Hans-Dietrich von Diepenbroick-Grueter

Hans-Dietrich Heinz Otto Adam Freiherr von Diepenbroick-Grueter (born July 27, 1902 in Düsseldorf , † June 10, 1980 in Münster ) was a German antiquarian and collector of portraits .

life and work

Hans-Dietrich von Diepenbroick-Grueter was born as the son of the royal Prussian major and legal knight of the Order of St. John Georg Ludwig Edmund Theodor Gustav Adam von Diepenbroick-Grueter (born January 19, 1865 in Münster; † June 7, 1937 in Hanover) and his first wife Margarethe von Bar (born February 21, 1874 in Zittau, † September 24, 1915 in Düsseldorf). In Hamburg he built up his first collection of portraits - most recently comprising 30,000 sheets - which was destroyed in the Second World War. After 1945 his new portrait collection was created in the moated Haus Marck castle near Tecklenburg . He bequeathed this to the LWL State Museum for Art and Cultural History in his willMunster . Together with old holdings and later acquisitions, it comprises 120,000 sheets and is the largest collection in Germany. In Europe, only the portrait collections in the Kupferstichkabinette in Amsterdam , London , Paris and Vienna are larger.

Fonts

History of the Reserve Cavalry Division 78 . Publishing house Gerh. Stalling, Oldenburg i. O. 1929 (= Volume 2 by Wilhelm Dietze: The 2nd Hannoversche Dragoons Regiment No. 16 in the World Wars 1914-1918 )
General portrait catalog. Directory of a collection of 30,000 portraits from the 16th to 19th centuries in woodcut, copperplate engraving, mezzotint and lithography . Hamburg 1931, supplements 1933–1939, reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1967 and again in 2000 (contains more than 44,000 portraits with supplements)
General portrait catalog: Directory of the portrait collection of the Higher Appeal Court Councilor Christian Karl Glück . With the exception of the sheets already described in the previously published parts of this catalog. ( General portrait catalog , addendum 3). Diepenbroick-Grüter Buch-u. Kunstantiquariat, Hamburg 1935
Portrait . Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe, Münster
- Volume 1. The ruler . 1977
- Volume 2. The doctor . 1979

literature

Genealogical handbook of the nobility Volume 44: Freiherrliche Häuser A , Volume 7. Starke, Limburg ad Lahn 1969, p. 68.
Peter Berghaus : Diepenbroick portrait archive . (= Picture books of the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History 16 ). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster 1982, ISBN 9783887890520 .
Kirsten Ahrens: artist in the mirror of a collection. Graphic portraits of painters, sculptors and engravers from the Diepenbroick portrait archive . Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-88789-123-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Peter Berghaus: Diepenbroick portrait archive . (= Picture books of the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History 16 ). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster 1982, ISBN 9783887890520 , p. 5.

personal data
SURNAME	Diepenbroick-Grueter, Hans-Dietrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Diepenbroick-Grueter, Hans-Dietrich Heinz Otto Adam Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German antiquarian and collector of portraits
DATE OF BIRTH	July 27, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	June 10, 1980
Place of death	Muenster

[1] Peter Berghaus: Diepenbroick portrait archive . (= Picture books of the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History 16 ). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster 1982, ISBN 9783887890520 , p. 5.