Karl Gustav Henneberg

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Karl Gustav Henneberg (born November 19, 1847 in Pommerswitz , Silesia , today part of Gmina Głubczyce ; † December 15, 1918 in Zurich ) was a Zurich silk manufacturer, art collector and art patron .

Live and act

Henneberg's former factory
Palais Henneberg in Zurich

Karl Gustav Henneberg was the son of a Prussian tax officer in Upper Silesia . The family had lived in Görlitz since around 1850 , where Hennebert attended high school and originally wanted to pursue a legal career. He was unable to study because of the early death of his father. Instead, he completed a commercial apprenticeship and then worked in Magdeburg , Berlin and London .

In 1874 he came to Zurich as a commission agent and began building a silk trading company. In 1881/1882 the architect Emil Schmid-Kerez built a new commercial building on Oberen Bahnhofstrasse , which became the headquarters of his global trading company. This building no longer exists today.

In the years 1892 to 1896, Henneberg built a new silk factory on Seestrasse based on plans by Arnold Séquin with a mechanical silk weaving mill and an administration building. In 1899 he sold the factory again and the Stünzi Sons company continued to operate it. This building, known as the Red Factory , has been used as a cultural center since the late 1970s .

As an art patron, from then on he mainly devoted himself to his art collection. He lived on the ground floor of his palace on the Alpenquai (today: General-Guisan-Quai), which was built according to plans by Emil Schmid-Kerez. He set up his gallery on the upper floor, which he also made accessible to the public. The palace was demolished in 1969 for a new building.

In 1897, Henneberg was appointed royal Prussian councilor for commerce because of his donations for the construction fund of the Oberlausitz memorial hall . In 1912, Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded him the title of Royal Prussian Secret Commerce Councilor for his services through donations and foundations for the Oberlausitz Memorial Hall and the Kaiser Friedrich Museum .

Henneberg Gallery

In the 1890s, Henneberg founded his collection of paintings for his private gallery and at the turn of the century was one of the great art collectors who were active beyond Switzerland. In his collection there were works by u. a. Adolph Menzel (115 works), Franz von Lenbach (13 paintings), Franz Stuck and Bruno Piglhein (almost the entire estate).

After he sold his art collection at an auction in Munich in 1903, his gallery was closed. In the years that followed, Henneberg turned to more current artists and more recent works by artists he already knew. This created a new gallery, which he again opened to the public in 1911. Kaiser Wilhelm II visited the gallery in 1912 during a stay in Switzerland.

In 1918, Henneberg's gallery, one of the largest private galleries in Zurich, comprised a total of 336 works. Including 84 works by Ferdinand Hodler , 21 pictures by Carl Spitzweg , 10 works by Fritz von Uhde , 8 works by Franz von Lenbach , 7 works by Max Liebermann , Adolph Menzel (Friedrich the Great), Wilhelm Leibl , Giovanni Segantini , Carl Schuch , Wilhelm von Diez , Ernst Würtenberger , Heinrich von Zügel , Josef Andreas Sailer and Arnold Böcklin

After his death

Henneberg tomb in Görlitz

After his death in Zurich, Hennemann was buried at his request in the Görlitz municipal cemetery . Hermann Hosaeus made his tomb "The Mourner" . It shows a girl sitting upright with an urn and an inscription on the base stone: You, gods, the merchant belongs to you. He goes looking for goods, but the good is attached to his ship. (Quote from the poem Der Kaufmann by Friedrich Schiller ).

Henneberg's picture collection was sold after his death. His only son, Horst Henneberg, died in World War I in 1914 , and the estate was handled by the Zurich lawyers Bloch and Fick. There were 336 paintings in the art collection.

Donations and cultural funds

Henneberg founded the "Karl-Gustav-Henneberg'schen Kunstfonds" and donated large amounts and a. for the construction fund of the Oberlausitzer Memorial Hall as well as art purchases for the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum Görlitz, which received 150,000 marks from Hennemann's estate.

Donations (selection)

Donations by Henneberg to the city of Görlitz were among others in 1903

  • Jerusalem , monumental painting by Lesser Ury

in 1904 for the opening of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum :

and in 1912 for the 10th anniversary of the Oberlausitzer Memorial Hall :

Left in will in 1919

Hen Mountain Fruit Tree Foundation

Henneberg established the Hennebergobstbaumstiftung in Görlitz with a fund, from which every confirmand in Prussian Upper Lusatia received a fruit tree at Easter until 1930, which he was supposed to cultivate and study. Thanks to this foundation, it was also possible in 1923 to plant the Mount of Olives Garden with fruit trees as a productive fruit area. In 1924, the Henneberggarten, named after him, was created in the east of the city (today: Zgorzelec , Poland) with the avenue of trees and ponds for the citizens to relax using the funds of the foundation .

Street name after Henneberg

The former Henneweg in Zurich ran from Bahnhofstrasse 9 ( Zürcher Kantonalbank ) parallel to Börsenstrasse in the direction of Talgasse (today Talstrasse). When Zürcher Kantonalbank erected a new building before 1970, the Henneweg was closed and built over.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Pioneer in the mechanization of silk weaving comes from Görlitz. Retrieved January 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Gustav Henneberg gave Görlitz a lot of money , in: Sächsische Zeitung , December 15, 2018 (excerpt online at www.genios.de )
  3. ^ Henneberg commercial building, overall exterior view , 1895. Accessed January 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ It is the memory of the Rote Fabrik , June 24, 2019 at www.tagesanzeiger.ch
  5. ↑ For the history of the building see Adi Kälin, 50 years ago a magnificent building on Zurich's “Avenue of the Rich” was sacrificed to an office building , in: NZZ , August 4, 2019 ( digitized version )
  6. ^ Getty Research Institute: Art Chronicle . Leipzig: EA Seemann, 1866 ( online [accessed January 13, 2020]).
  7. ^ Auction Galerie Henneberg, October 26, 1903 in Munich. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  8. ^ Art auctions - Zurich . In: Adolph Donath (Ed.): Der Kunstwanderer . September 1, 1919, pp. 60 (English, online [accessed February 7, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Adolph Donath (ed.), Der Kunstwanderer 1919/20, p. 60 ( digitized version )
  10. ^ Karl-Gustav-Henneberg'scher Art Fund. Retrieved January 11, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Donating money. Retrieved January 11, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Görlitzer Magazin 17.Retrieved on January 15, 2020 .
  13. ↑ The Henneberg Garden in the Oststadt , at www.goerlitz-insider.de
  14. ↑ The former Henneweg. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Henneberg, Karl Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German silk manufacturer in Zurich
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Pommerswitz
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1918
Place of death Zurich