Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck

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Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck
Coat of arms of the von Hefner-Alteneck family

Jakob Heinrich Hefner , from 1856 by Hefner-Alteneck (born May 20, 1811 in Aschaffenburg , † May 19, 1903 in Munich ) was a German art historian and museum director as well as a draftsman and etcher.

Life

Jakob Heinrich Hefner was the son of Franz Ignaz Heinrich Hefner (1756–1846) from Mainz , a member of the Kurmainzer school administration, who was raised to the nobility on November 22, 1814 by the Bavarian King Maximilian I.

Hefner lost his right arm in his early youth, but nevertheless achieved great perfection in drawing. He devoted himself to the study of art history , especially the Middle Ages , and in 1835 became a teacher at the trade school in Aschaffenburg, which was only founded in 1833 ("Professor of Drawing Studies "). At the same time he was artistic advisor to the " Müller stone ware factory " in Damm , from 1835 to 1842 even a partner in the factory.

In 1852 Hefner moved with his family to Munich and was appointed curator of the Royal United Art Collections by the Bavarian King Maximilian II and, on May 1, 1862, curator of the royal copperplate and hand drawing cabinet. At the same time he was the curator of the Historic Association of Upper Bavaria and led the excavations in the Roman pottery quarter in Westerndorf . In 1856 he was given the nickname Alteneck by King Maximilian II "to prevent confusing names" . Under Ludwig II, Hefner-Alteneck became general curator of Bavaria's art monuments and director of the Bavarian National Museum on June 1, 1868 , to whose development he made a significant contribution. In 1886 he retired. Until his death he was in lively correspondence with the Aschaffenburg museum curator Jean Friedrich .

family

In 1837 he married Elise Pauli (1818-1887), with whom he had three sons, including the engineer Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1845-1904).

tomb

Grave of Jakob Heinrich Hefner-Alteneck on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The tomb of Jacob Heinrich von Hefner Alteneck is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 38 - row 13 - Place 2/3) Location . There is a memorial stone for him in the old town cemetery in Aschaffenburg.

Works

Hefner-Alteneck made a special contribution to the publication of a number of art and cultural-historical images, the majority of which were drawn by him. They begin with the splendid work of costumes of the Christian Middle Ages based on simultaneous art monuments (Mannheim 1840), which was followed as a side piece by the works of art and equipment of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Mannheim 1848–63, 180 plates) published in collaboration with Carl Becker . A new, increased edition of both works under the title: Costumes, Works of Art and Equipment from the Early Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century , he published since 1879 (120 deliveries). More publishments:

  • with Johann Wilhelm Wolf : The Tannenberg Castle and its excavations. Frankfurt 1850 ( digitized version ).
  • Hans Burgkmaier's tournament book Frankfurt 1853.
  • Ironworks or ornaments of the blacksmithing art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Frankfurt 1861–1886.
  • The Roman pottery in Westerndorf. Munich 1862 ( digitized version ).
  • Designs by German masters for the armor of the kings of France. Munich 1865.
  • The SKH Kunstkammer of Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Munich 1866–73 (8 parts).
  • Ornaments of the wooden sculpture from 1450 to 1820 from the Bavarian National Museum (Frankfurt 1881).
  • Works of German goldsmithing of the 16th century. Frankfurt 1890.
  • Art treasures from the Bavarian National Museum. Munich 1899.
  • Life memories. Munich 1899 ( archive.org ).

Of his work, which did not reach the public, the Frankfurt sex book of the baronial family von Fechenbach-Laudenbach should be emphasized, which he made as a single piece in 1848/49 for Freiherr Friedrich von Fechenbach-Laudenbach (1790-1850). It consists of around 400 miniature-like sheets, containing the coats of arms, grave monuments etc. of this family from 1214 to modern times, and was preserved in the family's archive in Laudenbach (Lower Franconia) .

Honors

  • 1853 extraordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  • 1868 full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  • 1891 Privy Councilor
  • January 1, 1894 honorary citizen of the city of Aschaffenburg (1894)
  • 1901 cast bronze medal, 70 mm, Max Gube fecit, on his 90th birthday. Front: Dr. JAK. HEINR. HEFNER v. ALTENECK K. GEHEIMRATH - Half-length portrait with cap three quarters to the right. Reverse: owl with outspread wings stands on the opened tome
  • In Aschaffenburg today there is the Hefner-Alteneck elementary school and a street named after him.
  • In Munich there is Hefner-Alteneck-Strasse in the Isarvorstadt , which was named after him and his son.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Memorial stone on the Aschaffenburg old town cemetery .
  2. Andrea Mayerhofer-Llanes: The beginnings of costume history. Studies of costume works of the late 18th and 19th centuries in the German-speaking area. Scaneg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89235-084-1 , pp. 193-205.
  3. Hatto Kalfelz: Archive of the Barons of Fechenbach to Laudenbach. Part 2. Munich / Würzburg 2006, p. 257 No. 2453 Expenditures for the gender book 1842–1848, Binden 1851. In 1969 the Free State of Bavaria acquired the archive, it is now in the Würzburg State Archives , the gender book is not there.
  4. Honorary Citizen: Dr. Jakob von Hefner-Alteneck (1894). City of Aschaffenburg, accessed on September 19, 2014 .
  5. Markus Wesche: The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and its members in the mirror of medals and plaques. Munich 1997, pp. 68-69 No. 52.