St. Anne's Museum, Lübeck

The St. Anne Convent in Lübeck, will be exhibited in the art treasures of Lübeck since 1915, is a former monastery of the Augustinians, which is now a museum Quartier St. Annen one of the sites of the Lübeck Museum of Art and Cultural History. It is close to Aegidienkirche in the southeastern Lübeck's Old Town next to the synagogue.

• 4.1 New collection's focus on self-portraits of the modern
• 4.2 exhibitions at the Kunsthalle

History of the convent

The monastery and the church itself, which has a distinct architectural style due to the restricted land ratios, were built from 1502 to 1515 in late Gothic style. The monastery, whose community of Augustinian rule was followed and was initially justified by the Augustinian canon women out of the pen Steterburg, served mainly the accommodation of unmarried daughters Lübeck citizens. At the suggestion of the Lübeck Bishop Monastery and Church of St. Anne were ordained. A few years later the monastery was closed in the wake of the Reformation, in 1532 left the last nuns of the monastery. 1601 originated in the rooms a workhouse, later more parts have been used as a prison, for which in 1778 another wing, the spin house, was built. Poor relief and law enforcement were under one roof.

1843 burned parts of the monastery and the church. While the monastery buildings were restored, the church was demolished except for fragments that remained standing as a ruin.

Most of the rooms on the ground floor of the monastery are still in their original condition from the time it was built: the cloister, the refectory, the refectory ( the largest room of the monastery, probably working and living space of the nuns since 1733 dining room of the workhouse ), the chapter house and sacristy the monastery church. In the southwest corner of the cloister is the heat chamber, the calefactory.

St. Annen- Museum (Museum of Art and Cultural History )

In 1888, the art historian Theodor Hach had pronounced as curator of collections of the Society for the promotion of community service in his memorandum for the establishment of an independent Museum of Art and Cultural History in Lübeck. In 1912 the Senate of the Hanseatic city decided to rebuild the monastery museum. This plan related changes to take planks and panels which can Lübeck town houses. The museum opened by the Company for the carriage of community service as a private carrier under the museum director Karl Schaefer was due to the war late in 1915. From 1920 to 1933 Carl Georg Heise led the museum. In this time of acquisition of the Behnhauses and the structure of the local collection falls. 1934, the Lübeck museum were nationalized. 2006, the Management Board of the City of Lübeck was placed in the hands of the Cultural Foundation Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Since January 2013, the St. Annen- Museum is co-marketed with the Kunsthalle St. Annen Museum Quarter as St. Annen. Associated with this is a new, timely preparation of the exhibition.

Collections

Sacred Art of the Middle Ages

The museum features thanks to an early Senate decree for the protection of monuments of antiquity and the art of 1818 and the acts building upon it backed up collecting activities of Carl Julius Milde in the 19th century, the largest number of medieval triptychs ( reredos ) in Germany. The museum has the Grönauer altar on the only preserved Gothic high altar of a church in the city of Lübeck. The other surviving altars were mostly donated by artisan guilds or merchants for the monastery churches such as the Church of the Monastery Castle or St. Catherine's Church. These include the St. Luke's altar painter Hermen Rode, the Schonenfahrer Altar by Bernt Notke, the Anthony Altar of Benedikt Dreyer, who originally donated by the family Greverade for the Lübeck Cathedral Passion altar by Hans Memling, as well as a private altar, triptych of alderman Hinrich Kerckring by Jacob van Utrecht, which was adventurous routes from Riga to Lübeck Brederlo collection.

Main article: Altarpiece of the Medieval Collection of the St. Annen- Museum

Very good also the St. George Group (1504 ), which was originally created by the Lübeck sculptor Henning von der Heyde for the St. Jürgen- chapel on the Ratzeburger Allee. The upheaval of the Reformation and the Renaissance in Lübeck embody the works of Cranach 's pupils and Lübeck painter Hans Kemmer.

In addition to the works of the -carving and painting, the museum also shows how a lapidary museum, sculpture of the Romanesque and Gothic periods, each of which represents the Niendorf Madonna of John Young one of the most valuable. She was found in 1926 in Lübeck- Niendorf in a barn. But the wise and foolish virgins are remarkable. They were originally in the church of the castle monastery.

The Memling altar in Lübeck

Council, guild and church silver

A special collection of representative chalices, cups, jars, use and ceremonial objects gives an overview of the high level of craftsmanship of the Lübeck gold and silversmiths and the wealth of their clients. The time of origin of the pieces of this collection is predominant in time after the Reformation, since Lübeck Mayor Jürgen Wullenwever almost the entire medieval Lübeck church silver was at this time meltdown finance the war against Denmark ( Count feud ). Last major new acquisition of the museum in this area was the Lübeck silver treasure.

Lübeck home decor

The development of the bourgeois domestic culture from the Renaissance to Classicism can be in different rooms that were " converted " partly from old Lübeck town houses, against the background of time corresponding art by Godfrey Kneller, Thomas Quellinus ( bust of alderman Thomas Fredenhagen from the Baroque high altar of St. Mary's Church ) and many others, the collection taste Lübeck citizens reflecting works of visual artists and related equipment are modeled with porcelain from Meissen and Furstenberg. At the grandest acts a completely preserved Baroque hall from the 1736. This area upstairs is a special collection of North German faience with emphasis attached to the factories in Kellinghusenstraße, Stockelsdorf and Stralsund. In addition is a collection of toys about stating bringing young Lübeck employed in the past. The oldest plastic hobbyhorse of the museum is located, however, in a group of children on the altar of Gertrude Brotherhood of support ( 1509 ) from the vicinity of Henning von der Heyde.

Musical Instruments

The museum has one going back to the Geigenbauspezialisten Leo von Lütgendorff and justified this as the director of the museum of the former Cathedral Museum collection of musical instruments, which is partially included in the exhibition, will be shown in individual pieces but also in Behnhaus. Also designed by Arp Schnitger organ console of the cathedral is exhibited here. It was expanded in the course of organ new building 1892/1893 and housed in the museum.

Parament chamber

Certainly a further feature is the parament chamber, are shown in the old liturgical vestments from Lübeck churches and most of the parament treasure of St. Mary's Church.

Photo Collection

Among the treasures of the museum is not publicly shown includes a built by Carl Georg Heise in the 1920s photo collection with 450 artistic photos in total, including 212 works by Albert Renger- Patzsch. It is the collection on the history of photography and the collection of good photography. Both collections were discontinued according to Heise's dismissal in 1933, and fell for many years in oblivion. Only in recent years they have been rediscovered, since in particular the collection of good photography is a of the most comprehensive collections of photographs of New Objectivity in Germany. It contains, among other things, works of Renger- Patzsch, Hugo Erfurth, Umbo and Robert Petschow.

Special

• An organist and composer fürtrefflicher to Lübeck: Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707), from 6 May to 26 August 2007.

Kunsthalle St. Annen

Today the monastery includes not only the St. Annen- Museum, but also the Kunsthalle St. Annen Museum Shop and Bistro. The architecture of the Kunsthalle, modern built in 2004, including the remains of the former church burned down in 1843 the monastery St. Annen is a gift of the Possehl Foundation to the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. The architecture of the Kunsthalle, planning architects Konermann Siegmund from Hamburg / Lübeck, was awarded the grand prize awarded every four years by the BDA Schleswig Holstein 2003. The Art Gallery shows temporary exhibitions of 20th century modern art.

New collection's focus on self-portraits of the modern

The Kunsthalle St. Annen get set to mediation by Björn Engholm the unique collection of Leonie Rüxleben (1920-2005) as part of the estate planning of the deceased on 21 September 2005 Leonie Baroness von Rüxleben management in September 2005; it is the largest collection of its kind in Germany. This makes it possible to be able to show some 1,300 works of self-portraits of modernity in changing exhibition.

However, a dispute over the handling of the estate has recently erupted between the heirs of the woman Rüxleben and museum management.

Exhibitions at the Kunsthalle

• 2005/2006 was the exhibition exile and modernity, rather than 50 works of classical modernism from the Washington University collection in St. Louis, Missouri.