Johann Heinrich Pallenberg

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Portrait of Johann Heinrich Pallenberg by the painter Wilhelm Leibl

Johann Heinrich Pallenberg (born December 27, 1802 in Cologne ; † April 5, 1884 there ) was a German furniture manufacturer and patron of the arts .

Life

Johann Heinrich Pallenberg is the eldest son of the master roofer Valentin Pallenberg (1769–1827) and his wife Margarete (1775–1843), born. Schunck. Pallenberg, who initially started an apprenticeship in a brewery , soon switched to an apprenticeship with a Cologne master carpenter , who discovered and promoted his talent for drawing. From 1819 he led his years of travel both for nine months after Brussels and for four years, the former artistic center of the furniture craft, after Paris . In addition to his technical training, he received drawing lessons from the court architect Jakob Ignaz Hittorff in Paris . He did his military service as a regimental carpenter in Cologne, which also gave him the opportunity to run a small carpenter's workshop with four journeymen in his father's business .

After the death of his father in 1827, Pallenberg was discharged from military service and from then on concentrated on his small carpentry workshop, H. Pallenberg , which initially specialized in building stairs and furniture . In 1828 Pallenberg married Cäcilia Becker. In 1830 he acquired a wine tavern , Ahle Kohberg , which was originally run by his father, including winegrowing on Alte Ufer 41 in Cologne, which had been one of the most popular dance halls since the 18th century. Pallenberg operated a by Roßmühle driven veneer Tailoring , one of the first of its kind in Germany. In 1836, Pallenberg was the first Cologne business enterprise to purchase two steam engines to drive four saws . At that time he employed 36 carpenters and two turners . Pallenberg also developed its own machines for inlay work .

Since 1843, his brother Franz Jakob Pallenberg (1808–1895) continued the veneer cutting shop, which had since been separated, so that Johann Heinrich Pallenberg could devote himself to the production of period furniture as well as the business of high-quality interior fittings and furnishings . Pallenberg now also employed sculptors , decorators and upholsterers . In the field of artistic wood interior work, the furniture manufacturer H. Pallenberg advanced to one of the leading houses and to the royal Prussian court purveyor as well as the kuk court purveyor . The list of customers included almost all German aristocratic houses and includes the names of important industrialists . Even during the revolutionary years of 1848/49 , the slump in sales could be compensated for by orders from the USA without major losses.

Grave of (Johann) Heinrich Pallenberg in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

In addition to the manufacture of period furniture and interior fittings, Johann Heinrich Pallenberg also ran an extensive art trade and was one of Cologne's major art collectors and sponsors. The Cologne Arts and Crafts Museum received a large number of Pallenberg foundations. In 1861 Pallenberg withdrew from the company and transferred the business to his sons Jakob and Franz , son Gerhard (1833–1889) did not join the company. The H. Pallenberg company existed until 1959.

In 1871 Johann Heinrich Pallenberg had himself portrayed by Wilhelm Leibl in Munich while traveling through southern Germany . In the painting, only three fingers are visible on his right hand, which suggests a hand injury that was common among carpenters at the time. Leibl wrote in a letter to his mother on May 20, 1879 about Pallenberg's allegedly disparaging treatment of Leibl's portrait: “ Achenbach was in Pallenberg's shop, where the picture was in a bad place. Achenbach then asked Pallenberg what he had hanging there, whereupon Pallenberg said: 'Oh, it must be okay, it is nicks, that Leibl en Munich would have done.' "

Johann Heinrich Pallenberg died in 1884, his grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (lit. L on corridor Q) .

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Heinrich Pallenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klara von Eyll: Leafed through Cologne address books. Greven, Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-7743-0160-3 , p. 215
  2. ↑ museenkoeln.de - picture of the week: Johann Heinrich Pallenberg visits Wilhelm Leibl, 1871 , accessed on August 10, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Pallenberg, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabinet maker and patron
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1884
Place of death Cologne