Edward Habich

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Edward Habich (also Georg Eduard Habich , George Edward Habich , born July 7, 1818 in Veckerhagen near Kassel , † September 12, 1898 in Kassel) was a German brewer , art collector and patron .

Life

Edward Habich, born near Kassel as a member of the owner family of the GE Habich's Söhne paint factory , initially worked as a wine merchant in Frankfurt am Main . He then went to Paris in 1840 and the USA in 1845 . He was commercially successful as a beer brewer in Boston .

Art collector and patron

Hans Baldung: Hercules and Antaeus (1531)

After his return from the USA, Habich started building an art collection in Kassel around 1878. Edward Habich made 410 reproductions of the most important engravings by old masters available to the Kunstverein für Kurhessen for an exhibition in 1892 . He donated the Gothic painting Hercules and Antaeus to the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Kassel . His extensive collection of paintings was auctioned in 1892, his collection of drawings in 1899, and his decorative arts collection in 1901.

literature

  • Catalog of the selected and extensive painting collection Edward Habich zu Cassel. First-rate paintings by eminent masters from the Dutch, Flemish, German, Italian and English schools of the 15th-18th centuries. Auction at Cassel by Lempertz and Heberle . Lempertz, Cologne 1892 ( digitized version ).
  • Catalog of the collection of arts and crafts antiquities of Mr. Edward Habich zu Cassel: excellent porcelain, precious works in gold, silver, glass, ivory, ... etc .; Auctioned at Cassel Monday, April 15, 1901 and the following days . Max Cramer, Kassel 1901 ( digitized version )
  • P. Heidelbach: The Habich Collection under the hammer. In memory of Edward Habich, the patron of Kassel art . In: Kasseler Post May 9, 1942.
  • Samos - the Kassel excavation in 1894 in the necropolis of the archaic city of Johannes Böhlau and Edward Habich . Kassel 1996, esp. P. 8.222 Fig. 2 (portrait photo).

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personal data
SURNAME Habich, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German brewer, art collector and patron
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Veckerhagen
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1898
Place of death kassel