Johann Zacharias Richter

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Johann Zacharias Richter

Johann Zacharias Richter (born August 26, 1696 in Leipzig ; † December 19, 1764 ibid) was an important Leipzig merchant and councilor. He laid out one of the famous Leipzig baroque gardens and owned a large art collection.

Life

Johann Zacharias Richter was the son of the Leipzig merchant Thomas Richter (1652–1719) and the brother of councilor Johann Christoph Richter (1689–1751). The Richter family had made wealth by trading in blue-colored goods ( smalts ) from the Ore Mountains . She owned a property on Reichsstrasse, which was later called Deutrichs Hof .

The Bose House (center) acquired by Richter in 1745, 2010

Johann Zacharias Richter also traded blue-colored goods. He went to Hamburg in 1711 and took over the local branch of Richter's trading house. In 1720 he married Maria Elisabeth Richter in Hamburg. After she died in 1726, Richter returned to Leipzig in 1727. In November of the same year he married Anna Margaretha Behrmann. With her he had five sons and a daughter who died as a child. In 1735 he acquired two garden plots in the western suburb of Leipzig and laid out one of the famous Leipzig baroque splendid gardens, the Richter garden , on them by 1740 .

After the death of his second wife in 1744, Richter married Christiana Sibylla Bose (1711–1749), the eldest daughter of Georg Heinrich Bose (1682–1731), operator of a gold and silver goods factory and son of the merchant and councilor Caspar Bose (1645–1700) . Georg Heinrich Bose had bought a house at Thomaskirchhof in 1710 and rebuilt it in the Baroque style in 1711. This house, today's Bose House, was bought by Richter in 1745 from the community of heirs to which his wife belonged.

This is where Richter housed his large art collection, because he was an enthusiastic and very successful art collector because of his financial resources. In the end, his collection comprised around 400 paintings, including works by Rubens , Rembrandt and Titian , over 1,000 hand drawings and several thousand copperplate engravings . After his death, his son Johann Thomas Richter made the collection accessible to the public.

Johann Christoph Richter also played an important role in the city's public life. He was a councilor, council builder, action deputy and city governor. He also belonged to the charitable society of confidants , which was recruited from the Leipzig patriciate .

literature

In Richter's garden

Web links

  • Pages on Johann Zacharias Richter in the portrait volume "Die Vertrauten", Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig, inventory number L / 1012/2006/40 (family data)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z , p. 500
  2. ^ Kerstin Wiese, Anja Fritz: Bach's Neighbors - The Bose Family = exhibition catalog of the Bach Museum Leipzig . Leipzig 2005, p. 11. DNB 985253908
  3. ↑ Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z , p. 59
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Johann Zacharias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1764
Place of death Leipzig