Ernst Blümner

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Ernst Blümner around 1810

Ernst Blümner , from 1811 Freiherr Blümner von Frohburg (born January 26, 1779 in Leipzig , † September 14, 1815 ibid) was a Saxon legation councilor and manor owner. At the beginning of the 19th century, he helped Frohburg Castle gain national cultural and art historical importance.

Life

Ernst Blümner was the son of the Electoral Saxon Commissioner Johann Gottfried Blümner (1724–1798), bailiff of the Leipzig district office . His brother Heinrich (1765–1839) was Leipzig councilor and head of the council library .

Ernst Blümner began his law studies at the University of Leipzig in 1795 and decided to do so from 1799 to 1801 at the University of Göttingen . He then went on a three-year educational trip also under the aspect of preparation for a possible higher civil service. It took him to France, England, Scotland, Switzerland, Italy and Austria. He was accompanied by Christian August Gottlieb Göde , among others .

Ernst Blümner's autograph

As early as 1798, together with his siblings Heinrich and Caroline († 1853 as Caroline Gruner), he inherited the Frohburg estate and castle , which their father had acquired in 1777. In 1801, the siblings gave him their shares, so that Ernst became the sole owner of Frohburg. After returning from his educational trip, he took over the management of the Frohburger estate.

After the battle of Jena , he tried to get a position in the diplomatic service of Saxony, which he received in 1807 as legation councilor in the "Department of Foreign Affairs". After a break at Gut Frohburg, he returned to the civil service in 1810, now as a secret legation councilor. He performed tasks as the political envoy of Saxony at the Prussian court in Berlin and at the Napoleonic court in Paris . After his return he was raised to the Saxon baron status in 1811 as "Ernst Blümner von Frohburg" .

On June 28, 1813, he married Luise Auguste Adelheid von Funck (1789–1849), the daughter of the Saxon Lieutenant General Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Funck (1761–1828). On March 4, 1815, their son Ernst August was born, who died in 1832 at the age of 16.

Ernst Blümner von Frohburg sought a cure for a breast disease (presumably pulmonary tuberculosis ) during spa stays in Nice and Karlsbad , but finally died in Leipzig at the age of 36.

Work in Frohburg

Ernst Blümner was an educated personality with an interest in cultural history, which was not least due to his stay in Italy. He had numerous contacts with the Dresden art scene. He was known to the Christian Gottfried Körners family (1756–1831), Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811), Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), Carl Ludwig Kaaz (1773–1810) and Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826). He owned a collection of pictures by contemporary painters such as Philipp Hackert (1737–1807), Dorothea Stock (1760–1832), Johann Carl Rößler (1760–1832) and Carl Ludwig Kaaz. A work by Caspar David Friedrich is said to have belonged to this collection.

  • Picture room

  • Mural Nemisee in the stone hall

For his collection, Ernst Blümner had the Dresden painter and architect Johann Gottfried Klinsky (1765–1828) set up a classicist gallery, the picture room. Carl Ludwig Kaaz painted a large mural with an ideal landscape on the Italian Nemisee in another classicist hall, the Stone Hall . This mural, presumably completed in 1805, is today, with its almost seven meters length, the largest preserved from the time of early Romantic painting in Germany.

The classicist interior designs restored today and the works of art contained in them made Frohburg Castle famous far beyond the national borders shortly after its completion.

A lot of admiration aroused in its time the escape of four classicist rooms, which were all kept in increasing color strength in the basic tone green and symbolically represented the four seasons or four ages and were decorated with corresponding symbolic images. They found recognition in the renowned “Journal des Luxus und der Moden” in 1812, but were lost after 1945 due to the changed use of the house.

Ernst Blümner also changed the Frohburger Schlosspark. After getting suggestions for this in Weimar , he had the park redesigned in the English style and built the garden house, which the Freundeskreis Schloss Frohburg e. V. tried hard.

literature

  • Post fame of merit . (on the death of Ernst Blümner) In: National-Zeitung der Deutschen : 1815, Sp. 869–875, (online)
  • Gaby Rauschenbach: Ernst Blümner von Frohburg, Weltmann and diplomat . In: Peniger Official Journal 2008, No. 3, p. 15/16 (online)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nachruhm des Verdienst , Col. 870
  2. ^ A b Axel wing: Bourgeois manors: social change and political reform in Electoral Saxony (1618–1844) . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-35681-1 , p. 157 (online)
  3. ^ A b c Gaby Rauschenbach: Ernst Blümner von Frohburg, Weltmann and diplomat
  4. ^ Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen :  Göde, Christian August Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 314.
  5. ↑ Royal Saxon Court and State Calendar 1809 . P. 108 (online) → "Ernst Blümner"
  6. ↑ Enlightened in a classicistic way . In: Kultur- und Umweltstiftung Leipziger Land (online) ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kultur-und-umweltstiftung.de
  7. ^ The Blümner von Frohburg (1811). In: New general German nobility lexicon. Retrieved October 31, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Nachruhm des Verdienst , Col. 873
  9. ↑ Picture room. (No longer available online.) In: Website of Schloss Frohburg. Archived from the original on October 29, 2017 ; Retrieved November 4, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-schloss-frohburg.de
  10. ↑ Gartenkleinode in the Leipzig and Chemnitz regions, p. 30. Accessed on November 1, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Classicism. In: Website of Schloss Frohburg. Retrieved November 4, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Carl Bertuch : Sensible room decorations of Frohburg Castle . In: Journal des Luxus und der Moden , Weimar 1812, pp. 602–606, (online)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / zs.thulb.uni-jena.de  
  13. ^ The 19th and 20th centuries. In: Website of Schloss Frohburg. Retrieved November 4, 2017 .
  14. ↑ The garden house in Frohburg Castle Park. Retrieved November 2, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Blümner, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blümner von Frohburg, Ernst (from 1811)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon legation councilor and manor owner
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1815
Place of death Leipzig