Lübeck silver treasure
The so-called Lübeck silver treasure is a formerly private collection of 72 silver objects that were made by Lübeck silversmiths from the 16th to the 19th century.
History of Lübeck Silver
Lübeck's silver treasures from the Middle Ages were confiscated during the Reformation in 1531 under Mayor Jürgen Wullenwever , taken into safekeeping in the Trese in Lübeck's Marienkirche and melted down to finance war burdens, particularly against the Netherlands in the course of the count's feud . A total of 96 quintals of handcrafted silver were melted down in this way. This initially explains the few remaining pieces of Lübsch silversmithing from the pre-Reformation period. Due to a change in the artisan law of goldsmiths , Lübeck has had hallmarks of the wardein ( double-headed eagle ) and individual master's marks of the individual guild goldsmiths, which in most cases made it possible to identify the artist. The processing was carried out in the 19th century by Theodor Hach via a comparison with the old Lübeck documents and the church registers. Another, if not so radical, shortage of samples of the craft of the Lübeck silversmiths is due to the confiscations of the French era . At the beginning of the 19th century, the council treasure and the silver of the Lübeck merchants and craftsmen's corporations were largely lost due to the high financial needs of the occupiers. In contrast to the time of the Reformation, however, it was not so much melted down, but rather auctioned on the international art market, so that many objects that had long been known from documents now came into private ownership and could no longer be traced easily. This is the only way to explain the possibility of building larger private collections with a representative collection cross-section.
Part of the collection "Lübeck Silver Treasure"
The private collection, bought in 2000 by the city of Lübeck and its well-meaning local foundations, contains profane silver implements from the Renaissance to Classicism and comprises a total of 72 jugs, jugs, goblets, tankards, bowls, cans and splendid plates. Some of these pieces were already on view at the large Lübeck silver exhibition in 1965. Others are listed in the catalog, but have not been shown and have been labeled "lost". Special items are the pear cup (around 1525), a Hanseatic jug from Lübeck master Andreas Henninge (around 1580), the welcome cup from the Schiffergesellschaft (around 1597), the lidded tankard (around 1690), the sumptuous bowl (around 1719) and the teapot (around 1735) ).
The collection was originally owned by the Lübeck building contractor Erich Trautsch . Trautsch, who was represented on the Museum Advisory Board of the City of Lübeck, began to amass his collection in 1960. His first piece was a Lübeck tankard, which he acquired on the recommendation of the museum director Max Hasse. A few years later it turned out that it was not a question of Lübeck silver, but a Moscow work. Both cities have a double-headed eagle as a city symbol. In the coat of arms of the city of Lübeck, however, the eagle still has a shield, which the Moscow eagle does not have. Fortunately, Erich Trautsch had collected over 20 pieces by this time and therefore this fact did not bother him. The "Hansekanne" from 1575 by master Andreas Henniges was originally offered to the Lübeck Museum. However, it was too expensive for the museum. It wasn't until two months later that Dr. Hate Erich Trautsch about this incident. Hasse had assumed that the price was excessive. Trautsch immediately got in touch with the New York dealer, who sent him the object cash on delivery - selling price 37,000 DM - to Hamburg.
Erich Trautsch made parts of his collection available to various exhibitions over the years, always only under the letter "T" as a lender. Shortly before his death in 1985, he handed over his collection to his grandson Christoph F. Trautsch. He managed the collection and expanded it. In 2000 he sold parts of the collection to the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. The so-called "Lübeck Silver Treasure" was acquired in June 2000 for 2.5 million marks with the support of the Schleswig-Holstein Cultural Foundation and the State Cultural Foundation . After the first exhibition, the acquired collection was first examined and has been on display on the upper floor of the St. Anne's Museum since it opened as part of the newly organized permanent exhibition of goldsmithing in June 2001 .
literature
- Theodor Hach : On the history of Lübeck goldsmithing , Nöhring, Lübeck 1893
- Max Hasse : Lübeck silver 1480–1800 with catalog of the anniversary exhibition “Old Lübeck Silver” (1965), issue 5 of the Lübeck Museum Hefts, Lübeck 1965.
- Björn R. and Marina Kommer: Lübeck silver 1781–1871. Publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Series B - Volume 3 ISBN 3-7950-0049-1 .
- Johannes Warncke: The fine forging in Lübeck and its masters. Lübeck 1927 with an addendum: Lübecker Goldschmiede, An addendum to my book: "..." in: Nordelbingen XIII, 1937, p. 109 ff.
- Friedrich Bruns , Hugo Rahtgens, Lutz Wilde : The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume I, Part 2: City Hall and public buildings of the city. Max Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1974, pp. 268–273, ISBN 3-7950-0034-3 (on Lübeck council silver )
- Hildegard Vogeler : The Lübeck council silver from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 20th century , In: The new splendor. Silver of Historicism in Lübeck , exhibition catalog, Lübeck 1991, pp. 69–88.
- Lothar Lambacher: Goldsmiths in Lübeck around 1500 in: Jan Friedrich Richter (Ed.): Lübeck 1500 - Art Metropolis in the Baltic Sea Region , catalog, Imhoff, Petersberg 2015, pp. 104–112
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hasse, p. 12.
- ↑ a b Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Max Hasse, # 110 (at that time still “lost cup”).
- ↑ Max Hasse, # 122 (shown in the 1965 exhibition with provenance “from Collection T”).
- ↑ http://stadtzeitung.luebeck.de/artikelarchiv/2001/181/1810501.html ( 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. .
- ↑ http://www.luebeck.de/aktuelles/presse/pressedienstarchiv/view/2001/6/010444rk/ .
- ↑ St. Annen Museum ( 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. .
