Johann Heinrich Gaedertz

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Johann Heinrich Gaedertz around 1810

Johann Heinrich Gaedertz (born November 5, 1781 in Lübeck ; † July 5, 1855 there ) was a Lübeck councilor , senator and art collector .

Life

Gaedertz was born as the son of Lübeck businessman Jürgen Heinrich Gaedertz (1753–1825), went through commercial training in his father's company and abroad and founded his own trading company in his hometown under the Gaedertz junior company . In 1811, Gaedertz was appointed by the French occupying forces to the Lübeck municipal council , which took the place of citizenship when the city was incorporated into the French Empire . In November 1813 he was taken to Hamburg as a French hostagekidnapped, where he was held until December 14th. After the end of French rule, Gaedertz first became a senior man in the Lübeck merchant company; on February 19, 1827 he was elected to the city council.

Gaedertz had already developed an interest in art in his youth. When his wealth allowed him to buy paintings himself , he built up an important private collection , the focus of which was on the Dutch masters of the 17th century , but also included contemporary works. Gaedertz owned paintings by Francesco Francia , Peter Paul Rubens , Anthonis van Dyck , Rembrandt van Rijn and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, among others . Gaedertz 'particular pride was in a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder , Herakles bei Omphale , which Grand Duke Carl Friedrich von Weimar tried in vain to buy from him. Gaedertz presented some of his more than 300 paintings in the social room of his no longer preserved house at Königstraße 59 (according to the count at that time, No. 876), which he had converted into a gallery.

Gaedertz had married Salome Croll in November 1810 . The couple had four children, Theodor Gaedertz , Heinrich Gaedertz , Georg Wilhelm and Meta Gaedertz. The railway engineer Alfred Gaedertz was his grandson and a son of Georg Wilhelm Gaedertz.

Part of the estate of the Gaedertz family is in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck .

The whereabouts of the collection

After Gaedertz's death, the family could not initially make up their mind to dissolve the art collection. It was only nine years later that the decision was made to sell the paintings at auction . However, a number of pictures whose artistic value was outstanding or which were regarded as memorabilia were excluded, including the Köhler ancestral gallery of Mayor Anton Köhler .

Although the German-Danish War had only recently taken place, many buyers from Denmark were not to be expected, after a preliminary announcement in several German newspapers, so many interested parties registered that the gallery room in the house on Königstrasse originally intended for auction was insufficient. Therefore, the Katharinenkirche was rented for the auction .

The auction, for which Theodor Gaedertz had prepared the catalog kept by his father, began on the morning of September 21, 1864 and dragged on for several days because of the size of the collection. Bernhard von Arnswald was among the buyers . After the auction was over, the Gaedertz Collection was completely liquidated, apart from the few works retained by the family.

photos

  • Johann Heinrich Gaedertz around 1850

  • Salome Gaedertz, b. Croll around 1850

  • The house of Senator Gaedertz at Königstrasse 59, drawn by Carl Julius Milde in 1864

  • Lucas Cranach the Elder : Herakles bei Omphale , formerly part of the Gaedertz collection

literature

  • Theodor Gaedertz : Directory of the well-known collection of oil paintings by older masters from the estate of Senator Gaedertz in Lübeck , printed by HG Rahtgens, Lübeck 1864
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : On the Lübeck Council Line 1814–1914. Lübeck 1915, No. 37.
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling: Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 979
  • Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg : Lübeck at the time of our grandparents, part II . Publishing house Gebrüder Borchers, Lübeck, 1933

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GND = 136349935
  2. ↑ Gut Gaedertz
  3. ^ Walter Sbrzesny:  Alfred Gaedertz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 17 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Finding aid from the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck.
personal data
SURNAME Gaedertz, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lübeck councilor
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1855
Place of death Lübeck