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Dr. phil. J. Menzhausen sang to 450 years of art chamber

A worthy "Chamberlain" talked of the "treasure chest" of the electors

by Reinhard Heinrich

The DRESDEN BOOK event last Thursday was a similar tip as it did concerts and lectures in the porcelain collection, than in the 80s of last century, "initiated circles" among themselves "about telling" how good it was again been. The "consecrated circle" will probably still be together today in part - and sometimes just in the bookstore - the talk.

And it was also good this time. Joachim Menzhausen for over half a century in the art of practice at home, of which over 30 years as director of the Green Vault. And in the (Un) retirement probably even more so. He does not publish on to ( book on image s. 2.) And to research. He is an explorer and mystery fan - apparently to do with art since he has. And he also brings a smile some building art history "irrefutable facts" to collapse, as he investigates the work of old Saxon and foreign artisans.


What Joachim Menzhausen presented this evening was not the beauty of our Saxon treasures. The visit is to prevent entry. Menzhausen showed what the actual value of the art chamber for Saxony once accounted for: The collection technology, as one would say today. It was just water and "art" with which one could move water uphill. And for the thin-walled bronze axes bought ado the know-how in Italy - in the person of casting techniques. But had However, "our" artisans are contributing their personally-Saxon know-how to Italy. And everything has been negotiated at government level. The free-wandering journeyman was probably not in the Renaissance.



Play Menzhausen, makes a journey through time. He speaks quite naturally of "us axes" says, " we have had in a small town in the Erzgebirge a watchmaker," as it was only found in Paris and London. When he had been there myself.

is downright breathtaking, but his speech when he mentioned in passing, as an art historical sensational discovery just " made to unpack the boxes from Russia has Yes -. he was in 1958 actually there when the treasures back to decision of the Soviet government came

But apparently he was also there, as a Renaissance prince in Dresden, Vienna and elsewhere, as on date her. Art Chambers moored. And Menzhausen must have risen and the private staircase from kurfüstlichen bedroom in the attic rooms of the castle to watch the prince in the woodturning education. Anyway, he tells it so vividly that you want to believe it.

Anyone who has experienced this event, knows what the current Jubilee "450 years of art chamber" - and what it does not mean. And with a Augenzwinken seen through a little bit of the marketing strategy of the State Art Collections, which are almost every year an occasion - and very successfully in the world and share - so again and again and more and more tourists have a reason to come to Dresden. And yes the city does well.

DRESDEN BOOK The bookstore in the basement of the passage in the neighborhood F (directly between the Frauenkirche and the Princes) again, it's good to have events with such speakers. As a book dealer who turned his hobby into a profession - and carries it out as a vocation. Dresdner should quiet times also look outside of lectures in, do tourists it anyway.