Friedrich Wilhelm Brederlo
Friedrich Wilhelm Brederlo (* 7. December 1779 in Mitau in Kurland , † March 2 . Jul / 14. March 1862 greg. In Riga ) was a Baltic German merchant, councilor of the city of Riga, art collector and patron.
The Brederlo Collection
Brederlo became known for his outstanding art connoisseurship, which made him put together one of the most important collections of paintings in the Baltic States consisting of 201 paintings. The Brederlo Collection named after him came from his heirs, the von Sengbusch family, through Carl Gustav von Sengbusch as a permanent loan to the newly built art museum in Riga in 1905 and, with his works of German painting and around 70 Dutch, mainly Dutch landscape painting of the 17th Century, one of the central components of the collection. Since 1920, the works of non-Latvian artists have been outsourced to the Museum of Foreign Art .
As a result of the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty , Brederlo's heirs, the von Sengbusch family, were forcibly evacuated from the Baltic States . They were allowed to take seven pictures from their collection with them. Immediately afterwards, the remainder of the collection in Riga was nationalized by the Latvian government under Kārlis Ulmanis .
The Kerckring Altar
The Kerckring altar from Lübeck from 1520 took a typical fate of looted art in the 20th century. Due to an agreement with the heirs of the von Sengbusch family, this extraordinary piece could remain in the St. Anne's Museum in Lübeck.
Aftermath
In 2005, the von Sengbusch family donated the Brederlo von Sengbusch Art Prize in memory of their ancestor Brederlo in Riga.
literature
- Wilhelm Neumann: Descriptive directory of the paintings in the Friedrich Wilhelm Brederloschen collection in Riga. Riga: WF Häcker 1894 ( digitized version )
- Daiga Upenice, Werner von Sengbusch: Friedrich Wilhelm Brederlo Collection (in Latvian and German), 248 p., Riga 2002.
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Friedrich Wilhelm Brederlo. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the burial register of St. Petri Church in Riga ( Petrikirche (Riga) , Latvian: Rīgas sv. Pētera baznīca)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brederlo, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic merchant, councilor of the city of Riga, art collector and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1779 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mitau , Courland |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1862 |
| Place of death | Riga |