Adolf von Heydeck

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Prince Leopold III. Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau (1740–1817) on the Dessau Neumarkt

Gustav Adolf (Adolph) Heideck , from 1836 by Heideck (born April 25, 1787 in Dessau ; † January 23, 1856 there , also Adolf von Heydeck , called Poussin-Heydeck ; pseudonym : AH Valentini ), was a German art collector, painter , Erasers and engravers .

Life

Heydeck was the natural son of Prince Albert Friedrich von Anhalt-Dessau (1750-1811) from his connection with the maid Johanna Louise Franke . It was not until September 8, 1836, at the age of 49, that he was raised to the ducal Anhalt-Dessau nobility . Shortly before, he had married the daughter of a Dessau merchant, Emilie Liesengang, who was 24 years his junior, but who died in 1842 without leaving any children.

Adolf von Heydeck was due to his friendly relationship with the much older Johann Christian Reinhart (1761–1847) in a certain way his pupil, because he supported him with technical information and advice. Otherwise Heydeck was self-taught . His preference was landscape painting . From 1813 to 1821 he stayed in Rome for study purposes . He maintained close contacts with many other artists throughout his life.

Under his leadership, a committee set up in Dessau in the 1850s to erect a memorial for his uncle, Prince Leopold III. Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau (1740-1817), which was unveiled on October 20, 1858 - more than two years after Heydeck's death - on the Dessau Neumarkt.

Heydeck left his fortune, including an extensive collection of paintings, drawings and copperplate engravings , to his hometown Dessau, with the proviso that he built up the capital to build and maintain a trade school. The Adolf von Heydecksche industrial and commercial establishment was opened in 1914.

Publications

  • AH Valentini (pseudonym): The Chalcographic Society of Dessau under the government of Duke Leopold Friedrich Franz. Attempt to make a contribution to Nagler's… Artists' Lexicon . With the complete publishing directory of the society, Dessau 1847

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Even if the name according to the GHdA Adelslexikon (Volume V, 1984) may officially be Heideck , almost all sources name it Heydeck (with Y).
  2. ↑ Prince Albert von Anhalt-Dessau , the youngest son of Prince Leopold II , had been married to Countess Henriette zur Lippe-Biesterfeld-Weissenfeld (1753–1795) since 1774, but with whom he had no children.
  3. ↑ The monument was designed by August Kiß (1802–1865) based on designs by the Viennese history painter Joseph Führich (1800–1876). The statue was cast in Lauchhammer and placed in Dessau on Neumarkt on a classically simple granite plinth. - Source: The monument to Duke Franz von Anhalt-Dessau (Fig.) (PDF; 1.2 MB)

literature

  • Walter von Hueck (arrangement): Adelslexikon, Vol. 5 ( Genealogical Handbook of the Adels ; Vol. 84). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984, page 64.
  • Hartmut Wittkowski: The picture as a code of a worldview in Adolf von Heydeck . In: Dessau-Wörlitz Contributions , Vol. 2 (1988), pages 18-63.
  • Georg Himmelträger , Brigitte Thanner, Karl Otmar von Aretin : Art of Biedermeier 1815–1835. Architecture, painting, sculpture, handicrafts, music, poetry and fashion . Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1988, page 298, ISBN 3791308858 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Haus der Kunst , December 3, 1988 to February 26, 1989).

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personal data
SURNAME Heydeck, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heydeck, Adolph von; Heideck, Adolf von; Valentini, AH (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art collector, painter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau , Saxony-Anhalt
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1856
Place of death Dessau , Saxony-Anhalt