Anna & Wolfgang Kubach-Wilmsen
Works
Biography
In 1968 the stone sculptors Kubach-Wilmsen set up their open-air studio in Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg, against the spectacular backdrop of the Rotenfels rock face. Virtually their entire oeuvre has been created within this landscape. In 2001 they began transforming the abandoned vineyards around their studio into a Stone Sculpture Park open to the public.
To visitors and viewers, this unspoilt countryside studded with stone sculptures unfolds like a stone mosaic crafted by the Earth herself. 13 out of altogether 24 sculptures have already found their place in this landscape. The sculptures testify to the evolution of their material on every continent. The history of stone is visualized in a new context in the atmospheric light of the wine-making Nahe valley.
Earth and stone are inseparably linked to the history of the formation of the Earth’s crust. Worldwide, however, the past century has seen stone divided from earth, the countryside cleared, food production facilities cultivated, and our rocky crags industrialised as road stone and prefabricated slabs.
The Stone Sculpture Museum and open-air Stone Sculpture Park in Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg seek to re-forge the age-old connection between earth and stone. For sculptors Wolfgang Kubach and Anna Kubach-Wilmsen, stone is no longer the material of form. Instead, forms sourced from our cultural history – books and newspapers, for example – become the media through which we look at stone. STONE is matter, and thus each stone is a relic from the evolutionary history of our planet. The whole of our past is laid down in stone and becomes the present.
The Stone Sculpture Museum in Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg is the first and currently the only museum of modern stone sculpture in the world. Through the museum’s activities, stone is to be allowed to assert its place not just in the surrounding landscape, but likewise in the art scene. The natural geology of the Nahe valley, dominated by the Rotenfels, the tallest rock face between the North Sea and the Alps, could not provide a better setting. Within this magnificent ambiance, the visitor is invited to enter into a dialogue with the stone sculptures by Kubach-Wilmsen and Kubach-Kropp in the Stone Sculpture Park and within the museum complex designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The open-air park comprises some four acres of land, formerly occupied by seven north-facing vineyards that became victims of the 2001 law on wine. The slopes once under vines today flourish as a single space and write stories of stone onto the landscape, accessible to all.
Linking the Stone Sculpture Park with the museum building is the Land Mark footpath. A range of weathered slabs of earth’s stone crust from every continent have been
broken
drilled
dynamited
hammered
and combined into a path running north-south.
STONE SCULPTURE MUSEUM KUBACH-WILMSEN
Fondation Kubach-Wilmsen
Heilquelle
DE-55583 Bad Münster am Stein
Germany
Tel. +49 6708/2385
Fax +49 6708/1683
info@fondation-kubach-wilmsen.de
http://www.fondation-kubach-wilmsen.de/indexeng.html
OPENING TIMES
Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays,
from 14:00 h to 17:00 h
until October 17, 2021
The Stone Sculpture Museum, which opened in 2010, is the only museum of contemporary stone sculpture in the world. It nestles within the wine-growing landscape of Germany’s Nahe valley, opposite to the Rotenfels cliff, Ebernburg castle, Norheim village and the rocky pinnacles of the Rheingrafenstein. The endowment of 65 works in stone sculpted by Anna Kubach-Wilmsen and Wolfgang Kubach laid the foundation for the museum project. In order to turn their vision into reality, in 1998 the two artists established the Fondation Kubach-Wilmsen trust and designated some 4 acres of land for the future Stone Sculpture Park.
The Stone Sculpture Museum was designed on behalf of sculptors Anna Kubach-Wilmsen and Wolfgang Kubach by the world-famous architect Tadao Ando from Osaka, Japan. At the heart of Ando’s concept for the museum building is a half-timbered wooden field barn dating from the 18th century, which originally stood in nearby Sponheim. This historical nucleus is flanked by two open-air sculpture courtyards in contemporary concrete construction.
Stone sculptors Anna Kubach-Wilmsen and Wolfgang Kubach began working together in 1968. They have carried out large-scale sculptural commissions in Germany and abroad and participated in many international sculptor symposia. Their works have regularly appeared in exhibitions from Japan to the United States.
The artistic oeuvre of the Kubach-Wilmsen sculptors represents a 50-year homage to stone, as the materia that evolved our planet’s natural architecture. Their work continues to be devoted exclusively to stone as archetype. They understand stone as a testament of the history of the Earth’s formation over millions of years.
