Carl Erbschloe

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Charles Erbschloe on the beach in Domburg circa 1892

Carl or Charles Erbschloe (born April 17, 1847 in Elberfeld , † January 3, 1902 in Wiesbaden ), as he usually wrote his name, was an outstanding, but eccentric, German bather in Domburg . Here he owned the Carmen Sylva house , now Rijksmonument . He left his small collection of paintings from the 19th century to his hometown Elberfeld, today Wuppertal .

youth

Erbschloe was born as the son of the married couple Gustav and Sophie Elisabeth Julie Erbschloe, geb. Borgemeister, born and grew up as an orphan with his uncle and his aunt and adoptive mother , née. Müller, up. Contact with them later broke off. In Domburg it was said that he had refused to fight in the Franco-German War and had therefore emigrated to Brussels. Probably already at a young age he inherited called "Erbschloe pen" legacy of his uncle Carl and Julius Erbschloe and was owner of the knife and scissors factory widow C. Erbschloe , which he later sold to, rather than as a producer, as reindeer through life go.

Bather in Domburg

The first edition of Domburgsch Badnieuws (German: Domburger Baden Nachrichten) in 1883 lists Erbschloe as a stranger who has arrived at Het Schuttershof . So he did not end up in the wake of Johann Georg Mezger in Domburg, as was later claimed, although he certainly knew about the existence of this miracle doctor. The first published success of Metzger was a recovery of a 'lame' lady from one of the 'first' families of Elberfeld, described in the Rhein- und Ruhrzeitung .

After the 1887 season, Erbschloe took over Villa Maria , built by the architect Johannes van Nieukerken, from his compatriot Franz Aldenbruck, an eau de Cologne manufacturer from Cologne. It is the first villa in the dunes of Domburg and it still stands by the sea at the beginning of the Noordstraat . The Dutch, familiar with the danger of the dune breaking off and perhaps a little less romantic in relation to the sea, preferred to build their country houses under the protection of the dunes. In the summer of 1889, Erbschloe was so widely naturalized that he made a trip to England in the company of Middelburg and Rotterdam dignitaries with the radar ship SS Prins Willem van Oranje van de Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland (German: Zeeländische Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft) to see the arrival of the German Emperor Wilhelm II . on the yacht Hohenzollern and the Spithead Naval Review , a fleet inspection of the Royal Navy in Spithead to participate. A beautiful art print with the signatures of all fellow travelers was made from this.

Carmen Sylva possibly with Ernst Loges (1892).

After his return, Erbschloe awaits a visit from Queen Elisabeth zu Wied (1843–1916) in Domburg . At that time she enjoyed world fame as the author of Romanian fairy tales and folk tales, which she published under the pseudonym Carmen Sylva . During the month of September, which she spent in Domburg, her portrait graced the front page of the American magazine The Cosmopolitan . During her stay in Domburg, she lived in the Villa Duinoord, which no longer exists today . Because of the beautiful view of the sea, she made use of his Villa Maria during the day at the invitation of the Erbschloes. At the end of summer she unveiled a stone by the house with the text: On our dune we leave all our singing and sound - to be found again! Domburg 18 Sept. 89. Carmen Sylva - from whom nothing remains except the good intentions - and she appointed Erbschloe Knight of the Order of the Crown of Romania . This must have been a pretty easy award to earn. The so heightened Erbschloe renamed his house Villa Carmen Sylva and also took possession of an enlarged version of the cover picture of The Cosmopolitan or perhaps even the original of it. Dokter Mezger received the terracotta bust of the queen, which the artist Carl Cauer made in Bucharest in 1879 in order to create the official marble bust in his workshop in Bad Kreuznach, which Ceauşescu put aside first.

In Jan Warners' publication, the Dutch writer JC van Schagen recalls Erbschloe, who spent long summer stays in Domburg until his death in 1902. Obviously he got into a good-natured conflict with the youth of Domburg every now and then with the hook of his hiking stick. During this time he was accompanied by a young servant who, wearing a blanket but in the same suit as his master, walked a few steps behind him. According to the Domburger Badnachrichten, Ernst Ewald Loges came to Domburg from 1892 alternately from Brussels or Elberfeld with Erbschloe. But unlike the servants of other masters, Loges is never treated as a nameless servant, but always mentioned by name as a bather.

Estate and art collection

According to an estate register dated September 12, 1902, registered with a Middelburg recipient , Erbschloe seems to have determined his hometown Elberfeld as his heir, with the requirement of a considerable annual annuity for lodges, the amount of which was more comparable to a ministerial salary than a severance payment arrangement. In Elberfeld an obituary appeared in a newspaper in which Erbschloes were thought of as benefactors of the poor. In Elberfeld he distributed modest donations, clearly modeled on an Erbschloe fund previously donated by his uncle, just as he sometimes supported the music of Apollo in Domburg .

He also left a collection of around 20 paintings with which he had stocked a small museum in two salons on the Domburg dune . There are German and Brussels works from Biedermeier to Romanticism . They represent a contrast to the Art Nouveau , which Jan Toorop immediately followed in Domburg. He bequeathed these paintings to the Elberfelder Museum as early as 1898, but in the absence of his family's consent, they remained in Domburg until the estate was completely liquidated in 1907.

Painting by Charles Erbschloe (Domburg 1898)

Gustave Wappers , The Belgian Revolution (1834).
Carl Rottmann , Inntal bei Neubeuert (1823).
Andreas Achenbach , Landscape with a River (1866)

With funds from the Carl Erbschloe Fund , the museum bought various other works between 1907 and 1921.

Sources and literature

  • HM Kesteloo, Domburg in woord en beeld , Middelburg, 1913 (herdruk Utrecht, 1973)
  • Jan Warners, Domburg 150 jaar Badplaats , Domburg 1984
  • From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal
  • Files of the Erbschloe Foundation Elberfeld
  • Wuppertal City Archives
  • Zeeuws Archief

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav von Eynern: News about the Erbslöh family . Lintz, Düsseldorf 1905, p. 13
  2. ↑ Domburgsch Badnieuws 1883
personal data
SURNAME Erbschloe, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erbschloe, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art collector, patron
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1902
Place of death Wiesbaden