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Our anniversary programme at a glance:
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INGOLSTADT:
100 years of Alf Lechner: Matter of Steel
13 April - 14 September 2025 - Lechner Museum Ingolstadt
Anniversary ceremony: 13 April at 11 a.m. in the Lechner Museum
With works from all decades, the retrospective sheds light on Alf Lechner's artistic development from the 1960s until his death in 2017. The focus is on the tense relationship between material and form: in Lechner's work, steel is not only worked, but is also a partner in a dialogue-based creation process. The sculptural interventions visualise the character and resistance of the material - fractures, traces and reactions are evidence of the exchange.
A Matter of Perspective
19 October - 12 April 2026 - Lechner Museum Ingolstadt
In the second half of the anniversary year, we will place Alf Lechner's art in the context of international positions such as Hanne Darboven, Richard Serra, Agnes Martin, Robert Morris, Charlotte Posenenske, Fred Sandback and Dadamaino. We focus on the aesthetic and social dimension of materiality and invite you to look at art in the field of tension between design, production and material. Alf Lechner on his 100th birthday: Art made of steel
4 September - 5 October 2025 - Sparkasse Ingolstadt Eichstätt, counter hall of the main branch in Ingolstadt
OBEREICHSTÄTT:
Alf Lechner: The human being, the artist, life
13 April 2025 - 12 April 2026 - Papierhaus, Skulpturenpark Obereichstätt The exhibition ‘Alf Lechner: Der Mensch, der Künstler, das Leben’ (Alf Lechner: Man, the Artist, Life) at the Papierhaus in the sculpture park in Obereichstätt provides personal insights. Previously unpublished photographs, drawings and objects shed light on Lechner's youth, family, circle of friends, life and work. Visits are only possible as part of a guided tour or during the open days on 27 and 28 September.
MUNICH:Two generations in concrete terms: Alf Lechner and Marco Stanke
4 July - 27 September 2025, Galerie Bender Munich
Open Art Munich Gallery Weekend 2025: 4-6 July 2025Alf Lechner: Transformation
20 May - 13 December 2025 - Catholic Academy Munich,
Opening: Monday, 19 May, 7 pm
LANDSHUT:
Alf Lechner 100: A tribute
26 June - 9 August 2025, LAProjects - Gallery for Contemporary Art, Landshut, opening: Wednesday 25 June, 6 pm
SUPPORTING PROGRAMME:
Children's Studio: Every 1st Saturday of the month 10am - 12pm
We also have a programme for school classes, kindergarten groups and children's birthday parties. Please enquire at kv@alflechner-stiftung.com
Public combined guided tours: Every last Sunday of the month.
First visit our current exhibition in the museum and then our sculpture park in Obereichstätt
International Museum Day: 18 May 2025
With free guided tours and family programme
Summer concert by the Georgian Chamber Orchestra: 17 July 2025.
Classical Open Air in the Lechner Sculpture Park in Obereichstätt
Night of the Museums Ingolstadt: 13 September 2025
Like the other Ingolstadt museums, we once again offer a varied programme with music and guided tours
Open days at the Lechner Sculpture Park: 27 / 28 September 10 am - 5 pm. As part of Stadt.Land.Kunst. *transformations* 25
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Entrance fees
Visit the Lechner Museum and get the opportunity to discover even more fascinating art in Ingolstadt! The purchase of a ticket for our current exhibition entitles you to free admission to the Museum of Concrete Art on the same day — and vice versa. We look forward to seeing you!
Adults
6,00 €Reduced
4,00 €Free admission
Children, adolescents up to 17 years
and students, trainees,
Students up to 21 years
Opening hours
Plan your visit to the Lechner Museum and find out our current opening hours here. Experience art up close and be inspired by our exhibitions.
Attention: The opening times apply to the Lechner Museum in Ingolstadt. The sculpture park in Obereichstätt can only be visited as part of a guided tour.
Thursday to Sunday
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Closed on:
- January 1st
- Mardi Gras
- Good Friday
- November 1st
- December 24th
- December 25th
- December 31st
- The museum is open on all other holidays!
Guided tours
Discover the Lechner Museum and the sculpture park in Obereichstätt on a combined tour that takes place every last Sunday of the month. Experience art and nature in picturesque surroundings and let knowledgeable experts guide you through the respective exhibitions.
No registration is required for public combined tours.
