Lotte Hegewisch

Charlotte Friederike Dorothea Hegewisch (short: Lotte Hegewisch ) (born April 17, 1822 in Kiel ; † December 3, 1903 there ) was a German patroness in her home region and in her hometown of Kiel as well as the host of an influential salon . She also worked as an author and editor.

Live and act

Lotte Hegewisch was born as the daughter of the doctor, medical professor at the University of Kiel and publicist Franz Hermann Hegewisch (1783-1865) and Caroline von Linstow (1786-1856), who came from aristocratic circles. Due to the political commitment of her father and his professional and university environment, the family had close contacts with the personalities of that time, including the Danish royal family . The parents intensified these contacts through a regular discussion group, in which mainly members of Kiel University, but also representatives of the nobility and bourgeoisie took part.

Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, uncle and mentor of Lotte Hegewisch

Although Lotte and her sister Leonore, who was one year younger than her, grew up in a financially solid middle-class household without any major hardship, neither of them received a continuous and systematic education. Her father initially had an impact on Lotte's political thinking in her youth; then her uncle, the historian and politician Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (1785–1860), who taught at Kiel University from 1812 to 1829, later one of the “ Göttingen Seven ” and who worked on the Paulskirchen constitution in 1848 . Dahlmann's first marriage in 1817 was her father's younger sister, Julie Hegewisch (1795-1826). Lotte Hegewisch was on a very friendly basis with Dahlmann, which survived even the closest family conflicts.

Lotte Hegewisch was also in contact with various members of the parental discussion group. These included the university drawing teacher Theodor Rehbenitz (1791–1861), who campaigned for the Schleswig-Holstein Art Association founded in 1843 , and the Austrian Biedermeier artist and landscape painter Friedrich Loos (1797–1890), who was nominated in 1863 as the successor of Rehbenitz .

Lotte Hegewisch had a high level of initiative, self-confidence and a public presence in Kiel; Among other things, she got involved during the Schleswig-Holstein War , collected funds for the construction of a gunboat and later to support a new art gallery for Kiel.

After the death of her parents, Lotte Hegewisch continued to run a social salon in her house, in which personalities such as Ferdinand Tönnies and Clara Schumann took part. Due to her decidedly pro- Prussian stance, however, her circle of friends split permanently and she became increasingly socially isolated. In old age she became friends with Heinrich von Treitschke , who referred to her as "academic aspasia ".

In addition to working on the publication of letters by the writer Ernst Moritz Arndt , she privately published a collection of letters from her parents and an art portfolio with views of her hometown Kiel. Shortly before her death, she published her "Memories".

Lotte Hegewisch remained single and had no children.

legacy

Today's Kunsthalle Kiel (2007)

In her will, Lotte Hegewisch bequeathed a villa with a 6000 m² plot of land on Düsternbrooker Allee, today Düsternbrooker Weg, from her family inheritance to the University of Kiel for the construction of an art gallery building. Construction began a few years after her death; completion and inauguration took place in November 1909.

The city of Kiel owes the location of today's Kunsthalle Kiel to her . The main building of the art museum from 1909 was partially destroyed in Allied air raids in World War II, rebuilt in a simplified form in the 1950s and expanded in 1986.

Works (selection)

• Memorial sheets to Kiel. Watercolors based on nature . Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1889.
  • Facsimile -Ausg. (from the edition of Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel), Mühlau, Kiel 1982, ISBN 3-87559-041-4 .
• Memories of previous hours for last hours . Printed as a manuscript, Schmidt & Klaunig, Kiel 1902.

literature

• Eduard Alberti (ed.): Lexicon of the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1866–1882. Following the author's lexicon from 1829–1866. Biernatzki, Kiel 1885/1886.
• Olaf Klose (ed.): Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1970–1979.
• Doreen Levermann: Women's life in Kiel in the Vormärz and in the revolution of 1848/49. Section for women in the state capital of Kiel, Kiel 1999.
• Lotte Hegewisch . In: Schultheiß, Nicole: There's no such thing as impossible ... 24 portraits of outstanding women from Kiel's city history . Presentation for women of the state capital Kiel, Kiel 2007, p. 29 ff.

exhibition

• 2012: good company. Lotte Hegewisch and the patronage. From Georg Friedrich Kersting to Gerhard Richter . Kunsthalle Kiel

Web links

• Literature by and about Lotte Hegewisch in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} From the university drawing teacher to the chair of art history  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article by Uwe Albrecht at the Art History Institute of the University of Kiel (last call: May 28, 2009).  
2. ↑ Register of persons in the critical edition of the Brothers Grimm's correspondence >> Dahlmann, Julie (née Hegewisch) ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Humboldt University of Berlin (last call: May 28, 2009). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Lotte Hegewisch's legacy: The new art gallery on Düsternbrooker Weg ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Kiel city archive (last accessed: May 27, 2009).