Kügelgenhaus - Museum of Dresden Romanticism

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Kügelgenhaus

Kügelgenhaus - Museum of Dresden Romanticism is the official name of an art , literature and music museum in Dresden . The museum, which opened in 1981, is located in the former apartment of the painter Gerhard von Kügelgen and is dedicated to artists from the Romantic era and their works. It is one of the museums of the city of Dresden and is also known under its previous name, Museum zur Dresdner Early Romanticism .

building

Main street with Kügelgenhaus 2011, in the background the tower of the Dreikönigskirche
Georg Friedrich Kersting's painting "Atelier of the painter Gerhard von Kügelgen" served as a template for the faithful reconstruction of Kügelgen's studio rooms for today's exhibition.
The painting “ The Embroiderer ” by Georg Friedrich Kersting shows Louise Seidler in one of today's exhibition rooms.
Gerhard von Kügelgen

The museum is located in the so-called Kügelgenhaus at Hauptstrasse 13 in the Innere Neustadt district in the center. It is housed in the rooms of the former apartment of Gerhard von Kügelgens and his family (including his son Wilhelm von Kügelgen, known through his memories and also as a painter ) on the second floor of this building. The Kügelgenhaus is located in the vicinity of the Dreikönigskirche and was built between 1697 and 1699 as a three-story building in the Dresden Baroque style, later heightened and provided with a turret. It fits into the surrounding area with its baroque town houses , which are typical of the area on the neighboring Königstrasse .

Immediately below the eaves , the motto extends across the entire width of the main facade : "EVERYTHING IS GOD'S BLESSING". In earlier times, around 1730, the former residential building was therefore referred to as the "House of God". The original wooden beam ceilings with their emblematic paintings from the 17th century in two rooms of the museum, which had survived under a later stucco ceiling, are of architectural value and a special sight . They were found during the reconstruction of the house between 1974 and 1980 as part of the rebuilding of the Neustädter Markt and Hauptstrasse area.

Other Dresden museums in the area are the Erich Kästner Museum , the Kunsthaus Dresden as well as the museums in the Jägerhof and the Japanese Palace .

exhibition

The museum's exhibition extends over nine rooms. It addresses the period from the end of the 18th to the middle of the 19th century. This is about romanticism , which represents a significant cultural and intellectual historical epoch for Dresden. It had an aura far beyond the city limits of that time; several important artists of this time worked in Dresden at that time. The presentation of their lives and works is the subject of the museum, which deals with a wide range of topics from philosophy and literature to painting and romantic music . The exhibition also documents the political and economic situation during this epoch and living in the Biedermeier period .

In one of the rooms, the patron of the arts Christian Gottfried Körner is presented with the circle of artists that formed around him. This included Friedrich Schiller , among others . In this respect, the room in question complements itself thematically with the exhibition in the Schillerhäuschen in the Loschwitz district . Portraits of Anton Graff complete this exhibition area. It also deals with the painter, draftsman and copyist Dora Stock , who was related by marriage to Körner and whose works were partially lost during the Second World War . They were exhibited in the former grain museum, which was only a few 100 meters southwest of the Kügelgenhaus on the former Kohlmarkt, and many of them were burned in 1945 when the museum was destroyed by the air raids on Dresden . Some of Stock's artistic and written legacy is shown in the Kügelgenhaus, while some of the documents are in the Dresden City Archives .

The von Kügelgen family and their guests are also presented in the museum, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Caspar David Friedrich . Gerhard von Kügelgens' studio was based on a painting by Georg Friedrich Kersting and is now one of the museum's special attractions. Small events take place regularly in the former salon of the von Kügelgen family, the largest room in the museum.

In addition to the life and work of leading early Romantic writers such as Ludwig Tieck , Novalis , the brothers Friedrich and August Wilhelm Schlegel and Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder , the work of the romantic painters Caspar David Friedrich , Philipp Otto Runge and Carl Gustav Carus is also presented in the museum. Other rooms deal with the work of the composers E. T. A. Hoffmann , Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner in Dresden. Even Carl Maria von Weber is presented, although it also in Dresden by Carl Maria von Weber Museum in the district Hosterwitz has dedicated a permanent exhibition.

A partial copy of Raphael's Sistine Madonna has been in the museum since March 2007 , the original of which is in the Old Masters Picture Gallery of the Dresden State Art Collections on the other side of the Elbe. Another area of ​​the museum deals with the history of the Innere Neustadt district , which emerged from the formerly independent Altendresden on the right bank of the Elbe .

history

The house, built in the Baroque style at the end of the 17th century , was inhabited by the painter Gerhard von Kügelgen and his family from late summer 1808 until his murder in March 1820. He received numerous personalities there, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . Kügelgen sat here for a portrait model, among other things, and on April 24, 1813, watched from a window of Kügelgen's apartment on the second floor of the invasion of Tsar Alexander I of Russia and King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia in Dresden. Kügelgen's son, the painter Wilhelm von Kügelgen , described, among other things, the social life of his family in the Kügelgenhaus, the guests and their joint discussions on art-theoretical and historical topics in his book “Jugenderinnerungen eines Alten Mannes”, published posthumously in 1870.

The building was slightly damaged by the air raids on Dresden in 1945. It was not renovated until the main street was rebuilt in the late 1970s. In 1978, the Dresden art historian Karl-Ludwig Hoch suggested the establishment of a Romantic Museum in the Kügelgenhaus. Then in March 1981 the "Museum of Dresden Early Romanticism" was opened. It was only later renamed to its current name. Today it is one of the museums of the city of Dresden .

literature

Web links

Commons : Kügelgenhaus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.stmd.de/kuegelgenhaus-staendige-a

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 36 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 34"  E