Bismeyer & Kraus

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The Bismeyer & Kraus art dealership goes back to the merger of Gustav Bismeyer and the gilder Anton Kraus. From 1863 onwards, those interested in art met in the "General Art Exhibition", the court art dealer Bismeyer & Kraus , which was located in Düsseldorf at Elberfelder Strasse 5, a side street off Alleestrasse , near the former city ​​theater .

history

Anton Kraus , court gilder and art dealer, in the friendship gallery of individual portraits of Düsseldorf painting students and their friends by Friedrich Boser , around 1850

With the beginnings of the Düsseldorf School of Painting , art was often traded in Düsseldorf alongside the sale of other luxury goods or painting materials. Important art dealers and gallery owners settled in the city and, from around 1835, formed the first gallery district in the Rhineland , especially along Alleestraße and Ratinger Straße . These include Eduard Schulte , Bismeyer & Kraus and Johann Baptiste Paffrath in the 19th century , whose gallery on Königsallee still exists today. The first person in Düsseldorf to be identified as an art dealer was Marianne Reitz with her “art and luxury goods store” on Bergstrasse 850. She was first mentioned in the list of members of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia in 1831 with the professional title of art dealer .

Fritz Bismeyer (1861–1944), manager of the office of the art exhibition in the Kunstpalast in 1904

The court gilder and curator of the municipal gallery Anton Kraus was active as an art dealer around 1843, before the merger with Gustav Bismeyer, and opened a “permanent art exhibition and painting trade” in Ratinger Strasse . The exhibitions there included pictures from the so-called Düsseldorf School by Andreas Achenbach , Christian Köhler , Emanuel Leutze , Julius Hübner , Wilhelm Preyer and Siegmund Lachenwitz .

Anton Kraus was married to Catharine Agnes Duchaine and since the mid-1850s the owner of the house at Jägerhofstrasse 30. On November 17, 1820 the son Georg Anton Kraus jun., And on September 19, 1830 the son Carl Wilhelm Kraus was born in Düsseldorf, which both learned the profession of gilders. Anton Kraus jun. opened his shop in 1855 on Burgplatz and at the end of the 1870s in Schadowstraße 6. Carl Kraus was a proven partner in Bismeyer & Kraus in Elberfelder Straße 5 around 1881 .

From 1863 Bismeyer & Kraus became a competitor to Eduard Schulte. “Up to now, recent pictures have been offered to the public in a private exhibition at E. Schulte's premises, and since many of these pieces are for sale, this exhibition is more of a larger art dealer. In return for a certain sum to the benefit of the artist support fund, the Düsseldorf painters had committed to exhibit at Schulte. This agreement has almost come to an end with the emergence of a rival business - Bismeyer and Kraus - because the latter company also maintains a permanent exhibition of new and older works of art. "( Ferdinand Hey'l )

In an ink drawing by August von Wille around 1865, which is in the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf , the premises of Bismeyer & Kraus are shown with a rectangular hall with a skylight , which is joined by two other halls. The pictures in frames are hung almost to the ceiling and sorted into groups. In the middle of the hall there is a combined piece of furniture that invites you to sit, but also provides space for sculptures.

At the end of the 19th century, the Bismeyer & Kraus art dealership was moved to Bazarstrasse 7-8 (today's Theodor-Körner-Strasse) under the direction of Carl Gustav Bismeyer (* June 15, 1826; † November 9, 1895). After the renovation of the Breidenbacher Hof according to plans by the architects Klein & Dörschel , the art shop was located on the ground floor at Bazarstrasse 4–5.

In 1878 the son Fritz Bismeyer, born in 1861 in Düsseldorf, finished his education at the municipal high school in Klosterstrasse Düsseldorf, trained as a businessman and, after the death of his father, became a partner in January 1896. The mother Emilie Bismeyer (born February 26, 1835 - December 24, 1910), born in Falkenburg, took over ownership until Fritz Bismeyer became the owner of Bismeyer & Kraus in July 1899 . In 1904 Fritz Bismeyer was managing director of the office of the art exhibition in the Kunstpalast for the "International Art Exhibition and Great Horticultural Exhibition" and from 1909 was one of the members of the Sonderbund Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler , which as an association of artists, collectors and museum experts chaired by Karl Ernst Osthaus, founder of the Folkwang Museum in Hagen. After the First World War , around 1924, the Bismeyer & Kraus painting collection moved to Derendorfer Straße 39 in Pempelfort .

