Chillingworth Villa

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R. Chillingworth residence, before 1910
Villa Chillingworth, state 2012
Toilet room, carved panel of the dressing mirror by J. Wackerle.
Toilet room with dressing mirror and cleaning table.
Reception room, furniture and wooden parts painted white, blue silk covers with embroidery

The Villa Chillingworth at Liebigstrasse 3 in Nuremberg - Wöhrd was built and furnished as a residential house from 1907 to 1909 for the Nuremberg industrialist Rudolf Chillingworth based on designs by the architect Paul Ludwig Troost . Joseph Wackerle decorated the interior with sculptures . The Villa Chillingworth was particularly known for the extensive art collection of its owner, which was considered one of the most important private art collections of its time. The building is a listed building .

history

Rudolf Chillingworth was a successful industrialist. The pressing, punching and drawing works Rudolf Chillingworth, Aktiengesellschaft in Nuremberg, was located at Walzwerkstrasse 62/68. The company was particularly successful as a supplier for aircraft construction and owned patents for devices for the production of hollow bodies from sheet metal, including the banjo bolts used in aircraft construction. Having become prosperous with his company, Chillingworth had a representative villa built in 1907/09, which is now a listed building. Not only the furnishings of the building, but above all an extensive art collection, testified to the owner's sense of art.

description

The building is a two-storey plastered solid construction with gray shell limestone in the style of neoclassicism . The building is covered by a mansard roof with dormers . The windows are decorated with green shutters. The entrance is crowned by a barrel-vaulted portico . In the garden there is a polygonal , single-storey pavilion extension and is delimited by a classifying enclosure wall and pergolas .

The main rooms on the first floor in 1910 consisted of the master's room, the music and tea room as well as the salon and dining room. In the study there was furniture that was based on the Richard Riemerschmid period and was made of American walnut . The music room was designed in the Empire style, as was the neighboring tea room, which was only separated from the music room by pilasters . The Empire style drawing room was decorated in blue. The walls in the dining room were cold pink and decorated in the style of the Empire. There was mahogany furniture upholstered in red, green, and white floral tapestry .

The first floor consisted of the breakfast room, bedroom, toilet room of the lady of the house and the room of the lady of the house. There were also children's rooms, a closet room and the bathroom. In the room of the lady of the house was cherrywood furniture with white and blue Wedgwood panels from Wedgwood & Sons . The ladies' room was in the colors sap green and brown. In the toilet room was a large three-part mirror with a crowning carving by Wackerle. The furniture was made of mahogany wood against a purple wall.

  • Paul Ludwig Troost: Rudolf Chillingworth House in Nuremberg

  • Outline, site plan

  • Ground plan ground floor + 1st floor

Chillingworth Collection

Fritz Erler : Portrait of Mrs. Chillingworth.

The art collection in the Chillingworth House comprised numerous important paintings from the Flemish, Dutch, German and Italian painting schools from the 13th to 17th centuries, with almost all of the important names represented. Paintings by the Master of Flémalle , the Master of Frankfurt , the Master of Messkirch , the Breughel family of painters , by Joos van Cleve , Peter Paul Rubens , Rembrandt van Rijn , Jan van Scorel , Albrecht Altdorfer , Hans Baldung , Barthel Bruyn , Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä. and d. J. , Hans Holbein , Hans Mielich , Georg Pencz , Bernhard Strigel , Sandro Botticelli , Jacopo Tintoretto and many others adorned the walls. There were also works that Chillingworth had made by the painter Fritz Erler , including a portrait of Chillingworth's wife.

Chillingworth's art collection was considered one of the most important of its time. Max J. Friedländer , who would later be the director of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie and a recognized expert on Old Dutch and Old German panel painting, was used for the cataloging . The collection was auctioned off at Galerie Fischer in Lucerne in 1922 . Sales of German collections in Switzerland were not uncommon at the time of inflation , as the sale against foreign currency secured the value of the sales proceeds.

Many works from the Chillingworth Collection later found their way into the collections of important museums through other hands. The resting spring nymph by Cranach the Elder J. from the Chillingworth collection and a head study from the Rembrandt circle are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the panel with Hercules at Omphale by Hans Cranach in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Judith von Cranach the Elder. Ä. in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow, his portrait of a donor in the public art collection in Basel and Adam and Eve in the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum in Gottorf Castle . The pilgrims from Jan van Scorel is now in the Detroit Institute of Arts .

  • Hercules at Omphale by Hans Cranach , today in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid

  • Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder Ä., Today in Gottorf Castle

  • Portrait of a founder by Lucas Cranach the Elder Ä., Today in the Kunstmuseum Basel

  • Tronie of a young woman from the Rembrandt circle, today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Todays use

The building is currently (as of February 2015) used as a restaurant and as an office building. For almost 30 years, Villa Chillingworth has housed the Nuremberg restaurant, Villa , which has a restaurant , a bar , a lounge and a winter garden . Since 1998 the offices of a Nuremberg advertising and communication agency have also been located in the Villa Chillingworth .

literature

  • Georg Jacob Wolf: Paul Ludwig Troost's Chillingworth house in Nuremberg. In: The art. Monthly books for free and applied arts, XIII. Volume 22, 1910, pp. 200–206 ( online at archive.org ).
  • Galerie Fischer (ed.): Catalog de la collection Chillingworth: tableaux anciens XIIIe - XVIIe siècles; écoles flamande, hollandaise, allemande et italienne; vente publique 5 September 1922. Lucerne 1922 ( digitized ).

Web links

Commons : Villa Chillingworth  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Nuremberg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ Stadtarchiv Nürnberg (Ed.): Nürnberg, 1945–1949: The transition phase up to the formation of the first city council, April 1945-June 1946. Nürnberg 1989, p. 295.
  3. ↑ Pat. No. 116 784 from 1899.
  4. ↑ August Bauschlicher: The International Airship Exhibition in Frankfurt a. Main 1909. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 325, 1910, pp. 57-60.
  5. ↑ Galerie Fischer: Cat. Collection Chillingworth. Lucerne 1922.
  6. ^ Charles Sterling (Ed.): The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 2, Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Paintings: France, Central Europe, The Netherlands, Spain, and Great Britain . New York 1998, pp. 48-54, No. 10.
  7. ↑ Gertrude Borghero: Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Catalog of the works of art exhibited . Second edition. Milano 1987, p. 82, no.74.
  8. ↑ Max J. Friedländer and Jakob Rosenberg: The paintings by Lucas Cranach . 2nd revised edition, Basel and Stuttgart 1979, no. 230d.
  9. ^ On permanent loan from the Züricher Kunsthaus (its inv. No. 1643). Cf. Bodo Brinkmann (Ed.): Cranach the Elder, catalog exhibition Frankfurt am Main and London . Ostfildern 2007, pp. 138/139, No. 13.
  10. ^ On loan from the Federal Republic of Germany. Cf. Heinz Spielmann and Jan Drees: Gottorf in the splendor of the baroque - art and culture at the Schleswiger Hof 1544–1713, vol. 1: The dukes and their collections . Schleswig 1997, p. 541, no.161.
  11. ↑ Pilgrim. Jan van Scorel . (No longer available online.) Dia.org, archived from the original on February 11, 2015 ; Retrieved February 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dia.org
  12. ↑ VILLA - Bar · Food · Events Official website. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
  13. ↑ Schultze.Walther.Zahel (SWZ). ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Official website (history). Retrieved February 10, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swz.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '8.6 "  N , 11 ° 5' 31.1"  E