Alexander Flinsch (paper manufacturer, 1834)

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Alexander Ferdinand Flinsch (born January 9, 1834 in Leipzig , † January 19, 1912 in Berlin ) was a German paper manufacturer , watercolor painter and art collector .

Life

Alexander Flinsch, the son of Ferdinand Traugott Flinsch , first completed a commercial training in his parents' paper mill before he stayed in Paris in 1858/59 . There he studied painting in the studios of Jean-Baptiste-Ange Tissier (1814–1876) and Camille Flers . Study trips to Spain and Italy followed before he returned to Leipzig around 1860. He took lessons from the history painter Gustav Jäger and moved to Berlin in 1872, where he received private lessons from Hermann Eschke . After 1872 Flinsch made regular study trips to Italy. In 1876 he successfully participated in the Berlin Academy Exhibition, and in 1893 in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition.

He assembled a collection of 19th century drawings that were auctioned off after his death.

Alexander Ferdinand Flinsch, who from 1872 headed the Berlin branch of his father's paper wholesaler, had a son of the same name, Alexander Ferdinand Flinsch (1872–1943), from 1899 co-owner of his grandfather's paper wholesaler.

Alexander Flinsch died in Berlin in 1912 at the age of 78. He found his final resting place in the family's hereditary funeral in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg .

literature

  • Flinsch, Alexander . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916.
  • Guido Josef Kern (Ed.): Alexander Ferdinand Flinsch - an unknown painter of the German late romanticism , exhibition catalog, Pflaume & Roth, Berlin 1933.
  • Nina Struckmeyer: Flinsch, Alexander Ferdinand. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, p.?.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Collection of hand drawings by Alexander Flinsch, Berlin. German hand drawings of the first half of the XIX. Century ...; Auction: Friday, November 29th and Saturday, November 30th [1912] / by CG Boerner in Leipzig. Boerner, Leipzig 1912 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ On genealogy cf. Hans Georg Kutzner:  Flinsch, Ferdinand Traugott. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 248 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic online .
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 301.
personal data
SURNAME Flinsch, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flinsch, Alexander Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paper manufacturer, watercolor painter and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1912
Place of death Berlin