Please note that the transfer from the museum to the sculpture park in Obereichstätt takes place on your own responsibility and takes approximately 30-35 minutes by car.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to travel by public transport.
Come by and be inspired by art and nature!
Combined guided tour (Lechner Museum and Sculpture Park Obereichstätt) every last Sunday of the month.
No registration is required for the combined public tours.
The journey from the museum to the sculpture park in Obereichstätt is approx. 30-35 minutes by car. The transfer from Ingolstadt to Obereichstätt is on your personal responsibility. A transfer by public transport is not possible.
Adults 12,50 €
Reduced 10,50 €
Guided tour fee 100 € + reduced entrance fee.
To book a private combined tour, please contact us via the booking form:
If you have any questions, please contact 0841 305-1838 or lechnermuseum@ingolstadt.de
Sonntag, 27. April 2025
14 Uhr Lechner Museum + 16 Uhr Lechner Skulpturenpark Obereichstätt
Sonntag, 25. Mai 2025
14 Uhr Lechner Museum + 16 Uhr Lechner Skulpturenpark Obereichstätt
Sonntag, 29. Juni 2025
14 Uhr Lechner Museum + 16 Uhr Lechner Skulpturenpark Obereichstätt
Kunstvermittlung
We are pleased to announce that we are now offering art education!
Every month we cordially invite you and your children to our children's studio. In addition, unforgettable children's birthday parties can be organised on request.
School classes and kindergarten groups are also welcome to create exciting art projects with us, and there is always something new to discover at the Lechner Museum!
As our exhibitions change regularly, the themes in the Children's Studio also change - so there is always new exciting content and creative workshops waiting for the children!
You can find more information about our programme on the right-hand side. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at kv@alflechner-stiftung.com.
Kinder Studio
Every first Saturday of the month
10 - 12 o'clock
FEES
Flat rate 4 € for 2 hoursPLEASE NOTE
For children aged 6 and over and limited to 12 participants
REGISTRATION
By e-mail to KV@ALFLECHNER-STIFTUNG.COM
Please enter the date, the name(s) of your child/children and their age. You will then receive an e-mail confirming your registration.
Kids birthsdays
ON REQUEST
Please contact kv@alflechner-stiftung.com
FEES
120 € for 2 hoursAccompanying persons = free admission
PLEASE NOTE
For children from 6 years and limited to 12 participants
Für Kindergärten und Schulen
Every Thursday and Friday
Between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. Guided tour and workshop
FEES
School: flat rate of €30 for 1 hourFlat rate of €50 for 1.5 hours
Care centre/group with special needs: flat rate of €20 for 1 hourFlat rate of €25 for 1.5 hours
The maximum group size depends on the programme/exhibition and is determined by the museum. Accompanying persons = free admission
REGISTRATION: Please contact KV@ALFLECHNER-STIFTUNG.COM
Directions
Regardless of whether you want to travel by car, bike, bus or train, here you will find all the details to easily reach us.
BY TRAIN: Take the DB Regio to the “Ingolstadt Nord” stop. From there, it's a 7 minute walk to the museum or a 2 minute taxi-ride. By ICE to “Ingolstadt Hbf”, from there 10 minutes by cab (approx. 10 euros) or by bus to the central bus station. From there it's a 3-minute walk to the museum.
By car: Take the A9 freeway to the Ingolstadt Nord exit, then follow the B16a westbound and the B13 until it joins Heydeckstraße. At the end of Haydeckstraße, turn left into Esplanade. The museum is approx. 150 meters on the right side.
PARKING SACES: There is a bicycle rack and two designated car parking spaces for museum visitors right in front of the Lechner Museum. Further parking spaces are available nearby in the Haydeck parking garage, Esplanade 5, or in the underground parking garage at the castle, Esplanade 1a.
accessibility
We want all visitors to be able to enjoy the works of art in the museum — which is why accessibility is so important to us. That is why we have designed our spaces to be accessible to everyone. We offer barrier-free parking spaces, disabled toilets and elevators among other things.
Come by and discover the fascinating world of art with us.
elevators: Passenger elevators are available. The elevators provide access to all exhibition levels.
wheelchairs: are available on request at the information desk. It is of course possible to visit the exhibition rooms with a wheelchair.
Restrooms: The museum has barrier-free toilets.
Parking: Please contact the local supervisor to park in front of the museum with a special pass.
Our exhibitions
Archive of
expositions
Welcome to the Lechner Museum archive, where you can browse and discover topics and works of art from past exhibitions.