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1936 Wolfgang Kubach geboren in Bad Münster am Stein – Ebernburg/ Pfalz
1937 Anna Maria Kubach-Wilmsen geboren in Appeldorn/ Niederrhein
1959-65 Studium der Bildhauerei und Malerei an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München
1965 Erwerb der alten Kirche Hackenheim vor Bad Kreuznach als Atelier
1968 KUBACH-WILMSEN-TEAM
1996 Planung eines Kubach-Wilmsen-Steinmuseums und
Vergabe des Planungsauftrages an Tadao Ando, Osaka, Japan
1998 Gründung der Fondation Kubach-Wilmsen Museum und Stein-Skulpturenpark Bad Münster am Stein
2003 Eröffnung des Skulpturenparks mit 13 Steinskulpturen
2007 Wolfgang Kubach-Wilmsen stirbt.
2010 Eröffnung des Kubach-Wilmsen-Steinmuseums in Bad Münster am Stein im Mai/Juni
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl):
1972
Schlossmuseum, Fulda
1973
Goethe-Institut, Rom
1977
Frankfurter Buchmesse, Frankfurt
Städtisches Museum, Freiburg i. Br.
Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Ludwigshafen
Autoren Galerie 1, München
1978
Art 9, Basel (Galerie Regio)
Frankfurter Buchmesse, Frankfurt
Galerie Regio, Freiburg Hugstetten
Galerie Dornhöfer, Mainz
Gutenberg Museum, Mainz
1979
Art 10, Basel (Galerie Regio)
BDA, Bonn
Frankfurter Buchmesse, Frankfurt
Galerie am Tiergarten, Hannover
Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
Galerie Falazik, Neuenkirchen
Modern Art Galerie, Wien
1980
Art 11, Basel (Galerie Regio)
Galerie Suzanne Fischer, Baden-Baden
Galerie Regio, Freiburg Hugstetten
Art EXPO, New York (Galerie A)
Galerie Resy Muijsers, Tilburg
Galerie Grita Insam, Wien
1981
Galerie Loehr, Frankfurt am Main
Elisabeth Franck Gallery, Knokke
Autoren Galerie 1, München
Staempfli Gallery, New York
FIAC Paris (Staempfli Gallery)
1982
Art 13, Basel (Galleria del Naviglio)
Galleria del Naviglio, Mailand und Venedig
Galerie + Edition A, München
Galerie Resy Muijsers, Tilburg
1983
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Galerie Regio, Freiburg Hugstetten
Kyoto Junior College of Art, Kyoto
Gallery Garando, Nagoya
Staempfli Gallery, New York
Gallery White Avenue, Osaka
Gallery Nii, Osaka und Tokyo
Yamaki Galleries, Tokio und Osaka
Regionalmuseum, Xanten
1984
Art 15, Basel (Staempfli Gallery)
Galerie Hennemann, Bonn
Elisabeth Franck Gallery, Knokke
ARCO Madrid (Elisabeth Franck Gallery)
Staempfli Gallery, New York
Galerie Resy Muijsers, Tilburg
1985
Municipal van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn
Galerie Levy, Hamburg
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
ARCO Madrid (Elisabeth Franck Gallery)
Goethe-Institut, Nancy
FIAC Paris (Staempfli Gallery)
1986
Galleria del Naviglio, Mailand und Venedig
Staempfli Gallery, New York
Palais des Rois de Majorque, Perpignan
1987
Galerie Hennemann, Bonn
Art Fair Chicago (Staempfli Gallery)
Galerie Heimeshoff, Essen
Frankfurter Buchmesse (Galerie Levy)
Goldman Gallery, Haifa
Galerie Stemmle-Adler, Heidelberg
Binyaney Ha’ooma, Jerusalem
Elisabeth Franck Gallery, Knokke
Art Fair Los Angeles (Gallery Goldman-Kraf)
Museum Salzgitter
1988
Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brüssel
Gallery Goldman-Kraft, Chicago
Art Forum, Hamburg (Galerie Levy)
Kunststation St. Peter, Köln
Staempfli Gallery, New York
1989
Art and Architecture, Amsterdam
Galerie Regio, Freiburg Hugstetten
FIAC Paris (Galerie Levy)
Gallery Nii, Osaka und Tokyo
1990
Kunst-Rai, Amsterdam (Galerie Muijsers)
Elisabeth Franck Gallery, Knokke
Public Library, Louisville (Kentucky)
