Johann Friedrich Frauenholz

Johann Friedrich Frauenholz , also Jean Frederic Frauenholz (born November 4, 1758 in Brunst , Ansbach district , † June 9, 1822 in Nuremberg ) was a German art collector, art dealer and publisher in Nuremberg. He was one of the most important art dealers of his time and "the soul of Nuremberg art life".

Life

He was the son of Johann Albrecht Frauenholz, pastor in Weißenkirchberg. At the age of only eleven (1769) he started his apprenticeship with his uncle, the Nuremberg canvas dealer Christian Erdmann Frauenholz. The uncle owned a large collection of paintings, engravings , coins and medals . After completing his five-year apprenticeship, Frauenholz went to Memmingen for two years for further training in 1774/75 and then another year and a half to Kaufbeuren . Back in Nuremberg (around 1779) he initially worked as an assistant in the Plattensteiner wholesale business.

In 1783 he received the citizenship of Nuremberg. In 1787 he bought the estate of the Nuremberg engraver Johann Adam Schweickart (1722–1787) and in 1790 founded an art shop in the house of his former teacher (Obstmarkt 1).

From 1790 onwards, Frauenholz published copper engravings by famous masters of his time in his publishing house. From 1790 to 1804 he also carried out numerous copperplate auctions. From December 1790 to February 1791 Frauenholz stayed in Paris .

In 1790 he was accepted into the Masonic lodge "To the three arrows".

His first marriage was on August 29, 1791, with Albertine Marie Karoline Häßlein (1773–1798), the daughter of the Rugsamt - clerk and later - syndicus Johann Heinrich Häßlein (1737–1796). In his second marriage he married Albertine Marie Rosine Ammon (around 1785–?), The daughter of the landlord Johann Kaspar Ammon, on September 27, 1818. Both marriages remained childless.

On October 13, 1792, Frauenholz founded together with the painter Johann Peter Rößler and the doctor and philosopher Dr. Johann Benjamin Erhard as a follower of the Enlightenment , enthusiastic about the ideas of the French Revolution , as the first art association in Germany, the Nuremberg "Art Society", an "association for artists and art lovers", forerunner of today's Kunstverein Nürnberg . The founding members included 15 like-minded people, mostly copper engravers and painters, as well as the directors of the Nuremberg Painting Academy and the drawing school for apprentices, who exchanged their ideas in weekly meetings. The idea was to make local art more charitable through interaction and exchange.

In 1793 he was accepted as a member of the painting academy.

He corresponded with many artists, including Friedrich Schiller in 1794 because of his work Don Karlos , and was friends with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

In 1794 Frauenholz was named "named" of the greater council of the city of Nuremberg. In 1801 the well-known Nuremberg patrician family Praun sold the valuable Praun art collection to Frauenholz. He cataloged the collection again in 1804 and sold it en bloc to the Hungarian Prince Nicholas II Esterházy de Galantha (1765–1833). With the numbering applied by Frauenholz, around 500 pieces and thus around two thirds of the Praun drawings still preserved around 1800, mostly in the copper engraving cabinet of the Budapest Szépművészeti Múzeum , can be clearly identified.

On October 23, 1817, he was accepted into the Order of Flowers as Member No. 342 .

He died of a stroke in 1822 .

Works (selection)

• Pictures for children with regard to the walks published by Mr. Andre and Bechstein, collected by IF Frauenholz , Frauenholzische Kunsthandlung, Nuremberg 1792–1795 ( digitized version )
• Popular zoology, or the illustration and description of the external and internal structure of those animals whose closer knowledge is generally useful . Frauenholzische Kunsthandlung, Nuremberg 1793
• Display of the twenty representations from Klopstock's Messiah that appear in the engraving, composed and drawn by Heinrich Füger , the current gallery director in Vienna, engraved by JF Leybold there . Frauenholzische Kunsthandlung, Nuremberg 1811
• Announcement and plan of a by Johann Friedrich Frauenholz & Comp. great art lottery organized in Nuremberg, with extremely considerable advantages, without errors . Frauenholzische Kunsthandlung, Nuremberg 1811

literature

• Some of the life of the art dealer Johann Friedrich Frauenholz . In: The collector for art and antiquity in Nuremberg , Volume 2, 1825, pages 45–57
• Edith Luther: Johann Friedrich Frauenholz (1758–1822). Art dealer and publisher in Nuremberg . Master thesis. In: Nürnberger Werkstücke zur Stadt- und Landesgeschichte , Volume 41, Universitäts-Buchhandlung Korn u. Berg, 1988, ISBN 3-87432-113-4 . - With the reprint of the catalog on the Johann Friedrich Frauenholz & Comp. published engravings and works of art . Nuremberg 1809; Catalog of the JF Frauenholz & Comp. published engravings and works of art . Nuremberg 1816 (continued from 1809); Second continuation of the JF Frauenholzischer Verlag catalog , Nuremberg 1821.
• Manfred Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon , Volume 1, Page 415f., Verlag Saur, Munich 2007
• Rochus von Liliencron , Georg Wolfgang Karl Lochner :  Frauenholz, Johann Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 321.

Web links

• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
• Short biography

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Bock: Norica. Contributions to the history of Nuremberg, Nuremberg City Library, 1961, page 96. ( excerpt )
2. ^ Horst Gronemeyer, Adolf Beck, Rainer Schmidt: Works and letters. Historical-critical edition . Walter de Gruyter, 1974, ISBN 3-11-014015-2 , page 298 ( GoogleBooks )
3. ↑ Christian Felix Weisse (ed.): New library of the beautiful sciences and the free arts , 1790, page 144 ( GoogleBooks )
4. ^ Friedrich Bock: Norica. Contributions to the history of Nuremberg . Nuremberg City Library, 1961, page 91. ( excerpt )
5. ^ W. Vollmer: Correspondence between Schiller and Cotta . 1876, page 90
6. ^ Katrin Achilles Syndram: The collection of drawings of the Nuremberg merchant Paulus II. Praun (1548–1616). Attempt at a reconstruction . Verlag KR Schütze, ISBN 978-3-928589-06-2
7. ↑ Root list of the Order of Flowers ( Memento of the original from January 30th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.