St. Anne's Museum Quarter (german: Museumsquartier St. Annen) was previously an

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, St. Anne's Priory (german: Sankt-Annen-Kloster). Since 1915 it has housed St. Anne's Museum, one of Lübeck's museums of art and cultural history containing Germany's largest collection of

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sculpture and

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s, including the famous

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s by

Hans Memling Hans Memling (also spelled Memlinc; c. 1430 – 11 August 1494) was a painter active in Flanders, who worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. He was born in the Middle Rhine region and probably spent his childhood in Mainz. He ...

(formerly at

Lübeck Cathedral Lübeck Cathedral (german: Dom zu Lübeck, or colloquially ''Lübecker Dom'') is a large brick-built Lutheran cathedral in Lübeck, Germany and part of the Lübeck World Heritage Site. It was started in 1173 by Henry the Lion as a cathedral for ...

Bernt Notke Bernt Notke (; – before May 1509) was a late Gothic artist, working in the Baltic region. He has been described as one of the foremost artists of his time in northern Europe. Life Very little is known about the life of Bernt Notke. The No ...

Hermen Rode Hermen Rode (fl. c. 1468 – c. 1504) was a German Gothic painter. Life and works Very little is known about Rode. He lived and worked in Lübeck, and from 1468 owned a house on Johannisstrasse street in the city, implying a certain degree of ...

Jacob van Utrecht Jacob Claesz van Utrecht, also named by his signature Jacobus Traiectensis (c. 1479 – after 1525) was a Flemish early Renaissance painter who worked in Antwerp and Lübeck. Life Few details are known of Jacob van Utrecht's life. Researc ...

and

Benedikt Dreyer Benedikt Dreyer (born before 1495 - died after 1555) was a German sculptor, carver and painter working in Lübeck. Dreyer was an apprentice in Lüneburg (1506–1507), and was a house owner in Lübeck until 1555, according to the land register. ...

. These are exhibited on the building's first floor is a museum and art exhibition hall located near

St. Giles Saint Giles (, la, Aegidius, french: Gilles), also known as Giles the Hermit, was a hermit or monk active in the lower Rhône most likely in the 6th century. Revered as a saint, his cult became widely diffused but his hagiography is mostly lege ...

Church and next to the synagogue in the south-east of the city of

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, Germany. On the building's second floor is exhibited a large collection of home decor items and interiors of different periods, showing how the area's citizens lived from medieval times up to the 1800s. A modern addition houses special exhibits. The museum is part of the Lübeck

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site.

History of the building

St. Anne's Priory and the associated church, which was constructed rather quickly due to lack of space, were built 1502–1515 in late

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style. The monastery was used mainly for the accommodation of unmarried women who were citizens in Lübeck. Following the suggestion of the Bishop of Lübeck the monastery and the church were dedicated to

Saint Anne According to Christian apocryphal and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the canonical gospels. In writing, Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come o ...

. A few years later the monastery was closed during the

Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

: the last of the nuns left in 1532. In 1610 a poorhouse was established here. Later, parts of the monastery were used as a prison. For this purpose another wing was built in 1778, the so-called ''Spinnhaus'' ("spin house"). The care of the poor and the custody of prisoners existed under one roof. In 1843 parts of the monastery and the church were burnt down. During the restoration of the priory building, the church was demolished except for a few fragments that stayed as ruins. Most of the rooms on the ground floor are preserved in their original condition: the

cloister A cloister (from Latin ''claustrum'', "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church, commonly against a ...

, the

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, the ''Remter'' (the largest room of the nunnery, probably the working and day room of the nuns, and from 1733 the refectory of the poorhouse), the

chapter house A chapter house or chapterhouse is a building or room that is part of a cathedral, monastery or collegiate church in which meetings are held. When attached to a cathedral, the cathedral chapter meets there. In monasteries, the whole communi ...

, and the

sacristy A sacristy, also known as a vestry or preparation room, is a room in Christian churches for the keeping of vestments (such as the alb and chasuble) and other church furnishings, sacred vessels, and parish records. The sacristy is usually located ...

of the nuns' church. In the south western corner of the cloister is the

calefactory The calefactory (also ''warming house'') was an important room or building in a medieval monastery in Western Europe. It was here that a communal fire was kept so that the monks could warm themselves after long hours of study in the (unheated) c ...

St. Anne's museum (Museum for history of art and culture)

In 1912 the

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of Lübeck decided to convert the monastery into a museum. This caused changes of the ground plan in order to adapt the floorboards and wainscots of private town-houses. The opening of the museum took place in 1915 with some delay due to

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. From 1920 to 1933,

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managed the museum. In this era the acquisition of the

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and the assembly of its collection took place. in 1934 the museums of Lübeck were nationalized. Since 2013 St. Anne's museum and St. Anne's Kunsthalle are merchandized together as ''St. Anne's Museum Quarter'' together with a modern combined exhibition.

