Feuerländer - Regions of Vulcan
industry and art
Artist: Raymond Rochette / Title: Laminoirs: le train fil ; face ouest. From the year 1958; Technique: Öl/Holz / Borrowed from: Écomusée du Creusot-Montceau, Le Creusot, France
This international exhibition project with a transatlantic focus is organised by the LVR Museum of Industry and comprises 200 paintings illustrating the development of the mining, iron and steel industries from around 1800 to the structural changes of today.
It contrasts the Ruhr region, Europe's largest industrial conurbation, with the rapid growth of Pittsburgh, the steel capital of America. Paintings of industry by Bonhommé, Baluschek and Gorson, and by Schneider, Calvelli and Ritterbusch enable comparisons between these "Feuerländer" (lands of fire).
The works portray labour disputes and strikes, environmental damage and ecological issues, changes to the landscape and urbanisation. In short, the pictures tell the story of industrialisation.
The exhibition will be located at two LVR Museum of Industry sites: historical paintings in the Peter Behrens Building, contemporary works in the Altenberg Zink Plant.
July 25 - November 7, 2010
Tue - Fri 10:00 - 17:00
Sat 11:00 - 18:00
Sun 10:00 - 18:00
LVR-Industriemuseum Zinkfabrik Altenberg and Peter-Behrens-Bau, Oberhausen
Partners: Confederation of German Trade Unions (D), Écomusée de la Communauté Le Creusot Montceau (F), Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Coalbrookdale (GB), Parco Geominerario Storico e Ambintale della Sardegna (I), Muzeum Górnictwa Węglowego Zabrze (PL), Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya, Terrassa (Catalonia, E), Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg/Pittsburgh (USA)
You can find further information at:
www.industriemuseum.lvr.de