Ludwig Roselius Museum

The Ludwig Roselius Museum shows northern European art from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. It is located in the Hooper Road No. 6 in Bremen, one of the main tourist attractions of the city of Bremen.

Architectural History

The Ludwig Roselius Museum is a town house from the 16th century. At that time, the Böttcherstrasse a high priority as access from Bremen's market square to the harbor. Due to the location were here mainly artisans resident. Thus, the naming of the craft prior Böttcher is due, the barrels made ​​. The building was constructed in 1588 in the Renaissance style.

The relocation of the port Böttcherstrasse lost the end of the 19th century in importance and began to deteriorate. In 1902 the successful Bremen businessman and owner of Kaffee HAG Ludwig Roselius ( 1874-1943 ), the house No. 6 The inventor of decaffeinated coffee also became known as a patron, among other things, the members of Worpswede as Heinrich Vogeler and Bernhard Hoetger supported and got involved in the Lower Saxon homeland security. 1906 was Roselius house No. 6 of restoring his brother Ernst Müller- Scheessel ( 1863-1936 ). After the building was first used as office and dining house for the Kaffee HAG employees. In addition, Ludwig Roselius put the premises of Lower Saxony round and other close relatives associations. After the other buildings Böttcherstrasse bought or leased, Roselius began in 1922 with the complete reconstruction of the road. His goal was to make the ensemble known worldwide as " living example of generous patronage and Hanseatic life ". Up on the house No. 6 Ludwig Roselius had all the houses Böttcherstrasse demolish all or part of and rebuild. He assumed that the house No. 6 would be from the 14th century and one of the oldest houses in Bremen was. To underline the importance of the construction he brought to a plaque on the facade of the house, on which all the home owners were recorded from 1300. The façade, he took in the Gothic style - and faithfully at his discretion - rebuilt by the architect Carl Eeg and Edward Runge. However, the art historian Uwe Bölts clarifies that this " to see recovery [ ... ] as a construct " and that Roselius ' idea to relocate the origin of the house in the 14th century, the sources do not consider standing.

Conservation

Since 1973, the building is under Bremer monument.

Ludwig Roselius Museum

After the renovation work Ludwig Roselius the museum opened on October 13, 1928, made ​​so that his private art collection to the public. It was this is the first collector's museum in Bremen, which was designed at the same time as a Gesamtkunstwerk: Ludwig Roselius has created a altbremisches patrician residence in the Böttcherstrasse number 6. This is evidenced not only the facade of the house, but also the equipment of rooms: kitchen, hall, and dining room are part of the museum. In this atmosphere Roselius exhibited his art collection, which should represent the art of the region through the ages. For inventory heard of, works from the early Middle Ages to the Baroque.

At the opening of the museum had eleven exhibition halls, after conversion was added in another room. During the Second World War the house was razed to the facade. The collection was, however outsourced in time, so it is still there on the loss of four paintings in their original condition. Thus was opened the Ludwig Roselius Museum after restoration in 1954 again.

Over the years, however, minimized both the number of exhibition spaces, as the Baroque room and the Frisian rooms were subsequently integrated into the layout of Paula Becker- Modersohn- house. The extent of the collection was smaller. 1988 Ludwig Roselius Jr. sold the collection to the savings bank and the municipality of Bremen, that the works could continue to be presented in the Museum Ludwig Roselius the public. However, not all plants could remain by the change of ownership in the collection and were partly privately owned. The Ludwig Roselius Museum is now operated by Böttcherstrasse GmbH and forms with the Paula Modersohn -Becker Museum museums Böttcherstrasse.

Collection in the Museum Ludwig Roselius

The collection and presentation of the works exhibited in the Museum Ludwig Roselius is particularly characterized by two aspects. For one, it is at the ground floor a purely private collection whose compilation is due to personal preference Ludwig Roselius '. Secondly, the presentation of the works carried out since the opening in 1928 in temporally organized rooms, which are also provided by the establishment of with wooden display cabinets, dressers and other pieces of furniture in a temporal context. This responded to this request Roselius ', who wanted to present you with this museum a work of art North German life and culture mediate in this way home Art and buyer insistent. This aspect distinguishes the presentation of the collection diametrically from other museums where paintings often in so-called " white cubes " ( " white cubes ": white, plain exhibition spaces ) are exposed to neutral.

As once Ludwig Roselius and the present museum for contemporary art works to continue. Exhibitions such as vis- à-vis. From the halo to the LED of 2011 or the purchase of works of photographer Esther Haase of 2013 show that the dialogue with contemporary art is maintained not only in the Paula Modersohn -Becker Museum but also in Ludwig Roselius Museum.

Style rooms today

In Cranach room there are works by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), including portraits of Martin Luther and Katharina von Bora (both 1529), as well as the devotional picture Christ as the Man of Sorrows ( 1537 ), and Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon ( 1555 ) by Lucas Cranach the Younger ( 1515-1586 ).

The dining room shows Renaissance works from the 16th to the early 18th century, as created by the 1554 painted in Low German or Dutch space Herrenporträt or tom within the Westphalian family of artists ring, for example, Portrait of a Lady with carnation from the second half of the 16th century. Above all, through the baroque gold leather wallpaper, wood paneling and Delft ceramics to create the atmosphere of a home-style reception room.

In the upper hall, the former courtyard of the house, religious paintings, reliefs, and wooden sculptures can be seen from the Middle Ages, including Maria lactans ( 1410 /20) from the workshop Conrad von Soest, Maria lactans with praying statue of donor ( 1515) from the workshop of Joost van Cleve and two rare English Alabsterreliefs from the first quarter of the 15th century.

The treasury shows the silver treasure of the company of Blackheads Riga. The permanent loan of the Association consist of pieces from the 15th to the 20th century, which uses the brotherhood former German merchants in Riga still for their annual meeting.

In the Gothic room there are late medieval sculptures and reliefs, including the Lamentation of Christ ( 1515) by Tilman Riemenschneider.

The grand staircase hall shows Baroque paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries. Here you will find many portraits and still lifes. Valuable Delft porcelain vases from the 18th century, silverware and candlesticks made ​​of boxwood decorate the banquet hall.

On the gallery a valuable watch collection with examples from the 16th to the 18th century is. On display are pieces by John Thier, Cornelius Uyterweer, Andreas Golling, Wolfgang Lieb, John Oakley, Johann Henner, J. van Ceulen (Le Jeune Hagae ), Antoni Bradl, John Dudds, John Curtis, as well as the official watchmaker of Frederick the Great, Louis George.