Carl von Hollitscher

Carl von Hollitscher (born Carl Hollitscher in 1845 ; died 1925 ) was an Austrian entrepreneur , art collector and patron .

Life

Francesco Guardi: The Piazzetta di San Marco in Venice , donation from Carl von Hollitscher to the Berlin Gemäldegalerie

Carl Hollitscher came from a Jewish family and grew up in Vienna . From 1875 he lived in Berlin and initially lived in a house there at Victoriastraße 25, then moved to Lützowplatz No. 3 and finally lived from 1913 at Pariser Platz No. 6. In 1876 he became a partner in the reinsurance company Heckscher & Gottlieb and was part of the society Upper class. In 1913 his income was 300,000 marks and his fortune was three million marks. Since 1899 he was a member of the Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Verein , at times he was a board member of the Berlin Art History Society . As a patron, he mainly supports the Märkisches Museum in Berlin. In addition, he donated objects to the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin and works of art from the sculpture collection and the picture gallery . This included, for example, a statuette depicting Pope Clement XI. by Bernardino Cametti and the painting View of the Piazetta in Venice by Francesco Guardi . In 1898, Hollitscher was awarded the Prussian Order of the Crown, 4th class, for his services in mediating objects from the estate of the Viennese collector Martin Heckscher to the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts . In Austria he received the Order of the Iron Crown 3rd Class and in 1900 was elevated to the nobility by the Austrian Emperor with the title Edler von Hollenwarth .

collection

Peter Paul Rubens: Philippe Rubens, the painter's brother previously in the Hollitscher collection

Carl von Hollitscher was one of the most important art collectors in Berlin at the beginning of the 20th century. His collection included goldsmiths and bronze statuettes from the Renaissance and above all Dutch and Italian paintings from the Baroque period . He often bought works of art from the Paris-based dealer Charles Sedelmeyer . The director of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie Wilhelm von Bode advised him on building his collection . In 1912, he and the art historian Max J. Friedländer wrote a catalog for the Hollitscher Collection. Before that, in 1906 the Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Verein showed an exhibition in the Palais Redern with paintings by old masters belonging to its members. Numerous works from Hollitscher's collection were also on view on this occasion. In old age von Hollitscher moved his residence to Switzerland and in this context sold the majority of his collection. His heirs had further works auctioned off at the art dealer Paul Cassirer in Berlin in 1928 .

The Hollitscher collection included the Venetian paintings View of St. Mark's Square with the Campanile and View from St. Mark's Square onto the Grand Canal by Giovanni Antonio Canal and View from St. Mark's Square between the columns and library onto the Grand Canal by Francesco Guardi . There were also pictures of the Flemish and Dutch schools such as the breakfast table with ham, crab, peach, pointed glass, gold cup, silver jug, faience bowl by Abraham van Beijeren , girl with a candle in the window frame by Gerard Dou , hunted game by Jan Fyt , the farmer's cart , view of the city Veere and riverside with a view of Dordrecht by Jan van Goyen and the portrait of a lady with a fan by Frans Hals . Then there was the beach at sunset and The Frozen River by Aert van der Neer , music-making farmers by Adriaen van Ostade , stop in front of the tavern by Isaac van Ostade , beach with a view of the sea by Willem van de Velde the Younger , a family scene by Jan Steen and the picture rider in front of the sutler's tent by Philips Wouwerman . Other works in the collection included the portrait of Philippe Rubens, the brother of the painter by Peter Paul Rubens , Wooded Hill with a View of Bentheim Castle by Jacob van Ruisdael , Study of a Weeping Woman by Rembrandt van Rijn , Portrait of an Old Woman by Hans Memling and a Madonna and Child by Jan Gossaert .

literature

• Wilhelm von Bode , Max J. Friedländer : The painting collection of Mr. Carl von Hollitscher in Berlin . Hiersemann, Leipzig 1912.
• Cella-Margaretha Girardet: Jewish patrons for the Prussian museums in Berlin . Hänsel-Hohenhausen, Egelsbach 1997, ISBN 3-8267-1133-5 .
• Sven Kuhrau: The art collector in the German Empire, art and representation in Berlin's private collector culture . Ludwig, Kiel 2005, ISBN 3-937719-20-2 .
• Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein (Ed.): Exhibition of works of ancient art from the private collection of the members of the Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Verein . Berlin 1906.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cella-Margaretha Girardet: Jewish patrons for the Prussian museums in Berlin , p. 170.
2. ↑ The painting is currently in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. See [1]
3. ↑ The painting is currently in the Detroit Institute of Arts . See archive link ( memento of the original from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
4. ↑ The painting is currently in the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. See [2] .
5. ↑ The painting is currently in the Detroit Institute of Arts . See archive link ( memento of the original from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
6. ↑ The painting is currently in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston . See archived copy ( memento of the original from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
7. ↑ The painting is currently in the Mauritshuis in The Hague. See [3] .