Christoph Count Douglas

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Christoph Archibald Ludwig Friedrich Graf Douglas (born July 13, 1948 in Konstanz , † September 9, 2016 in Braunschweig ) was a German art historian and art dealer .

Life

Christoph, who came from the Douglas family (Line Douglas-Langenstein ), was the son of the journalist Ludwig Friederick Morton Graf Douglas and Edith Ida Helene Straehl, who came from Switzerland. He initially grew up in the grandparents' castle Langenstein in Hegau , where he attended elementary school and then a humanistic grammar school in Freiburg im Breisgau , where he graduated from high school in 1970. He then studied history, art history and archeology in Freiburg and Braunschweig from 1971 to 1975. Following his doctorate, he wrote about “Constance Silver”. Douglas was married to the interior designer Bergit Countess Douglas from the industrial family Oetker . Their marriage had three children; Marie-Catherine Beatrice Felicitas (* 1985), Ludwig John Patrick (* 1986) and Leopold Hubertus (* 1989).

Before Douglas started his own business as an art consultant in Frankfurt in 1996, he was a long-time member of the board of directors at Sotheby's Germany . Among other things, he brokered art deals on behalf of the noble families of the Welfen (2010, 44 million euros), the Thurn and Taxis (1993, 16 million euros) and the grand ducal house of Baden (1995, 39.7 million euros), from which he was descended on his father's side . In 2001 he advised Jan A. Ahlers from the fashion company Ahlers on the sale of its collection of expressionist works of art (estimated value between 50 and 100 million euros). He also worked for the Würth Foundation of the entrepreneurial family of the same name in 2013 when he bought the Darmstadt Madonna from Hans Holbein the Younger for 53 million euros. Douglas' art consultancy gained further notoriety for conveying the diaries of the Venetian writer Giacomo Casanova to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the diaries of Alexander von Humboldt to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin.

Douglas was a member of the Board of Directors of the Zähringer Foundation and a member of the “Salzburg Foundation”. In 2007 he was also a signatory to the Diversity Charter . He lived on his estate in Dauenberg between Eigeltingen and Reute in Hegau . In 2014 he bought Langenstein Castle in Hegau from his cousin Axel Graf Douglas .

Publications

  • with Elisabeth von Gleichenstein: gold and silver from Constance. Masterpieces d. Goldsmith's art of the 13th-18th centuries Century . [Exhibition in the Rosgarten Museum in Konstanz August 3 - September 29, 1985]. Seekreis-Verlag, Konstanz 1985, ISBN 3-924246-07-6 (dissertation).
  • as editor: Corporate Collecting Corporate Sponsoring. Lindinger + Schmid, Regensburg 1994, ISBN 3-92997-008-2 .
  • with Bernhard Prince von Baden : Just a look at Baden. Hirmer, Munich 2012, ISBN 3-77744-711-0 .

reception

Swantje Karich from Die Welt described Douglas in 2015 as “Germany's most important art advisor”.

Rose-Maria Gropp from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung mentioned Douglas in 2008 as “the most important negotiator and mediator in the international art world”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Passion that lasts. In: Cicero from 2010
  2. ^ A b Christoph Archibald Ludwig Friedrich Greve Douglas. In: geneall.net
  3. ↑ a b Dr. Christoph Graf Douglas ( Memento from September 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), curriculum vitae on the Salzburg Foundation website
  4. ↑ a b Simone Ise, Anna-Maria Schneider: Mourning for art lovers: Count Christoph Douglas suddenly died. In: Südkurier of September 12, 2016
  5. ↑ a b c End of the auction. Royal silver-plated. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 17, 2010
  6. ^ Carol Vogel: The Art Market. In: The New York Times, July 24, 1992
  7. ^ Carol Vogel: A Princely House Sale in Baden-Baden. In: The New York Times, October 25, 1995
  8. ↑ Carol Vogel: Inside Art; Unsold At Auction. In: The New York Times, February 2, 2001
  9. ^ Franz Schneider: The successful balancing act of Count Douglas. In: Finanz und Wirtschaft, February 14, 2001
  10. ^ Georgina Adam: The Art Market: daggers at dawn. In: Financial Times, January 25, 2013
  11. ↑ Your Highnesses deign to beat up. In: Handelsblatt
  12. ↑ Klaus Ahrens: art advisor. I choose and you pay. In: Der Spiegel from February 14, 2014
  13. ↑ Bettina Lober: Graf Christoph Douglas also leaves traces in the Würth Collection. In: Haller Tagblatt from September 14, 2016
  14. ↑ a b "Art dealers are not unscrupulous money makers". In: Die Welt on July 13, 2015.
  15. ↑ How is Christoph Graf Douglas related to the people of Baden? In: Archivalia, 2006
  16. ^ Mourning for Christoph Graf Douglas. In: Wochenblatt of September 13, 2016
  17. ↑ Dr. Christoph Count Douglas. Art advice. ( Memento of September 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Signatories of the Diversity Charter
  18. ↑ Weltkunst of September 12, 2916
  19. ^ Rose-Maria Gropp: Sovereign. The art mediator Count Douglas for his sixtieth. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 12, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Douglas, Christoph Graf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Douglas, Christoph Archibald Ludwig Friedrich Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and auctioneer
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 2016
Place of death Braunschweig