Steinhausen House
| Steinhausen House | |
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 Wolfsgangstraße 152 (right) - Roof structure: observatory |
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| Data | |
| place | Frankfurt am Main , Hesse |
| architect | Simon Ravenstein |
| Client | Wilhelm Steinhausen |
| Construction year | 1885/86 |
| height | approx. 12 m |
| Floor space | approx. 80 m² |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 7 '23.1 " N , 8 ° 40' 0.2" E |
| particularities | |
| Originally preserved painter's studio | |
The Steinhausen house is located in Frankfurt's Westend at Wolfsgangstraße 152, Frankfurt am Main .
To the building history
The house on Wolfsgangstrasse in Frankfurt was built in 1885 by the architect Simon Ravenstein as a residence for the painter Wilhelm Steinhausen , who lived here with his family until his death in 1924. The friend of Wilhelm Steinhausen, Hans Thoma, and his family lived in the next house no. 150 - also built by Ravenstein . Both artists had a studio on the 2nd floor - because of the light, as usual, facing north. Steinhausen's atelier has been preserved, Hans Thoma's one has since been rebuilt.
Steinhausen, who was interested in astronomy, had a private observatory built on the roof, which is still preserved.
The Steinhausen artists' house
Both Wilhelm Steinhausen and his eldest daughter, Marie Paquet-Steinhausen , used the studio floor of their house for their work and studies. Wilhelm Steinhausen painted buildings on and off in Frankfurt: interiors and facades of city villas; 24 scenes about Frankfurt greats in the Bavaria building, Schillerstr. 2-4, from 1884; the auditorium of today's Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium , which has been preserved while its paintings on the St. Luke Church in Frankfurt burned down during World War II. Steinhausen had an additional studio in Frankfurt's Städel to produce the pictures for the Lukaskirche , which among other things has a large collection of works by Wilhelm Steinhausen. There are currently numerous small landscape pictures by Steinhausen in oil on wood (so-called diary sheets), while numerous larger pictures (including a large self-portrait and a portrait of his wife) are not on display.
The Steinhausenhaus Museum
The Steinhausen House survived the bombing war and today two thirds of it is owned by the city of Frankfurt. Since 1987 it has housed the Wilhelm Steinhausen Museum with numerous works, preparatory work, sketches, design drawings, letters, secondary literature as well as the originally preserved studio and a fresco .
The Steinhausen Foundation
The Steinhausen Museum is looked after and opened by the Steinhausen Foundation for research purposes as well as for art lovers. On June 9, 2008, the foundation was entered in the Golden Book of the City of Frankfurt am Main on the occasion of its 30th anniversary . Numerous descendants of the eight-member Wilhelm and Ida Steinhausen family turned up for the celebration in Frankfurt's Römer .
literature
- Steinhausen Foundation Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Wilhelm Steinhausen. Sketch drawings for the painting of St. Luke's Church in Frankfurt am Main. Exhibition in the Steinhausen-Saal of the Lukaskirche October 20th – November 1st, 1992, Frankfurt am Main 1992
Web links
- steinhausen-stiftung.de - Information on the foundation and the museum, plus the biography of Wilhelm Steinhausen with an illustrated catalog raisonné and bibliography
Individual evidence
- ^ Eva-Maria Magel: Art. A visit to Mr. Steinhausen . FAZ No. 39 (2011), October 2, 2011, p. R3. [1]
- ↑ Steinhausen knew from his time in Munich the picture The Flight into Egypt by the Frankfurt painter Adam Elsheimer and cited the night scene in his picture from 1874 The Departure of the Last Supper .
- ^ Waldemar Kramer (ed.): Frankfurt Chronik . Frankfurt am Main 1977, p. 361, images: p. 95; 127; 217; 259; 277. - Most of the buildings were destroyed in World War II.
- ↑ Chronik des Westend on Frankfurt.de, accessed Feb. 22, 2020
- ↑ Steinhausen Foundation in Frankfurt am Main at frankfurt.de, accessed on February 22, 2020