Hieronymus Klugkist
(lithograph by Friedrich Adolph Dreyer from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunsthalle Bremen)
Hieronymus Klugkist (born March 15, 1778 in Bremen , † January 15, 1851 in Bremen) was a Bremen senator and art patron .
biography
Klugkist came from a Bremen councilor family. He graduated after attending high school law and a doctorate Dr. jur. After that he was a lawyer in Bremen from 1806 to 1815 - during the French occupation . In 1815 he became a senator and member of the Bremen Higher Court. Among other things, he was responsible for church affairs and for teaching administration.
His grandfather, Mayor Hieronymus Klugkist (1711–1773), bought a very large piece of land in 1750, which stretched from Horner Heerstrasse to Achterdiek. He built the first manor house and began to create a park. One of the later owners of parts of the property was Robert Anton Hinrich Allmers (1872–1951), director of the Hansa-Lloyd works . In 1936 the associated park was acquired by Bremen and connected to the Rhododendron Park . From 1952 to 2000 the family of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward lived in the former Focke-Fritze estate , now called Borgward House .
Kunsthalle Bremen
A group of initially 34 art-interested merchants around Klugkist founded the art association in Bremen in 1823 . For this he created the Klugkist Foundation . Klugkist especially collected hand drawings , copperplate engravings , etchings and woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer . He bequeathed his collection - today of great importance in the Kunsthalle's Kupferstichkabinett - to the Kunstverein. Thanks to its foundation and numerous other patrons, the association was able to open the Kunsthalle Bremen at Ostertor planned by Lüder Rutenberg in 1849 . The first art association in Germany to have a self-financed building and a civic collection.
Bremer Höhe settlement
The Bremer Höhe settlement in Berlin, Pankow district, Prenzlauer Berg on Schönhauser Allee owes its name to his daughter Auguste Klugkist and her husband Victor Huber , who initiated this settlement in 1849 - with considerable financial support from Klugkist - and therefore named it Bremerhöhe .
Honors
The Klugkiststraße in Bremen- Schwachhausen was named after him.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clever, Hieronymus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician, Bremen senator and patron of the arts |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1778 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1851 |
| Place of death | Bremen |