Panorama crucifixion of Christ
The Panorama Crucifixion of Christ is a monumental panorama picture in a specially constructed museum building in Altötting , Bavaria .
history
The panorama is the only original panorama with a religious theme in Europe . It is under the protection of cultural assets by the United Nations and under the protection of monuments by the Free State of Bavaria .
The panorama was opened on July 18, 1903 after a year of construction. It was created without commission under the leadership of the lead painter Gebhard Fugel . Contributors were u. a. the architect Georg Völkel and the architectural painter Karl Nadler, Heinrich Ellenberger were responsible for the drawing and perspective.
Panoramic history painting wants to convince of the historical truth of its subject. The performing artists therefore endeavored to accurately reconstruct the sources. For this, not only the descriptions of the four Gospels were used, but also the descriptions of the Jewish-Roman historian Flavius Josephus . The painter Josef Krieger , a colleague of Fugel, traveled to the Holy Land in 1902 for topographical studies .
Panorama building
In 1787 the Irish painter Robert Barker was granted a patent for the representation and art form of the panorama. In 1793, Robert Mitchell built the first panorama building for Barker in central London . Little by little, the special Panorama building type developed in England in the form of a monumental central building with a circular or multi-sided floor plan with a height of 20 meters and a diameter of 40 meters.
The building in Altötting is a medium-sized town panorama 15 meters high and 30 meters in diameter. The building is designed as a half-timbered structure in the static construction of a one-mast tent structure. Its brick fillings are plastered on the outside , the wooden roof is supported by a central column, and a horizontal ribbon of windows is built into the roof surface, which runs around the entire dome .
Panoramic painting
The painting measures 12 meters in height and has a circumference of 95 meters. 27 lengths of fabric had to be strung together. The painted picture area is 1200 m². Visitors to the panorama can move around freely on a podium and look around. The audio tour spoken by Gustl Weishappel takes about 20 minutes, takes place over four loudspeakers and is supported by points of light.
The panoramic view transports the visitor to the year 33 and begins in the temple city of ancient Jerusalem, which is surrounded by a castle wall. The darkness of the Chamsins hangs over the city , announcing the change in weather. The eye falls on the praetorium in which the governor of the Roman emperor Tiberius , Pontius Pilate , ruled his office in the remote province of Judea . Next to it you can see the meeting place of the high council and in the upper town the house of the last supper . Beyond the walls, the viewer's gaze wanders into the Holy Land on the road to Bethlehem. At a safe distance, in the garden of Joseph's villa of Arimathäa , some disciples watched the execution in Golgotha with fearful eyes . The focus is the depiction of the crucifixion scene. A group of women stands on the rocky plateau: Mary , the mother of Jesus, Mary of Magdala , Susanna and Johanna. The panorama in Altötting combines event, landscape and city panoramas and puts the viewer into the artistically designed illusion of being an observer of the city of Jerusalem during the crucifixion of Christ.
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Panorama Crucifixion of Christ
- Virtual tour Panorama Altötting
- Sepp Ratzinger's Jerusalem - The Panorama of the Crucifixion of Christ in Altötting issue 1/2009
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 33.5 " N , 12 ° 40 ′ 46.7" E