To the candle
The artist bar Zur Kerze was originally an exhibition space for Bonn artists in the southern part of the city at Königstrasse 25-27. Founded in the post-war years, the restaurant existed for 50 years until 1998.
Emmy Meurer, the second wife of the Bonn painter Ernst Meurer , applied to the city administration for a serving license and from 1950 turned the gallery into a meeting point for the entire “art scene” in the Bonn area. Here by candlelight, the Thursday Society , art historians around Heinrich Lützeler , theater people around the artistic director Karl Pempelfort , museum people around the director of the municipal art collection Walter Holzhausen and interested citizens, students, and local and federal politicians sat together, sometimes until 5 a.m.
From 1980 the restaurant was taken over by restaurateur Roland Korndörfer. He continued the tradition of changing exhibitions of talented young painters until it was closed in 1998.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The beginning of 1952 ( Memento from July 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.zellermayer.de/kunst/berke/berke01a.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated March 2, 2005 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.
- ↑ Britta Klöpfer: Herm Dienz 1891–1980, A Rhenish painter and graphic artist between figuration and abstraction - monograph and catalog raisonné , Bonn 2001, p. 146 ( PDF; 12.9 MB )
- ↑ Bastian May: Death at the age of 72: Students and celebrities loved "Kerze" - landlord Roland Korndörfer dead. In: Express . November 2, 2013, accessed January 19, 2017 .
