INNOVATION OR REPLACEMENT? Art technological research on new painting materials between 1930 and 1955 using the example of Willi Baumeister (duration 2022-2027)
These questions of art technology and conservation science will be investigated using the extensive holdings of paintings and archival materials of the cooperation partners - the Baumeister Archive at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (Hadwig Goez) and the Willi Baumeister Foundation as well as the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
The Schoof'sche Stiftung is supporting the project by covering the costs of extensive material analyses, which are being carried out in cooperation with the Technical University of Cologne, the Deutsches Museum Munich and the Doerner Institut of the Bavarian State Painting Collections (Munich), the InsiTUM Lab of the Technical University of Munich under the direction of Dr. Clarimma Sessa (Chair of Prof. Dr. Thomas Danzl) and Prof. Dr. Óscar Andrey Herrera Sancho (Humboldt Fellow, 5th Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart).
Another central concern of the project is to communicate both the research process and the results to different target groups. To this end, project-accompanying communication formats and an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (planned for 2027) will be developed, which will be financially supported by the Wüstenrot Foundation. The project will also conclude with an international symposium at the ABK Stuttgart, which will take place alongside the exhibition.
Project management:
Prof. Dr. Wibke Neugebauer https://www.abk-stuttgart.de/personen/wibke-neugebauer.html
Hadwig Goez https://www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de/archiv-baumeister
ABK Stuttgart https://www.abk-stuttgart.de/gemaelde-und-skulpturenrestaurierung