Liszt House Weimar

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Southwest view
Southeast view
Liszt monument

The Liszt House Weimar is the former home of the composer and pianist Franz Liszt in Weimar, now used as a museum . The house is located at Marienstraße 17 in front of the beginning of Belvederer Allee south of Weimar city center on the edge of the Ilmpark .

history

The house was built in 1798/99 as the residence and office of the grand ducal court gardener. The plans for the house were made by the court architect Johann Friedrich Rudolf Steiner . On the opposite side of the street, a house was built in the same shape as Coudray 1818/19. Both buildings, which at that time were located on the southern edge of the urban area, form a representative entrance to the city. In 1819 the Liszt House was fundamentally redesigned under the direction of the architect Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray , so that today it is one of the characteristic examples of Weimar classicist architecture. Building councilor Carl Friedrich Christian Steiner was also involved . The counterpart opposite the Liszthaus is said to have been the house of the raft money collector.

The Weimar court gardeners lived on the ground floor until 1918 . From 1854 to 1868 the upper floor was used by the painters Friedrich Preller the Elder. Ä. and Hermann Wislicenus as a studio. Before moving into the house, Liszt lived unofficially and de facto in the so-called Altenburg in Weimar from 1848 to 1861 , but officially in the Weimar Hotel Erbprinz . In 1869, Carl Alexander made the upper floor of the court gardening available to Franz Liszt, where the composer spent several months a year (alternating with Rome and Budapest) until his death in 1886. The grand duchess, Sophie von Oranien-Nassau , furnished the living rooms on the upper floor for Liszt .

After Liszt's death on July 31, 1886, Carl Alexander decreed that the upper floor should be used as a museum. The Bechstein grand piano , which Liszt had already been given by the manufacturer during his lifetime, is a gift from Carl Bechstein to the newly founded museum. After the abdication of Wilhelm Ernst and the associated end of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach in 1918, the Liszt House became the property of the State of Thuringia and as such was administered by the Goethe National Museum . The house was badly damaged in the Second World War and extensively restored in the early 1950s. In 1954 the National Research and Memorial Centers for Classical German Literature in Weimar (today the Klassik Stiftung Weimar ) took over the building, which carried out extensive repairs in the following years.

Since July 2006, the historic living rooms have been supplemented by a permanent exhibition on Liszt's life and work on the ground floor, a cooperation project between the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, the Liszt School of Music Weimar and the Bauhaus University Weimar . In 2010/2011, the historic interiors of the upper floor and the roof and facade were renovated.

  • Historical views

  • Liszt House around 1900

  • Back with entrance (1959)

  • Street View (1986)

tour

Upper floor : In the stairwell, in front of the entrance to the upper floor, there is an impressionist- style painting by Franz Gustav Arndt , which belongs to the Weimar School of Painting , depicting a kneeling man in front of a sitting girl in the nocturnal forest. It bears the title Consolation (consolation). The actual tour begins on the upper floor with the music salon , where Liszt had his regular Sunday matinees between 1869 and 1886. Here is the Bechstein grand piano and the Ibach piano on which Liszt taught his students. The lying next study includes a large desk and a small secretary over which hangs a relief portrait of Grand Duke Carl Alexander. From here you can also get to the other side of the building in Liszt's simply furnished bedroom . The furnishings (bed, washbasin, chairs, screen ) are attested by an inventory list from 1887. There is also a lockable bookcase that Liszt used to store notes. From the bedroom you get to the dining room , the furnishings of which are not from this house, but come from Liszt's possession. The third floor room on this side of the building is the servant's room for Liszt's valet Fortunato, but it no longer contains any of Liszt's original furniture.

Ground floor : On the ground floor, a permanent exhibition on the biography and areas of activity of Liszt as a conductor, organizer and pianist is shown in five rooms. One room contains an audio cabinet in which a changing music program with piano pieces and organ works by Liszt can be heard twice a day. The last room introduces Liszt as a composer and educator, also with regard to his religiosity.

  • Study in the Liszt House, Weimar

  • Dining room in the Liszt House, Weimar

  • Liszt House dining room, Weimar, other side

  • Bedroom in the Liszt House, Weimar

Surroundings : Not far from the Liszt House, in the Park on the Ilm, is the Liszt monument made of white Carrara marble , which the sculptor Hermann Hahn created and unveiled in 1902.

literature

  • Isolde Bacher, Hans-Wilm Schütte: Weimar. 8th edition. Baedeker, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-8297-1486-0 , pp. 185–187.
  • Christine Ganß: Liszt Museum. Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Weimar 2006, DNB 119961999X .
  • Michael Schwalb: Franz Liszt in Weimar. The years 1869–1886 in the court gardening department. Edition AB Fischer, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-937434-44-5 .
  • Hedwig Weilguny: The Liszthaus in Weimar. 9th edition. National Research and Memorial Centers for Classical German Literature, Weimar 1978, DNB 780651286 .
  • Adolf Mirus: The Liszt Museum in Weimar and its memories. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1902.

Web links

Commons : Liszt-Haus Weimar  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Bothe: Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray: 1775–1845; a German architect of classicism. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-20871-4 , p. 399.
  2. ↑ Conservation restoration of the Liszthaus. (tectum.de)
  3. ↑ Hannelore Henze, Ilse-Sibylle Stapff: Forays through the old Weimar. Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-86160-156-7 , p. 46. Your statement that the house of the raft collector can be dated to the end of the 18th century should be clearly refuted by Rolf Bothe's monograph on Coudray.
  4. ↑ Liszthaus Weimar. (architekten-thueringen.de)
  5. ↑ There is an artist's signature on the painting, as is the dedication to Liszt, but not a year, probably from the 1880s.
  6. ↑ The painting is out of focus overall. It does not refer to the legend that the Sphinx grotto was Liszt's favorite place to stay! A part of this painting could be understood as a grotto-like structure, but that is not what is meant here! The painting does not come from Liszt's original inventory, but was added in 1956. The subject of the picture goes back to the Consolations piano pieces from around 1849/50. The inspiration for the title probably came from the collection of poems of the same name by Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve from 1830. It bears the inv. [Stamp] 125/1956 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 29.4 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 48 ″  E