Galleria del Naviglio, Mailand und Venedig
Galerie Levy-Dahan, Paris
Galerie Resy Muijsers, Tilburg
1991
Galerie Jahnhorst und Preuss, Berlin
Galerie am Tiergarten, Hannover
Levy Gallery, Madrid
Staempfli Gallery, New York
1992
Galerie Hennemann, Bonn
Galerie Stemmle-Adler, Heidelberg
Provincial Museum G. M. Kam, Nijmwegen
Märkisches Museum, Witten
1993
Elisabeth Franck Gallery, Knokke
Gallery Yamaki, Osaka und Tokyo
Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück
Santo Stefano Rotondo, Rom
Gallery T. Y. K. TWO, Tokyo
Art Fair, Yokohama (vertreten von drei Galerien)
1994
Galerie Heimeshoff, Essen
Galerie Levy, Hamburg
Galerie Rutzmoser, München
Kunstverein, Weil am Rhein
1995
Galerie Regio, Freiburg Hugstetten
Library University of Connecticut, Storrs
1996
Sparkasse Rhein-Nahe, Schlossparkmuseum und Römerhalle, Bad Kreuznach
Galerie Regio, Freiburg i. Br.
Line-Art Gent (Gallery Piretti)
Galerie Waldherr, Kirchheimbolanden
Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg
The Eighth Annual Art Show, Armory, New York (Peter Findlay Gallery)
Gallery Nii, Osaka und Tokyo
Gallery Yamaki, Osaka und Tokyo
1997
Galerie Suzanne Fischer, Baden -Baden
Galerie Hennemann, Bonn
Line-Art Gent (Gallery Piretti)
Gallery Piretti, Knokke
Art Fair, Stockholm (Gallery Piretti)
Galerie Resy Muijsers, Tilburg
1998
Line-Art Gent (Gallery Piretti)
Galerie Waldherr, Kirchheimbolanden
Armory New York (Peter Findlay Gallery)
Peter Findlay Gallery, New York
1999
Autoren Galerie, München
Peter Findlay Gallery, New York
2000
Gallery Piretti, Knokke
Art Fair, Melbourne (Gallery Yamaki)
Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern
2001
Line-Art Gent (Gallery Piretti)
Nii Gallery, Osaka und Tokyo
Yamaki Galleries, Osaka und Tokyo
2002
Skulpturenpark Kubach-Wilmsen, Bad Münster am Stein
Deutsches Architektur-Museum, Frankfurt
2003
Galerie Regio, Freiburg Hugstetten
Kunstverein, Germersheim
Autorengalerie 1, München
Orangerie Kloster Eberbach, Rheingau
Galerie Resy Muijsers, Tilburg
2004
Piretti Gallery, Knokke
Lithothek, Kloster Eberbach, Rheingau
Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul
2005
Galerie Thomas, München
Autoren Galerie 1, München
2006
Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern
2007
Peter Findlay Gallery, New York
2008
Resy Muijsers Contemporary Art, Tilburg
2011
Galerie Aloys Wilmsen, Hergatz
2012
Fondation Kubach-Wilmsen, Bad Münster am Stein
2015-16
Anna Kubach-Wilmsen – Steinskulpturen, Goethe-Universität, Campus Riedberg, Wissenschaftsgarten, Frankfurt am Main (bis Oktober 2016)
2017
Anna Kubach-Wilmsen – Zum 80. Geburtstag, Fondation Kubach-Wilmsen, Bad Münster am Stein
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl):
1984 Hirshhorn Museum, Washingtopn (USA)
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin (USA)
1985 Art Museum, Louisville (USA)
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris (FR)
1986 Museum Bellerive, Zürich (CH)
1987 Musée des Art de la Ville, Lausanne (CH)
1996 Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (DE)
1999 Peter Findlay Gallery, New York (USA)
Autoren Galerie, München (D)
2000 Gallery Piretti, Knokke (NL)
Art Fair, Melbourne, Gallery Yamaki Osaka (J)
Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern (CH)
Steinskulpturen, Galerie von Braunbehrens, München (D)
2003 Kubach-Wilmsen, Autoren Galerie 1, München (D)
2005 Kubach-Wilmsen, Galerie Thomas, München (D)
2006 Stein-Buch, Galerie Henze & Ketterer & Triebold, Riehen (CH)
