Behnhaus
The Behnhaus ( Museum Behnhaus Drägerhaus, Gallery of the 19th century and the classical modernist ) is a museum and part of Lübeck Lübeck Museum of Art and Cultural History. It's in town for the painting of the Nazarene and the German Impressionism and Expressionism, but also for the bourgeois domestic culture of rococo, classicism and Biedermeier.
- 2.1 Nazarene
- 2.2 Romance
- 2.3 Impressionism
- 2.4 Expressionism
- 2.5 Regional Artists
- 2.6 sculptures
Architecture, garden design and home decor
Behnhaus
The building of the Art Museum is one of the most representative classical burghers' houses in the King Street Old Town of Lübeck, near St. James and the Koberg. It was built in 1783 as upper-class residential building and remodeled and furnished the early 19th century by the Danish architect and interior designer Joseph Christian Lillie for later Mayor Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf still preserved in the classical style. In 1823, the family of the later Lübeck Mayor Heinrich Theodor Behn 's house; it was owned by the family until 1920. The present museum was founded in the 1920s by the Lübeck museum director Carl Georg Heise. On the top floor is still the location of the former guest room be seen.
Drägerhaus
The Behnhaus was added in the 70's to the left adjacent, equally representative Dräger house as a foundation of Henry and Lisa Dräger. Behnhaus and Drägerhaus are connected by a passage on the ground floor and the first floor.
Sculpture Garden
The back opens via a staircase from the terrace between the side wings of both Houses vision and direction by the citizens gardens on the lying in the garden in the middle of a sculpture collection Pavilion of the Overbeck -Gesellschaft in the style of New Objectivity of the Lübeck architect Wilhelm Bräck.
Lübeck living culture in the 18th and early 19th centuries
The Behnhaus shows his collections of paintings in the context of contemporary facilities and interior decoration of the time of the creation of the museum building and is thus an image of the bourgeois culture of Lübeck from the rococo classicism to Biedermeier. One of the rare Stockelsdorfer stove is reminiscent of the short time of flowering of Stockelsdorfer faience factory on the outskirts of the city to the end of the 18th century. The upscale bourgeois domestic culture is supplemented by a collection of old musical instruments, many of which formerly come from Lübeck houses.
A small Art Nouveau collection is seen in the mezzanine of the Behnhauses.
The collection focuses
Nazarene
The focus of the collection revolves around the Nazarene was born in Lübeck Friedrich Overbeck and his circle of friends. It is based on a generous donation from the Charlotte Overbeck, who gave in 1914 the artistic estate Overbecks the Hanseatic city. One of the key works shown in Lübeck Overbeck, The Lamentation of Christ, however, depends in St. Mary's Church.
Romantic
The German romanticism is represented accordingly with Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Blechen and Carl Gustav Carus. The museum was transferred from the collector and patron of Christian Dräger Lübeck large parts of its collection of drawings of the Age of Goethe and Romanticism.
Impressionism
Born in Lübeck Gotthardt Kuehl is one of the early German Impressionists. He kept his life as a professor at the Art Academy in Dresden a reference to his home town and Travemünde, which he visited frequently. The themes of the paintings are created on these trips so for a Lübeck Art Museum Collection obvious interest. The development Kuehls is reflected in the exhibition and is compared to the shown images of Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, Maria Slavona, Ulrich Hübner and Max Slevogt clarified.
Expressionism
Because of the relationship of Edvard Munch to the doctor and philanthropist Max Linde Lübeck is a seminal work for portraiture Munch, the portrait of The Sons of Dr. Linde in Behnhaus (2006 at the Museum of Modern Art shown) and is located as a focus of the collection of the Museum by further works by the Norwegian artist adds.
The collection of Heise 1920 to 1933 built German Expressionists was zunichtegemacht by the Nazi art policy. 2006, the Museum obtained due to a generous private donation to the standing and kneeling girl act a painting by Paula Modersohn -Becker, the Heisenberg had tried to buy in 1930. It is questionable whether the image would now hang in Lübeck, if the purchase would have come into existence in those years.
Local Artists
The museum founder Carl Georg Heise began targeted him to encourage meaningful regional artists through purchases for the Museum and exhibitions in the 1920s. These include Albert Aereboe, Erwin Bossanyi, Erich Dummer, Karl Gatermann Elder, Alfred Mahlau and others. Also shown are some views of Travemünde.
Sculptures
The bronze sculpture of Brigitte Gerhard Marcks is a reproduction of his daughter. The figure was purchased in 1932 by Heise, from the Nazis as degenerate art from the Behnhaus and 2011 came as a permanent loan from the Berlin Ferdinand Möller Foundation back. By Georg Kolbe 's bust in bronze portrait Viola Tegtmeyer is issued around 1911 in Behnhaus.