Schilling Museum

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Schilling Museum, around 1900

The Schilling Museum was a museum in the Pirnaische Vorstadt in Dresden that existed until 1945 and was dedicated to the Saxon sculptor Johannes Schilling and showed casting models of his works.

history

The Schilling Museum was built in 1888 on the sculptor's own initiative on the property at Pillnitzer Strasse 63. Schilling himself had decided to build it in order to accommodate his numerous plaster models and present them to the public. The financing came with the help of an honorary gift from the German emperor in the amount of 30,000 marks and a grant from the Saxon state in the same amount.

The building in the strictly classical style was executed by Hermann August Richter according to designs by Schilling's son Rudolf . The facade was clad with sandstone and was based on the styles typical of classic museums of the time. Organizationally, the Schilling Museum was part of the Dresden municipal collections . In 1945 the building was badly damaged in the air raids on Dresden and demolished in 1948.

Furnishing

Inside the museum there were several halls with different colors, whereby the architect Rudolf Schilling was based on Gottfried Semper's idea , according to which the character of exhibition rooms should change depending on the shape and purpose. The visitor first entered a foyer painted in sea green, in which, in addition to smaller sculptures, a copy of the Niederwald monument designed by Johannes Schilling could be seen. The background design came from the painter Friedrich Preller . The center of the house was the “Germania Hall” with a cast model of the monumental Germania figure of this monument. The six times life-size sculpture belonging to Schilling's main works was set up against an orange background, which gave the room a festive setting. In the adjoining "Hall of the Memorial to the Fallen Warriors of Hamburg", however, the walls were dark purple. This was where the casting templates for the war memorial erected in Hamburg in 1875 were located . Other rooms showed, among other things, Schilling's models of the Schiller Monument in Vienna, the Four Times of the Day on the Brühlsche Terrasse in Dresden, the Panther Quadriga at the Semper Opera and the Gottfried Semper Monument in Dresden . Numerous designs and smaller works by Johannes Schilling were also exhibited.

literature

  • The Schilling Museum in Dresden. Meinhold, Dresden 1898 ( digitized in the Bavarian State Library ).
  • Dietmar Schreier, Manfred Lauffer: Disappeared. A museum for Schilling's work. In: Sächsische Zeitung of May 5, 2008.
  • Friedrich Kummer: Dresden and the Elbe area. Publishing house of the Association for the Promotion of Dresden and Tourism, Dresden 1909, p. 59 f.
  • City Lexicon Dresden A – Z. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .

Web links

Commons : Schilling Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Kummer, p. 59.

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 59 "  N , 13 ° 45 ′ 32.4"  E