Joseph Maillinger

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Joseph Maillinger (born May 25, 1831 in Fürth , † September 19, 1884 in Munich ) was a German art collector and art dealer.

Life

He was the son of the first managing director of the Munich-Augsburg Railway Company . In 1859 he took over the Ludwig Albert von Montmorillon art dealership in Munich. This expired in 1890. On June 11, 1881, he married Marie Mathilde Anna Buchner, b. Volk, widow of the Munich doctor and professor Ernst Buchner .

As a collector he put u. a. published a “Picture Chronicle of the City of Munich” with around 18,000 pages from the 15th to 19th centuries. This “Maillinger Collection”, which has also become known nationwide, includes outstanding individual pieces by well-known watercolorists and draftsmen such as Johann Georg von Dillis , Gustav Wilhelm Kraus , Carl Trost and Franz Xaver Nachtmann . In addition, he also had complete architectural plans such as the plan to set Walhalla by Leo von Klenze .

In 1879 he gave this "picture chronicle" to the city of Munich. He died five years later. His grave in the old north cemetery in Maxvorstadt is still preserved. The inscription reads: "His life's work was the illustrated chronicle of the city of Munich".

Aftermath

In 1888 his collection formed the basis of the “ Historical Museum of the City of Munich ”. From 1930 it became a reference source for the “General Portrait Catalog” by Hans Wolfgang Singer .

Publications

  • Picture chronicle of the royal capital and residence city of Munich. Directory of a collection of graphic arts products on the local, cultural and art history of the Bavarian capitals from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century . 3 volumes, Munich 1876 ( digitized volume 1–3 in one volume ; digitized volume 1–3 individually ).
  • New episode (Volume IV). From the estate ... described by August Maillinger . Verlag der Kunsthandlung von August Maillinger Augsburg 1886 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Ernst von Destouches: History of the historical museum and the Maillinger collection of the city of Munich . Lindauer, Munich 1894.
  • Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich, biographies from eight centuries , Allitera, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-744-5

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Remarks

  1. ^ Joseph Maillinger buys the warehouse and inventory from the art dealer widow Magdalena von Montmorillon, circular on September 20, 1859 .
  2. ↑ August Maillinger († 1889) was the younger brother of Joseph Maillinger.
personal data
SURNAME Maillinger, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maillinger, Joseph Maria Gottfried Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art collector and art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1884
Place of death Munich