The Music Room of Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn)
date: label: Date
content: 1849
name: label: Artist
content: Julius Eduard Wilhelm Helfft, German, 1818 – 1894
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content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The music room of Fanny Hensel (nee Mendelssohn), pianist, composer and elder sister of the more renowned composer, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, was in the Hensel residence at no. 3 Leipzigerstrasse in Berlin. Well before her marriage and continuing for many years afterward, Fanny organized and programmed small musical gatherings which took place in this room. The room is dominated by a grand piano. The walls are hung with a collection of paintings. A desk and sewing table are placed to catch the sunlight. Simple white curtains at the windows, potted plants on the windowsills, and the bare floor suggest summertime. A large cross is placed on a table in front of a pier mirror.
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Thaw Collection, Gift of Eugene Victor Thaw Art Foundation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2007-27-41
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
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content: Drawing
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content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor, graphite on white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: Frame H x W x D: 39.7 x 50.2 x 2.5 cm (15 5/8 x 19 3/4 x 1 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 23.4 x 30 cm (9 3/16 x 11 13/16 in.)