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Franz Kuchenbuch II (born September 4, 1812 in Erfurt , † March 24, 1896 in Müncheberg ) was a German lawyer and painter between Romanticism and Realism . He was also an archaeologist , elector for the Frankfurt Parliament from 1848, member and co-founder of historical associations and a representative of historicism .
Life
Franz Kuchenbuch was born in Erfurt as the first of four children. His father, the Electorate Mainz , later Prussian lawyer Bernhard Wilhelm Kuchenbuch , descendant of an Electorate Mainz family of hussars , had studied law in Göttingen , then participated in the retreat of the Prussian army to Memel as field war commissioner in 1806 and worked as a chamber archivist in Erfurt for several years from 1808. His mother Marta Margareta came from the Erfurt patrician Stieglitz family . Since it was one of the father's tasks to preserve buildings and art objects, Franz Kuchenbuch was used to dealing with restorers and painters from childhood , which, among other things, probably made him want to learn painting. Father Bernhard complied with this wish by having his son take lessons from well-known Erfurt painters.
Professionally, however, Franz Kuchenbuch II was intended for a legal career. In addition to taking painting and drawing lessons, he completed the royal high school in Erfurt and graduated from high school in Heiligenstadt in 1834 . As a result, he devoted himself from 1834 to 1838 (always in addition to training and perfection in painting) to study law at the universities of Halle , Bonn and Berlin , here a. a. with Friedrich Carl von Savigny and Eduard Gans . After completing the relevant exams, he worked in the Prussian civil service, essentially as a forensic lawyer up to the position of a judicial council with growing tasks. He was a supporter of the movement of 1848 and took part in the election to the Frankfurt parliament that year as a member of the city of Belzig .
In addition to his legal work, he continued to paint, created landscape paintings, cityscapes, architectural pictures and travel drawings. He was a member of various artists 'associations, and sent corresponding exhibitions with success in Berlin and Erfurt (including from 1864 as an honorary member of the Berlin Artists' Association). At the same time he was a collector, archaeologist and historical researcher, member and founder of various historical societies; he also became a member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory under Rudolf Virchow . His admission took place in 1871, due to his prehistoric work on Müncheberg and the surrounding area.
In 1849 he married Marie Sondermann from an old Erfurt family. The marriage had the children Martha, Anna, Elise and Franz (later mountain assessor and trade council, Franz Kuchenbuch III , local researcher and museum director in Stendal ). Franz Kuchenbuch II ended his legal career as a district judge in Müncheberg, where he died on November 27, 1896. In 1888, on the 50th anniversary of his service, he was unexpectedly awarded a "Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle, fourth class" by Wilhelm II . The city of Müncheberg made him an honorary citizen .
Collector, historian and archaeologist
Franz Kuchenbuch II acquired knowledge of archival studies through the work of his father Bernhard Wilhelm, who as a field war commissioner and later as a chamber archivist and rent office administrator in Erfurt managed formerly Kurmainzische properties and institutions for Prussia. On business trips and hunting trips with his father, he got to know the historical sites in the area and valued properties .
The evaluation and preservation of historical sources and the collection of historical objects, their description and illustration as well as those of buildings and places (e.g. the Neuwerk monastery or the Willrode hunting lodge ) were already part of Franz Kuchenbuch II's youth activities when accompanied by his father he got to know from his own experience the problems of preserving historical cultural assets and saving important files. Corresponding conservation activities were largely dependent on private initiative during the period of upheaval of the Napoleonic Wars. Some things could only be saved by placing them in family archives. Franz Kuchenbuch II came to an important collection of documents , paintings , printed works , city maps , vedute , coins and other historical objects of the city of Erfurt and the surrounding area through his own archiving activity, inheritance and acquisition . His collection was continuously expanded and enriched by his activities in Müncheberg with archaeological and general historical finds from this area. Later, when the corresponding official archiving facilities were re-established in Erfurt, the Erfurtiana from his collection were transferred to Erfurt as far as possible.
Overall, the historical interest and legal and scientific activity of Franz Kuchenbuch II as a collector and historian is also reflected in his founding activities and his membership in various, in some cases highly renowned, historians' associations and historical associations to which he belonged as a lawyer and collector or private archivist.
