Museum for casts of classical sculptures

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Museum for casts of classical sculptures
Munich Museum for casts of classical sculptures (building facade) .JPG
In the house of the cultural institutes is u. a. also housed the museum (2007)
Data
place Munich coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 40.5 ″  N , 11 ° 33 ′ 58.8 ″  EWorld icon
Art
Cast collection
Antikenmuseum
architect Paul Ludwig Troost
opening 1869
management
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-192614

The Museum of Casts of Classical Sculptures is a collection of plaster casts of ancient plastic in the Munich art area . The museum houses around 2,000 casts in total, making it the fourth largest cast collection in Germany.

history

As part of the establishment of a chair for Classical Archeology at the University of Munich , the museum was established by Heinrich Brunn in 1869 . Until 1877 the casts were housed in the Münzkabinett in the former Jesuit college . The collection then comprised 379 pieces. The collection gradually moved to the northern court arcades of the Residenz , but it was not until 1932 that it was given adequate exhibition space. It had become one of the three largest collections in Germany. In 1944, 2,398 casts were killed in a bomb attack . After the Second World War , a slow reconstruction began; the collection was only systematically expanded under Paul Zanker . The museum has been located in the former NSDAP administration building, today's house of the cultural institutes , since 1976 . From 1981 onwards, due to the renovation of the house, it was only possible to show the collection to the public at times; since 1991 it has been permanently accessible. The house unites university-scientific and museum institutions, for which the cast collection serves as research and illustrative material.

Exhibits

The collection shows casts of different epochs and styles: Roman section, Hellenistic sculpture (late 4th - 1st century BC), archaic and classical sculpture (6th - early 4th century BC), portraits of rulers, Philosopher portraits

A colored model of the Parthenon of Athens has been in the exhibition since June 2005 . The exhibit is on permanent loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and represents a thirty-year collaboration between the two houses. The opulent work is made on a scale of 1:20, is 4.09 m long and weighs 1.7 t. The large scale was the wish of the founder Levi Hale Willard, who referred to previous models as "toys". The production of the model, including color reconstructions, was transferred to Paris in 1883. The reconstruction of the architecture is based on archaeological findings from the time. Exterior and interior fittings were made after a hypothetical reconstruction in the state of the 5th century BC. The traditions of Pausanias were u. a. a source. When it was completed around 1889, it was the most comprehensive reconstruction model of the Parthenon of its time. Presumably it was exhibited at the Paris World's Fair in 1889 . In 1946 extensive alterations were made to bring it up to date with research. The restoration process of the property has been going on for 13 years. In Munich, modifications to the roof and the color scheme were reconstructed. The model is the most comprehensive reconstruction to date, albeit not one that corresponds to the current state of research. Rather, it represents the state of knowledge of the 19th century and is to be seen as archaeological evidence of the time.

An important archaeological working tool of the museum is the associated photo library , which contains around 100,000 photos.

Curators of the museum

The nominal director of the museum is the respective chair holder for Classical Archeology at the University of Munich as a subsidiary function. In day-to-day business, the museum is managed by a curator :

literature

  • Andrea Schmölder-Veit, Nele Schröder-Griebel (editor): Living plaster. 150 years of the museum for casts of classic sculptures . Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-947450-76-3 ( digitized ).

Web links

Commons : Museum for Casts of Classical Visual Works  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d history of the museum. History. In: Museum for casts of classical sculptures. Museum for Casts of Classical Visual Works, Munich, accessed on August 20, 2019 .
  2. ^ House of Cultural Institutes and Art Area Munich. House of the cultural institutes. In: Museum for casts of classical sculptures. Museum for Casts of Classical Visual Works, Munich, accessed on August 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Building plans. In: Museum for casts of classical sculptures. Museum for Casts of Classical Visual Works, Munich, accessed on August 20, 2019 .
  4. ^ Inge Kader: Parthenon model. In: Museum for casts of classical sculptures. Museum for Casts of Classical Visual Works, Munich, accessed on August 20, 2019 .