Cutlery Museum Glaub

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Detail of the facade of the cutlery store and the former museum

The Cutlery Museum Glaub (also: Bodo Glaub Collection ) was a special museum of cultural history in Cologne from 1951 to 1995, with probably one of the largest collections of cutlery in the world. It was founded by the collector and cutlery dealer Bodo Glaub and was the only private cutlery museum.

Collector

Bodo Glaub, born in Bonn in 1925, grew up in Cologne, where he opened his specialty cutlery shop after the Second World War in 1951, which he says was the only specialty shop in Europe that only had cutlery in its range. He built up a "unique collection of cutlery in the world history of mankind" ( Ulrich S. Soénius ). In addition, he worked as an art collector and gallery owner and was involved in the Cologne carnival , including 1957 as the maiden "Bodi" in the Cologne triumvirate . Glaub died on June 12, 1995.

collection

Selection of short catalogs of the special exhibitions

The collection comprised over 1200 exhibits (status: 1987) from European and non-European countries, which were presented in changing themed exhibitions. The collection began with the earliest knives from the Stone Age through to modern cutlery, with a focus on the 16th to 18th centuries. A short catalog was published for each themed exhibition until the 1990s .

A legal dispute with the tax authorities, which had a negative outcome for Bodo Glaub, led to the auction of the collection in 1991, part of which was acquired by the German Blade Museum in Solingen and only a small part was taken over by the successor company. With the death of Bodo Glaub, the cutlery museum was closed in 1995. The cutlery store was continued jointly by his widow Magret Glaub and Hermann Freiß until 2018, after their death by Hermann Freiß alone.

Location

From its founding until 1958, the museum was housed on Burgmauer 68 , then at the neighboring address in the same building, Komödienstraße 107-113 , where the cutlery store is still located today. The interior furnishings from 1958 were made by the “4711 house architect” Wilhelm Koep. It is well preserved, so that the rooms are occasionally used for filming because of their 1960s ambience.

Exhibitions / catalogs

  • European eating utensils from the Stone Age to the present an exhibition from the holdings of the Bodo Glaub Collection, 1966
  • People talk about, around 1963
  • Religio in Profano. Religious representation on eating utensils, 1965
  • Wood in eating utensils production, 1965
  • Children's cutlery, 1965
  • Fish cutlery, 1966
  • Byzantium spoons, 1966
  • Food and drink in the cartoon, 1966
  • 19th century historicism, 1966
  • Bathing Customs in the Middle Ages, 1967
  • Silver spanning two millennia, 1967
  • Traveling in the past days: travel cutlery from the past, 1980
  • Art Nouveau cutlery, 1980
  • The knife, 1980
  • The spoon, 1983
  • The eating utensil in the art of African peoples, around 1984
  • The knife, around 1985
  • Historical cutlery bestiary, around 1986
  • The spoon, before Christ to this day, around 1986
  • Art Nouveau cutlery, around 1987
  • The history of the fork, before 1995
  • The history of the knife, before 1995
  • The Fifty's, before 1995

Exhibitions of the collection in other museums

  • knife, fork, spoon: a history of the shape of the eating utensil; February 8 - March 8, 1964. Zurich Museum of Decorative Arts
  • Eetgerei van het stenen tijdperk tot heden tentoonstelling van de verzameling Bodo Glaub-Keulen . June to September 19, 1966, Goud- en Zilvermuseum, Utrecht, Netherlands
  • The knife from the Stone Age to today. German Blade Museum Solingen October 23, 1983 - January 22, 1984

Publications

Web links

Commons : Cutlery  Museum Glaub - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Peter Nied: Cutlery House Glaub in Cologne - from the oyster fork to the sugar tongs. In: solinger-bote.de. March 10, 2015, accessed February 28, 2016 .
  2. ^ Ute Porzky: Cutlery Museum . In: Peter Noelke (Ed.): Cologne Museum Guide . Wienand, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-87909-154-4 , p. 308-309 .
  3. ↑ a b Ulrich S. Soénius: Glaub, Bodo . In: Ulrich S. Soénius, Jürgen Willhelm (Hrsg.): Kölner Personenlexikon . Greven Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 184 .
  4. ↑ Ilse Prass, Klaus Zöller: From the heroes Carneval to the Cologne triumvirate, 1823-1992 . Greven, Cologne 1993, ISBN 978-3-7743-0269-3 .
  5. ↑ Katja Lenz: From the metal plate to the soup spoon. Glaub has had cutlery for all situations for 69 years - the owner is looking for a successor . In: Kölnische Rundschau . Issue 114. Cologne May 17, 2019, p. 28 ( rundschau-online.de ).
  6. ↑ Susanne Hengesbach: A visit to the Glaube cutlery store: long-forgotten charm with a quail leg holder and sardine server. September 23, 2015, accessed on July 1, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ Sebastian A. Reichert: 111 Cologne shops that you have to see . Emons, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-95451-002-3 , p. 34 f .
  8. ↑ Susanne Hengesbach: A visit to the Glaube cutlery store: long-forgotten charm with a quail leg holder and sardine server. In: ksta.de. September 23, 2015, accessed February 28, 2016 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '29.2 "  N , 6 ° 57' 5.8"  E