Cornelie Richter

Cornelie Richter. Painting by Gustav Richter

Cornelie Richter (born March 4, 1842 in Berlin ; † July 19, 1922 there ) was a Berlin salonnière and the wife of the painter Gustav Richter .

Life

The youngest daughter of five children of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864) and his wife Minna, b. Mosson (1804–1886), grew up in Berlin. Cornelie Meyerbeer was baptized at the age of 16 in the Nikolaikirche in Berlin and was confirmed shortly afterwards. In 1866 she married the painter Gustav Richter, who was 19 years her senior. Since then, in the decades up to the First World War, it played an increasingly important social role in Berlin during the early days and the Belle Époque .

Since around 1890, widowed at an early age, she ran a regular salon, in which mainly artists and art lovers frequented, but also numerous writers of the emerging modernism, among them Hugo von Hofmannsthal . “Intimate friends” with Marie von Schleinitz , who was the same age , she was in close contact with Axel von Varnbuler and Harry Graf Kessler .

judgment

Marie von Bunsen judged Cornelie Richter in her memoirs:

“More than any other woman of Jewish origin who acquired a social position with us, she was taken to the heart. They were loved. She was gentle, warm-hearted and feminine, she didn't speak much, wasn't significant, but she had an instinctive understanding of people. "

Well-known habitués

Gustav and Cornelie Richter in the painter's salon. Around 1880

Franz von Arenberg George Bancroft Reinhold Begas Wilhelm von Bode Bernhard von Bülow Daniela von Bülow Hans von Bülow Marie von Bunsen Ernst Dohm Eleonora Duse Philipp zu Eulenburg Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche Heinrich Grünfeld Ferdinand von Harrach Anna von Helmholtz

Hermann von Helmholtz Albert Hertel Ferdinand Hiller Hugo von Hofmannsthal Alexander of Hoyos Ernst von Ihne Joseph Joachim Alexander Carathéodory Pasha Harry Graf Kessler Hermann von Keyserling Theodor Kirchner Ludwig Knaus Botho von dem Knesebeck Friedrich Kraus Lilli Lehmann

Ernst von Leyden Karl Max von Lichnowsky Wilhelm Luebke Adolph Menzel Paul Friedrich Meyerheim Ottmar von Mohl Kuno von Moltke Helene von Nostitz-Wallwitz Hedwig von Olfers Marie von Olfers Maximiliane of Oriola Waldemar of Oriola Ludwig Passini Joseph Maria von Radowitz Marie of Radziwiłł

Walther Rathenau Max Reinhardt Walter Robert-Tornow Anton Rubinstein Marie von Schleinitz Götz von Seckendorff Hildegard von Spitzemberg Adolf Stahr Bayard Taylor Hugo von Tschudi Axel von Varnbuler Henry van de Velde Cosima Wagner

family

Cornelie Meyerbeer and Gustav Richter married in 1866 and had four sons:

• Gustav Giacomo Richter (1869–1943; painter)
• Raoul Michael Richter (1871–1912; philosopher)
• Reinhold Richter (1872–1947)
• Hans Richter (1876–1955; lawyer)

swell

• Marie von Bunsen : contemporaries that I experienced . Leipzig 1932.

literature

• Sven Kuhrau (ed.): Jews, citizens, Berliners. The memory of the Beer - Meyerbeer - Richter family . Berlin 2004 (exhibition catalog).
• Petra Wilhelmy: The Berlin Salon in the 19th Century . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1989.
• Hans Moeller (Ed.): “I also know that you belong to many.” Letters to Cornelie Richter, b. Meyerbeer 1884-1922 . Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-95565-082-7

Web links

• Jews citizens of Berlin: From March 19, 2004 to June 27, 2004 The memory of the Beer - Meyerbeer - Richter family. In: stadtmuseum.de. Archived from the original on February 12, 2013 (in it: The Wehrhorn and its residents: Family scene on the terrace of Cornelie Richter's house in Wannsee). 
• Gustav Richter - Life and Work. EFEU eV Alter St. Matthäus Kirchhof date = 2016-06-24(exhibition on the 125th anniversary of Gustav Richter's death; with portraits of Cornelies). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Bunsen, p. 64.
2. ↑ See Bunsen, p. 63