The Ludwig Roselius Museum is a museum in Bremen. It preserves the private collection of the coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius (1874-1943), consisting of artistic artifacts from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. The museum is housed in a building whose history has its roots in the fourteenth century, but which was rebuilt in the Renaissance style in 1558. Ludwig Roselius then bought the building, calling it "Casa Roselius". Following the ideal of a medieval town house in Bremen, he had it equipped with a stepped pediment, enlarged it and transformed it into a museum, making his vast collection available to the public. The house was rebuilt after the damages of the Second World War, from which fortunately the collection was rescued. The museum is presented today as the founder wanted: the furnishings create the evocative atmosphere of the German bourgeois housing culture of the early twentieth century. High-level works of art fit into a set of fine furniture, carpets and wall coverings. Among the works in the collection there are medieval altars, statues (such as the large oak wood statue of San Cristoforo, patron saint of navigation (dating back to around 1515/1520), the ship model of a barrel buoy (18th century) the importance of the River Weser. An entire room is dedicated to Lucas Lucas the Elder (1472–1553), one of the most important German artists of the Reformation period. Initially a landscape painter, he soon concentrated on portraits. His paintings document the phase. of upheaval in which the artistic gaze begins to detach itself from the sacred pictorial tradition and to turn to the earthly and to the human. The portraits of Martin Luther and his wife Katharina von Bora (both 1529) and the painting Christ sorrowful (about 1537) attest to this transition. The fascinating complex is enriched by Baroque paintings (17th and 18th centuries): still lifes, portraits and depictions of mythological themes in rich colors and dynamic compositions. it also houses Esther Haase's contemporary photographic works.