Paintings at The Berghof
This will be my attempt to identify the paintings at the Bergohf. I’ll stick only to the Great Hall (altough there were other paintings in the other rooms / floors of the former Wachenfeld Haus). The only exception will be the paintings of Hitler’s parents at his office. Also I will only refer to the most important obects.
It is known that the paintings moved arround inside The Berghof and between Hitler’s Munich apartment on Prinzregentenstraße and the Obersalzberg so I’ll do my best. There are some paintings that I can not identify so any help is most welcome. It would also be interesting to know if some of the paintings still exist and their location.
Passing the corridor / archway the visitors would entry The Great Hall and probably the first thing they would see was the huge window that stood on the north wall right in front of them. (this window could actually be lowered). Due to it’s size there was nothing else on the north wall.
On the room’s opposite side (south wall) stood the massive red and gray marble fireplace. This was also the wall that served as entry (archway) to the Grand Hall.
On this wall (from left to right):
1- Archway
2- A painting that I can’t identify (sometimes “Nanna” by Fuerbach) - need help on this one
3- Fireplace
4- Above the fireplace there would be a circular frame with “Madonna and Child” by Giuliano Bugiardini (sometimes there was no painting hanging above the fireplace). This painting is currently in The National Museum of Warsaw.
5- Venus and Amor by Paris Bordone. Hitler bought this painting in 1936 from an art dealer (Karl Haberstock). At the end of the war, by error, this painting was considered to have been looted by the National Socialists so it was given to Poland. Today it can be seen at the National Museum of Warsaw (still has the same frame as when it hung at the Great Hall).
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The west wall (from left to right):
1- Painting “The Temple of Janus” by Giovanni Paninni
2- Bust of Dietrich Eckart
3- “Nanna” by Anselm Feuerbach (this painting is currently at the Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in Dortmund)
4- Doorway to Haus Wachenfeld (in this room stood the famous Kachelofen [stove] whose tiles were decorated by Sofie Stork. She was responsible for decorating the Bergohf and the title boards that we see on Eva Braun’s home movies were also made by her).
5- Gobelin tapestry (and next to it the standing clock with eagle and swastika and the large globe). In front of the tapestry was the Bechstein piano with the bust of Richard Wagner.
The east wall
On this wall there are two paintings that I can not identify (so any help is most welcome)
From left to right:
1- Gobelin Tapestry (at the evenings this Gobelin was drawn aside to allow film visioning)
2- Painting that I can’t identify
3- Small statue. (This statue was exposed during the Great German Art exhibition in Munich in 1938 [Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung, Haus der Kunst]. The statue is “Kopftuchbindendes Mädchen” – Girl Tying a Scarf on her Head – and was sculped by Eugen Hencke).
4- Another painting that I can’t identify. (looks like a still life – fruit? Sometimes in it’s place there would be Paninni’s “The Temple of Janus”)
Finally will mention the two paintings that were on Hitler’s office
The two paintings were Hitler’s parents Alois and Klara and stood on the front wall, between the windows. As to the author could be Heinrich Knirr (just speculating) and were based on two photographs.
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by TABSTABS1964
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