Collections

Sacred art of the Middle Ages

Thanks to an early decree of the senate for the preservation of ''Memorials of the Antiquity and Art'' (1818) and the resulting collecting policy of

Carl Julius Milde Carl Julius Milde (16 February 1803, in Hamburg – 19 November 1875, in Lübeck) was a German painter, curator and art restorer. Life His father was a grocer whose business had been nearly ruined by the French period, French Occupation. Aft ...

in the 19th century, the museum houses the largest collection of medieval

polyptych A polyptych ( ; Greek: ''poly-'' "many" and ''ptychē'' "fold") is a painting (usually panel painting) which is divided into sections, or panels. Specifically, a "diptych" is a two-part work of art; a "triptych" is a three-part work; a tetrapty ...

s (

altarpiece An altarpiece is an artwork such as a painting, sculpture or relief representing a religious subject made for placing at the back of or behind the altar of a Christian church. Though most commonly used for a single work of art such as a painting o ...

s) in Germany. It possesses the Grönauer Altar, the only preserved Gothic high altar of a church in Lübeck. The other altars kept here were mostly donated by

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s or

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s to monastery churches, e.g. to the church of the castle monastery or to the Saint Catherine Church. Among them are *the altar of

Saint Luke Luke the Evangelist (Latin: '' Lucas''; grc, Λουκᾶς, '' Loukâs''; he, לוקאס, ''Lūqās''; arc, /ܠܘܩܐ לוקא, ''Lūqā’; Ge'ez: ሉቃስ'') is one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of t ...

, by the painter

; *the altar of the Traveller to

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, by

; *the altar of Saint Anthony, by

; *the altar of the Passion, by

, originally donated to

by the Greverade family; and finally *a private altar, the

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of the councillor Hinrich Kerckring, by

, which found its adventurous way from the collection of Friedrich Wilhelm Brederlo in

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to Lübeck. Another outstanding piece is the ''Group of

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'' (1504), which was initially made for St. Jürgen's Chapel in the ''Ratzeburger Allee'' by the sculptor Henning von der Heide. The work of Hans Kemmer, a pupil of

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, embodies the changes of the

and the

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in Lübeck. Besides the

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and painted objects, the museum also exhibits sculptures of the Romanesque and the

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periods, of which the most precious piece is the

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of Niendorf, made by Johannes Junge, which was found in 1926 in a barn in Niendorf in Moisling, Lübeck. Also remarkable is the

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, which was initially set up in the church of the castle monastery. File:Hans Memling 002.jpg File:Hans Memling 007.jpg File:Hans Memling 003.jpg File:Hans Memling 004.jpg, Mittelteil File:Hans Memling 008.jpg File:Hans Memling 006.jpg File:Hans Memling 005.jpg

Council, guild, and church silverware

A special collection of representative cups, goblets, pots, utility objects and derivative pieces give praise to the high technical skills of Lübeck's gold and silversmiths and the wealth of their customers. The date of origin for these objects is generally presumed to be after the reformation, due to Lübeck's mayor

Jürgen Wullenwever Jürgen Wullenwever (c. 1492 – 29 September 1537) was burgomaster of Lübeck from 1533 to 1535, a period of religious, political and trade turmoil. Biography Wullenwever was probably born at Hamburg in 1492. Settling in Lübeck as a merc ...

ordering the melting down of medieval silverware in order to finance the war against

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(

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Lübeck's home decor

The development of the middle-class home decor from the

to the

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can be seen in several rooms, which are partially made of Lübeck's private town-houses. In front of the background of contemporary art – amongst others by

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and

Thomas Quellinus Thomas Quellinus (March 1661 – September 1709), also known, especially in Denmark, as Thomas Qvellinus, was a Flemish baroque sculptor.St. Mary's Church —, which reflects the taste of Lübeck's citizens, and the appropriate decor, made of porcelain by

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and

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, one can well emphasize the depicted era. The greatest influence has a completely conserved baroque floorboard made in 1736. Annexed to this part of the exhibition is a special collection of

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from

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in the upper floor, emphasizing the manufactures in

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Stockelsdorf Stockelsdorf is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated directly northwest of Lübeck and forms an agglomeration with the easterly town of Bad Schwartau. The municipality contains the villages ...

, and

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. Further, a collection of toys sheds light on past time activities of young Hanseatics. But the oldest

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of the museum is within a group of children on the ''Altar der Gertrudenbrüderschaft der Träger'' (around 1509), which originates from the circle of Henning von der Heyde.

