Museum Quarter St. Annen

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St. Anne's Monastery
The new art gallery through the old church portal

The St. Annen Museum Quarter is located in the buildings of the former St. Anne's Monastery in Lübeck . It was founded in 1915 and is one of the locations of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck Cultural Foundation, the Lübeck museums . The Museum Quarter is not far from the Aegidienkirche in St.-Annen-Straße in the south-east of Lübeck's old town next to the synagogue and includes the St. Annen Museum, the St. Annen Art Gallery and the administration of the museum in the outbuildings of the former monastery.

St. Annen Museum (Museum of Art and Cultural History)

As early as 1888, the art historian Theodor Hach, as curator of the collections of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities, advocated the establishment of an independent museum for art and cultural history in Lübeck. In 1912, the Senate of the Hanseatic City decided to convert the monastery into a museum. This required changes to the floor plan in order to be able to take over floorboards and paneling from Lübeck town houses . The museum opened by the Society for the promotion of community service as a private carrier under the museum director Karl Schaefer took place due to the war up to that time in late in 1915. Museum am Dom issued art and cultural history collection was taken over in the new house. Carl Georg Heise headed the museum from 1920 to 1933 . During this time, the Behnhaus was acquired and the collection there was built up. In 1934 the Lübeck museums were nationalized. In 2006 the city of Lübeck handed over management to the Hanseatic City of Lübeck Cultural Foundation . Since January 2013 the St. Annen Museum has been marketed together with the St. Annen Art Gallery as the St. Annen Museum Quarter . Linked to this is a new, contemporary conception of the exhibition.

Collections

Sacred art of the Middle Ages

Foolish virgins
Wise virgins

Thanks to an early Senate decree for the protection of monuments of antiquity and art from 1818 and the subsequent collecting activities of Carl Julius Milde in the 19th century, the museum has the largest number of medieval winged altars ( retables ) in Germany . With the Grönau Altar , the museum has the only surviving Gothic high altar from one of the Lübeck churches in the city. The other surviving altars were mostly donated by craft guilds or merchants for the monastery churches such as the church of the castle monastery or the Katharinenkirche . For this, the part Lukas -Altar the painter of Hermen Rode , the Schonenfahrer altar of Bernt Notke , the Antonius -Altar by Benedict Dreyer , originally from the family Greverade for the Lübeck Cathedral donated Passion altar of Hans Memling , and a private altar, the triptych of alderman Hinrich Kerckring by Jacob van Utrecht , who found his way to Lübeck on an adventurous route from the Brederlo collection in Riga .

Main article: Retable from the Medieval Collection of the St. Anne's Museum

The St. Georg Group (1504), which was originally created by the Lübeck sculptor Henning von der Heyde for the St. Jürgen Chapel on Ratzeburger Allee, is also outstanding . The upheaval of the Reformation and Renaissance in Lübeck is embodied in the works of the Cranach student and Lübeck painter Hans Kemmer .

In addition to the works of -carving and painting, the museum also shows how a lapidary , sculpture of Romanesque and Gothic , of which the Niendorfer Madonna of John Young is one of the most valuable. It was found in 1926 in Lübeck-Niendorf in a barn. But the wise and foolish virgins are also remarkable. They originally stood in the church of the castle monastery.

Hans Memling 002.jpg Hans Memling 007.jpg Hans Memling 003.jpg Middle part Hans Memling 008.jpg Hans Memling 006.jpg Hans Memling 005.jpg The Memling Altar in Lübeck

Council, guild and church silver

A special collection of representative goblets , cups , vessels, utensils and showpieces gives an overview of the high level of craftsmanship of Lübeck's gold and silversmiths and the wealth of their clients. Most of the time the pieces in this collection were created after the Reformation, as Lübeck's mayor Jürgen Wullenwever had almost all of Lübeck's medieval church silver melted down to finance the war against Denmark ( count feud ). The museum's last major new acquisition in this area was the Lübeck silver treasure .

Lübeck home decor

The development of bourgeois living culture from the Renaissance to Classicism can be seen in various rooms, some of which were "implemented" from old Lübeck town houses, against the background of contemporary art by Godfrey Kneller , Thomas Quellinus (bust of councilor Thomas Fredenhagen from the baroque high altar of the Marienkirche ) and many other works by visual artists reflecting the taste of the collection of Lübeck citizens and the associated furnishings with porcelain from Fürstenberg and Meißen . A completely preserved baroque floorboard from 1736 looks best. A special collection of north German faience with a focus on the factories in Kellinghusen , Stockelsdorf and Stralsund is attached to this area on the upper floor . In addition, a collection of toys provides information on what young people from Lübeck have been doing in the past. The oldest plastic hobbyhorse in the museum is, however, in a group of children on the altar of the Gertrudenbrüderschaft der porters (around 1509) from the Henning von der Heyde area.

Musical instruments

The museum has a collection of historical musical instruments that goes back to the violin-making specialist Leo von Lütgendorff and was founded by him as the museum director of the former cathedral museum , some of which are integrated into the exhibition, but are also shown in the Behnhaus. The console of the cathedral organ designed by Arp Schnitger is also on display here. It was expanded in the course of the new organ building in 1892/1893 and brought to the museum.

