Gustav Adolf Wilhelm von Ingenheim

Gustav Adolf Wilhelm von Ingenheim

Chess game in the Palais Voss, around 1819 (Gustav Adolf Wilhelm von Ingenheim as 3rd person from the left)

Gustav Adolf Wilhelm Graf von Ingenheim (born January 2, 1789 in Berlin , † September 4, 1855 in Wiesbaden ) was the son of King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia and his morganatic wife Julie von Voss , who became countess on November 12, 1787 von Ingenheim had been raised.

Life

In 1810 he became royal chamberlain and in 1816 real secret councilor in the service of his half-brother, King Friedrich Wilhelm III. He was awarded the Iron Cross during the War of Liberation in 1813 , but left in 1814.

Count Ingenheim then devoted himself to his real passion, art, and built up an art collection. He therefore lived in Italy from December 1816 to March 1818 and, with interruptions, from 1822 to 1833. His interest enabled the Count to join the group of experts for the acquisition of new works of art in Italy for the newly created Berlin museums. From 1816 to 1825 he remained in the royal service.

He ran a salon alternately in Rome and Berlin and maintained contacts with numerous artists of his time. B. Johann Erdmann Hummel , Aloys Hirt , Christian Daniel Rauch and Karl Friedrich Schinkel . He worked as a patron and supporter of artists in Rome. In this way he secured the existence and training of the painter Bonaventura Genelli . He supported Moritz Daniel Oppenheim and Franz Ludwig Catel with his own orders and establishing contacts at the Prussian court. He used his relationship with the King of Prussia to secure financial support for the research of the archaeologist Eduard Gerhard by the Prussian state.

In Germany, Graf von Ingenheim first showed his collection in the Palais Voss in Berlin, then in his Villa Ingenheim in Potsdam . Parts of the collection were sold to the Royal Museum in Berlin in 1826 (including 16 antiques made of marble, 33 terracottas).

In 1825, his half-sister Julie von Brandenburg and her husband, Duke Ferdinand Friedrich von Anhalt-Köthen , converted to the Catholic Church. In 1826 Gustav Adolf Wilhelm von Ingenheim also converted to the Catholic faith, whereupon he was led by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. was banned from Berlin, which led to the extensive loss of his financial resources, which would have been necessary to continue his art collection.

After his death, the remaining collection was moved to Reisewitz Castle in 1883 , which his widow had bought. Due to the looting of Reisewitz Castle in 1945, the whereabouts of the Ingenheim collection is unknown.

Family and offspring

He was married to Eugenie de Thierry (* November 24, 1808, † March 17, 1881), the daughter of Etienne de Thierry and Countess Marianne von der Mark . His mother-in-law was also his half-sister, both were children of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II.

The couple had the following children:

• Julius Ferdinand Maria Laurentius (* 10 August 1827 - † 28 March 1903) ∞ Elisabeth zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1825–1907)
• Eugene (July 16, 1837 - July 16, 1897)
• Marianna Camilla Romana, (* July 17, 1831; † July 11, 1915) ∞ Heinrich Maria von Stillfried-Rattonitz (1828–1885)
• Franz (born April 13, 1846; † June 6, 1919) ∞ Huberta von Francken-Sierstorpff (1854–1913), from whom the still existing line of the Counts of Ingenheim comes from.

Web links

• Graf von Ingenheim's activity as a collector and patron is described on schlesischesammlungen.eu
• New Prussian nobility lexicon
• Description of the collection at Arachne
• Gustav Adolf Graf von Ingenheim on thepeerage.com , accessed on September 18, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1005613: Collection Gustav Adolf Wilhelm Graf von Ingenheim . Arachne - central object database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne.
2. ^ David August Rosenthal : Convert pictures from the nineteenth century , Volume 1, Part 1, Page 438, Schaffhausen, Hurter Verlag, 1871
3. ^ Website of Graf von Ingenheim