Friedrich Pappermann

Friedrich Pappermann (born February 2, 1909 in Dresden , † August 28, 1995 there ) was a German art collector and donor.

Life

Grave of Friedrich Pappermann in Dresden

The son of Otto and Justine Pappermann was born as the oldest of five siblings in Dresden. After training as an export merchant, he held various managerial positions in companies in Dresden, including until 1956 as operations director in Plant 6 of VEB Elektroschaltgeräte Dresden, formerly Gebr. Cruse & Co KG .

He began collecting in 1953 when he succeeded in acquiring seven paintings by Italian baroque artists from the wife of the art historian Hermann Voss , who headed the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden from 1943 to 1945 . This gave him the impetus to continue collecting, although his financial resources were limited after he had lost his lucrative position as operations director in 1956 because he had not wanted to tie himself more closely to the SED. Nevertheless, in the following years he managed to build up a considerable art collection with works from the 16th to 20th centuries. Most of the objects came from art dealerships and private collections in Dresden. One focus of his collection was Dresden painting of the 19th and 20th centuries. Other works included Italian painting from the 17th to 18th centuries and Dutch and Belgian painting from the 16th to 19th centuries. After he had to retire from professional life in 1971 for health reasons, he now found peace and time to devote himself entirely to his passion for collecting. In total, he collected around 300 oil paintings and 1,000 drawings, watercolors and graphics until his death. One of the special rarities of the Pappermann collection is Dresden painting from the 19th and 20th centuries, especially by artists of the “ Goppelner Group ” , which included Impressionist open-air painters such as Wilhelm Claudius and Robert Sterl at the turn of the century . Further rarities are paintings by Fritz Beckert and Werner Haselhuhn as well as works from the estate of the painters Ludwig von Hofmann and Ferdinand Pauwels . Pappermann also collected old furniture and porcelain and, from the 1950s onwards, maintained lively contacts with the art historians and restorers of the Dresden State Art Collections .

Throughout his life he was committed to Dresden culture and was also active beyond that. In 1978 he was one of the co-founders of the “Friends of the Robert Sterl House” in Naundorf , of which he was the second chairman. As the culmination of his life as a collector, in 1990 he viewed the exhibition of a large part of the works of art he had collected in Dresden's Neue Meister gallery in the Albertinum . Because of his numerous interests, he gave up the 2nd chairmanship of the "Circle of Friends for the Preservation of the Robert-Sterl-House" in 1992. In the following year, he donated the majority of his 19th and 20th century paintings to the Freital Municipal Collections, which are now on view in the art collection at Burgk Castle . Two years later, drawings, watercolors and graphics followed. The highlights of the transferred works included the Romantics, including works by Johan Christian Clausen Dahl and Carl Gustav Carus . In recognition of this, he was given honorary citizenship of the city of Freital in 1994 . In addition, a street not far from the museum bears his name. In 1995, shortly before his death, he donated twelve further paintings to the Dresden Picture Gallery Old and New Masters, including works by Carlo Ceresa , Jan Baptist Lambrechts and Johann Alexander Thiele . He gave further works to the Dresden City Museum and the Robert-Sterl-Haus in Naundorf.

Pappermann died in Dresden in 1995 and was buried in the Striesen cemetery .

literature

• The Friedrich Pappermann Collection in Dresden. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister; Exhibition in the Albertinum at the Brühlschen Terrasse, Klingersaal, 25.3. – 17.6.1990 , Dresden 1990.
• Heike Biedermann: The collector Friedrich Pappermann: tradition-conscious and preserving collecting activity for the common good , in: Dresdener Kunstblätter 40, 1996, pp. 144–145.
• Rolf Günther; Ilka Melzer: The Friedrich Pappermann Freital Foundation: a private collection of Dresden art , published by the Freital Municipal Collections , Burgk Castle, Freital 2003

Web links

• Peter Trache: On the tenth anniversary of Friedrich Pappermann's death in 2005 (PDF file; 21 kB)
• Literature in the Saxon Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Alfred Jens Thiede: On the history of the circle of friends in the Robert-Sterl-Haus