Discover Lechner
The Lechner Museum
The Lechner Museum is dedicated to the work of steel sculptor Alf Lechner. Since its opening in 2000, the museum has established itself as a place for the examination of art since 1960 and presents internationally renowned artists and young pioneering positions in sophisticated temporary exhibitions. The museum is located in a converted former factory building in the heart of Ingolstadt.
Lechner SCULPTURE PARK
Nowhere else can you experience Alf Lechner's work as monumentally as when visiting the Lechner Sculpture Park in Obereichstätt. This extraordinary open-air museum is located on the 23,000 square meter site of a former Royal Bavarian Ironworks. In the middle of an impressive quarry, the sculpture park with its landscaped terraces and converted halls offers a deep insight into the artist's work.
Only accessible as part of guided tours.
About Alf Lechner
Alf Lechner (1925-2017), born in Munich, is considered one of the most important German steel sculptors. In the more than sixty years of his sculptural work, he created more than 800 sculptural works and over 4500 drawings. With almost 80 sculptures in Germany alone, Alf Lechner is one of the most represented sculptors in public space.
His work is always about the relationship between technology and art, between rationality and emotionality, between reflection and process, between calculation and chance. Alf Lechner founded the Alf Lechner Foundation in 1999, opened the Lechner Museum Ingolstadt in 2000 and lived and worked with his wife Camilla in Obereichtstätt in Bavaria from 2001 until his death in 2017.
The Alf Lechner Foundation
The museum is based on the Alf Lechner Foundation, a non-profit foundation under civil law, which was established in 1999. Its aim to make the life and work of artist Alf Lechner accessible to a broad public and also to make it tangible for future generations. The Foundation is involved in the administration and art studies of his oeuvre, organizes exhibitions and guided tours, and publishes publications. In collaboration with the City of Ingolstadt, she is the owner of the Lechner Museum and is responsible for designing and implementing the exhibition program. The foundation's Obereichstätter site, which is independent of the Ingolstadt Museum, is also home to the Lechner Sculpture Park, the associated exhibition hall and the so-called “paper house”, where you can experience the artist's graphic work.
- Alf Lechner Foundation, Ingolstadt, (ed.) AK 1, Ingolstadt 2000. Alf Lechner. Opening of the Lechner Museum.
- Alf Lechner Foundation, Ingolstadt, (ed.), AK 2. Ingolstadt 2002. Iron Sea - Blue.
- Alf Lechner Foundation, Ingolstadt (ed.) AK 4. edited by Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg.
- Ingolstadt 2004/ 2005. Alf Lechner. Schuler - Lechner.
- Alf Lechner Foundation, Ingolstadt (ed.), AK 5. Ingolstadt 2005. Fire and flame.
- Alf Lechner Foundation, Ingolstadt (ed.), AK 7. Ingolstadt 2006. Bizarre areas.
- Alf Lechner Foundation, Ingolstadt, (ed.), AK 8, edited by Jens Christian Jensen. Ingolstadt 2007. Cuts
- Alf Lechner Foundation, Ingolstadt (ed.), AK 9, Ingolstadt 2008. Starting in Munich..., landing in Munich.
- Alf Lechner Foundation, Ingolstadt (ed.), AK 10. Ingolstadt 2009. Poetry of chance.
- Alf Lechner Foundation (ed.), edited by Angelika Nollert. Ingolstadt, 2010. Alf Lechner. diagonal.
- Alf Lechner. Sculptures 1990-1995. Munich - New York 1995
- Badischer Kunstverein e. V. (ed.), Alf Lechner, AK edited by Jörg Walter Koch and Jürgen Morschel. Karlsruhe 1973.
- Bayer. State Painting Collections (ed.). Munich 1985/National Gallery Berlin SMPK.
- Bayer. State Painting Collections (ed.). Munich 1985/National Gallery Berlin SMPK. Berlin 1986/Museum Palais Liechtenstein Vienna. Vienna 1986. Alf Lechner. New work. Munich 1985/Berlin 1986/Vienna 1986. Brockhaus, Christph (eds.), contributions by Sabine Fehlemann, Renate Heidt Heller, Karl Ruhrberg, Uwe Rüth, Manfred Schneckenburger and Rolf Wedewer.
- Brockhaus, Christph (ed.), contributions by Sabine Fehlemann, Renate Heidt Heller, Karl Ruhrberg, Uwe Rüth, Manfred Schneckenburger and Rolf Wedewer.
