House Katharinenstrasse 9
The house at Katharinenstrasse 9 , also Catharinenstrasse 9 , was a town house in downtown Hamburg . The house, which was built between 1630 and 1640, was destroyed in 1941 and its side wing was torn down. In 1939 the house was entered in Hamburg's list of monuments and deleted again in 1954, 13 years after its destruction.
The house is best known for the magnificent stucco ceiling with oil paintings from a state room in the courtyard wing. The baroque painting is now in the Hamburg Museum as an architectural fragment framed by a reconstruction of the stucco ceiling . It was commissioned by the later mayor and owner of Hamburg, Johann Anderson the Elder . The decor of the state room clearly shows Anderson's desire to imitate the pomp of the nobility.
The stucco work on the ceiling most likely came from the Ticino Carlo Enrico Brenno . He had specialized in stucco work in the mansions of Schleswig-Holstein. The painting was made by the Hamburg decorative painter Johann Moritz Riesenberger the Younger . It shows various personifications related to the life and work of Johann Anderson the Elder, who commissioned this painting. The central figure in the red robe holds a triangle in his left hand and leans on a beehive (symbol of hard work), to the right of it a figure with a plumb line between both hands (symbol of architecture) and in the lower center of the picture three putti , one of them Holding color palette and brush in hands (symbol for the fine arts). The figure in the upper right area of the painting is holding a cornucopia from which coins are falling (symbol of wealth). The figure on the lower left side, holding the hourglass and scythe in his hands (symbols for transience and mortality / death) can also be clearly seen. The figure on the right edge of the picture carries a bundle of lictors , which is considered a symbol of rule over life and death.
literature
- Wolfgang Rudhard : The community center in Hamburg . Wasmuth, Tübingen 1975, ISBN 3-8030-0023-8 , p. 66-67 .
- Ceiling and wall decoration in Hamburg from baroque to classicism . In: Jörgen Bracker , Gisela Jaacks (Hrsg.): Hamburg portrait . No. 28 . Museum of Hamburg History, 1997.
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 46.2 " N , 9 ° 59 ′ 26.3" E