Painting collection of the Ravené family

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The painting collection of the Ravené family was the first publicly accessible private collection in Berlin .

history

Adolph Menzel: Friedrich the Great on the road

Pierre Louis Ravené's private collection had existed since 1844, with a significant proportion of pictures from the Berlin and Düsseldorf schools. The most famous picture was of Adolph Menzel Friedrich the Great while traveling (1853/1854). In 1853, Ravené had the exhibition rooms in the new office building at Wallstrasse 92-93 expanded by the architect Stüler . Since then, the works of art can be viewed in Berlin's first public art collection. The grandson of the founder of the collection, Louis Auguste Ravené , had a monumental commercial building built at Wallstrasse 5-8 in 1896 . From 1897 the paintings could be viewed on the 3rd floor in five halls and three cabinets. An elevator brought visitors to the exhibition free of charge.

The private museum was open to the public until around the First World War. Then Ravené wanted to transfer the collection to the city of Berlin, but this failed.

Menzel's painting Frederick the Great on his travels had to be given to the National Socialists in 1938 for a ridiculous price . It had hung in the office of the “Führer Apartment” in Munich on Prinzregentenplatz and was intended for the planned “ Museum Linz ”.

When the Wallstrasse 5-8 office building was destroyed in the Second World War, the legendary collection was also lost. The Menzel picture that was brought to Munich went to the city ​​of Munich after the Second World War and is now badly damaged. It is one of the few surviving works of art in Ravené's collection of paintings. The paintings by Johann Peter Hasenclever , "Jobs in the exam", "Jobs as schoolmaster" and "Jobs as night watchman" are on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig. Only descriptions in travel guides today provide incomplete information about the artists and their works in Ravené's collection of paintings.

Description of the collection

Ravené office building, Wallstrasse 5-8, floor plan 3rd floor

In 1906 the collection comprised about 200 paintings from the first half of the 19th century. Century to approx. 1900, including good works of the older Berlin and Düsseldorf schools.

1st hall

  • Also watercolors by Hilgers, Hosemann, Hoguet and others

2nd hall

3rd hall

  • with the busts of the founder of the Peter Louis Ravené († 1861) collection and his son Louis Ravené († 1879), by Hoffmeister

  • Carl Joseph Begas:
    The Moors Wash (copy)

  • Ludwig Knaus:
    Katzenmama , 1856

  • Eduard Hildebrandt:
    A Glória, Rio de Janeiro , 1847

  • Johann Peter Hasenclever:
    Jobs in the exam , 1840

4th hall

  • Théodore Gudin : Sea Storm
  • August Leu: Norwegian Landscape
  • Carl Hilgers : Winter Landscape
  • Willens: picture auction
  • Andreas Achenbach: Norwegian coast
  • Charles Hoguet: Wooded area
  • Johann Peter Hasenclever: Painter Preyer
  • Eduard Hildebrandt: Boa Viagem near Rio de Janeiro

5th hall

1st cabinet

2nd cabinet

  • Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim : Harz woman and girl: Nesthäkchen: Church attendance: Morning hour
  • Paul Friedrich Meyerheim : Ed. Meyerheim
  • Franz Krüger: Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
  • Eduard Hildebrandt: fisher girl: children on the beach
  • Robert Fleury: The report

3. Cabinet

  • Franz Krüger:
    Horse stable, 1854

  • Charles Hoguet:
    Wooded Area , 1854

  • Eduard Hildebrandt:
    Street in Lyon , 1843

  • Johann Peter Hasenclever:
    Portrait of Johann Wilhelm Preyer , 1846

literature

Individual references, comments

  1. ↑ Forgotten Museums, accessed October 13, 2019
  2. ↑ There is also a different oil sketch from 1852 ( zeno.org ), which the Berlin Alte Nationalgalerie has in its inventory. Easily distinguishable on small reproductions because Privy Councilor v. Brenckenhof turns his head to the king in the sketch, while the painting is absorbed in his blueprints.
  3. ^ Karl Baedeker: Central and North Germany. Handbook for Travelers , 1876 ( limited preview in Google Book Search, accessed October 13, 2019)
  4. ↑ Christof Biggeleben: The "bulwark of the bourgeoisie": the Berlin merchants 1870-1920 (=  series of publications for the journal for corporate history . Volume 17 ). CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54993-4 , p. 379 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ SMB-digital accessed October 17, 2019
  6. ^ Karl Baedeker: Berlin and surroundings. Leipzig 1906, pp. 34, 121.
  7. ↑ 1922 acquired in exchange from Galerie Paffrath, Düsseldorf. Provenance: formerly Dr. Peter Louis Ravené, Berlin, current location: Old National Gallery, Berlin State Museums