House Willem Mengelberg

House where Gustav Mahler stayed when he was in Amsterdam.
Gustav Mahler himself in the Netherlands (1903, 1904, 1906, 1909 and 1910)
House of Willem Mengelberg (1871-1951) and Mathilde Mengelberg-Wubbe (1875-1943) who lived here since their marriage in 1900.
Van Eeghenstraat 105 and 107 (both on the top floor, connected), Amsterdam. Mengelberg and Mahler used the frontdoor of number 107.
Period 1900-1932. See Willem Mengelberg (1871-1951) for other addresses.

Amsterdam. House Willem Mengelberg. Second house from the right (no. 107). Mengelberg lived here from 1900. At the upper level was a connection with house no. 105 (to the left).

Amsterdam. House Willem Mengelberg. Study.

The house was increasingly filled with antiques such as clocks, Delft pottery, carpets, paintings, prints, Swiss art, eglomisees, silver, music instruments and glassware. Mengelberg liked to show his art collections to his guests, and he then spoke animatedly and broadly about his ‘treasures’. He had hundreds of glass paintings in a separate room that he told us about in detail.

Year 1909. This picture was made on 07-10-1909 by N.H. Wolf (Chief editor of ‘De Kunst’ magazine) in House Willem Mengelberg. Published 09-10-1909 in ‘De Kunst’ magazine. Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) visited the Netherlands at the invitation of Willem Mengelberg (1871-1951) to conduct the Dutch premiere of his Symphony No. 7 with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO) in Amsterdam and in The Hague. His daughter Anna Justine Mahler (Gucki) (1904-1988), who was only seven years when Mahler died, recalled some 60 years later that this photograph was “Mahler as I knew him when I was a child: relaxed, delicate, good-humored, infinitely intelligent and understanding”.