Chamber of paraments

Surely another area worth noting is the chamber of

parament Paraments or parements (from Late Latin ''paramentum'', adornment, ''parare'', to prepare, equip) are both the hangings or ornaments of a room of state, and the ecclesiastical vestments. Paraments include the liturgical hangings on and around the ...

s, which exhibits old

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clothes of some of Lübeck's churches and the main part of the parament treasure of St. Mary's Church in

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Photo collection

Among the treasures that are not shown to the public is a collection of photographs. The collection was built up during the 1920s by Carl Georg Heise; included are approx. 450 artistic photos, among them are 212 photos by

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. It is the ''Collection Showing the History of Photography'' and the ''Collection of Ideal Photography''. Both collections were not continued after Heise's resignation in 1933 and fell in oblivion for a long time. A few years ago they were brought back into circulation, because the ''Collection of Ideal Photography'' is the most comprehensive collection of photographs of the

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in German (amongst others are works are opus by Renger-Patzsch,

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, Umbo, and Robert Petschow).

St. Anne's Kunsthalle

Besides the St. Anne's Museum the monastery also contains the ''St. Anne's

Kunsthalle A kunsthalle is a facility that mounts temporary art exhibitions, similar to an art gallery. It is distinct from an art museum by not having a permanent collection. In the German-speaking regions of Europe, ''Kunsthallen'' are often operated by ...

''. The architecture of the Kunsthalle, which was built modernly in 2004 and has the ruins of the former church and the monastery that burnt down in 1843, was a gift of the Possehl Foundation. In 2003 the architecture of the Kunsthalle, which was planned by the architects ''Konermann Siegmund'' from

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, received the quadrennial star prize of the ''Bund Deutscher Architekten'' (Federation of German Architects) of

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. The Kunsthalle exhibits

modern art Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the tradi ...

of the 20th century.

Emphasis on self-portraits of modernity

In September 2005, through the medium of

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, the Kunsthalle St. Annen received the inimitable collection of Leonie von Rüxleben (1920 – 21 September 2005). This collection is the largest of its type in Germany. This collection enables the Kunsthalle to show approx. 1300

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s of

modernity Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norm (social), norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of the Renaissancein the " ...

in different exhibitions. But recently there appeared a conflict between the heirs of von Rüxleben and the museum's administration concerning the management of the inheritance.

Exhibitions

* ''Exil und Moderne'' (Exile and Modernity): 50 classical exhibits of classical modernity from the collection of the

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, 4 September 2005 and 29 January 2006.

Bibliography

* Karl Schaefer, ''Führer durch das Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte zu Lübeck'', 1915 * Max Hasse, ''Der Lübecker Passionsaltar Hans Memlings als Denkmal mittelalterlicher Frömmigkeit'' in: ''Vom Lübecker Dom'', Lübeck 1958, p. 33 ff * Wolfgang J. Müller, ''Lübeck um 1250 – Kunsthistorische Betrachtungen zum neuen Stadtmodell'' in: ''Politik, Wirtschaft und Kunst des staufischen Lübeck'', Lübeck 1976, p. 51 ff * Jürgen Wittstock d. ''Kirchliche Kunst des Mittelalters und der Reformationszeit: die Sammlung im St.-Annen-Museum'' (Museum catalogues of Lübeck, Vol. 1). Lübeck: Museum für Kunst u. Kulturgeschichte, 1981, * Hildegard Vogler, ''Madonnen in Lübeck'', Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Lübeck 1993 * ''Die neue Sicht der Dinge''. Carl Georg Heise's collection of photographs from the 1920s. Catalogue of the exhibition 1995, published by the

Hamburger Kunsthalle The Hamburger Kunsthalle is the art museum of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany. It is one of the largest art museums in the country. The museum consists of three connected buildings, dating from 1869 (main building), 1921 (Kuppelsaa ...

and the Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte of the Hanseatic city Lübeck. * Anna Elisabeth Albrecht: ''Steinskulptur in Lübeck um 1400: Stiftung und Herkunft.'' Reimer: Berlin 1997. * Hildegard Vogler, ''Das Triptychon des Hinrich und der Katharina Kerckring von Jacob van Utrecht'', Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Lübeck 1999 * Ulrich Pietsch, ''Die Lübecker Seeschiffahrt vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit'', Lübeck 1982, (exhibition catalogue) * Thorsten Rodiek, ''Kunsthalle St. Annen in Lübeck'' Ed. Herbert Perl, Junius Verlag Hamburg 2003, * Uwe Albrecht, Jörg Rosenfeld, and Christiane Saumweber: ''Corpus der Mittelalterlichen Holzskulptur und Tafelmalerei in Schleswig-Holstein, Band I: Hansestadt Lübeck, St. Annen-Museum''. Kiel: Ludwig, 2005.

External links

in German

St. Annen Museum

Restitution of Looted Art in Lübeck

In German and English

Exhibits of the St. Annen Museums within the portal of museums in Schleswig-Holstein

Exhibits of the St. Annen Museums within the portal of museums in Schleswig-Holstein

In English

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