Ernst Barlach Museum Ratzeburg

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Ernst Barlach Museum Ratzeburg (2010)

The Ernst Barlach Museum Ratzeburg is located in the house in Ratzeburg where Ernst Barlach spent part of his childhood. Barlach's works are exhibited in the museum. There are also exhibitions of works by German and international artists.

History of the house

“After a short time we moved from Seestrasse to the old house with the high roof, which I call my father's house.” This is how Ernst Barlach begins in his autobiography “A self-telling life” to describe the house in Ratzeburg, where he lived for six years lived. Dr. Georg Barlach, Ernst Barlach's father, had initially lived with his family on Seestrasse in Ratzeburg until he bought the house next to the St. Petri Church for 13,000 marks in 1878 in order to set up his doctor's practice and an apartment for the family. The single-storey eaves house with the four columns facing the garden was built around 1840 in the style of rural classicism and is attributed to the royal Danish court architect Christian Frederik Hansen .

After the early death of the father in 1884, the family, which included three other sons in addition to Ernst, moved back to Schönberg (Mecklenburg) . In the following years a school was built in the former garden. The house itself served as an apartment for the pastors of St. Petri Church and as an Evangelical-Lutheran pastor's office from 1941 and was acquired by the Ernst Barlach Society in Hamburg in 1956 . The Barlach family, who manage the estate, have made works by the artist available since then. In the same year the first Ernst Barlach Museum in the Federal Republic was opened. The artist's only son, Nikolaus Barlach, was a curator for more than a decade and lived with his family in the house.

From December 1980, the museum was completely renovated with financial help from the federal government, the state of Schleswig-Holstein, the Duchy of Lauenburg district, the city of Ratzeburg, which has been the owner since then, and the Ernst Barlach Society, which runs the museum and the usufruct for the entire property has. The ceremonial reopening took place in February 1982.

The exhibition

The permanent exhibition of the museum shows bronze sculptures, work models, ceramics, lithographs and woodcuts by Ernst Barlach. Visitors will also find bibliophile editions of the artist's works.

The museum in Ratzeburg - like the Ernst-Barlach-Museum Wedel of the same name - realizes exhibitions and events on the art of classical modernism and current artistic positions at irregular intervals .

literature

  • Ernst Barlach Society (Ed.): "Ernst Barlach Museum Ratzeburg - Old Father House". 2nd Edition. Ernst Barlach Society Hamburg, Hamburg, 1984, ISBN 3-89018-010-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Ernst Barlach Museum Ratzeburg - Old Father House", p. 4
  2. ^ "Ernst Barlach Museum Ratzeburg - Old Father House", p. 4
  3. ^ "Ernst Barlach Museum Ratzeburg - Old Father's House", p. 5

Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′ 54.7 "  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 23.5"  E