House Geelvinck-Hinlopen
The Geelvinck-Hinlopen Huis museum is a textile museum in Amsterdam . In addition to the permanent exhibition, small exhibitions and concerts are organized, sometimes original instruments such as a Broadwood are played.
location
The house is located in the canal belt , three parallel canals that were excavated in the water-rich swamp in the 17th century and systematically expanded. The house is located at the eastern end of the Gouden Bocht ("Golden Arch"), a bend in the Herengracht, and not far from the Rembrandtplein and Amstel . The address of the museum is Keizersgracht 633, it is open from Friday to Monday and is particularly valued for its quiet location, valuable tapestries , wallpapers and paintings by Dutch and Flemish masters.
The House
The house bears the name of the two Amsterdam regent families, Geelvinck and Hinlopen . It is one of a number of magnificent baroque town houses on the Herengracht . The house is on Herengracht 518, where the residences of the upper class, mayors, merchants and company managers developed. Like many houses on this canal, it takes up two parcels. The left half had a commercial function, the right was the residential wing.
Construction began soon after the two properties were purchased in 1683; the house was completed and occupied in 1687. In the same year, the property was extended to the Keizersgracht , the parallel canal, by purchasing a plot of land adjacent to the rear . This made it possible to enlarge the garden and create space for a carriage house, stable and storage rooms.
In 1980 it was bought privately and restored.
Albert Geelvinck and Sara Hinlopen
The builders were the lawyer Albert Geelvinck (1647–1693) and his wife Sara Hinlopen (1660–1749), both of whom came from wealthy merchant families and married in 1680. Geelvinck's father Cornelis and grandfather Jan Cornelisz. Geelvinck were mayors , as were Hinlopen's grandfather and uncle. Her father was a cloth merchant, councilor and art collector; he had Gabriel Metsu paint himself and his family in 1663 . The painting has been in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin since 1834 , his Rembrandt was sold by Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky to Katharina the Great in 1763 . It can now be seen in the Pushkin Museum.
Both the Geelvinck and Hinlopen families had become rich through trade with the East and West Indies . Geelvinck also earned money from the sugar and slave trade as director of the Surinam Society . The landlord died in 1693 at the age of only 48. Sara married his nephew Jacob Bicker , also a mayor . He died in 1713, also childless. Sara spent the rest of her life in her luxurious home with three servants Liesbeth, Hermannus and Geesje. She died, almost blind, at the age of 89 and was buried in the Oude Kerk . She left her fortune and the house to the Geelvinck family.
Today's museum
The house is no longer in its original condition. The attic (the tower) has disappeared from the facade. In the last century, during the storm disaster of 1953 , the garden was largely destroyed. The landscape architect Robert Broekema redesigned it twenty years ago. The four style rooms have been newly furnished, the treasures that were in the house at that time are incomplete. The red room is designed in the Louis quinze style. The hallmarks of this style are asymmetry , rocailles , wavy outlines and leaves. The following paintings hang from left to right in the red room:
- Gillis Claesz. de Hondecoeter - Landscape with a representation of Christ, who heals the blind.
- Pieter de Ring - Ornate Still Life with a Nautilus Cup
- Hans Goderis - Two warships are waiting in front of the Pampus
- Anthonie van Stralen - Winter Landscape
- Daniel Seghers - Still life with flowers
The blue room is furnished in Louis-Seize style. The five panels by Egbert van Drielst are worth mentioning . The hand-painted wallpaper from 1788 that graced rooms in New York and Miami for the last century, but is now back in Amsterdam.
The Chinese room has eight panels with hand-painted wallpaper on oilcloth, made in Brussels, in the manufactory of Cornelis' t Kint. Influences from Augsburg and chinoiserieen by Jean-Baptiste Pillement can be seen.
The fireplace in the library shows a relief with a herring ship. It is the coat of arms of the Buisman family, the current owners of the house. The restored ceiling also has a special history and is reminiscent of Robert Adam , a Scottish architect and father of British classicism .
The tapestry in the hall is a copy of a wallpaper in the Royal Palace in Madrid. The design ( cardboard ) came from Michiel Coxcie , a Flemish painter of the 16th century who worked in Brussels, Mechelen and Antwerp. The story shown is that of Herodotus , who reports from King Croesus' advice to Cyrus II .
See also
Web links
- Official websites
- Bureau Monumentenzorg (Municipal Monuments Office) across Herengracht 518
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '53 " N , 4 ° 53' 39.5" E