Planned donation: Herzog donates eight paintings from the Tegernsee monastery to the district

Created: 06/21/2022, 07:00

By: Gabi Werner

Two large pictures of the abbots Gregor Plaischshirn (left) and Bernhard Wenzl are still hanging in the library of the Tegernsee Gymnasium.

© Stefan Schweihofer

Duke Max in Bavaria wants to transfer ownership of eight paintings from the times of the Tegernsee monastery to the district.

If the district committee approves the donation, a restoration of the pictures is planned.

Tegernsee

– With the best will in the world, director Werner Oberholzner cannot say how long the four historical paintings have been hanging in the baroque hall of the Tegernsee high school.

"They were there long before my time," reports the headmaster and shrugs his shoulders.

One thing is certain: the four pictures in the stage area, which apparently show scholars and abbots from the times of the Tegernsee monastery, have been owned by Duke Max in Bavaria to date.

As well as four other abbot paintings - two are still in the library of the grammar school, two more are already with a restorer.

The details of the gift agreement are still being worked out

They are all to be handed over to the district of Miesbach free of charge.

At its public meeting on Wednesday (June 22), the district committee is to deal with the Duke's donation and decide whether to accept the present donation agreement.

The background is apparently a planned restoration of the paintings.

However, the details of the contract are still being worked out.

For District Administrator Olaf von Löwis, the question arises as to whether cultural assets such as these are in good hands with an authority.

The agenda item may even have to be postponed.

District master builder Boiger wants to campaign for the preservation of the paintings

The currently available draft resolution for the meeting at least allows an insight into the facts.

Accordingly, the possible donation is historically significant pictures "because they show influential personalities of the monastery".

District master builder Christian Boiger is campaigning for the preservation of the paintings.

According to this draft resolution, the pictures, which have already eroded the ravages of time, are to be restored and then made accessible to the public.

The restoration is to be financed through donations – around 79,000 euros are estimated for the measure.

Two of the images have been with a restorer for a long time

The pictures from the library, which were still hanging in the headmaster's office at the time of Oberholzner's predecessor Hans-Herbert Perlinger, are, for example, pictures of the Tegernsee abbots Gregor Plaichshirn and Bernhard Wenzl.

Two other abbot paintings - they show Petrus von Guetrather and Benedikt Schwarz - have apparently been with a restorer in Munich for some time.

"I've never seen them before," reports Oberholzner.

Although the high school itself has been looking at the pictures that have remained in the school for decades, it basically has nothing to do with the planned donation.

In Oberholzner's eyes, it would of course be fine if the ownership structure was now set on a legally clean footing.

Images are "used and almost consistently damaged"

According to the gift agreement, the district is to take over the paintings in the condition in which they are currently.

"They are used and almost all damaged and several decades old, if they don't even come from the Baroque period." The images were transferred on condition that they remain in the area of ​​the Tegernsee Gymnasium "as their usual location" and the new one The owner alone bears any costs that may be open to the restorer in Munich.

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Background: When Duke Max in Bavaria transferred ownership of the Tegernsee Gymnasium as part of the Tegernsee Castle to the public sector in 1978, the Duke reserved movable inventory that remained his property.

Among them were the eight paintings mentioned.

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