Simplicissimus house
The Simplicissimus House in Renchen ( Baden-Wuerttemberg ) is a literary museum about the history of reception, in which illustrations of the works of the Baroque poet Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelhausen (born around 1622 in Gelnhausen ; died on August 17, 1676 in Renchen) are exhibited 17th century the well-known adventure or picaresque novel Der Abentheuerliche Simplicissmus Teutsch published.
history
In July 1667 Grimmelshausen was installed as mayor of Renchen by the Bishop of Strasbourg . He was responsible for the local lower jurisdiction , for collecting taxes and duties and for maintaining public order. In addition to these activities, he completed his extensive oeuvre, including the ten volumes of the Simplician cycle.
The sponsor of the Simplicissimus house, the Friends of Grimmelshausen Friends Renchen , was founded in 1976. In the following year the Grimmelshausen-Spielkreis was established and in 1979 the Grimmelshausen Archive Foundation , which is now located in the museum. One of the founders was Egon Lorenz, who had collected everything he could find about Grimmelshausen throughout his life. In 1984 the city bought the arable citizen's house built around 1760 in the immediate vicinity of the town hall. In 1990, among other things, an exhibition entitled "Simplicissimus - a baroque rogue in 20th century art" was shown in Renchen, which was designed by Martin Bircher and Christian Juranek . The concept was to become the basis of the memorial and memorial for Grimmelshausen in Renchen.
In 1991 the office for literary archives, museums and memorials of the state of Baden-Württemberg in Marbach agreed to support a Grimmelshausen memorial. The associated architecture competition was won in 1992 by the Adler & Retzbach architects from Karlsruhe . In the same year a building permit was granted. After donations from the patrons Karl-Heinz Maurer and Dieter Dieckmann, renovation work began on the Ackerbürgerhaus in 1995. The foundation stone was laid on May 27, 1997 and the museum opened on October 2, 1998. The redesign of the baroque farmhouse from the middle of the 18th century was carried out by the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA) in 1999 as part of the Hugo Häring Prize , the most important Architecture Prize in Baden-Württemberg. The jury praised the "sensitivity in dealing with the old building fabric" and the "careful" insertion of new elements.
The sponsor of the museum is the Friends of Grimmelshausen Renchen , chaired by Klaus Brodbeck , former mayor of Renchen and former district administrator of the Ortenau district .
Museum concept
The permanent exhibition includes a collection of original graphics and drawings by various well-known 20th century artists. Around 250 watercolors, graphics, lithographs, pen drawings, oil paintings and sculptures can be seen on two levels.
The main room of the Simplicissimus House is dedicated to the content of the novel Simplicissimus . Original drawings by A. Paul Weber , Max Klinger , Walther Klemm , Erich Erler-Samaden , Hans Sauerbruch , Joseph Hegenbarth , the Swiss artist Max Hunziker and the Austrian Axl Leskoschek are exhibited . On the first floor there are works by Claus Arnold , Udo Claaßen and the Jewish artist Fritz Eichenberg, who emigrated to the USA, as well as the Leipzig artist Rolf Münzer . In chronological order, information is provided about the various editions from Grimmelshausen up to the end of the First World War and up to the beginning of the fifties of the 20th century. The concept for the design of the museum cellar was developed by the artist Jürgen Goertz . He also created the 1998 sculpture of the "mythical beast" in the exposed side corridor of the cellar.
In June 2015, after a year of construction, an extension with an event room and an archive was inaugurated. The two-storey old building with a half -hipped roof , with its gable facade facing the town hall forecourt, remains dominant despite the expansion. The extension is embedded as a single-storey, transparent-looking foyer between the Ackerbürgerhaus and the neighboring building in the course of the row development. The rear extension is more important in terms of urban planning. The architects Adler and Retzbach based themselves on historical barns, as they used to be common in Renchen and some of them are still today. The extension takes up this motif in its silhouette in an abstract form. Grimmelshausen conferences, readings and concerts take place in the Simplicissimus House.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of the Simplicissimus House , accessed on August 3, 2016
- ^ Article in the Badische Neuesten Nachrichten about the architecture of the museum , accessed on August 6, 2016
- ↑ Extension to the Simplicissimus house inaugurated. Ceremony on Thursday / New event room and archive , on: Baden online , June 19, 2015, accessed on August 3, 2016.
- ^ Article in the Badische Neuesten Nachrichten about the architecture of the museum , accessed on August 6, 2016.