Parament space

Another special feature is the parament room , in which old liturgical vestments from Lübeck churches as well as selected pieces of the parament treasure from Gdańsk's Marienkirche are shown.

Photo collection

The museum's treasures that are not on public display include a photo collection built by Carl Georg Heise in the 1920s with around 450 artistic photographs, including 212 works by Albert Renger-Patzsch alone . These are the collection on the history of photography and the collection of exemplary photography . Both collections were discontinued after Heise's dismissal in 1933 and fell into oblivion for many years. They have only been rediscovered in recent years, as the collection of exemplary photography in particular is one of the most comprehensive collections of New Objectivity photographs in Germany. It contains works by Renger-Patzsch, Hugo Erfurth , Umbo and Robert Petschow , among others .

Special exhibitions

  • An excellent organist and composer from Lübeck : Dieterich Buxtehude (1637–1707), from May 6 to August 26, 2007.
  • Aklama - auxiliary spirits of the Ewe and Dangme . 2016. Catalog.
  • Lübeck 1500 - art metropolis in the Baltic Sea region . 2015. Catalog.

St. Annen Art Gallery

Entrance to the art gallery

Today the monastery not only contains the St. Anne's Museum, but also the St. Annen Art Gallery with a museum shop and bistro. The architecture of the Kunsthalle , built in a modern way in 2003, including the remains of the former church of St. Annen's monastery that burned down in 1843, is a gift from the Possehl Foundation to the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. The architecture of the Kunsthalle, designed by architects Konermann Siegmund from Hamburg / Lübeck, received the main prize of the BDA Schleswig-Holstein , awarded every four years, in 2003 . The art gallery shows modern art of the 20th century in changing exhibitions .

The collection focuses on modern self-portraits

In September 2005, through the mediation of Björn Engholm, the Kunsthalle St. Annen received the unique collection Leonie von Rüxleben (1920–2005) as part of the estate regulation of Leonie Freifrau von Rüxleben, who died on September 21, 2005; it is the largest collection of its kind in Germany. This makes it possible for some 1,300 works of self-portraits of modernity to show in changing exhibition.

However, a dispute has recently broken out between the heirs of Ms. Rüxleben and the museum management over the handling of the estate.

Art gallery exhibitions

  • In 2013 the exhibition Emil Schumacher - Animated Matter was shown to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Kunsthalle St. Annen. The exhibition was largely supported by the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen.
  • In 2005/2006 the exhibition Exile und Moderne took place in St. Louis , Missouri , with 50 works of classical modernism from the collection of Washington University .

literature

Rodes Lukas Altar
Notke's skipper altar
  • Karl Schaefer : Guide through the Museum for Art and Cultural History in Lübeck . 1915.
  • Max Hasse : The Lübeck Passion Altar Hans Memlings as a monument to medieval piety in: From Lübeck Cathedral . Lübeck 1958, p. 33 ff.
  • Wolfgang J. Müller: Lübeck around 1250 - Art historical considerations on the new city model in: Politics, economy and art of the Staufer Lübeck . Lübeck 1976, p. 51 ff.
  • Jürgen Wittstock [Hrsg.]: Church art of the Middle Ages and the Reformation: the collection in the St. Annen Museum (Lübeck Museum Catalogs, Vol. 1). Museum for Art a. Kulturgeschichte, Lübeck 1981, ISBN 3-9800517-0-6 .
  • Hildegard Vogeler : Madonnas in Lübeck , Museum for Art and Cultural History, Lübeck 1993.
  • THE NEW VIEW OF THINGS. Carl Georg Heises Lübeck photo collection from the 1920s . Catalog for the 1995 exhibition, published by the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck.
  • Anna Elisabeth Albrecht: Stone sculpture in Lübeck around 1400: Foundation and origin. Reimer, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01172-6 .
  • Hildegard Vogeler: The triptych of Hinrich and Katharina Kerckring by Jacob van Utrecht , Museum for Art and Cultural History, Lübeck 1999.
  • Ulrich Pietsch : The Lübeck Sea Shipping from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age , Lübeck 1982, ISBN 3-9800517-1-4 (exhibition catalog).
  • Thorsten Rodiek : St. Annen Art Gallery in Lübeck . Edited by Herbert Perl, Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-88506-537-1 .
  • Uwe Albrecht , Jörg Rosenfeld, Christiane Saumweber: Corpus of medieval wood sculpture and panel painting in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume I: Hanseatic City of Lübeck, St. Annen Museum . Ludwig, Kiel 2005, ISBN 3-933598-75-3 .

See also

Kerckring altar by Jacob van Utrecht

Web links

Commons : Sankt-Annen-Museum, Lübeck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorandum on the transformation of the cultural history museum into a museum for Lübeck art and cultural history. Lübeck 1888
  2. ↑ From velvet brocade and skin gold - selected paraments from the Gdansk medieval treasure , accessed on January 18, 2019
  3. ↑ Gold shine for the aristocracy of the office in FAZ of November 13, 2015, page 11

Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 45.6 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 20.9 ″  E