Schumann House Düsseldorf

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Schumann House Düsseldorf

The Schumannhaus at Bilker Straße 15 in Düsseldorf's Carlstadt was the last shared house of Robert and Clara Schumann and at the same time the only one in Germany that was preserved in its historical structure. It housed the Schumann Memorial from 2003 to 2018 and is currently closed for renovation. A Schumann Museum is being built here.

history

Robert Schumann lived in Düsseldorf from 1850 ; the Schumann House in 1852 its fourth and final apartment was in the city, before moving to the private mental hospital in 1854 Endenich was admitted in Bonn.

Felix, the youngest Schumann son, was born in this house in 1854.

Clara Schumann lived in the house with her children until 1855 and then moved again to Poststrasse. In his only three and a half active years in Düsseldorf, many of Robert Schumann's compositions were composed, around a third of his total oeuvre.

Use today

The former apartment of the Schumann family, which extended over the first and second floors, is to serve as the Schumann Museum from 2021 after the renovation and conversion of the house for 3.2 million euros. The focus will be on the valuable exhibits from the extensive Schumann collection of the Heinrich Heine Institute (Bilker Straße 12-14) as well as some beautiful pieces from the Robert Schumann Society eV Düsseldorf, which has its headquarters and so far its office on the ground floor of the House.

The musician couple Thomas Beckmann and Kayoko Beckmann-Matsushita lived in the two upper floors until the renovation work began . You will be able to live there again after the renovation.

See also

Web links

Commons : Schumannhaus Düsseldorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pascal Conrads: How the Schumann House in Düsseldorf becomes a museum. NRZ, October 24, 2019, accessed on February 10, 2020 .
  2. ^ New dispute over the Düsseldorf Schumann House , Solinger Tageblatt of December 19, 2016, accessed on December 20, 2016
  3. ↑ Annabell Thiel: Schumann House construction site. WDR 3 TonArt, February 10, 2020, accessed on February 10, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 18.7 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 21.7 ″  E