Köhler ancestral gallery

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The Köhler ancestral gallery or Köhler collection consists of about twenty family portraits that were created by various artists on behalf of the lawyer and mayor Anton Köhler in the first half of the 17th century. Alongside the mayor's gallery in Lübeck's town hall, it is the second large portrait collection with portraits from the early modern period in Lübeck.

History of the collection

At Anton Köhler's instigation and probably also in view of his intended ennoblement in 1653, the deceased and living members of his extensive family circle were portrayed in 20 large pictures, mainly works by Michael Conrad Hirt , who was a guest of the councilor from 1635 to 1644 Adrian Müller worked in Lübeck, but also deals with the contrafayers Johann Heinrich Kass , Zacharias Kniller and Burchard Wulff . The Köhler collection came into the museum 's possession in 1856 from the estate of the Lübeck senator and painting collector Johann Heinrich Gaedertz and was temporarily hung in the Katharinenkirche . In 1893 the pictures came to the then new Museum am Dom and in 1915 to the St. Anne's Museum . Later some of the portraits could be seen in the Mayor's Gallery in the town hall's nave . In 2009 the entire collection was reunited, preserved and exhibited in the St. Anne's Museum. The early family portraits are reproductions from the 17th century based on other models from earlier times available in Lübeck at the time. The portrait collection experiences its value not so much in artistic terms as in its cultural-historical significance for the history of the city of Lübeck.

The collection is also a Lübeck costume study that describes the change in fashion from the end of the 15th to the middle of the 17th century. The individual accessories are carefully determined and refer to the life stages and life contents of the family members depicted. Clothing passed on in the inheritance can be identified as well as inherited family jewelry and, last but not least, the often symbolically used lemon heralds the death of the person depicted in a temporal context with the creation of the respective picture. Even the pennies on the Collanen correspond to actual characteristics and refer to life stations.

Portraits in the order of the generations (selection, not complete, all in color in the original)

Fourth generation of ancestors of Anton Koehler

Both ancestors of this generation were members of the patrician circle society in Lübeck, to which Anton Köhler was not allowed.

Great grandmother and great uncle

  • Johann Köhler († 1536), canon and provost of the Lüneburg St. Johanniskirche with the double cup he donated for the Lüneburg council silver , today in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin. He was the brother of grandfather Heinrich Köhler, thus great-uncle of the founder.

  • Anna von Tode, daughter of the mayor Hermann von Wickede. She was married to Marcus Tode in 64 and the mother of Christoph Tode. She wears the pre-Reformation costume of Lübeck patricians, which Albert Krantz describes in his Wandalia .

Grandparents

  • Heinrich Köhler (1495–1563), Lübeck councilor (from 1537) and founder of the Köhler council family in Lübeck

  • Catharina Köhler († 1577)

  • Christoph Tode (1515–1579), Mayor of Lübeck

Parent generation

  • Anton Köler the Elder (1522–1589), Prussian Vice Chancellor and father of Heinrich and Anton Köhler

  • Agneta Köler, b. Tode, the wife of Anton Köler the Elder Ä. and mother of Heinrich and Anton Köhler. She brought the Lübsche Gut Bliestorf into the Köhler family.

Generation of clients

  • Heinrich Köhler (1576–1641), mayor of Lübeck, older brother of Anton Köhler

  • Anton Köhler at the age of 42

  • Anna Köhler b. Hebbens (1599–1634), first wife of Anton Köhler, 1627

  • Anton Köhler with first wife born Hebbens (1633)

  • Michael Conrad Hirt : Magdalena Brömse, daughter of Lübeck councilor Dietrich Brömse , the second wife of Anton Koehler (or a sister ?, in the Dayton Art Institute )

  • Johann Heinrich Kass : Magdalena Brömse, daughter of Lübeck councilor Dietrich Brömse, the second wife of Anton Köhler. She bears the modified chest of the first wife Anna

  • Zacharias Kniller : Anton Köhler (1585–1657), Lübeck mayor in 1657, the year he died

Descendant generation of Anton Koehler

literature

  • Karl Schaefer : Lübecker Bildnisse (To the ancestral gallery of the Köhler family) , in: Yearbook of the Museum for Art and Cultural History Lübeck 1915, II / III, pp. 5–40
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling , Lübeck Council Line . Lübeck 1925, no.767
  • Rosemarie Wesnigk: To the Köhler ancestral gallery. In: Der Wagen 1955, pp. 76–83
  • Adolf Schwammberger: On customs with the lemon , Frankenverlag L. Spindler, 1965
  • Th. Meyer: Inventory of the estate of the former provost of St. Johann in Lüneburg M. Joh. Koller. In: Annual reports of the Lüneburg Museum Association 5–6, 1882/83, pp. 73–86

Web links

Commons : Köhlersche ancestral gallery  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fehling, Council Line No. 767
  2. ↑ Fehling, Council Line No. 767
  3. ↑ Treasures II - restored and exhibited. The Köhlersche ancestral gallery - a series of portraits from the 17th century  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Report from the museums of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, accessed on April 20, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.buddenbrookhaus.de  
  4. ↑ Fig. In Wesnick, p. 81
  5. ↑ Fig. In Wesnigk, p. 83