Bernhard Hausmann

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Bernhard Hausmann, 1853, by Georg Bergmann (1819–1870)

(David Conrad) Bernhard Hausmann (* May 15, 1784 in Hanover ; † May 13, 1873 ibid) was a transport politician, manufacturer and art collector. His art collection contains watercolors and drawings from the Romantic and Biedermeier periods. It bears the name "Souvenirs of my contemporaries" and is on permanent private loan in the Duke Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig .

Life

Hausmann's father Bernhard (1757–1803) and grandfather Johann Melchior (1716–1775) ran a court gold and silver embroidery factory that had existed since 1743. His sisters were Marie, Sophie and Caroline.

In 1800 he began a commercial apprenticeship in a cloth factory in Aachen and after his father's death took over the family business, where he was accepted into the Krameramt in 1809.

During the Napoleonic period he held various honorary positions. In 1821 he was elected vice spokesman and for 1824–1828 and 1838–1843 spokesman for the citizen board (city parliament). When King Ernst August suspended the constitutional law, there was trouble with the magistrate. Clausthal and Zellerfeld elected him in 1829 as a deputy in the 2nd Chamber of the Kingdom of Hanover. From 1849 to 1855 he was Vice President and temporarily President of the 1st Chamber of the Estates Assembly. From 1837 he was a member of the Railway Commission, and since the Hanover-Lehrte line opened in 1843, for which he had ordered thousands of tons of rail steel and several locomotives in London, he was a member of the Railway Directorate.

When in 1811 he had seen a second-hand dealer want to turn an old painting into firewood, he bought the work of art from him, which turned out to be the altarpiece of the Calenberg castle chapel . As a result, he began collecting works of art. He had his stately house on Burgstrasse added one floor to accommodate his art collection, which had been open to visitors since 1833. In 1832 he was a co-founder of the Kunstverein Hannover .

Citizens word halter Hausmann (second from right), than after the personal union between Britain and Hanover 1837 City Manager William Rumann the King Ernst August symbolically handed over the keys of the city of Hanover;
Relief by August Waterbeck ; Part of the historical frieze on the New Town Hall of Hanover

Hausmann's important art collection is located in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum , which has been in the house since 1996 in the form of a private permanent loan. It is called “Memories of My Contemporaries” and contains watercolors and drawings from the Romantic and Biedermeier periods.

Bernhard Hausmann is buried in the Engesohde city cemetery . In 1876 Hausmannstrasse in Hanover was named after him.

Publications

  • Directory of Hausmann's painting collection in Hanover ; 1831
  • Albrecht Dürer's copperplate engravings, etchings, woodcuts and drawings ; 1861
  • Memories from the eighty-year life of a Hanoverian citizen , Hahn , Hanover 1873; Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Watercolors and drawings from the Romantic and Biedermeier periods. The collection "Memories of my contemporaries" of Bernhard Hausmann (1784-1873) - Braunschweig 2005, Dr. Silke Gatenbröcker. Inventory catalog of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum

literature

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Hausmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Bernhard Hausmann's “Memories of My Contemporaries”  collection - a collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Zimmermann:  Hausmann, David Conrad Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 123 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ http://www.matrixmedia-verlag.de/pressehausmann.html
  3. ^ Böttcher: Hannoversches biographical lexicon
personal data
SURNAME Hausmann, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hausmann, David Conrad Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German transport politician, manufacturer and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1873
Place of death Hanover