Ludwig Roselius Museum

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Ludwig Roselius Museum

The Ludwig Roselius Museum shows Northern European art from the Middle Ages to the Baroque . It is located at Böttcherstraße 6 in Bremen , which is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Hanseatic city of Bremen.

Building history

The Ludwig Roselius Museum is a town house from the 16th century. At that time, Böttcherstraße was very important as an approach from the Bremen market square to the port. Due to the location, mainly craftsmen lived here. The name can also be traced back to the craft of the coopers who made barrels. The building was erected in 1588 in the Renaissance style.

With the relocation of the port, Böttcherstraße lost its importance at the end of the 19th century and threatened to deteriorate. In 1902, the successful Bremen merchant and owner of Kaffee HAG Ludwig Roselius (1874–1943) acquired house number 6. The inventor of decaffeinated coffee was also known as a patron who, among others, included the members of the Worpswede artists' colony such as Heinrich Vogeler and Bernhard Hoetger supported and got involved in Lower Saxony homeland security. In 1906 Roselius had house no. 6 restored by his brother-in-law Ernst Müller-Scheeßel (1863–1936). After that, the building was initially used as an office and dining building for the Kaffee HAG employees. In addition, Ludwig Roselius made the premises available to the Lower Saxony Round and other associations close to him. After buying or leasing the rest of the buildings on Böttcherstraße, Roselius began completely renovating the street in 1922. His aim was to make the ensemble world-famous as a “living example of generous patronage and the Hanseatic way of life”. With the exception of house number 6, Ludwig Roselius had all or part of the houses on Böttcherstrasse demolished and rebuilt. He assumed that house number 6 had existed since the 14th century and was therefore one of the oldest houses in Bremen. To underline the importance of the building, he put a plaque on the facade of the house, on which all homeowners from 1300 were listed. He had the facade rebuilt in the Gothic style - and true to the original at his discretion - by the architects Carl Eeg and Eduard Runge . However, the art historian Uwe Bölts makes it clear that this "restoration [...] should be viewed as a construct" and that Roselius' idea of ​​moving the house to the 14th century does not stand up to the sources.

Monument protection

The building has been a listed building in Bremen since 1973 .

Ludwig Roselius Museum

After the renovation work, Ludwig Roselius opened the museum on October 13, 1928, making his private art collection public. This was Bremen's first collector's museum, which was also conceived as a total work of art: Ludwig Roselius had an old Bremen patrician house built at Böttcherstrasse number 6. This is not only reflected in the facade of the house, but also in the furnishings of the rooms: the kitchen, hall and dining room are part of the museum. In this ambience, Roselius exhibited his art collection, which should represent the art of the region across the ages. The inventory includes works from the early Middle Ages to the Baroque .

At the opening, the museum had eleven exhibition rooms, and after a renovation, another room was added. In the Second World War, the house was destroyed except for the facade. However, the collection was relocated in good time, so that it was preserved in its original state, apart from the loss of four paintings. The Ludwig Roselius Museum was able to reopen in 1954 after a restoration.

Over the years, however, the number of exhibition rooms has been minimized, as the Baroque room and the West Frisian room were subsequently integrated into the floor plan of the Paula Becker-Modersohn House. The size of the collection also became smaller. In 1988 Ludwig Roselius jr. the collection to the Sparkasse and the municipality of Bremen so that the works could continue to be presented to the public in the Ludwig Roselius Museum. However, not all works could remain in the collection due to the change of ownership and some went into private ownership. The Ludwig Roselius museum was until 2019 from Böttcherstraße GmbH operated and together with the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum , the Museums Böttcherstraße . Since 2020 the Böttcherstraße museums have been their own foundation GmbH, separate from Böttcherstraße GmbH.

Collection in the Ludwig Roselius Museum

The collection and presentation of the exhibited works in the Ludwig Roselius Museum is characterized by two aspects in particular. On the one hand, the basic stock is a purely private collection, the composition of which can be traced back to Ludwig Roselius' personal preferences. On the other hand, since the opening in 1928, the works have been presented in chronologically organized rooms, which are also placed in a temporal context through the furnishings of the wooden showcases, chests of drawers and other pieces of furniture. This corresponded to Roselius' request, who with this museum wanted to present a total work of art of North German culture and in this way to convey local art and culture more emphatically. This aspect differentiates the presentation of the collection diametrically from other museums in which paintings are often neutrally exposed in so-called “white cubes” (“white cubes”: white, simple exhibition rooms).

As Ludwig Roselius once did, today's museum continues to campaign for contemporary art. Special exhibitions such as vis-à-vis. From the halo to the LED in 2011 or the purchase of works by the photographer Esther Haase in 2013 show that the dialogue with contemporary art is maintained not only in the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, but also in the Ludwig Roselius Museum.

Style rooms today

Portrait of Martin Luther in the Cranach room, painted by Lucas Cranach in 1529

In the Cranach room there are works by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553), including portraits of Martin Luther and Katharina von Bora (both 1529), as well as the devotional image of Christ as Man of Sorrows (1537) and the portrait of Philipp Melanchthon (1555 ) by Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–1586).

