State Gallery Aschaffenburg

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Johannisburg Castle

The State Gallery in Johannisburg Castle in Aschaffenburg is part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections . Due to renovation work, the building is expected to be closed until autumn 2020.

Collections

Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal (1719–1802)

In the years 1793/94 spent Elector - Archbishop Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal , assisted by his brother the kurmainzischen High Steward and the Imperial Privy Council Lothar Franz von Erthal 260 paintings, before the advancing French revolutionary troops from Mainz in his summer residence to Aschaffenburg. His library and valuable furniture as well as the pictures (genre painting, Flemish and German landscape painting of the 17th and 18th centuries) were included.

In 1802 a number of pictures came to Aschaffenburg from the gallery of the cathedral provost Hugo Franz Graf von Eltz , who died in 1779 . Initially as a foundation, they were awarded in 1809 to the prince and sovereign Carl Theodor von Dalberg .

In 1803, Dalberg took over altars and individual pictures from the secularized Aschaffenburg monastery, which Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg had commissioned for his monastery church in Halle adSaale and which were brought to Aschaffenburg in 1541. Almost all of them were made by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä. carried out in his workshop and her wider circle.

Rubens "Boar Hunt"
Rembrandt "John"

Location

The State Gallery is arranged according to schools and masters and is located on the first floor of Johannisburg Palace. In the first room Rubens and the Flemish School, in the corner tower Rembrandt's Johannes and the passion cycle by Aert de Geldern . Of the 22 pictures from the Passion of Jesus , the collection of Count Eltz, 10 can be seen in Aschaffenburg Castle. In the smaller Kabinett rooms , mostly small-format Dutch works, landscapes by the Flemish Joos de Momper and pictures by the Francken family of painters are on display. In the main hall (Cranach Hall) in the middle of the main wing of Johannisburg Castle are the large religious panels of Cranach and his circle, the pictures with secular themes are in a separate cabinet. The following works of art are:

  • Lucas Cranach the Elder .
    • Fragment from the Prague Altar (Inv.No. 1428)
    • Elector Joachim I Nestor of Brandenburg (8514)
    • Loth and his daughters (WAF 167)
    • Female half figure with feather hat (13259)
    • Mary with the child and the Johannesknaben (5566)
    • Duke George the Bearded of Saxony (WAF 168)
    • Captain Longinus under the crosses of Christ and the two thieves (13255)
    • Crucifixion altars (696, 697, 12989)
    • Fall of the Pharaoh

  • Joachim I.

  • Loth and his daughters

  • Half figure with feather hat

  • Mary with the boys Jesus and John

  • Duke George of Saxony

  • Captain Longinus

  • Crucifixion altar

  • Fall of the Pharaoh

  • Lucas Cranach the Younger
    • Duke Johann of Saxony (13177)
    • Christ and the Adulteress (11142)

  • Johann of Saxony

  • Christ and the adulteress

  • Anonymous masters from the school of Lucas Cranach the Elder Ä.
    • Altar wing: Saints Lazarus, Magdalena, Chrysostom and Martha (1043, 1045, 1046, 1047) today in the Abbey Museum of the city of Aschaffenburg
    • The wings of the "Pfirtschen Altar": Saints Martinus, Stephanus, Mauritius, Erasmus, Magdalena and Ursula (6261, 6262, 6263, 6264, 6268, 6272)
    • Christ and the Adulteress (6246)
    • Inside of a pair of wings. Agnes and Barbara, Katharina and Margaretha (13223, 13224)
    • Martyrdom of St. Erasmus (6275)
    • Mass of St. Gregorius (6270)
    • Mass of St. Gregorius (6271)
    • Holy Tribe (6273)
    • Our Lady on the Crescent Moon (6276)
    • Suicide of Lucretia (13256)
    • Suicide of Lucretia (13258)
    • Our Lady and Infant Jesus with an Apple (WAF 179)
    • Saint Anna Selbdritt (13260)
    • Christ and the Cananaian Woman (1495)
    • Crucifixion Altar (13254)
    • Story of the prophet Jonas, Predella (9783) in the Stiftsmuseum
    • Our Lady extends her breast to the child (WAF 737)

  • Martinus and Stephanus

  • Christ and the adulteress

  • Martyrdom of Erasmus

  • Gregor's Mass 1

  • Gregor's Mass 2

  • Lucretia suicide

  • Christ and the Cananaian Woman

The Bavarian State Collections in Munich have brought together an essential and important series of works by Cranach and his circle in Aschaffenburg in order to stimulate Cranach research with such a center.

De Momper "mountain landscape"

In 2009, the Magdalene Altar was brought together in cooperation with the Diocese of Würzburg (Church Foundation St. Peter and Alexander), the Free State of Bavaria and the City of Aschaffenburg . The middle panel (The Resurrection of Jesus) and the side panel St. Valentin came from the collegiate church, the side panels St. Magdalena, Lazarus, Martha, Chrysostom and the predella from the State Gallery. A tablet was lost. The Magdalen Altar is exhibited together with the monastery treasure in the section "Splendor and Faith of the Middle Ages" in the Abbey Museum of the city of Aschaffenburg .