- Galerie Defet (ed.), AK. Nuremberg 1971. Joachim Bandau, Franz Bernhard, Werner Knaupp, Alf Lechner, Alf Schuler, A.D. Tranthentroth, (AK). Plastic - objects - pictures - graphics.
- Gallery Eremitage (ed.), AK edited by Honisch, Dieter. Berlin/ Wiesbaden 1991. AlfleChner, sculptures and drawings.
- Galerie Heseler (ed.), AK edited by Roh, Juliane. Munich 1968. Aalf Lechner.
- Galerie im Ganserhaus, Wasserburg, (edited by Arbeitskreis 68, Künstlergemeinschaft), edited by Helmut Friedel. Wasserburg/Inn 1991. Alf Lechner.
- Nebelung Gallery (ed.), AK. Düsseldorf 1969. Aalf Lechner, steel sculptures.
- Galerie Reckermann (ed.). AK. Cologne 1983. Alf Lechner, New Regulations.
- Galerie Stangl (ed.), leaflet. Munich 1971. Alf Lechner, steel sculptures '71.
- Hans-Thoma-Gesellschaft, Reutlingen (ed.), AK edited by Bernd Storz. Reutlingen 1993. Alf Lechner - event sculptures.
- Honisch, Dieter, Institute for Modern Art (ed.), Nuremberg 1990. Alf Lechner, sculptures.
- Institute for International Relations (ed.), AK edited by Honisch, Dieter and Zeller, Ursula.
- Stuttgart 1998. Alf Lechner, drawings and sculpture.
- Kunsthalle Mannheim (ed.), edited by Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg and Alf Lechner. Mannheim 1984, untitled
- Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein, Jensen, Jens-Christian (eds.) , AK edited by Jensen, Jens Christian. Kiel 1978. Alf Lechner, works from 1975 - 1977. Kunstverein Freiburg (ed.), AK. Freiburg /Br. 1977. Alf Lechner.
- Lempertz Contempora (ed.), AK edited by Koch, Jörg Walter. Cologne 1969. Alf Lechner, steel sculptures.
- Museums of the City of Regensburg, Städtische Galerie (ed.), AK edited by Veit Loers. Regensburg 1981/82. Alf Lechner, Measure and Measure.
- Museum Folkwang Essen (ed.), AK edited by Honisch, Dieter. Essen 1975. Alf Lechner, Conjunctions/Cube skeletons 1974/75.
- Museum of Modern Art in the district of Cuxhaven (ed.), Alf Lechner, AK edited by Ulrike Schuck. Cuxhaven - Otterndorf 1996. Alf Lechner. Piano cover drawings.
- Museum St. Wendel, (ed.), AK Texts edited by Lagerwaard, Cornelieke and Holeczek, Bernhard. St. Wendel 1994. Alf Lechner, steel sculptures and drawings 1992 - 1994.
- Philipp Morris GmbH (ed.), AK edited by Jürgen Kolbe and Jürgen Morschel. Dimensions “79, Munich 1979. Plastic works of our time. An exhibition by Philipp Morris GmbH, Munich.
- Piepenbrock Group of Companies (ed.). Osnabrück 1992. Piepenbrock Prize for sculpture 1992.
- Pohl, Claudia, art in urban space, sculpture guide for Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe 2005.Museums of the City of Regensburg (ed.), AK edited by Wolfger Pöhlmann, Regensburg 1981. Measure and Measure.
- Staatsgalerie moderne Kunst/Galerie Stangl (ed.), AK. Munich 1973. Alf Lechner, steel sculptures.
- Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (ed.), edited by Armin Zweite. Munich 1977.
- Constellations: Lechner, Prager, Schuler, Trantenroth.
- Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Künstlerwerkstätte Lothringer Straße 13, Munich/Kunsthalle zu Kiel (ed.), edited by Zweite, Armin et. al. Munich and Kiel 1990. Alf Lechner, steel sculptures.
- Universitätsbauamt (ed.) Erlangen. Documentation 17/71, University Building Department. Erlangen 1971.
- Munich University Building Office (ed.), extension of the Maximilianeum, Munich 1996.
- Walter König (ed.), Skulptur 4 - 10 Jahre Skulpturenpark Cologne (1997-2007).
- Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum (ed.). Duisburg 1974. Alf Lechner: Steel structures.
