Friedrich Bruckmann
Friedrich Bruckmann (born October 13, 1814 in Deutz , † March 17, 1898 in Arco (Trentino) ) was a German publisher .
Life
Friedrich Bruckmann trained at the Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres and after his return he set up a manufacture in painted and gilded porcelain in Deutz in 1835 . In 1841 he married Julie Weyler, the daughter of a lawyer from Düsseldorf . In 1858 he founded the “Publishing House for Art and Science” with the trained Frankfurt bookseller Emil Friedrich Eduard Suchsland (1837–1910) in Frankfurt am Main . From 1858 to 1861 he moved Wilhelm von Kaulbach's Goethe Gallery with large-format photographs. His collaborator was Joseph Albert . In the autumn of 1861 Bruckmann founded the "Friedrich Bruckmann Publishing House" in Stuttgart . In the summer of 1863 he came to Munich , where in 1884 he founded the “Photographische Union”. In 1883 the company "Friedrich Bruckmann" was converted into a stock corporation. The publisher's founder Friedrich Bruckmann chaired the supervisory board of the publishing house for art and science together with Ernst Schandri and his son-in-law Alfred Scheuffelen, married to Bruckmann's only daughter Eugenie. In 1885 he published the first German art magazine Kunst für Alle . He published illustrated books on archeology and art history .
His sons Alphons, Oskar and Hugo Bruckmann inherited the Bruckmann Verlag . His daughter, the married Eugenie Scheuffelen (1870-1919) ran a salon in her parents' house at Luisenstrasse 8 / I in Munich . Their capricious artist festivals were among the sensational events at the turn of the century.
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Bruckmann, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 275 f.
- Heinrich Merk: Bruckmann, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 648 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Olaf Peters , Ruth Heftrig, Barbara Schellewald, Art History in the "Third Reich": Theories, Methods, Practices , (2008), ISBN 3050044489
- Friedrich Bruckmann In: E. Vogel (Ed.): Photographische Mitteilungen , Vol. 35, Gustav Schmidt, Berlin 1898, pp. 47-48
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ According to ADB and NDB on June 4, 1814.
- ↑ Rheinische Provincial-Blätter for all estates , p. 46
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Portrait of Eugenie Scheuffelen (1867) Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bruckmann, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Deutz |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1898 |
| Place of death | Arco , Trentino |