The dining room shows Renaissance works from the 16th to the early 18th centuries, such as For example, the portrait of a gentleman painted after 1554 in the Low German or Dutch area or the portrait of a lady with a carnation from the second half of the 16th century, created around the Westphalian artist family tom Ring . Above all, the baroque gold leather wallpaper, wood paneling and Delft ceramics create the atmosphere of a home-style reception room.

In the skylight hall , the former inner courtyard of the house, you can see sacred paintings, reliefs and wooden sculptures from the Middle Ages, including Maria lactans (around 1410/20) from the workshop of Conrad von Soest , Maria lactans with a praying donor figure (1515) from the workshop of Joost van Cleve and two rare English alabster reliefs from the first quarter of the 15th century.

The treasury shows the silver treasure of the Black Heads Company from Riga . The association's permanent loans consist of pieces from the 15th to the 20th century, which the brotherhood of former German merchants in Riga still uses for their annual meetings.

In the Gothic Room there are late medieval sculptures and reliefs, including the Lamentation of Christ (1515) by Tilman Riemenschneider .

The large staircase shows baroque paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries. There are many portraits and still lifes here. Valuable Delft porcelain vases from the 18th century, silverware and candlesticks made of boxwood decorate the ballroom.

A valuable clock collection with examples from the 16th to 18th centuries is exhibited in the gallery . You can see pieces by Johannes Thier, Cornelius Uyterweer, Andreas Golling, Wolfgang Lieb, John Oakley, Johann Henner, J. van Ceulen (Le Jeune Hagae), Antoni Bradl, John Dudds, John Curtis and by the court clockmaker of Frederick the Great Louis George.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Uwe Bölts: Location and development of Böttcherstraße in medieval Bremen . In: Hans Tallasch (Ed.): Project Böttcherstraße . Delmenhorst 2002, p. 23.
  2. ↑ Cf. Nicola Vetter: Ludwig Roselius. A pioneer in German public relations . Bremen 2002, p. 84.
  3. ^ Böttcherstraße art collection (kb): Museum in the Roselius House . Archived copy ( Memento from February 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Regina Gruse: The port of Bremen through the ages . Weser Kurier on July 8, 2011, accessed on March 25, 2013.
  5. ↑ Cf. Nils Aschenbeck: Böttcherstraße - An eccentric total work of art . Bremen 2008, p. 6.
  6. ↑ Cf. Rainer Stamm: The Museum in the Roselius House - memorial, collector's museum, cabinet of curiosities . In: Hans Tallasch (Ed.): Project Böttcherstraße . Delmenhorst 2002, p. 303.
  7. ↑ Cf. Rainer Stamm (ed.): The painting collection of the museum in the Roselius House , Bremen 2003, p. 8.
  8. ↑ Cf. Nicola Vetter: Ludwig Roselius. A pioneer in German public relations . Bremen 2002, p. 84.
  9. ↑ Cf. Nils Aschenbeck: Böttcherstraße - An eccentric total work of art . Bremen 2008, p. 18.
  10. ^ Uwe Bölts: Location and development of Böttcherstrasse in medieval Bremen . In: Hans Tallasch (Ed.): Project Böttcherstraße . Delmenhorst 2002, p. 23.
  11. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  12. ↑ Cf. Rainer Stamm (ed.): The painting collection of the museum in the Roselius house . Bremen 2003, p. 7.
  13. ↑ See Ernst Wolfgang Mick: The Roseliushaus in Böttcherstraße - booklet for the visit . Bremen 1979, p. 4.
  14. ↑ Cf. Rainer Stamm: The Museum in the Roselius House - memorial, collector's museum, cabinet of curiosities . In: Hans Tallasch (Ed.): Project Böttcherstraße . Delmenhorst 2002, p. 308.
  15. ^ Rainer Stamm (Ed.): The painting collection of the Ludwig Roselius Museum . Bremen 2003, p. 14.

literature

  • Nils Aschenbeck: Böttcherstraße - An eccentric total work of art . Bremen 2008.
  • Uwe Bölts: Location and development of Böttcherstraße in medieval Bremen . In: Tallasch, Hans (ed.): Project Böttcherstraße . Delmenhorst 2002, pp. 7-27.
  • Werner Kloos: The museums on Böttcherstrasse in Bremen . Hamburg 1969.
  • Ernst Wolfgang Mick : The Roseliushaus on Böttcherstraße - booklet for the visit . Bremen 1979.
  • Rainer Stamm (Ed.): The painting collection of the Museum in Roselius House . Bremen 2003.
  • Rainer Stamm: The museum in the Roselius House - memorial, collector's museum, cabinet of curiosities . In: Hans Tallasch, (Ed.): Project Böttcherstraße . Delmenhorst 2002, pp. 301-311.
  • Nicola Vetter: Ludwig Roselius. A pioneer in German public relations . Bremen 2002.
  • Albert Theile : The Böttcherstraße in Bremen - idea and design :. Bremen 1930.
  • Friedrich Winkler, Otto Plambeck: The Roselius House in Bremen - guide and plan . Bremen 1930.

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Roselius Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 30 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 21 ″  E