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Extraordinary exhibition in the Unterbrunner rectory: decorative eggs in various forms, including ones that can be opened, can be seen there.
Tenant Angelika Göschl was recently able to welcome, among others, Burkhardt Schütz, chairman of the Starnberg Kneipp Association, with the members for a guided tour.
Since 1988 we have been on almost every jewelry egg exchange in Germany and Europe.
Heidemarie Vogt about the passion for collecting that she shared with her husband.
© Dagmar Rutt
They are extremely delicate and elaborately decorated: Heidemarie Vogt collected 1,500 decorative eggs with her late husband over decades.
Now the small works of art can be admired at an exhibition in the Unterbrunner rectory.
Unterbrunn – “It all started with a chip box exhibition 33 years ago in Munich,” says Gautinger Heidemarie Vogt.
At that time, her husband, who died in 2015, discovered an artistically painted chicken egg with tiny floral ornaments and delicate gold threads - and immediately bought it.
It is the “number one” of a total of 1,500 exhibits.
At the Easter market this Sunday (11 a.m. to 5 p.m.), Heidemarie and Paul Vogt's decorative egg collection can be viewed in the Unterbrunner rectory.
Heidemarie Vogt's mother-in-law, the wife of the well-known Gauting painter Wolfgang Vogt-Vilseck (1876-1939), first sent the couple to a chip box exhibition in Munich in the 1980s.
After that, the Vogts were infected by the collector bug: “Since 1988 we have been to almost every jewelry egg exchange in Germany and Europe,” she says.
However, Vogt finds one flaw in her large collection: “Unfortunately, only one Fabergé egg from the famous Tsar jeweler was ever found.”
Heidemarie Vogt donated the collection to the community of Gauting
After the death of her husband, who ran a painting workshop in Gauting on Kreuzstrasse, the widow donated the valuable decorative egg collection and display cases to the Gauting community in 2016.
The small museum with its precious, fragile exhibits found a new home in the former children's playroom on the ground floor of the listed Unterbrunner parsonage, which Angelika Göschl manages (we reported).
But without this offer, she would have sold the precious decorative eggs individually, says Heidemarie Vogt.
She estimates that the collection with 1,500 exhibits is worth a condominium.
By registering in advance, Gautinger and other art enthusiasts have the chance to admire the elaborately painted eggs.
In addition to the “number one” in the collection, the olive green egg with floral ornamentation and gold chasing by a Swiss artist, Vogt is presenting an artistic ostrich egg from the USA.
Inside there is a smaller goose egg with tiny apples, grapes and vines - a symbol of fertility, explains the collector.
The rare transparent sugar egg, which was once only given to wealthy people at Easter, has a small bathing scene with paper figures inside.
“And that is our blue Mauritius,” says Heidemarie Vogt, comparing it to stamp collectors.
A Swiss artist has constructed a miniature carousel out of a duck egg that plays the spring waltz.
Christine Cless Wesle