Ernst Ziegler (art collector)
Ernst Ziegler (* 1874 in Gönningen ; † January 21, 1958 ) was a German entrepreneur and art collector .
Live and act
Ernst Ziegler was a seed dealer and, with his brother, ran the seed wholesale company Ottomar & Ernst Ziegler, which had branches in Erfurt , Munich and Haarlem .
On his travels he visited museums all over Europe and became an art connoisseur and collector. He acquired works in galleries, second-hand bookshops, at auctions and also directly from artists, especially drawings and watercolors . In his house in Munich, where he lived from the beginning of the 20th century, Munich artists in particular met, so that the Munich School of the 19th century became a focus of his collection, including works by Johann Georg von Dillis , Otto by Faber du Faur , Carl Spitzweg , Wilhelm Leibl , Franz Kobell and Ferdinand Kobell . Other represented German artists are Ludwig Richter , Hans von Marées and Max Liebermann ; The collection also includes Italian, French and Dutch drawings from the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1931 he donated part of his collection to the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart to make it accessible to a wider public.
In 1945 he moved to Reutlingen . In 1954 he donated 1578 works on paper and 394 oil paintings from his collection to the city as the basis of the city collection; In the same year, parts of the collection were shown to the public for the first time in the exhibition "Master Drawings of the 19th Century" in the Reutlingen donation house . In 2010 aspects from the collection “ Daumier and his contemporaries” were shown in the Spendhaus .
Apart from the Japanese woodblock prints , the collection has not yet been scientifically developed. In particular, the attributions carried out by Ernst Ziegler himself may not withstand critical reviews, so that the origin, dating or authorship of many works are still unclear.
Awards
1954: Honorary citizen of Reutlingen
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Ziegler in the catalog of the German National Library
- On the 50th anniversary of Ernst Ziegler's death . The Ziegler Collection in the Spendhaus Municipal Art Museum on the website of the city of Reutlingen, January 21, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Masterful caricatures , Reutlinger General-Anzeiger , July 31, 2010
- ↑ In the shade the cherry blossom in the OPAC of the DNB
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ziegler, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur and art collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gönningen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1958 |