The city of Lemgo, located in Germany, attracts the attention of tourists from all over the world. Its popular with the architect, which built an amazing construction here, which now bears his name - the House of Charles Junker. He developed the design of the house and his internal situation. The project, inspired by the sick imagination of the artist, is striking even the most inexperienced in the art of people. What is due to the appearance of this unusual home?
Biographical data
Karl Jungher was born in 1850 in the family of a blacksmith. From seven years, he remained without parents on the care of a very wealthy grandfather. Wear a joiner had the opportunity to study at the Academy of Arts and Travel. At the beginning of the eighties, having received a large inheritance from grandfather, the artist returned to his hometown. By this time, he was already seriously ill schizophrenia, but his creative potential beat the key. Karl Juncker conceived to build a large spacious home for his fictional family.
He urged the neighbors that his wife will come back from Holland, where she allegedly learns to culinary art. Until the death in 1912, the crazy architect lived and worked in this house.
Description of the house
Karl Juncker house is a majestic three-story building with a massive front door, with large furnace windows of the original form. E. The wall is dressed with wooden decorations of manual joinery.
Interior decoration at home
The internal finish of the house was engaged in an aging artist, the rest of his life. On the first floor of the house there are household premises: a kitchen, storage room, an entrance hall and several other rooms that are not intended for housing.
On the second floor, the architect has settled a living room, a children's room and a bedroom. A visit to these rooms by tourists leaves them a crazy feeling. In the bedroom near the parent bed attached a cradle bed for a baby, which is like a retinue of a twisted wooden root. In the same spirit there is a separate children's room. Here, too, all of the tree.
The living room is striking with his bulky, the sofa aged sofa. Chairs with high wooden backs resemble the furniture of the throne room.
Each room at home is gloomy, all the walls and wooden elements of furniture are cut into a small pattern. As if the age-old roots of the trees hang from the ceiling and from the walls. Constructions differ not only by their scales, but also intricate additional fixtures and supports.
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The third floor is attic rooms designed for servants. It was there that the owner himself and the creator of the house lived.
Birth of the museum
At the end of the life of Karl Juncker, began to launch a curious people to his home, but then, few people appreciated his work. But Karl continued to believe in the fact that after half a century, and maybe in a hundred years, his talent will be recognized. He was right - in 2004, the house officially became a museum.
Now, anyone may not hurry around all the floors and rooms of this mysterious house.
His visitors tell that seeing such an impossible in any museum, but no one would want to live in such a mansion. And his Creator lived his whole life in him with his imaginary wife and child, giving orders invented servants, meeting non-existent guests.
Oversized the name of the Creator
In addition to the house in Lemgo, they were designed and built the first Vienna plumbing, as well as, he made a certain contribution to the construction of Castle Miramare.
The mysterious and sinister house of Karl Juncker stands in the city of Lemgo for more than a century, but his time as if he did not touch him. The Creator and Owner left his life, leaving his plans in his walls of his plans.
House of Charles Juncker (11 photos)