2007 Kubach Wilmsen & Kubach-Kropp – Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Shanghai (CN)
2008 Nakagawa Gallery Collection – Nakagawa Gallery, Tokyo (JPN)
2010 Skulpturen, Objekte und Installationen – Palais Trauttmansdorff , Graz (AT)
SchauLager – LagerSchau 2. – Galerie St. Johann, Saarbrücken (DE)
Kunst_Werk_Buch – Galerie Kasten, Mannheim (DE)
KUNST_WERK_BUCH – KunstRaum Bernusstrasse, Frankfurt/Main (DE)
2012 5. Schweizerische Triennale der Skulptur Bad Ragaz und Vaduz 2012 – Stiftung Triennale der Skulptur Bad Ragartz / Vaduz, Bad Ragaz (CH)
2013 Les Pléiades. 30 Ans Des Frac. Regard Sur L’inventaire Vol. 3 – FRAC – Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen (FR)
2014 Les Adieux. Das erste Buch – Cuxhavener Kunstverein, Cuxhaven (DE)
2016 FARBE bekennen – Galerie Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg (DE)
Werke in öffentlichen Sammlungen (Auswahl):
FRAC d’Alsace
Antwerpen, Freilichtmuseum Middelheim
Apeldoorn, Artothek
Bedburg, Museum Schloss Moyland
Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum
Bonn, Bundesrat
Brüssel, Bibliotheca Wittockiana
Brüssel, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Cambridge, Harvard University
Chicago, Lake Forest Library
Denver, Colorado Academy
Düsseldorf, Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen
Freiburg i. Br., Augustiner-Museum
Hannover, Sprengel Museum
Hannover, Städtische Bibliothek
Helsinki, Village Book, Redu Finland Museum Helsinki
Ithaca, New York, Cornell-University
Kaiserslautern, Pfalzgalerie
Kranenburg, Museum Katharinenstift
Louisville, Speed Museum
Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum
Mainz, Gutenberg-Museum Mainz, Kultusministerium
Mainz, Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum
New York, Forbes-Collection
New York, Times Mirror Corporation
FRAC Normandie
Oldenburg, Museum Oldenburg
Osaka, Universität
Osaka, Institute of Technology
Osaka, Medical College
Osaka, St. Andrews University
Osnabrück, Universitätbibliothek
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale
Perpignan, Musée des Rois de Majorque
Rom, Goethe Institut, Skulpturengarten
Saarbrücken, Saarland-Museum
Salzgitter, Kunstpark
Storrs, Connecticut, University of Connecticut
Strassburg, Europa-Parlament
Strassburg, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Tübingen, Städtische Sammlungen
Vaccagio, Casa Museo Calderara
Wiesbaden, Museum
Exhibitions
- HOFFNUNG / HOPE – GMT Galerie Marc Triebold 2026
- January 23, 2026 - May 24, 2026
- GMT Galerie Marc Triebold, Baselstrasse 88, CH-4125 Riehen / Basel
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Siegfried Anzinger, Alexander Archipenko, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Georges Braque, Elisabetta Brodaska, Jürgen Brodwolf, Bruno Ceccobelli, Marc Chagall, Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, ab 1982 Marqués de Dalí de Púbol, Martin Disler, Joseph Ebnöter, Hans Erni, Max Ernst, Emile-Othon Friesz, Alberto Giacometti, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai, Karl Horst Hödicke, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Livia und Michael Kubach und Kropp, Anna & Wolfgang Kubach-Wilmsen, Wilhelm Kuhnert, Richard Lindner, Fernand Léger, August Macke, Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Mario Merz, Helmut Middendorf, Joan Miró, Benno Oertli, A.R. Penck, Peter Phillips, Pablo Picasso, James Rosenquist, Richard Seewald, Hans Thuar, Hans van Reekum, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Raymond Emile Waydelich, Jan Wiegers, Bernd Zimmer