{"id":2224,"date":"2021-03-11T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.museum-reinhard-ernst.de\/news\/blick-hinter-die-kulissen-chillidas-weg-nach-wiesbaden-teil-1\/"},"modified":"2021-03-18T14:43:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T13:43:36","slug":"blick-hinter-die-kulissen-chillidas-weg-nach-wiesbaden-teil-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.museum-reinhard-ernst.de\/en\/news\/blick-hinter-die-kulissen-chillidas-weg-nach-wiesbaden-teil-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A look behind the scenes: Chillida\u2019s path to Wiesbaden (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A personal account by Reinhard Ernst<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I got to know my friend and architect\u00a0Fumihiko Maki a long time ago, he told me that in the 1990s he met Eduardo\u00a0Chillida, a great sculptor\u00a0from the Basque country, and was a friend of his\u00a0until his death.<\/p>\n

From this point on I became interested in\u00a0the works of Eduardo Chillida. I found his sometimes monumental pieces\u00a0inspiring but also his small-scale\u00a0works made of stone, steel and paper. A\u00a0desire grew in me to acquire a sculpture by Chillida. However, the prices for\u00a0his art had increased\u00a0enormously, as the Chillida family only sold a few pieces\u00a0and the owners of Chillida\u2019s works had no interest in selling them.<\/p>\n

I read about the approximately 12-hectare sculpture\u00a0park at the Chillida-Leku Museum in the Basque town of Hernani. My first trip\u00a0there took place\u00a0after a discussion I had with Chillida\u2019s son Ignacio. This\u00a0meeting was initiated by Ursula Bleissner, who headed the Wiesbaden \u2013 San\u00a0Sebasti\u00e1n city-twinning association for many years and knew Ignacio well.<\/p>\n

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A view of the sculpture park of the Chillida-Leku Museum in Hernani, Spain (\u00a9 Museo Chillida-Leku)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My visit to Hernani was a real eye-opener. What I experienced in this park is difficult to describe. I was surrounded by many marvellous sculptures that I fell in love with at first sight \u2013 all set in the hilly Basque scenery. And I also saw Buscando la luz III (Looking for the light III).<\/p>\n

Over the years, I paid further visits to\u00a0the sculpture park and San Sebasti\u00e1n, often combined with a detour to the\u00a0Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.\u00a0During the course of these trips, I became quite\u00a0convinced that a Chillida sculpture should be part of my collection. I kept in\u00a0touch with Ignacio and\u00a0his brother over all those years.<\/p>\n

During my first stay in the Basque\u00a0country, I established my first contact with the then Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden,\u00a0Helmut M\u00fcller \u2013 himself a great\u00a0Chillida fan. It was also he who supported the\u00a0Wiesbaden Museum through the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Culture Fund, of which he had\u00a0since become\u00a0the director. The Chillida exhibition was thus held in our state\u00a0capital from November 2018 to March 2019. It was certainly an impressive show. It\u00a0would have been nice to see even one of the great sculptures there but the\u00a0state museum\u2019s structural engineering situation could not accommodate us.<\/p>\n

Our new museum at Wilhelmstrasse 1 is\u00a0characterised by an expansive lighting effect that is achieved through a glazed\u00a0inner courtyard. For this\u00a0atrium, our architect Fumihiko Maki had originally\u00a0thought of a sculpture that would be produced from black granite.<\/p>\n

On 15 October 2020 \u2013 a few days before an\u00a0auction at Sotheby\u2019s in London \u2013 I discovered in the relevant auction catalogue\u00a0that a sculpture by\u00a0Chillida was to be sold on the evening of 21 October. In\u00a0the photo, I immediately recognised\u00a0Buscando\u00a0la luz III\u00a0\u2013 a work I had photographed myself\u00a0in Hernani. I was thrilled at\u00a0this coincidence and knew that this was my chance to acquire a Chillida for our\u00a0museum. The reserve price seemed high\u00a0to me but given the current values of Chillida\u2019s\u00a0sculptures in the art market, it was certainly justified. The following\u00a0morning, I called my friend\u00a0Maki. I asked him if he would not object if we were\u00a0to replace his planned granite sculpture assuming we were able to buy the\u00a0Chillida work at\u00a0auction. He was absolutely thrilled and wished us all the best\u00a0at the auction.<\/p>\n

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Eduardo Chillida, Buscando la luz III, 2000, Corten steel (\u00a9 Zabalaga-Leku \/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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So I tried my luck \u2013 and scored a big win. On that particular evening, there wasn\u2019t any devotee willing to spend more than I did on the three-section work made of Corten steel and weighing almost nine tons. What an enhancement it will be for our museum and its visitors.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But now, this massive work of\u00a0art still has to wend its way to Germany. Carolin Langer, the art historian and\u00a0future employee of our Reinhard Ernst\u00a0Museum, will tell you all about the\u00a0twists and turns of this story in part two \u2026<\/p>\n

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A personal account by Reinhard Ernst \u201cWhen I got to know my friend and architect\u00a0Fumihiko Maki a long time ago, he told me that in the 1990s he met Eduardo\u00a0Chillida, a great sculptor\u00a0from the Basque country, and was a friend of his\u00a0until his death. 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