A generationIn a tent made of metal wire, as if stretched with piano strings, one of the most valuable new collections in modern times is collected, which can now be seen in the New German Romance Museum in Frankfurt: it is a sketch of Robert Schumann For Goethe’s setting, in 2018, outdoor Deutsche Hochstift bid by luck.The son of the composer and bookseller has long embraced the idea of becoming a poet, and he was exposed to romanticism very early, including Schlegel, Tick and Jean Paul Reading, his Eichendorff and Heine settings are one of the most beautiful settings in songwriting. However, the preoccupation with Goethe was lifelong and culminated in the “Goethe Faust Scene” completed in 1853, whose bold and open form was far ahead of their time.
Museum treasures
Even better, part of the “Faust” sketch has now been removed from the Hochstift basement, which has cooled to 18 degrees, and taken to the new museum. In fact, only a few people have seen this bundle of sketches, piano scores and music scores, because it has always been in private hands. Schumann’s notes can be found in the multimedia exhibition station on the top floor of the museum, surrounded by additional acoustic, visual and written explanations that literally appeal to all senses. After nearly ten years of preparation, construction and a lot of immeasurable work, the new museum finally opened on September 14. The first visit showed that the architecture, scenery and filigree exhibits echoed here in the most beautiful way. Frankfurt has new museum treasures.
The basis of the permanent exhibition is the collection, especially the German Romantic literature, which has been compiled by the sponsors of the Free German Art Foundation and the Goethe House Frankfurt for more than 100 years. For a long time, the treasures of paintings, manuscripts, and cultural relics were kept in a file box in the vault of Großer Hirschgraben 23 in Frankfurt, where Goethe was born on August 28, 1749 and spent the first few years of his life here. Hochstift director Anne Bohnenkamp’s plan to build a place to commemorate romanticism near the 1950s historic replica was both brave and visionary.Such museums did not exist in Germany before, even though this era has as many connections as this country abroad Richard Wagner Or cuckoo clock.
When the neighboring building became vacant due to the departure of Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, Anne Bohnenkamp realized this moment and began her plan.Very close to the manor of the Guntal family, the young Holderlin unfortunately fell in love and became a private teacher. Later this ugly practical building was demolished Christopher McLeer A three-part building was designed whose yellow and sandstone tones occupy the color spectrum of the neighboring Goethe House. The three-story building has an exhibition area of 1,200 square meters. The foyer also represents the new entrance area of Goethe’s house, and its transparency and visual impulse to go out make it flourish. A large panoramic window can clearly see the newly designed romantic garden, and the firewall, unlike the building itself, survived the war and was brought into the view of Goethe’s house. The destroyed Old Town of Frankfurt was buried in the ground in the form of rubble made from the rubble of the destroyed city after 1945, which was placed between the bricks by Michaeler.