In the anteroom to the chapel there are paintings by old German masters (e.g. the crucifixion of Christ by Hans Baldung Grien (1516)). From here you have a beautiful view of the palace chapel with altar and pulpit by Johannes (Hans) Juncker in 1614.

In the long hallway (courtyard side) there are pictures by Flemish and Dutch painters from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Chamber of Paraments

The parament chamber is in the east tower. Sacred objects belonging to the Archbishops of Mainz and clergymen are exhibited here. Ornate embroidered antependia , Caseln , dalmatics , Pluviale , silver-plated goblets , ciboria , Monstrances , Altarleuchter, miniature portraits of Mainz elector 1514-1802, as well as silver and rings.

Style rooms

Around 1782 Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal had his court architect Emanuel d'Herigoyen redesign the living rooms and a large, classical staircase. erect in the city wing. Since the furniture was relocated during World War II , it could be put back up after the Johannisburg Palace was restored. The rooms were supplemented by paintings from the 18th century from the State Gallery.

Pantheon Rome (cork model)

Cork model collection

During his reign from 1802 to 1806, Karl Theodor von Dalberg built a "Pheloplastic Cabinet" in Johannisburg Castle. For this purpose, the court confectioner Dalbergs Carl May created 38 cork models of ancient monuments of Rome (Arch of Septimius Severus, Arch of Constantine, Arch of Titus, Temple of Vesta) to which his son Georg May added others (Colosseum, Pantheon, Arch of Titus, etc.) on behalf of King Ludwig I.

Ridinger Hall

The classicist staircase d'Herigoyens, which was destroyed in 1945, was no longer rebuilt. From 1996 the "Ridinger-Saal" was built on the first floor. The walls were left raw, the ceiling of the hall is characterized by a sophisticated system of sound elements. The surrounding frieze shows the original grimaces on the balustrade of the four castle towers. The hall is suitable for music performances and lectures through to exhibitions, banquets and state receptions.

Exhibitions

In the recent past, two important exhibitions took place in Johannisburg Castle in Aschaffenburg.

Graphic collection

The graphic collection of the Kurmainzischen Obersthofmeister and Imperial Privy Councilor Lothar Franz von Erthal (around 20,000 graphic prints and around 200 drawings, including 256 Rembrandt etchings ), rescued from the French revolutionary troops in 1793, was reproduced in 1923 together with the Gemäldegalerie in view of the occupation of the Ruhr by France Munich spent. At the suggestion of the director of the State Graphic Collection Prof. Dr. Otto Weigmann , it was decided around the mid-1920s to make this valuable and yet so little-known property accessible to art lovers and science through appropriate processing ... and the technical and scientific maintenance of the Aschaffenburg holdings to the State Graphic Collection in Munich transfer. In an air raid on July 21, 1944, the Neue Pinakothek was destroyed and the holdings of the graphic collection stored in it were almost completely destroyed.

literature

  • Erich Bachmann: Aschaffenburg Palace and Pompejanum. Official leader . 5th edition. Bavarian Administration of State Palaces, Gardens and Lakes, Munich 1979 (EA Munich 1964)
  • Burkard von Roda, Werner Helmberger (arrangement): Aschaffenburg Castle. Official leader. 9th edition. Bavarian Administration of State Palaces, Gardens and Lakes, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-9805654-2-4 .
  • Gernot Frankhäuser: The Electoral Mainz collections in Aschaffenburg between noble private enjoyment, princely patronage and government mandate . In: Andreas W. Vetter, Jochen Luckhardt : Museums and princely collections in the 18th century. International Colloquium, 3rd – 5th March 2004 . Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig 2007, ISBN 978-3-922279-63-1 , pp. 51–59.

Web links

Commons : Staatsgalerie Aschaffenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State gallery in Johannisburg Castle
  2. ↑ Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Ed.): Aschaffenburg Gallery. Catalog . 2nd Edition. Munich 1975.
  3. ↑ Max von Freeden: Aschaffenburg Castle (= large architectural monuments, vol. 95). German Art Publishing House, Berlin 1947.
  4. ↑ Werner Helmberger, Valentin Kockel (Ed.): Carrying Rome over the Alps. Princes collect ancient architecture: the Aschaffenburg cork models . Arcos, Landshut / Ergolding 1993, ISBN 3-9802205-9-1 .
  5. ^ Bernd Pattloch: Johannisburg Castle in Aschaffenburg. Destruction and reconstruction 1944 to 1999 (= publications by the Aschaffenburg History and Art Association, vol. 57). History and Art Association Aschaffenburg eV, Aschaffenburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-87965-108-5 .
  6. ^ Peter Halm : The graphic collection in Aschaffenburg . In: Aschaffenburger yearbook for history, regional studies and art of the Untermaing area , Vol. 1, 1952, pp. 232-235, ISSN  0518-8520 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 34 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 30 ″  E