Lilly von Mallinckrodt-Schnitzler

Lilly Bertha Dorothea von Mallinckrodt-Schnitzler (born June 25, 1889 in Cologne ; died June 26, 1981 in Murnau ) was a German art collector and patron .

Life

Lilly von Mallinckrodt was the daughter of the Rhenish industrial magnate Wilhelm Arnold von Mallinckrodt (1864–1930) and his wife Eugenie, née Günther . In 1910 she married Georg von Schnitzler (1884–1962) in Antwerp . In the same year Lilly gave birth to the daughter Lilo von Schnitzler (1910–2008), in 1918 the daughter Gabrielle von Schnitzler († 2017).

Lilly von Schnitzler met the artist Max Beckmann in 1922 , whose pictures she collected from then on and also supported him in other ways. Among other things, she planned an exhibition for him in Paris in 1931. In 1924 she was one of the initiators of the European Review , which she also edited. The revue appeared from 1925, but in 1933 came under the control of the ideology of National Socialism . During this time, as an employee of the Revue, she claims to have tried - albeit in vain - to reconcile Nazi cultural policy with modern art. She was in extensive correspondence with the NS-affiliated constitutional lawyer Carl Schmitt . Her husband was a board member of IG Farben and was released in 1949 from prison he had served as a war criminal . The couple retired to Murnau.

Mallinckrodt family grave (Melaten cemetery)

After Beckmann's death in 1951, she was the founder and sponsor of the Max Beckmann Society , among other things to promote young artists. This was dissolved again in 1984, a few years after her death. She also contributed financially to the reconstruction of the Städel Museum (until 1963) and from 1957 made her extensive Beckmann collection available to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum on permanent loan ( legacy Georg and Lilly von Schnitzler ). These pictures were later given to the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.

The von Schnitzler couple are buried in the grave of the von Mallinckrodt family at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (HWG No. 105/106).

literature

• Ursula Koehler-Lutterbeck; Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women , Bonn 2000, p. 322, ISBN 3-8012-0276-3 .