Johann Christian Schuchardt

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Johann Christian Schuchardt (born May 5, 1799 in Buttstädt ; † August 10, 1870 in Weimar ) was a German lawyer , draftsman , art historian , art writer and Goethe's last secretary.

Live and act

Johann Christian Schuchardt was the youngest son of the Buttstadt tailor Johann Abraham Schuchardt and Johanna Rosina List. From 1812 he attended the Weimar grammar school. From 1820 to 1824 he studied law in Jena. After completing his studies, the lawyer Schuchardt became an assessor in the government of the Grand Duchy of Weimar in Goethe's department “Supervision of the immediate institutions for science and art in Weimar and Jena”. Meyer appointed Schuchardt from February 20, 1825 as secretary and supervisor of the graphic collections. Via Goethe, the registrar Schuchardt came into contact with the Leipzig art collector Carl Gustav Boerner (1790–1855) and with the Artaria art dealer .

From 1825 Schuchardt was one of Goethe's private secretaries. For example, the final version of Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahren was dictated to him for writing. Educational trips took him to Dresden , Munich and Vienna .

In 1848 and 1849 he brought out the so-called “Schuchardt catalog” at Fromman in Jena (see under Works, entries from 1848 and 1849). Christian Schuchardt was secretary to the superintendent for science and art and curator of the grand ducal art collections in Weimar .

Schuchardt had seven children. Christian Schuchardt found his final resting place in Weimar's historic southern cemetery .

Goethe's art collections

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Duke Karl August's art advisor , shaped Christian Schuchardt's life. This drawing teacher wanted to be a drawing teacher until he was forty-third. At the age of thirteen he attended the drawing school in Weimar . The then director Heinrich Meyer took the boy under his wing. The constant connection to this school lasted a lifetime. From 1861 until his retirement in July 1868, Christian Schuchardt was the director of his drawing school in Weimar.

Schuchardt, who was interested in art, made an inventory of the art collector's graphics on the Frauenplan while Goethe was still alive . After 1832 Christian Schuchardt became the manager of the deceased poet's entire art collection and published the three-volume catalog of Goethe's art collections at Frommann in Jena in 1848/1849 . This catalog, in which around 26,000 pieces are listed, is still called "the Schuchardt" today.

Works

  • Goethe's art collections. First part: copperplate engravings, woodcuts, etchings, black art sheets, lithographs and steel engravings, hand drawings and paintings. 352 pages. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1848. ( digitized from the Internet Archive )
  • Christian Schuchardt u. A .: Goethe's art collections. Second part: cut stones, bronzes, medals, coins; Working in marble, ivory and wood; antique vases and terracottas, plaster casts, majolica etc. A. 370 pages. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1848. ( digitized from the Internet Archive)
  • with Walther Wolfgang von Goethe , Wolfgang Maximilian von Goethe : Goethe's art collections. Third part: Mineralogical and other scientific collections. 297 pages. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1849. ( digitized from the Internet archive)
  • Lucas Cranach's parents life and works. First part. 365 pages. FA Brockhaus , Leipzig 1851. ( Digitized from the Internet Archive)
  • Lucas Cranach's parents life and works. Second part 365 pages. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851. ( Digitized from the Internet Archive)
  • Lucas Cranach's parents life and works. Third part. 310 pages. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1871. ( Digitized from the Internet Archive)
  • The Goethe Foundation and the Goethe Prize Tasks. 40 pages. Hermann Böhlau , Weimar 1861. ( digitized from the Internet archive)
  • as publisher: Goethe's Italiänische Reise, essays and sayings on the visual arts. First volume. 634 pages. JG Cottasche Buchhandlung , Stuttgart 1862. ( digitized from the Internet archive)
  • as publisher: Goethe's Italiänische Reise, essays and sayings on the visual arts. Second volume. 544 pages. JG Cottasche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1863. ( digitized from the Internet archive)
  • The essence of a work of art. In: Minerva 1857, vol. 1,3. (34 pages).
  • Georg Wilhelm Müller (Ed.): The drawings by Asmus Jacob Carstens in the Grand Ducal Art Collection in Weimar. With explanations by Chr. Schuchardt. Weimar and Leipzig 1849.

literature

  • Gero von Wilpert : Goethe-Lexikon (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 407). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-40701-9 , p. 964 (last entry).
  • Philine Brandt: Johann Christian Schuchardt as curator of the Grand Ducal and Goethe collections. In Markus Bertsch and Johannes Grave (eds.): Spaces of Art: Views of Goethe's Collections. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-47502-0 . Pp. 102-121.
  • Johannes Grave: The "ideal art body": Johann Wolfgang Goethe as a collector of prints and drawings. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-47503-9 .

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annotation

  1. ^ According to the title page of the Cranach book published by Brockhaus in Leipzig in 1851 (see under Works the first entry from 1851).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilpert, p. 778 middle.
  2. ↑ Entry in the GBV
personal data
SURNAME Schuchardt, Johann Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuchardt, Christian; Schuchardt, Chr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer, draftsman, art historian and art writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Buttstädt
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1870
Place of death Weimar