Auguste de Pourtalès

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Auguste Frédéric de Pourtalès (born February 20, 1840 in Neuchâtel , Canton Neuchâtel ; † October 3, 1918 in Mauensee , Canton Lucerne ) was a Swiss landscape painter and art collector .

Life

Pourtalès, offspring of the noble Huguenot family Pourtalès , was one of nine children of the Prussian major and count Alexandre-Joseph de Pourtalès (1810-1883) and his wife Augusta Marie Elisabeth Saladin de Crans (1815-1885). One of his brothers was the sailor Hermann de Pourtalès .

Auguste de Pourtalès studied painting with François Diday in Geneva , with Oswald Achenbach in Düsseldorf , where his nephew Horace de Saussure later trained as a painter, and with Charles Gleyre in Paris . On September 26, 1866, he married Marguerite Célestine Renouard de Bussière (1840-1926). The couple had two children, including the sailor Bernard de Pourtalès .

In addition to landscape painting, Pourtalès also collected art. He was the owner of Mauensee Castle . He donated his collection to the Musée d'histoire of the city of Neuchâtel. He is also considered a benefactor of the Fondation de l'Hôpital Pourtalès .

literature

  • Marie Morel: Pourtalès, comte Auguste de. In: Carl Brun (editor): Swiss Artist Lexicon . Volume II: H-R. Verlag von Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1906, p. 565 ( Scan  - Internet Archive ).
  • de Pourtalès Auguste- [Frédéric], de Neuchâtel. In: Suzanne Stelling-Michaud: Le Livre du Recteur de L'Académie de Genève (1559–1878) (= Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance. Volume 33). Volume V: Notices Biographiques des Étudiants N – S. Librairie Droz, Geneva 1976, OCLC 163492627 , p. 229 ( preview in Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, status: November 2016; kunstpalast.de [PDF; 2.5 MB]).
personal data
SURNAME Pourtalès, Auguste de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pourtalès, Auguste Frédéric de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss landscape painter and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuchâtel , Canton of Neuchâtel
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1918
Place of death Mauensee , Canton of Lucerne