Katharinenstraße 9

The house Katharinenstraße 9, also Catharinenstrasse 9, was a town house in the center of Hamburg. The resulting 1630-1640 house was destroyed in 1941, pulled down his side wings. The house was built in 1939 registered in the list of monuments of Hamburg Mitte and 1954, 13 years after its destruction, deleted again.

The house is best known for the magnificent stucco ceiling with oil paintings of a state-room in the east wing. The baroque painting is now framed by a reconstruction of the stucco ceiling in the Museum of Hamburg History. It was commissioned by the later mayor of Hamburg and owner John Anderson the elder. The facilities of the State Hall clearly shows the desire Anderson to imitate the splendor of the nobility.

The stucco on the ceiling came most likely from the Ticino Carlo Enrico Brenno. This had specialized in stucco in the mansions of Schleswig-Holstein. The paintings were created by the Hamburg decorative painter Johann Moritz Riesenberger the Younger. It shows various personifications related to the life and work of John Anderson the elder, the principal of this painting was. The central figure in red robe holding a triangle in the left hand and leaning on a beehive ( symbol of industriousness ), the right of a figure with a plumb line between the two hands ( symbolizing architecture) and in the lower middle of three putti, one of them color palette and brush in hand holding ( symbol of the Fine Arts ). The figure in the upper right portion of the painting is holding a cornucopia from which coins fall out ( symbol of wealth ) in hands. Clearly visible is the figure on the lower left side, the hourglass and scythe in hands ( symbols of the transience and mortality / death). The figure on the right edge carries a fasces, which is considered as a sign of mastery over life and death.