Franz Langlotz
Franz Langlotz (* 1876 in Regensburg ; † July 10, 1953 ) was a German art collector.
Life
Franz Langlotz was born in Regensburg in 1876 as the son of a sculptor and cabinet maker. After school attendance and successful Absolutorium he left Regensburg to Munich at the Royal Institute of Technology to study civil engineering, by the way, he finished also lectures in art history and style teaching. After graduating in 1900, he joined the Supreme Building Authority in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior and, after military service and various professional assignments, became a government builder in 1904 and was employed as a state building assessor.
In 1910 he left the civil service at his own request and became director and managing director of Isarwerke and, after its conversion in 1921, of Isarwerke AG. In the course of the construction of the Mühltal hydropower plant in 1924, he arranged for the power plant control room to be artistically designed with a ceiling painting by academy professor Gottlob Gottfried Klemm . A central compass rose is framed by the mythological figures Poseidon, Zeus, Aiolos and Helios as personifications of the forces of nature water, lightning, wind and sun, indicating the cardinal points. Such an artistic design of a hydropower plant is unique in Germany.
In 1926 he was appointed state building officer and in 1939 was made an honorary citizen of Munich and at the same time an honorary senator of the Technical University of Munich . Franz Langlotz died on July 10, 1953 and was buried in the Protestant central cemetery in Regensburg.
The private collection of Franz Langlotz
His diverse interest in collecting included works of art from ancient times to the present: early modern prints, contemporary graphics, antiques such as vases, terracottas and glasses, late medieval and baroque sculptures, East Asian prints and photography. Franz Langlotz bequeathed his collection to the upper class of the humanistic grammar school and the Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg . Since 1978 the stock has been divided:
University of Regensburg:
The majority of books (nearly 1,000 books and 1,300 books and volumes of journals and series), with regional research reports of the Historical Society of the Upper Palatinate and the Natural History Society of Regensburg. The graphic collections (approx. 300 pieces in the form of woodcuts, copperplate engravings, etchings, linocuts, lithographs, steel engravings and drawings).
Albertus Magnus High School
A coin collection, antique works of art and several books for teaching purposes.
Institute for Catholic Theology
Ancient ceramics, a figure of a saint and a Madonna.
Institute for Classical Archeology
Roman glasses that are on permanent loan in the museums of the city of Regensburg. The ancient pieces in the Langlotz Collection were scientifically described by the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Regensburg . In the 1999 antique art exhibition in Regensburg, a large part of the classical works of art was presented to the public for the first time. The coin holdings were also documented.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang A. Herrmann (Ed.): Technical University of Munich. The history of a science company . Volume 2, Metropol, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-938690-34-5 , p. 989.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langlotz, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | regensburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1953 |