Gentile house

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The Gentil House, built in 1923/24

The Gentil-Haus , also Gentilhaus , Haus Gentil, is a museum of the city of Aschaffenburg and contains the collections of the industrialist and art collector Anton Gentil . It is located at Grünewaldstrasse 20.

building

Anton Gentil started collecting works of art at an early age. When his spacious house was completed at Lindenallee 26 in Aschaffenburg, his collection was already "quite extensive", so that he could not present everything. He bought the property opposite at Grünewaldstrasse 20 and in 1923/24 built a house just for art and housed his art collections there. He forged, carved, carved and poured the entire interior of the house. 22 different ceiling and wall lamps were designed by him. Heavy, massive hanging lamps made of openwork metal plates and rings were welded together and draw picturesque and mysterious shadow plays in the room. His friend the sculptor and painter Ludwig Eberle contributed to the interior design of the gentile house with his own designs and works.

The Gentile House consists of a large brick hall, from which a staircase leads to the higher floors with galleries. On the ground floor there is next to a kitchen his living room with sleeping alcove and a chapel. Further sleeping alcoves can be found on the upper floors. Little light penetrates the building through the small windows, some of which he painted himself, so it is quite dark inside. This is reinforced by the dark wooden ceilings.

The house is furnished over and over with paintings and sculptures etc., which adorn the individual rooms according to his taste. He mixed both art movements and art styles at will.

There are rooms in the house with esoteric echoes and in the "reliquary room" there are old wooden statues, Christian altar decorations in addition to evidence of the Buddhist religion, "altars" with Buddhas and a built-in organ .

Art collection

In about fifty years of collecting, Anton Gentil has acquired almost 2,000 objects.

Medieval altars and sculptures

Crucifix - wood - Lorsch monastery - 12th century, standing Madonna with child - wood - French - early 13th century, mercy seat - wood - German - 14th century, Madonna on the crescent moon - wood - Salzburg around 1470, evening altar from Ering am Inn - wood - end of the 15th century with a modern frame carved by Hans Frey (1924/25), winged altar, Franconian (from the school of Veit Stoss) - around 1520 (middle part, Mary with child, flanked by John the Baptist , and Johannes (Evangelist) , as fully plastic figures, on the side wings, semi-plastic, Anna selbdritt (the mother of Mary with daughter and the baby Jesus in her arms), as well as a female saint, the side wings are painted on the outside with St. Catherine of Alexandria and the Saint Margaret of Antioch ).

East Asian plastic

Simhanada Avalokiteshvara - Chinese - Guanyin, Yuan (-1368) or early Ming period (1368–1644), standing Buddha on a solid bronze base, gilded - Thailand - 19th century.

Old German and Old Dutch painting

Hercules at Omphale - Oil on wood - Lucas Cranach the Elder Ä. (Workshop) - around 1535, with a flame strip frame from the 17th century. Triptych - Dutch - early 16th century; Middle part, Pieta (Mary with the dead son) Johannes supports the body in the background the rock tomb and a group of women, side wing Saint Helena (mother Constantine the Great) with the found cross and Saint Christopher .

Paintings from the 16th to 18th centuries

Venus and Cupid - painted oil on wood - Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn (attributed) - around 1600. Adam and Eve ( Fall of Man ) - on wood - Antwerp - around 1600.

19th and 20th century plastic

Constantin Meunier - miner - bronze sculpture - around 1885, Hermann Hahn - Adam with the apple - bronze statuette - 1895, Ludwig Eberle - the water carriers (Anton Gentil stood model) - bronze - around 1916, Otto Gentil - young rider - bronze sculpture - 1946, Der St. George on horseback as a dragon slayer, John the Baptist.

19th and 20th century paintings

Fritz Boehle - self-portrait - around 1896, Hugo König - girl in front of blossoming branches - 1899, Franz von Stuck - Medusa - around 1892, Bachantin - 1905, Curt Ullrich - lady with hat - 1904, Hugo von Habermann - the burden - 1905. Otto Flechner - beggar - around 1909, Ivan Thiele head of a Breton - 1908,

Crafts and folk art

Stoneware from the Rhineland and the Westerwald - 16th to 18th centuries, ceramics from the Lower Rhine - 18th and 19th centuries, faience from Persia - 17th century, German faience from the 18th century, painted bottles - 18th century.

Gentil also owned some early 16th century prints , Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä. - Martyrdom of St. James the Younger - around 1512.

He himself made casts of large and well-known works by famous artists.

He had a nativity scene carved by the Aschaffenburg artist Kathi Hock (1896–1979), daughter of the painter and Aschaffenburg honorary citizen Adalbert Hock (1866–1949), and he designed and painted the scenery himself. The highlight is the " Lienz nativity scene" from East Tyrol with almost 500 figures, 12 cm high, carved from Swiss pine and linden wood and painted in color. With the associated buildings and backdrops, the scenes, the birth of Christ , circumcision , the three kings , the wedding at Cana , the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple and the temple cleansing could be recreated. The crib was badly damaged in the war and is currently being restored.

In 1929 he had the Welte Mignon Philharmonic Organ Type III – IV installed. The gaming table is set up for both manual and automatic operation. The organ in the Gentil House has no organ front ; the organ with its 520 pipes is invisibly built into the middle level of the hall.

The organ has the following disposition :

I Manual C-c 4
1. Principal 8th'
2. flute 8th'
3. Vox coelestis 8th'
4th flute 4 ′
5. bassoon 8th'
II Manual C – c 4
6th flute 8th'
7th Horn (g – c 4 ) 8th'
8th. Vox coelestis 8th'
9. viola 8th'
10. Clarinet (g – c 4 ) 16 ′
11. oboe 8th'
12. Vox humana 8th'
13. Harp (G – c 4 ) 16 ′
Pedal C – c 1
14th Sub bass 16 ′
15th Octave bass 4 ′
  • Coupling : II / II super octave coupling
  • Playing aids : Vox humana Echo (swell box), tremolo for Vox humana, free combination, tutti, cuff swell, blind swell

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Extension from No. 2
  2. ↑ C – h transmission from No. 11, c 1 –c 4 transmission from 10
  3. ↑ Transmission from No. 2
  4. ↑ Transmission from No. 3
  5. ↑ Transmission from No. 1

Musical roles from Beethoven and Schubert symphonies, sonatas, songs, Verdi and Wagner operas, serenades and Anton Gentil's favorite pieces “The Honor of God from Nature” by Ludwig van Beethoven and “Samson and Dalila” by Camille Saint-Saens a. v. a. available.

The Gentil House can be visited with a guide, some works of art are presented in the Abbey Museum of the city of Aschaffenburg "from the Gentil Collection".

literature

  • Ernst Schneider: The Anton Gentil Collection . Exhibition catalog of the Museum of the City of Aschaffenburg, 1950.
  • Kati Wolf: The gentile house . Museums of the City of Aschaffenburg 1989 ISBN 3-924436-01-0

Web links

Commons : Gentilhaus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kati Wolf: The Gentile House Museums of the City of Aschaffenburg 1989
  2. ↑ exhibited in the monastery museum

Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '31.1 "  N , 9 ° 9' 35.8"  E