Johann Maria Carl Farina

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Johann Maria Carl Farina
Directory of the Cologne coin collection of Johann Maria Carl Farina, page 1 of 305
Facade cupboard South Germany, approx. 1618. Johann Maria Carl Farina Foundation, Museum of Applied Arts, Inv. No. A 10

Johann Maria Carl Farina (born July 10, 1840 in Cologne ; † August 21, 1896 there ) was a cologne manufacturer , collector and donor.

Life

In appreciation of its foundations, the City of Cologne will forever look after its grave on Melaten (Hall 60).

He was one of the sons of Jean Marie Farina . After the death of his older brother, he ran the Eau de Cologne factory " Johann Maria Farina across from Jülichs-Platz ".

He was a great collector. His collection of Imperial and Electoral Cologne coins came into the possession of the city of Cologne after his death. This coin collection contained almost all Cologne coins ever minted. With this, Cologne came into possession of a complete collection that is now in the Cologne City Museum . (Foundation for the acquisition of the Farinas coin collection by the City of Cologne November 27, 1896)

Together with other prominent Cologne residents, he donated the Rubens painting Juno and Argus to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum (WRM 1040) in 1894 .

In 1875 he married Emma Ida von Glucsak (born March 14, 1853). In 1898, together with other donors, she donated the painting St. Francis in the Portiuncula to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum , painted by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (WRM 1046).

literature

  • Robert Steimel: Versippt with Cologne I , Steimel Verlag Köln-Zollstock 1955, plate 48
  • Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien , 1953, Section 7, pp. 161–198
  • Wallraf-Richartz-Museum: Directory of the paintings . M. du Mont Schauberg, Cologne 1959. List of founders Johann Maria Karl and Emma Farina

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne graves and history . Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 177
personal data
SURNAME Farina, Johann Maria Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farina, Johann Maria Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German perfume manufacturer and donor
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1896
Place of death Cologne