Since 1852, Kuchenbuch corresponded with the Germanisches Nationalmuseum , whose founding he had attended as an invited guest. In 1860 he became a founding member of the historical association for local history in Frankfurt am Main. In 1864 he became a corresponding member of the Association for the History and Archeology of Erfurt . In 1865 he became a co-founder of the Müncheberg Local History Association. In 1873 he became a member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory under Rudolf Virchow. His admission took place on February 1, 1873, due to his archaeological and historical work on Müncheberg (admission was only possible for members who are scientifically researching). The laudation of the society on December 19, 1896 is the "memory of this happy and level-headed researcher ..." This activity was in the sense of a growing historical awareness of the time ( historicism ), and was among others. a. also proof of the independence of independent urban development. With Franz Kuchenbuch II, this tendency clearly had its family-historical, sometimes politically emancipatory dimension, especially with regard to his family connections with old patrician families who had already provided councilors and city commanders in the Republic of Erfurt (including families von Willrode, Scheidt, Stieglitz) .
painter
His father, Bernhard Wilhelm Kuchenbuch, responded to the youth's desire to become a painter or at least to learn the art of painting from scratch (well before high school and law studies) by teaching him to recognized Erfurt masters. Kuchenbuch's teachers in Erfurt were Nikolaus Heinrich Dornheim , Georg Bertuch , Eduard Dietrich , teachers and sponsors in Berlin a. a. Ferdinand Bellermann (from the Berlin Artists' Association ).
Franz Kuchenbuch II's specialties were architecture and landscape painting in the sense of the Berlin School and its often confirmed "great accuracy and detail" in building and city views. In 1844 he sent the exhibition of the Academy of Arts in Berlin with the pictures "Portal at the Cathedral of Erfurt", "Cloister in the Cathedral of Erfurt", "Chorin Monastery", and in the same year the exhibition of the Berlin Artists' Association. The Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz acquired his oil painting “Gate to Neubrandenburg”. In 1864, Kuchenbuch became an honorary member of the Berlin Artists' Association. There are also several pictures of the landscape around him and many sketches on the occasion of his travels through the Altmark and East Prussia. Another well-known painting was the “Panorama of Erfurt”, created around 1854 (since 1855 permanently exhibited in the museum of the “Alterthumsverein Erfurt”). His son, Franz Kuchenbuch III, mentions "probably 150 large and small oil paintings" and, in addition to lithographs and watercolors, a myriad of pen and pencil drawings.
Since Franz Kuchenbuch's paintings reproduced city views and historical buildings in minute detail, they were often used for the reconstruction of city facilities and buildings. The importance of his painting for the reconstruction of the cityscape of Erfurt is mentioned several times. Examples are the correspondence with the Erfurt city councilor Karl Hermann (1797–1874) and the correspondence with friends and others. a. with Moritz von Streit.
Some of his paintings, watercolors, lithographs and sketches are kept in the Erfurt Angermuseum , which also exhibited pictures by Franz Kuchenbuch II on various occasions in the 20th century (including a larger exhibition in autumn 1913). Even in the present there have been occasional exposures of some of his works in the Angermuseum, e. B. 1998, 2000, 2002 etc. Before the ongoing renovation of the Angermuseum there were also permanent exhibits.
literature
- Correspondence with friends etc. a. with Moritz von Streit (family archive cake book, c / o Dr. Albrecht Kuchenbuch, Berlin-Charlottenburg).
- Correspondence between Karl Hermann and Franz Kuchenbuch (e.g. Karl Hermann to Franz Kuchenbuch, May 16, 1864), Erfurt City Archives 5/801 H-13 (1854–1864).
- Johannes Biereye: Erfurt in its famous personalities. Erfurt 1937.
- Sigrid Zanotelli: Franz cake book. In: Messages of the association for the history and antiquity of Erfurt. Issue 59. New series issue 6, Hermann Böhlau Nachf., Weimar 1998.
- More recent mentions: Thüringische Landes Zeitung of December 27, 2008: "Franz Kuchenbuch drew the Comturhof from the south in 1842 with the oldest bridge in Erfurt [...]"
Individual evidence
- ↑ See annual report of the society for the history and antiquity for the year 1864. In: Communications of the society for the history and antiquity of Erfurt. 1865, p. XI.
- ↑ cit. after: Franz Kuchenbuch III, Müncheberger Wochenblatt 1897, No. 95/96/97
- ↑ cf. Gotthard Brandler: Early city walks. The discovery of the nascent city of Berlin (1760 to 1850). In: Studies on Berlin Art History. Leipzig 1986, pp. 193–220, here p. 21.
- ↑ Family archive Kuchenbuch c / o Dr. Albrecht Kuchenbuch, Berlin-Charlottenburg
- ^ Franz Kuchenbuch: Rath Kuchenbuch. In: Müncheberger Wochenblatt 1897, No. 95,96,97
- ↑ City Archives Erfurt 5/801 H-13
- ^ Family archive cake book, c / o Dr. Albrecht Kuchenbuch, Berlin-Charlottenburg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cake book, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cake book, Franz II. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 1896 |
| Place of death | Müncheberg |