Antonie Albert
Friederike Henriette Antonie Albert , née Antonie Anthes (born April 21, 1854 in Langenschwalbach , † May 5, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German art collector.
Life
Antonie Albert came in 1854 as the daughter of Karl Gottfried Anthes and his wife Katharina Elisabeth, nee. Lang (1818–1896), to the world. She married the chemical manufacturer Heinrich Albert on January 31, 1874 in Wiesbaden . There were five children from this marriage. The family initially lived in a villa on the banks of the Rhine in Biebrich before settling in 1901 at Gartenstrasse 9 (today Steubenstrasse) in downtown Wiesbaden. The son Paul Albert was a well-known racing cyclist and died in an accident in 1903. Heinrich Albert died in 1908.
In 1909 Antonie Albert commissioned the architect Max Laeuger to build a new house ( Villa Albert ) . For this purpose, she acquired the property adjacent to her previous house at Rosenstraße 5. The Villa Albert was designed based on classicism and housed her art collection with works of modernism .
Antonie Albert moved into the house in 1910 with her second husband, the Swedish dentist Johan Daniel Bredenberg, from whom she divorced in 1912. She then took the surname Albert again. The year before, in 1911, her son Ernst Albert had a fatal accident while mountain climbing in Tyrol. Until then, he had managed his father's factory and was married to the later politician Katharina Daelen . The management of the family business was then taken over by the son Kurt (Theodor) Albert.
Antonie Albert lived in Wiesbaden until 1922. Then she moved to Munich and bought a villa in the Bogenhausen district . After just a few years, she left Munich to settle in Zurich. In 1934/35 she finally found her last residence in a rented villa in Berlin-Dahlem at Habelschwerdter Allee 35. She died here in 1942 and was then buried in the Albert family's crypt in the Wiesbaden North Cemetery . The Art Nouveau grave monument based on a design by Johannes Baader and Franz Metzner was commissioned by Antonie Albert himself in 1908. Her mother, who died in 1896, was also transferred here.
collection
It is unclear when Antonie Albert started building an art collection. She may have already acquired important works with her husband Heinrich. A traditionally painted portrait of Antonie Albert by Wilhelm Trübner certainly comes from the years they were married. Trübner's painting Schloss Hemsbach with cannons could also have been acquired jointly by both spouses. After her husband's death, the move to the Villa Albert commissioned by her shows a clear move towards modernity. With his clear forms, Max Laeuger, who was still little experienced as an architect, set a counterpoint to the historicist buildings that were built at the same time. It is possible that Laeuger made contact with contemporary sculptors who worked on the building decorations and interior design. A chest and a buffet came from Karl Albiker, and Bernhard Hoetger created figural reliefs for a fireplace and a supraport relief with sleeping Venus and Cupid as a decorative element above the front door. The marble figure of a standing woman by Hermann Haller was on the garden facade of the house in a niche.
When the Villa Albert was built, a separate picture gallery was planned from the start. In addition to pictures by Wilhelm Trübner, works by modern German artists such as Karl Hofer and August Deusser were hung here . In addition, there was work by the French avant-garde here. In addition to Impressionist pictures by Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley , works of post-impressionism by Paul Cézanne , Paul Gauguin and Édouard Vuillard as well as Fauvism by André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck found their way into the collection. A work by Georges Braque was also in the Villa Albert . The best-known pictures in the collection included the painting Venice, the Pink Cloud ( Albertina , Vienna) by Paul Signac and the two pictures Wheat Field in Auvers with a White Country House ( Phillips Collection , Washington, DC) and Vase with Cornflowers and Poppies (private collection) by Vincent van Gogh . Antonie Albert was one of the artist's earliest collectors with the paintings of van Gogh acquired before the First World War. In 1922 she showed works from her art collection in the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden .
Wilhelm Trübner:
Hemsbach Castle with cannons
Vincent van Gogh:
Vase with cornflowers and poppies
Vincent van Gogh:
Wheat field in Auvers with a white country house
Paul Signac:
Venice, the pink cloud
literature
- Hessian biography Heinrich Albert
- Frithjof Kroemer (Ed.): (Heinrich Albert :) My life . After a manuscript by Heinrich Albert. no year
- Rudolf Vaupel, Fritz Adolf Schmidt, Karl Wolf: Nassauische Lebensbilder . Historical commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1940.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Albert, Antonie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Albert, Friederike Henriette Antonie (full name); Anthes, Antonie (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Langenschwalbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1942 |
| Place of death | Berlin |