Johann Friedrich Richter (art collector)

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Johann Friedrich Richter. Copper engraving by Christian Gottlieb Geyser (1742–1803) after a painting by Elias Gottlob Haußmann (1695–1774)

Johann Friedrich Richter (born November 12, 1729 in Leipzig ; † September 9, 1784 ibid) was a German banker, merchant and trader as well as art and antiquity collector.

Life

He was one of the sons of the financially strong Leipzig merchant and merchant Johann Zacharias Richter and became a banker, merchant and trader in Leipzig. His father had built up a large art collection in the Bose House in Leipzig, which he had acquired in 1745 , which when he died comprised around 400 paintings, including works by Rubens , Rembrandt and Titian , over 1,000 hand drawings and several thousand copperplate engravings . His older brother Johann Thomas Richter took over this collection in 1764, made it accessible to the public and enlarged it.

Since Johann Thomas Richter left no children behind, his property including the collection fell to Johann Friedrich Richter in 1773, who held the collection together for almost 10 years, but then initiated the auction of the graphics. For this purpose he had in 1782 by Christian Friedrich Hecht the directory of historical, geographical, topographical, art and antiquities relevant books, maps, ingleichen minerals, shells and fossils that have been collected by the late Mr. John Cammerrath Thomas Richter u. of March 24, 1783 [...] are to be auctioned .

However, he was only able to enjoy the proceeds of the auction for a short time, as he died the following year. For lack of children of his own, he put his widow Susanna Elisabeth Richter geb. Richter as a universal heiress. During her lifetime she kept the rest of Richter's collection together and after her death in 1806 bequeathed considerable sums of money to charitable purposes. Only their heirs sold the important collection of paintings in 1810.

Richter and his older brother owned the two manors Gotha and Kossen in the Eilenburg office .

literature

  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 500/501

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z , p. 59
personal data
SURNAME Richter, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker, businessman and trader, art and antiquity collector
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1784
Place of death Leipzig