Peter Gehring Museum
| Peter Gehring Museum | ||
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 Alfred Reich's house, |
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| place | Munich- Untermenzing | |
| architect | Gustav Gsaenger | |
| Client | Alfred Reich | |
| Construction year | 1950 | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 10 '26.8 " N , 11 ° 29' 23.5" E | |
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The Peter Gehring Museum is a private art and architecture museum with a sculpture garden in the Untermenzing district of Munich .
Building and garden
In 1950 the garden and landscape architect Alfred Reich (1908–1970), a student and colleague of Karl Foerster , had a house built in Untermenzing. The housing estate north of Nymphenburg Palace was built as a garden settlement in the early 20th century. The building with a greenhouse in the cul-de-sac Im Eichhöölz was planned by the architect Gustav Gsaenger .
He erected a narrow, one-story building with an auxiliary wing in a north corner of the 3200 m² property "in a moderately modern design language" . The house with a high pitched roof was paneled with wood and had floor-to-ceiling windows across the entire width of the garden facing south. The stone greenhouse was provided with a roof made of Plexiglas .
The garden was set as a spacious open space with walls and plants and planted with groups of trees. In the 1950s, Gsaenger designed an outdoor swimming pool in a direct axis to the house in front of the south front, on which Reich set up a five-jet fountain. Alfred Reich designed the garden according to his ideas, which soon attracted garden enthusiasts for visits. The residential building was neither rebuilt or expanded nor adapted to the later tastes of the time.
Alfred Reich died in 1970. After the death of his widow, the artist couple Birgit Andrea Gehring and Peter Gehring took over the complex in 1998.
Peter Gehring (born 1944 in Landshut ) was a trained opera singer and, as an architect, a partner in Fred Angerer's office ; he also worked artistically. Gehring created material pictures and collages , drawings and watercolors . He was also active as a sculptor . Gehring died in 2001. At this point in time "the former house of Alfred Reich presented itself on the one hand as a perfectly preserved contemporary document from the 1950s, into which on the other hand an art exhibition had grown".
In June 2015, Birgit Andrea Gehring opened the house and garden as a private museum .
Monument protection and maintenance
In 2010 the ensemble was placed under monument protection. In addition to the former residential building with a covered terrace and the greenhouse, the garden with its garden architecture, the garden wall and the natural stone slabs and pebbles surrounding the swimming pool are protected. The Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments emphasized the unity of content between the villa and the garden, they showed "artistic and historical importance and the garden also had scientific importance".
The German Foundation for Monument Protection financed repairs, in which the landscape architect Klaus Wittke participated as a former employee of Alfred Reich. The greenhouse, the surface in the swimming pool area and the garden wall, trees and plants were maintained. The funds of the foundation for the measures were supported by the lottery Glücksspirale , the Free State of Bavaria and the district of Upper Bavaria as funding providers.
literature
- Beatrice Härig: Art around the swimming pool . In: Monuments , Volume 26 No. 5, October 2016, pp. 30–31.
Web links
- Peter Gehring Museum
- Gottfried Knapp: The all-rounder . sz.de, June 19, 2015, accessed on October 21, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Reich's life data in the German Digital Library
- ↑ Elisabeth Zaby: ... put the infinitely delicate next to the hardness of the strong lines: the Munich house gardens of the garden architect Alfred Reich from 1950–1970 in the field of tension between classic, modern and fashion against the background of the zeitgeist of the young FRG . Publishing house Dr. Hut, Munich 2007 ISBN 978-3-89963-655-0 .
- ↑ The garden in Allach-Untermenzing has been restored in an exemplary manner . Information from the German Foundation for Monument Protection, January 29, 2016, accessed on November 1, 2016.
- ↑ a b List of monuments for Munich (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, D-1-62-000-8487, p. 369.
- ↑ a b The all-rounder . sz.de, June 19, 2015.
- ↑ Peter Gehring. In: arch INFORM .
- ↑ Beatrice Härig: Art around the swimming pool , p. 30.
- ^ German Foundation for Monument Protection , January 29, 2016
- ↑ Art around the swimming pool . P. 31.