Carl Gustav von Sengbusch

Carl Gustav von Sengbusch (born March 9, 1843 in Riga ; † May 30, 1924 there ) was a German-Baltic manufacturer, art collector and patron.

Life

Carl Gustav von Sengbusch was the son of the merchant Wilhelm von Sengbusch. The pastor Alexander von Sengbusch was his uncle. Carl Gustav von Sengbusch took over the A. G. Sengbusch cork factory from his father , the company of which was founded by his grandfather, the Riga mayor Alexander Gottschalk von Sengbusch .

Column hall of the Riga Cathedral Museum

Carl Gustav von Sengbusch's importance, however, lies more in the cultural-historical context. As a collector and patron, he made a special contribution to the Cathedral Museum in Riga. From 1890 he was a member of the Museum Council for the Arms of the Middle Ages. The exhibition room of the arms collection of the cathedral museum was named after him Carl Gustav von Sengbusch-Saal . The Empire Room and the reorganization of the prehistoric collections by the Berlin prehistorian Max Ebert (1913/1914) were also funded by him. Sengbusch was honored in 1913 with a marble plaque in the conference room of the museum. Sengbusch was a museum inspector in Riga from 1901 to 1924 and one of the directors of the picture gallery in Riga from 1890 to 1924.

His father Wilhelm von Sengbusch had received a large art collection of over two hundred paintings from his father-in-law, the Riga merchant Friedrich Wilhelm Brederlo (1779–1862). Brederloh's will from 1852 stipulated that the collection of his daughters, administered by his son-in-law Wilhelm von Sengbusch, would remain "undivided in its existence" and linked to Riga, otherwise it would be offered to the city of Riga. When the Art Museum in Riga opened in 1905, the entire collection was taken over as a permanent loan from the von Sengbusch family and was henceforth a central part of the painting collection of this museum (today in the Museum of Foreign Art (Riga) ). The von Sengbusch family was expelled from the Baltic States in 1940 on the basis of the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty ; when she was forced to resettle in 1940, she was allowed to take seven of the paintings with her. The remaining items in the collection were then transferred to Latvian state property by the government under Kārlis Ulmanis .

literature

• Daiga Upenice, Werner von Sengbusch: Friedrich Wilhelm Brederlo Collection (in Latvian and German), 248 p., Riga 2002.

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Carl Gustav von Sengbusch. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Portrait of C. Gustav Sengbusch in the Riga Cathedral Museum