Salon hanging
The parlor hanging describes a particularly close sequence of paintings . Often these reach up to the ceiling, the frames of the works hang close together. It is also known as the Petersburg Hanging . This name goes back to the lavishly hung walls of the St. Petersburg Hermitage .
background
This way of presenting the paintings goes back to the late Renaissance , when more and more oil paintings were produced and acquired.
It expresses a changed intention in the exhibition of works of art that has taken place in the course of history: The salon hanging aims to impress the viewer through the sheer amount of art works collected. Ultimately, the object of admiration is not the individual picture, but those who have the means to put together a large art collection.
In contrast, the much more economical hanging of pictures, which is common today, allows the individual work of art (and the artist) to stand out more strongly.
Examples
Nowadays the salon hanging is still often found in castles, which reflect the need for representation of their former residents. Examples of this are the picture galleries of Weissenstein Palace in Pommersfelden or Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam . Until May 2009, the Lower Rhine Museum Schloss Moyland presented works by the avant-garde artist Joseph Beuys in the form of this hanging.
In the central stairwell of the Städel Museum , some works from the founder's collection are displayed in the St. Petersburg hanging. This is intended to give an impression of the original collection of the founder Johann Friedrich Städel in his home on Frankfurt's Roßmarkt - a homage to the founder and the origins of the house. In the Bavarian State Painting Collections in the State Gallery in the New Residence in Bamberg , a prince-bishop's cabinet with more than 40 paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries is presented in a salon hanging.
Museums can present their depot holdings well with this hanging. For example, Skagen's Museum in Skagen , Denmark, showed its acquisitions by Skagen painters over 100 years with a salon hanging in 2008 to provide a representative overview. To mark its 150th anniversary, the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne in 2011/2012 showed over 500 paintings in this hanging under the title “Panoptikum - The Secret Treasures of Wallraf”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Moyländer hanging will no longer exist. welt.de , November 22, 2009, accessed on August 8, 2015.
- ^ Baroque gallery of the State Painting Collection in Bamberg .
- ↑ SALON. Skagen's Museum, February 2 - December 30, 2008. ( Memento of March 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Panoptikum - The secret treasures of Wallraf. Report on Kultur-online.net from January 21, 2012.