Collecting Images [02]
“Only Culture”—The Pringsheims
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Collecting Images [02]
“Only Culture”—The Pringsheims
The exhibition “ ‘Only Culture’ – The Pringsheims” recalls one of the most important private art collections in Munich prior to 1933.
The mathematician Alfred Pringsheim (1850–1941) turned his palais in Arcisstrasse into a center of culture in Munich in which a large wall frieze by the artist Hans Thoma (1839–1924) could be admired in addition to his maiolica and silver collection. Remnants from this art collection, which was forcibly dispersed from 1933 onward, and the Thoma frieze can now be seen in Munich once again for the first time in seventy years and are a reminder of the fate…
Collecting Images [02]
“Only Culture”—The Pringsheims
The exhibition “ ‘Only Culture’ – The Pringsheims” recalls one of the most important private art collections in Munich prior to 1933.
The mathematician Alfred Pringsheim (1850–1941) turned his palais in Arcisstrasse into a center of culture in Munich in which a large wall frieze by the artist Hans Thoma (1839–1924) could be admired in addition to his maiolica and silver collection. Remnants from this art collection, which was forcibly dispersed from 1933 onward, and the Thoma frieze can now be seen in Munich once again for the first time in seventy years and are a reminder of the fate sufferered by Thomas Mann’s father-in-law.
Duration of exhibition
March 23 - June 10, 2007
Curator
Emily D. Bilski
Assistance
Juliette Israël
Architecture
Architet Martin Kohlbauer, Vienna
Kuratorin
Emily D. Bilski
Mitarbeit: Juliette Israël
Gestaltung
Architekt Martin Kohlbauer, Wien
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PUBLIKATION
Der Katalog zur Ausstellung
Dieser Band erinnert an die herausragende Sammlung von Majolika, Goldschmiedearbeiten der Renaissance und deutscher Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts, die von dem Mathematiker Alfred Pringsheim und seiner Frau Hedwig, geb. Dohm zusammengetragen wurde. Das Haus der Pringsheims in der Münchener Arcisstraße 12 - dessen Musiksaal mit einem Wandfries von Hans Thoma ausgestattet war, galt als einer der wichtigsten Treffpunkte der kulturellen und intellektuellen Elite in München um 1900. Die Eröffnungsausstellung des jüdischen Museum München versammelte Werke, die ehemals aus der Pringsheim Sammlung stammten: neben Familienporträts der Pringsheims von Franz von Lenbach und Friedrich August Kaulbach kann man Abschnitte des Thoma-Fries, herausragende Exemplare von Tafelsilber aus der Renaissance und italienischer Majolika bewundern.
ISBN 978-3-938832-17-2