Fritz von Farenheid

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Fritz von Farenheid (born October 31, 1815 in Angerapp ; † June 8, 1888 in Klein Beynuhnen ) was a Prussian landowner and art collector from the province of East Prussia .

Life

Von Farenheid was born as the son of Friedrich Heinrich Johann von Farenheid (1780–1849), a student of Immanuel Kant and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg . He attended the Friedrichskolleg in Königsberg and studied there from 1836 at the Royal Albertus University . His teacher, the classical philologist Karl Lehrs, inspired him for the world of antiquity. Von Farenheid visited Italy , the Kingdom of Greece and the Ottoman Empire in 1841 and 1842 .

After his father's death, he inherited the family fortune and expanded Beynuhnen Castle in a classicist style (1850, 1862–1864) and provided it with rooms for his art collection.

The collection consisted of original paintings and sculptures and copies and casts of classical works of art. Von Farenheid commissioned the Berlin painter Rudolf Schick to create a series of copies of Italian Renaissance painting , the collections were open to the public, and some sculptures were placed in the palace gardens. The Beynuhnen estate was intended for the maintenance of the collections.

Von Farenheid's life's work fell victim to the Second World War - Beynuhnen Castle was destroyed in 1945, the fate of its collections remains uncertain.

Fonts

To art history

  • Descriptive list of the casts based on antiquities in the Antikensaale at Beynuhnen. In addition to an introductory essay on the basic ideas of Greek religion and ethics . Decker, Berlin 1854.
  • Journey through Greece, Asia Minor, the Trojan Plain, Constantinople, Rome and Sicily. From diaries and letters . Hartungsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Königsberg 1875.

Correspondence

  • Fritz von Farenheid (ed.): Memory sheets. Letters to a friend who has now passed away . Hartungsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Königsberg 1876 (correspondence with the officer, art collector and draftsman Ulrich von Salpius (1828–1867), whom Farenheid had buried in the park of Beynuhnen Castle).
  • Fritz von Farenheid (ed.): Letters from Carl Lehrs to a friend . Hartungsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Königsberg 1878.
  • Philipp Graf zu Eulenburg-Hertefeld (ed.): Five years of friendship. In letters from Fritz von Farenheid-Beynuhnen and Philipp Graf zu Eulenburg-Hertefeld. Munich 1897.

literature

  • Philipp von Bujack-Ramberg: Beynuhnen, an art creation in Lithuania . Grumbach, Leipzig 1868.
  • Philipp von Bujack-Ramberg: Fritz von Farenheid - Beynuhnen, honorary member of the Königl. Academy of Arts in Berlin, honorary doctor of the University of Königsberg. A sketch of life . Hartungsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Königsberg 1890.
  • Max Hecht: Guide through Beynuhnen, the creation of Fritz von Farenheid . Koenigsberg 1930.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biography: Farenheid, Fritz von - German biography. Retrieved December 16, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Zeitschrift der Altertumsgesellschaft Insterburg , Vol. 1 (1888), p. 94.
personal data
SURNAME Farenheid, Fritz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Rapped
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1888
Place of death Klein Beynuhnen