August Friedrich Demmin
August Friedrich Demmin (born April 1, 1817 in Berlin , † June 17, 1898 in Wiesbaden ) was a German art writer .
At 17 Demmin moved to Paris , where he finished his university studies and lived and worked as a businessman until 1872. He wrote mainly in French, which is why he is better known under the name Auguste Frédéric Demmin . He married a French woman. During this period he used a large part of each year to travel extensively throughout Europe for his art studies, mainly in the field of ceramics and armaments . In 1873 he moved to Wiesbaden, where his collections are still in the Wiesbaden Museum today . In Wiesbaden, the Demminsweg, laid out in 1908, is named after him.
Works
- Non-fiction
- Guide de l'amateur de faiences et porcelaines: terres cuites, poteries de toute espèce, émaux su métaux… . (4th edition, Paris: Renouard 1873, 3 vols.)
- Guide des amateurs d'armes et armures anciennes . (daf. 1869; German adaptation and T. :)
- The weapons of war in their historical development - from the oldest times to the present . (1886 2 ) [1869]. Leipzig: sailor. ( Digital version of the 4th edition, 1893 at the Internet Archive )
- Encyclopédie histor1que, archéologique, biographique etc. des beaux-arts plastiques (Paris 1872–80, 5 vols. With 6000 illustrations)
- Handbook of the fine & industrial arts: historical, archaeological, biographical, chronological, monogrammatic and technical encyclopaedia of literary studies, visual studies, heraldry, spiritual costumes, ecclesiastical implements, vessels.
- Reprint of the original edition, 1877/78. Gütersloh: Prisma-Verl., 1979
- Reprint: Leipzig: Zentralantiquariat der Dt. Democrat. Republic 1980.
- Ceramic studies (Leipzig 1882–83)
- Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles
- German translation dictionary: directory arranged according to a sequence of letters . Wiesbaden: Bechtold [1895].
- Novels
- Une vengeance par le mariage
- The tragic-comic of the present (Leipzig 1883–84).
- Comedies
- Our collectors
- Poets' tribulation
- Buridan's donkey
- Spectacles
- The Pirkheimers
- Wieland the blacksmith
See also
literature
- Albrecht Freiherr von Reitzenstein: Demmin, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 592 ( digitized version ).
- Renkhoff, Otto : Nassau biography . Historical Commission for Nassau , Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-922244-90-4 , p. 126 .
Web links
- Literature by and about August Friedrich Demmin in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Demmin, August Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Demmin, Auguste; Demmin, Auguste Frédéric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Art historian, businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1898 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |