Albert Haug

Albert Haug (born August 22, 1830 in Leitershofen , † July 28, 1895 in Günzburg ) was a German art-loving doctor from the Bavarian Swabia.

Life

Albert Haug was the son of a school teacher from Markt Wald .

The marriage to his wife Theres, née Burlach, had seven children. His son of the same name, born in 1875, was an architect and royal building authority assessor. From 1909 to 1911, for example, he was the site manager for the Lower Bavarian district sanatorium and nursing home in Mainkofen .

Career

Albert Haug studied medicine at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Munich from the beginning of the academic year 1852/53, supported by grants from the Dillinger Scholarship Fund and the Augsburger Domstipendienfonds . The student directory there shows that he last lived in the dormitory of the General Hospital while studying in Munich. Up to and including the winter semester 1856/57, Leitershofen in the Augsburg district is given as his hometown, and Markt Wald in his last semester in the summer of 1857. In 1857 he received his doctorate from the University of Munich.

After completing his studies, he worked as an assistant doctor at Franz Xaver von Gietl's medical clinic in Munich and entered the civil service in 1861. In November of the same year he received the license to operate a doctor's practice in Markt Wald; At that time he lived in Schweinspoint . In December 1861 he was transferred to Leipheim as a practicing doctor . After another move from Leipheim to Günzburg on April 15, 1867, the family lived there in the so-called “Haug House” (house number 231; today Mayor-Landmann-Platz 11 ; listed ). On April 11, 1872, he moved from Günzburg to Pfaffenhausen . Most recently he practiced again in Günzburg.

Transfer of paintings

Haug helped the Alte Pinakothek in Munich in 1889 with Leonardo da Vinci's early work “Madonna with the Carnation” to one of its most important works today. The picture appeared in the estate of the pharmacist Anton Wetzlar from Günzburg and was initially viewed as the work of an insignificant painter. Haug acquired the picture for 20 Reichsmarks and brought it to the Alte Pinakothek in Munich for appraisal. There the curator Adolf Bayersdorfer recognized the outstanding importance of the picture. The “Madonna with the Carnation” was created by Leonardo at the age of 20; the picture is still considered to be strongly influenced by Leonardo's teacher Verrocchio . Haug generously left the picture to the Alte Pinakothek for a small purchase price. Since then, it has been Leonardo's only work in a German museum. Haug described his motives for parting with the masterpiece in a letter to the Pinakothek's restorer at the time, Alois Hauser . As a Bavarian, he is happy if the image, which he has always cherished, stays in the country. According to Haug, it is better protected in the Pinakothek than in private ownership.

Fonts

• Observations from the medical clinic and department of Professor von Gietl in the general hospital in Munich with a statistical overview of the year 1856/57. First issue; compiled by Dr. Albert Haug. Christian Kaiser publishing house, Munich 1860 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Albert Haug. In: Cornelia Syre, Jan Schmidt, Heike Stege et al .: Leonardo da Vinci - The Madonna with the Carnation , exhibition in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Schirmer / Mosel 2006, p. 96. ISBN 978-3-8296-0272- 3 , p. 12.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Haug, Albert. In: Intelligence sheet of the royal Bavarian government of Swabia and Neuburg for the year 1853. Printed by Hartmann'schen Buchdruckerei, Augsburg 1853, p. 259 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Augsburger Allgemeine: The double . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . ( augsburger-allgemeine.de [accessed on November 19, 2017]).
3. ↑ Manfred Deger: The double. Augsburger Allgemeine , January 3, 2014.
4. ^ Official register of the staff and students at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Academic year 1855/53. J. Georg Weiss, University Printer, Munich 1853, p. 31.
5. ↑ Official register of the staff of teachers, civil servants and students at the royal Bavarian Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Winter semester 1856/57. J. Georg Weiss, Universitätsdrucker, Munich 1856, p. 30.
6. ↑ Official register of the staff of teachers, civil servants and students at the royal Bavarian Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Summer semester 1857. J. Georg Weiss, Universitätsdrucker, Munich 1857, p. 30.
7. ^ Doctoren der Medicin: 1857. In: Franz Xaver Freninger : The register book of the University of Ingolstadt-Landshut-Munich .: Rectors, Professoren, Doctoren 1472-1872. Candidates 1772-1872. Part 1, Eichleiter, 1872, p. 69.
8. ↑ Schematism of all civil and civil practice practicing military doctors in the administrative districts of Swabia and Neuburg. Extra supplement to the district official gazette of Swabia and Neuburg. No. 4, Augsburg January 15, 1862, serial no. No. 78.
9. ↑ Awarded. In: The People's Messenger for the Citizen and Farmer , No. 264, November 16, 1861.
10. ↑ Germany. In: Kemptner Zeitung , 78th year, No. 299, December 17, 1861, p. 1.
11. ↑ Circle Notes. In: Royal Bavarian District Official Gazette of Swabia and Neuburg. No. 36, Augsburg April 27, 1867.
12. ↑ Circle Notes. In: Royal Bavarian District Official Gazette of Swabia and Neuburg. No. 36, Augsburg April 20, 1872.
13. ↑ Died. In: Ärztliches Intellektiven-Blatt , No. 42, Finsterlin, Munich 1895, p. 768.
14. ^ Cornelia Syre: Alte Pinakothek, Italian painting, catalog of the exhibited works . Ed .: Bavarian State Painting Collection Munich. tape 1 . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2007, p. 27 .
15. ↑ [1]
16. ^ David Alan Brown: Leonardo da Vinci: Origins of a Genius . Ed .: Yale University Press. 1998, p. 110 .
17. ↑ According to http://www.obere-apotheke.com/historie.html , Haug is said to have waived an offer from the Pinakothek of 8,000 Reichsmarks.