  • Ratingerstrasse (No. 85 is the old house number, changed in 1858), 1st floor, 1847

  • Breidenbacher Hof around 1905

  • Fritz Bismeyer (1861–1944), manager of the office of the art exhibition in the Kunstpalast in 1904

  • Gravesite of the Bismeyer family in the north cemetery (2019)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Advertisement: Marianne Reitz, art and luxury goods store on Bergerstrasse , in Düsseldorfer Zeitung (No. 285), dated November 29, 1832
  2. ^ Kraus, A., Hofvergolder, curator of the municipal gallery , directory of the works of art in the municipal painting collection in Düsseldorf, in the directory of the members of the gallery association for the year 1856.
  3. ↑ Hofvergolder u. Art dealer A. Kraus opens permanent DM art exhibitions
  4. ^ Kraus, Anton, Hof-Vergolder, owner of the permanent art exhibition and painting dealership, Mühlenstr. 305; Kraus, Anton, Gilders, Ratingerstr. 85 , in the address calendar and housing advertisements of the city of Düsseldorf and the suburbs, 1847
  5. ↑ Kraus, Anton jr., Gilder, Mühlenstr. 305; Kraus, Anton sen., Gold., Jägerhofstr. 30 , in address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, 1855, p. 75
  6. ↑ In the exhibition of Mr. Kraus several new excellent pictures attract numerous visitors. , in Düsseldorfer Kreisblatt and Daily Anzeiger (No. 154), dated June 9, 1847
  7. ^ Permanent art exhibition by A. Kraus , in Düsseldorfer Kreisblatt and Daily Anzeiger (No. 140) of May 25, 1847
  8. ↑ Jägerhofstraße 30, Kraus, Hofvergolder, E , in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf for the year 1859
  9. ↑ Births: Georg Anton, son of the gilders Anton Kraus and Agnes Duchaine, Düsseldorf , in Königliches Düsseldorfer Intellektivenblatt November 1820
  10. ^ Civil status, births: September 19, 1930, Carl Wilhelm, S. des Gildes Johann Anton Kraus and the Catharine Agnes Duchaine, D'dorf , in Düsseldorfer Zeitung (No. 230), from September 28, 1830
  11. ^ Advertisement for the opening of the business: Anton Kraus jun., Vergolder, Burgplatz 338 , in Düsseldorfer Journal and Kreisblatt (No. 45), dated February 22, 1855
  12. ^ Anton Kraus Junior, Hofvergolder, Schadowstrasse 9 , in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf for 1875
  13. ^ Kraus, Carl, partner in the company: Bismeyer u. Kraus, Elberfelderstr. 5 , in the address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, for 1881, p. 92
  14. ↑ Die Gartenlaube, No. 12, pp. 180-184, One day in Düsseldorf. P. 183
  15. ^ Advertisement: Permanent art exhibition by Bismeyer & Kraus, Elberfelder Straße 5 , in Düsseldorfer Volksblatt (No. 92), from April 25, 1874
  16. ↑ space view exhibition halls of the art dealer Bismeyer & Kraus 1865-1887, ink drawing by August von Wille, 1865 , on emuseum.duesseldorf.de, accessed on April 23, 2017
  17. ↑ Bismeyer & Kraus Hof art dealer and permanent painting exhibition Bazarstr. 7/8 (owner Carl Gustav Bismeyer, Königsallee 2. from April 1, 1890 from Theaterstraße 3 ), in the address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for the year 1890
  18. ^ Art exhibitions, permanent, by Bismeyer and Kraus, Bazarstrasse 7–8 , in Düsseldorf and its surroundings. Alphabetical list of sights, p. 42
  19. ↑ Bismeyer & Kraus, Hofkunsthandl., Bazarstraße 7/8 , in Grosses Landes-Adressbuch or Handels- u. Commercial address books, City of Düsseldorf, 1901, p. 1418
  20. ↑ 8. Bismeyer & Kraus painting salon, Hof-Kunsthandlung, Bazarstrasse 4–5, ground floor of Breidenbach Hof , in address book for the municipality of Düsseldorf, attractions, 1907, p. 77
  21. ↑ 1878 Bismeyer, Fritz, profession businessman in Düsseldorf , in the municipal high school with grammar school classes, Voss, Düsseldorf, 1888, p. 133
  22. ^ Bismeyer & Kraus, Carl Gustav Bismeyer Wwe., B. Falkenburg , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1896, p. 29
  23. ^ Owner of court art dealer Fritz Bismeyer, Bismeyer & Kraus, Gemäldesammlung, Derendorfer Str. 39 , in the officially commissioned address book of the city of Düsseldorf, 1924, p. 78