Leopold Biermann

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Leopold Biermann (born August 8, 1875 in Spenge , Herford district , † September 9, 1922 in Munich ) was a German painter and patron .

biography

Leopold Heinrich Otto Biermann was the son of the cigar manufacturer and businessman Friedrich Biermann and his wife Bertha, née Krollmann (1840–1930). His siblings are named: Elisabeth, married Hirschfeld (1867-1892), Magdalene Mathilde (* 23 September 1870), married to the entrepreneur Richard Hirschfeld (1855-1915), Friedrich Karl (1872-1923), Berta (* 1876 ), married to businessman Georg Albrecht Strauch from Bremen, Wilhelm Eduard (1878–1937) and Agnes, married to Bremen businessman Franz Heinrich Thorbecke, who took over sole management of the company after the death of Friedrich Karl.

Leopold Biermann graduated from the Alte Gymnasium in Bremen and then studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , with Eduard von Gebhardt , among others . He then lived in Düsseldorf , where he was a member of the artists' association “Malkasten” from 1897 to 1915 , and went on some study trips. In 1897 he rented an apartment in the house of a Boderie family in St. Anna, a district of Sluis in the Netherlands , together with his Düsseldorf colleague Johann Georg Dreydorff (1873–1935). Together and with occasional visitors from the circle of Arthur and Eugen Kampf at the Düsseldorf Academy, including Albert Engstfeld in 1897 , who moved to Dreydorff in 1903, they drew views of the village and the typical flat landscapes with low horizons, canals and windmills . When his father died during a trip in Frankfurt am Main in 1904 , Leopold returned to Bremen and joined the company run by his brother Friedrich Karl and another partner, his brother-in-law Richard Hirschfeld (until 1906), as a partner.

As a wealthy co-entrepreneur, he was now active as a patron of the arts. He collected works of art, promoted individual artists and cultivated diverse contacts and socializing with painters, sculptors and writers - among others he was friends with Alfred Walter Heymel and Rudolf Alexander Schröder . He was a sponsor of Insel Verlag and organized parties. He donated many works by important impressionists and expressionists to the Kunsthalle Bremen , among others by Gustave Courbet , Ludwig von Hofmann , Walter Leistikow and the early Max Liebermann , who had portrayed his mother. For a long time he was deputy chairman and treasurer of the art association in Bremen . He was also a member of several other art associations such as the Free Secession in Berlin , the Dresden Secession , the German Association of Artists and the German Association for Art Studies in Berlin.

He supported the ideas of the Kunsthalle director Gustav Pauli (1866–1938) to develop a gallery of modern art from the Kunsthalle. In 1909 he organized a loan exhibition from private property in Bremen.

He was also active in other clubs, for sailing - he owned a 15 mR yacht, the “Sophie Elisabeth” built for him in 1910, - golf, rowing, automobiles and aviation or in the association for medical dogs. He supported the Bremen City Theater by providing funds for important guest performances. He also supported an association for orphans and the welfare of the wounded during World War I by building convalescent homes for soldiers of the Imperial Navy in his possessions "Hoher Kamp" and "Villa Gutweil".

Hans Harder Biermann-Ratjen , the son of the Hamburg notary Dr. Hans Rudolf Ratjen and von Biermann's second wife, Alix, née Ruete, were adopted by Biermann in 1922.

Leopold Biermann, who suffered from congenital growth inhibition, died at the age of 47 of a weak heart in a Munich sanatorium. The funeral speech was given by Rudolf Alexander Schröder. Biermann's Bremen houses "Villa Gutweil" and "Gut Hoherkamp" were divided among his heirs after his death.

Portrait

  • Bernhard Hoetger: bust; Bremen, City Hall; Loan from the Kunsthalle Bremen.
  • Photography: Hamburg, Museum of Arts and Crafts: MKG Collection Online | The art collector Leopold Biermann ( https://sammlungonline.mkg-hamburg.de/  ›object› mkg-e00137443).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sheets of the Bavarian State Association for Family Studies, 69th year, Munich 2006, p. 120 ( http://www.blf-online.de/sites/default/files/blf_quellen_daten/bblf_jahrgang_69_2006.pdf )
  2. ↑ neu.engstfeld-archiv.eu ›wp-content› uploads ›2016/05› Search for traces p. 3, 4
  3. ↑ Sabine Gruber, Ulrich Ott (eds.): Harry Graf Kessler Das Tagebuch Ninth Volume 1926–1937, Klett-Cotta 2009. ISBN 978-3-7681-9819-6 , p. 981
  4. ^ 1. Yearbook of the Imperial Yacht Club for the twentieth club year 1911. Graphische Betriebe W. Büxenstein (production), Berlin 1911 (illustration)
  5. ↑ https://www.clydeships.co.uk/  ›view
  6. ^ Yearbook of the Scientific Aviation Society. 5th volume. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg GmbH 1920, p. 3
  7. ↑ The Heimatbote. Journal of the citizens and homeland association Mienstedten e. V. for Nienstedten, Klein Flottbek and Hochkamp, ​​58th year, No. 5, May 2009, p. 2 (hb2.nienstedten-hamburg.de ›Heimatbote)
  8. ^ Necrology. In: Marées Society (ed.): Ganymed. Leaves of the Marées Society, 4th year, 1922, p. 314 ( https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/ganymed1922/0554/image )
  9. ↑ Take a moment. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Image as postcard: http://www.gruenes-sankt-magnus.de/data/pm150324/Ortsteilspaziergang2030.pdf
  11. ↑ May 2019: Dance and excursion bar Hoher Kamp (St. Magnus). In: Home at the Lesum. May 2019, accessed on January 7, 2020 (calendar sheet May 2019).
  12. ↑ The most beautiful rooms in the historic building. Senate Chancellery Bremen , accessed on January 7, 2020 (bust of Leopold Biermann listed in the library room): "In a niche there is now a bust of him - on loan from the Kunsthalle."
personal data
SURNAME Biermann, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and patron
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Spenge
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1922
Place of death Munich