Adolf Rothermundt
Adolf Wasilieff Ernst Rothermundt (born January 15, 1846 in Saint Petersburg , † December 18, 1930 in Dresden ) was a Russian sugar manufacturer and later Dresden art patron and collector .
Life
Adolf Rothermundt was a son of the St. Petersburg merchant Adolf Ernst Rothermundt (1817–1888). Both of them had temporarily headed the family business "AW Rothermundt" founded by Alexander Wilhelm Rothermundt, a brother of his father, which generated huge income from sugar factories and tobacco trading in Russia until the revolution .
In 1872 Adolf Rothermundt married the banker's daughter Emilie Meyer. Her sister Marie Meyer married Oskar Schmitz, a Dresden art collector who had moved from France. The eight children Elisabeth, Adolf Jr., Klara, Max, Gustav, Alma, Bernhard and Alfred emerged from Rothermundt's marriage between 1874 and 1891. In 1895 Adolf Rothermund moved to Dresden, where his father had also spent his old age.
As early as 1859, Rothermundt became the owner of the dairy farm in the Marcolini Vorwerk in Dresden. He renovated this property in 1880 and expanded it.
On his behalf, Karl Emil Scherz built the Villa Rothermundt on Mendelssohn-Allee 34 in Blasewitz in 1896/97 . Rothermundt developed into one of the most important collectors of French modernism at the beginning of the 20th century. He was able to bring together numerous works by Édouard Manet , Paul Cézanne , Claude Monet , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Vincent van Gogh and the German impressionists Max Liebermann , Max Slevogt and Lovis Corinth in his collection.
Rothermundt was probably inspired by the art collector Johann Meyer (1800–1887), who also came to Dresden from St. Petersburg . Since 1865 he has presented his collected paintings by artists from the Fontainebleau school in a gallery and made them available to interested art lovers such as Rothermundt or Schmitz. Rothermundt continued the Meyer's concept and presented his collected works in the living rooms of his villa.
literature
- Andrea Pophanken, Felix Billeter (Ed.): The modern and their collectors. French art in German private ownership from the Empire to the Weimar Republic. Munich 2001, p. 209ff. ISBN 3-05-003546-3 .
- Heike Biedermann u. a .: From Monet to Mondrian. Modern masterpieces from Dresden's private collections. Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, undated [2006], pp. 54–56.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Owner of the dairy in the Marcolini Vorwerk. (No longer available online.) In: marcolini-praxisklinik.de. Archived from the original on June 5, 2014 ; Retrieved June 2, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rothermundt, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rothermundt, Adolf Wasilieff Ernst (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian industrialist, later Dresden art patron and collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1930 |
| Place of death | Dresden |