qualities with regard to incoming daylight, size, proportion, and pathways. The work on the project yielded the following reduction: light gray brick walls (Kolumba stones) and clay plaster, flooring made of Jura limestone, terrazzo, and mortar, ceilings made of a poured mortar shell, window frames, doors, casings and fittings of steel, wall paneling and furniture of wood, textiles and leather, curtains of leather and silk.
Collection
The collection includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, decorative art and religious icons from Late Antiquity to the present. Apart from a few works on permanent display, the presentation features a regularly changing selection of the museum's holdings. The items are generally displayed without accompanying text, and in no particular chronological or stylistic order.
Highlights include:
*The Hermann Ida Cross, an 11th-century processional cross made of gilded bronze.
*A 12th-century ivory crucifix in romanesque Rhenish or Mosan style.
*A collection of rosaries
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*Stefan Lochner
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: ''Madonna with the Violet'' (pre-1450).
* Paul Thek: ''Shrine'' (1969).
* Jannis Kounellis: ''Tragedia civile'' (1975).
*A large collection of works by Leiko Ikemura
is a Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor.
Biography
Leiko Ikemura studied at Osaka University from 1970–1972. She then left Japan to study in Spain from 1973 to 1978 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Granada and Seville. In 1979, Ikemura ...
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Awards
*2008: ''Hanns-Schaefer Prize'' from the Cologne Home- and Landowners Association. *2008: ''Prize for Architecture in Germany'' from the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt. *2008: ''Brick Award'' for contemporary Europeanbrick
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architecture from Wienerberger
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*2008: ''Energy-Efficient Architecture in Germany Prize'' (third class) from the Wüstenrot Foundation.
*2008: '' Praemium Imperiale'' (category: architecture) from the Japan Art Association, awarded to Zumthor.
*2009: ''Museum Prize for Curators and Exhibition Hosts'' from the Kulturstiftung hbs.
*2010: ''Cologne Architecture Prize'' from the Association of the Cologne Architecture Prize.
*2011: ''Architecture Prize North Rhine-Westphalia'' from the Association of German Architects - Regional Association North Rhine-Westphalia (BDA-Landesverband NRW).See also
*List of museums in Cologne
This is a list of museums in Cologne, Germany:
* Museums of the City of Cologne – (K)
* The private museums – (P)
* Museum of the university – (U)
Museums
Art
* Museum Ludwig – Modern art; e.g. pop art and Russian avant-garde (K)
* ...
* Franz Johann Joseph Bock Franz Johann Joseph Bock (1823–1899) was a German theologian, archaeologist, and art historian.Conant, p. 770 '' a German theologian and archaeologist, bom at Burtscheid in 1823. He was educated at Bonn, became chaplain at Crefeld in 1850, then ...
- one of the founding fathers
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