Albert Kollmann
Albert Kollmann (born June 28, 1837 in Grüssow , Mecklenburg ; † December 15, 1915 in Neuendettelsau , Ansbach district , Middle Franconia ) was a German merchant and art collector.
Life
Albert Kollmann was a son of the pastor Georg Wilhelm Albert Kollmann (1802–1867) and his wife Friederike Marianne Rosalie (1803–1876), born in Grüssow. von Flotow , a daughter of Major von Flotow auf Walow and Grüssow. In 1840 his father gave up the pastor's office and devoted himself entirely to the administration of the Grüssow estate, which he had inherited from his wife in 1834; he received the title of Domain Councilor . His brothers Ludwig Friedrich Albert (* 1828; † 1896 in Lübeck) and Emil Eduard Adolf became pastors, his sister Wilhelmine married the theology professor Friedrich Adolf Philippi in 1874 , another sister Friedrike married the Grüssow pastor Adolf Hermann Kneser († 1863) and became the Mother of Adolf Kneser , and another sister Charlotte († 1926) became a deaconess in Neuendettelsau.
He attended high school Fridericianum in Schwerin and the business school in Rostock . In 1860 he founded a trading business in Hamburg, where he sold products from his parents' property.
in June 1863 his father sold the Grüssow estate to CFA von Flotow auf Kogel . Albert Kollmann then gave up the business, turned to art and traveled through Europe in search of eligible artists without permanent residence. In 1888 he was an intern with Aby Warburg , Ernst Burmeister, Hermann Ulmann, Max J. Friedländer , Johannes Seger, Max Semrau , August Winkler and Ernst Zimmermann among the first nine students of the “precursor institute” founded by August Schmarsow of the Art History Institute in Florence . In the early 1890s he sold Max Liebermann's works . In 1899 he exhibited his private collection in the St. Katharinen Museum Church in Lübeck .
After the death of his brother Ludwig Friedrich Albert Kollmann, who died in Lübeck, he donated the Lübeck City Library with 168 works in 181 volumes and the Lübeck Museum with 50 lithographic portraits from his estate.
In 1892, Kollmann met Edvard Munch in Liebermann's studio and became friends with him. Kollmann made contact with the Lübeck ophthalmologist and collector Max Linde , who from 1902 onwards became one of Munch's larger collectors and clients. Munch made several portraits of Kollmann.
Ernst Barlach made two portrait busts and a mask (1913) of him.
Kollmann died in the men's home of the Diakonie Neuendettelsau .
literature
- Theodor Däubler : Munch. In memory of Albert Kollmann. in: Die Aktion No. 47/48, November 25, 1916, Col. 638–644
- Hans von Flotow: Albert Kollmann. A life for art. 1921
- Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen and Sven Kuhrau: Taste stories . Kiel 2011, p. 83
- Ernst Barlach : Account Kollmann - The Apostle . (Digitized version)
- Ernst Barlach: Obituary for Albert Kollmann . (Digitized version)
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5273 .
Web links
- Kollmann's correspondence with the Kalliope network
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Walter: Our regional clergy from 1810 to 1888: biographical sketches of all Mecklenburg-Schwerin clergy. Self-published, Penzlin 1889, p. 102
- ^ Archives for regional studies in the Grossherzogthümen Mecklenburg and revue of agriculture. 13 (1863), p. 360
- ↑ History of the Instiutus ( memento of October 2, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) at www.khi.fi.it
- ↑ Max Linde: s: de: A Max Liebermann exhibition
- ↑ Administrative report 1897, p. 2
- ↑ Lübeckische Blätter 40 (1898), p. 532
- ↑ The Unshakable in FAZ from January 9, 2016, page 13 ( online )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kollmann, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant and art dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grüssow , Mecklenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1915 |
| Place of death | Neuendettelsau , Ansbach district , Middle Franconia |