A lecture at the historical association revolves around Emanuel von Seidl.
The co-creator of the Tölzer Kurhaus was always overshadowed by his brother Garbriel.
Bad Tölz – He always stood in the shadow of his brother Gabriel: Emanuel von Seidl (1856 – 1919).
The art historian Katharina Drexler, who is currently working on her doctoral thesis on the master builder and interior designer, has set out to get him out of there.
Many of their findings also affect Bad Tölz.
At the invitation of the historical association, Drexler will explain them to visitors in a lecture in the city museum.
Sister Theresia was one of the first summer visitors to Murnau
For example the family history: The Seidls were a Munich baker family.
Among the ten children was Theresia, who was later to marry the Munich glove manufacturer Roeckl and is therefore the great-grandmother of today's Oberhof owner, Franz Roeckl.
In the 1890s, Theresia Roeckl was one of the first summer visitors to the pretty market town of Murnau and settled there.
Her architect brother Emanuel also had a villa built in Murnau.
It was demolished in 1972 following a unanimous decision by the Murnau municipal council, reports Drexler, somewhat uncomprehendingly, even five decades later.
Born in Garmisch-Partenkirchner, she curated an exhibition in 2019 on the 100th anniversary of his death in the Murnau Castle Museum and commemorated the "forgotten son".
Three Tölz buildings were designed by Emanuel von Seidl
Emanuel von Seidl, who was knighted like his brother Gabriel, also worked in Tölz.
Katharina Drexler will report on how she found out about three of his buildings.
One of them is well known.
After Gabriel's death in 1913, Emanuel continued to work on the Tölzer Kurhaus.
So far, the tradition has been that the Tölzer Kurhaus and the Deutsches Museum in Munich were the only buildings in which what Drexler saw as a “congenial pair of brothers” worked together.
The speaker, who incidentally also holds a grant from the research department at the Deutsches Museum, found other buildings in the course of her dissertation.
How important it is to you to work out parallels and inner connections in the CVs of the Seidl brothers.
The founding of the Isar Valley Association is an example of the Seidls' foresight
Both looked far into the future and, according to Drexler, foresaw challenges such as climate change and environmental protection.
Not least because of the "incredibly up-to-date" attitude of the brothers, the development of their doctoral thesis is being noted with great interest, reports Drexler.
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Architect Emanuel von Seidl.
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The founding of the Isar Valley Association is an example of the Seidls' foresight.
Another is the theme of forest and trees.
What the linden trees meant to Gabriel, the oaks that he planted in Murnau Park, designed in the style of an English landscape garden, were to Emanuel.
Keyword England: The brothers were involved early on in international architecture shows there.
Influences are clearly visible in Emanuel.
Seidl had something completely different in mind for the color scheme of the Kurhaus hall
Back to Tölz and the Kurhaus, which Emanuel von Seidl completed and was primarily responsible for the interior design.
Here, too, a certain tragedy of his work becomes clear.
The opening of the Tölz Kurhaus and the history of its construction are described in the “Newest News” published in Munich in 1914.
It is therefore known that Emanuel von Seidl had a completely different color scheme in mind for the hall, which is now decorated in white, red and gold tones.
Green tones prevailed on the walls and doors.
According to the newspaper, the “lovely little stage had a deep green curtain.
The hall is, so to speak, the continuation of the park”.
The lecture
: "Poet on the drawing board: Emanuel Seidl and his buildings in Murnau and Tölz" will take place on Wednesday, September 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Tölz City Museum.
Admission is free.
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