Alfred von Lotzbeck

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Alfred Freiherr von Lotzbeck auf Weyhern (born February 5, 1819 , † October 26, 1874 ) was an industrialist and landlord, Bavarian parliamentarian and art collector.

Life

His parents were Karl Ludwig Freiherr von Lotzbeck (1786–1873) and Henriette († 1841), geb. Sauté animal. He had two older sisters, Mathilde and Ida, and a younger half-brother Eugen from his father's second marriage. Karl Ludwig von Lotzbeck was a snuff manufacturer in Lahr , a Baden landlord and a royal Bavarian treasurer . From 1819 he was a member of the 2nd Chamber of Bavaria and from 1834 hereditary Reichsrath , until he resigned his seat in 1848 in favor of his son Alfred. Alfred von Lotzbeck, who studied law and was evangelical, was accepted into the civil service in 1838 as royal chamberlain . Lotzbeck was married to Henriette Clémentine Mallet (1829-1853). The only child from this marriage was daughter Laura, born in 1852.

The industrialist and tobacco manufacturer was wealthy in the court brands Weyhern and Nannhofen near Fürstenfeldbruck , in Eisolzried near Dachau and on the Hardt manor near Schwabmünchen . As a landowner in Swabia, Upper Bavaria and Baden, he belonged to the "Society of German Farmers and Foresters". He was a co-founder of the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank .

Politically, Lotzbeck asserted his influence as the grand ducal chamberlain of Baden , as a member of the Bavarian parliament and in the chamber of imperial councils from 1848 to 1874 as hereditary imperial council. He traveled to Rome around 1840. In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament and, as a representative of Bavaria, took part in the negotiations of the first German parliament in Frankfurt am Main . He maintained international contacts and received guests such as the poet and scholar Henri Blaze de Bury (1813–1888) and the writer John Aiton (1797–1863) from Edinburgh. Since 1854 he was an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

The art collection

Von Lotzbeck founded a rich library and an art collection in Weyhern Castle, with a focus on 19th century painting and graphics. In 1890 Lotzbeck's collection of paintings was relocated to Munich and later moved to the Alte Pinakothek . The focus of the collection was 19th century art, with the Nazarenes being strongly represented .

In addition, pictures by David Teniers d. J. , Antonello da Messina , Jacopo Bassano , Bronzino , Bartholomäus Bruyn , Jakob Seisenegger and Barthel Beham on the collection. His art collections have been shown in the former garden salon at Karolinenplatz 3 since 1890. In 1890 the Lotzbeck painting collection was moved to Munich, where it was incorporated into the Alte Pinakothek.

Lotzbeck was a member of the Munich Art Association . and honorary member of the Club of l'Union in Paris.

Literature on the library and the art collection

  • Catalog of Frhrl. von Lotzbeck's libraries in Weyhern Castle and Munich . Munich, Franz, 1854.
  • Friedrich Overbeck . Representations from the Gospels based on forty original drawings by Friedrich Overbeck . In the possession of Baron Alfred von Lotzbeck auf Weyhern, engraved by B. Bartoccini, Jos. Keller , Fr. Keller, F. Ludy , F. Massau , H. Nüsser , FA Pflugfelder, X. Steifensand u. A. Düsseldorf Schulgen [1850/52]. 1850

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fr. Cast, South German noble hero, history and genealogy of the nobility in the Grand Duchy of Baden. Stuttgart 1845. p. 133
  2. ↑ Lotzbeck, Lotzbeck on Weyhern, barons. In: Ernst Heinrich Kmeschke: New general German nobility lexicon. 1865. p. 22.
  3. ^ Hermann Schäfer:  Lotzbeck, Carl Ludwig von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 254 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Fränkischer Merkur No. 54, Bamberg September 11, 1838, p. 297.
  5. ↑ Wolfram Klumpp: Die Freiherren von Lotzbeck, in: Brucker Blätter. Yearbook of the historical association Fürstenfeldbruck 31 (2017), p. 106–119, here: p. 115f.
  6. ^ Morgenblatt für educated readers, Stuttgart May 1843, p. 67.
  7. ^ History of the Bavarian Parliament since 1819, Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art, Munich 2013.
  8. ↑ Der Bayerische Volksfreund No. 19, Munich July 22, 1840, col. 147.
  9. ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee ( Memento of August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  10. ^ Henri Blaze de Bury, Germania; Its Courts, Camps and People, Vol. 2, London 1850, p. 4.
  11. ^ John Aiton, Eight Weeks in Germany, comprising Narratives, Descriptions and Directions for Economical Tourists, Edinburgh 1842, p. 176.
  12. ↑ Catalog of Frhrl. von Lotzbeck's libraries in Weyhern Castle and Munich, Munich 1854.
  13. ↑ a b Munich City Archives: Honors, Mayor and Councilor  in the German Digital Library
  14. ↑ Otto Grautoff, Die Gemäldesammlungen München, An art-historical guide through the royal older Pinakothek, the royal Maximilianeum, the collection of Baron von Lotzbeck, the Schackgalerie, the royal Neuere Pinakothek, Leipzig 1907, p. 100 ff.
  15. ^ Repertory for Art History, Vol. 18, Stuttgart 1895, pp. 272 ​​ff.
  16. ^ Report on the existence and work of the Munich Art Association during 1865, Munich 1866, p. 20.
  17. ↑ Charles Yriate, Les cercles de Paris, illustrés par l'auteur, Paris. 1864
personal data
SURNAME Lotzbeck, Alfred von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lotzbeck on Weyhern, Alfred Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Art collector, parliamentarian, industrialist and landlord
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1819
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1874