Martin Schubart

Martin Schubart, after a portrait by Franz von Lenbach

Friedrich Martin Schubart (born October 3, 1840 in Hohnstädt , † April 27, 1899 in Munich ) was a German Protestant theologian, educator and art collector.

Life

Martin Schubart was a son of the pastor Friedrich Moritz Schubart and his wife Clara, geb. Tame. The later general superintendent Friedrich Winfried Schubart (1847-1918) was his younger brother. From 1855 to 1859 Martin Schubart attended the Princely School in Grimma . He studied Protestant theology , first at the University of Erlangen , then at the University of Leipzig . In March 1863 he passed the candidate exam (1st theological exam).

In May 1863 he went to Livonia as a private tutor and educator in the house of Baron Wolff-Rodenvois- Meyendorff . Here he stayed for almost three years. In 1867 he moved to Dorpat . After a protracted illness, he returned to Germany on medical advice in the spring of 1868 and, through a follow-up treatment in his milder homeland, was able to completely restore his health.

In August 1868 he was appointed as a teacher at the St. Thomas School by the City Council of Leipzig and took up his post on October 13th.

In Leipzig he met Johann Nepomuk Czermak , whose son he taught and to whose daughter Sophie he got engaged. The engagement and inheritance of his future wife (her father died in 1873) enabled him to give up his position at the Thomas School at Easter 1874 and to devote himself entirely to his studies and his passion as a privateer . By the end of the year he went to Heidelberg University to study . He married in early 1875. After the death of his mother-in-law, the couple moved to Dresden. Extended trips to Germany, France, Holland and Italy helped to broaden the collector and researcher's field of vision as well as his collection of paintings by old masters. In 1882 he acquired the Pähl Castle for his brother-in-law Oskar Czermak.

In 1889 he moved to Brienner Strasse 8 in Munich .

Peter Paul Rubens : The Bath of Diana

Schubart brought together one of the most important private collections, the most important German private gallery , of Dutch masters. One of his top pieces was The Bath of Diana by Peter Paul Rubens. The painting was later part of the Jacques Goudstikker Gallery . Today it is part of the collection of the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum .

Over time, he made parts of his collection known to the public. When the Leipziger Kunstverein organized a special exhibition of privately owned older masters in 1889, it contributed a selected group of 22 paintings by Dutch masters of the 17th century.

In 1894 he published a selection of the main works under the title Schubart Collection in the publishing house for art and science , formerly Friedrich Bruckmann , in Munich, introduced by a preface by himself, with an explanatory text by Cornelis Hofstede de Groot .

In addition to his art collection, he devoted himself to studies of German literature, especially Goethe . One of the fruits of these studies was his work Francois de Theas Comte de Thoranc, Goethe's lieutenant in the king , which received approval but also strong criticism. He donated the paintings found in the course of the work to the Free German Hochstift for the Goethe House in Frankfurt .

Shortly after Schubart's death, his collection, supported by an opulent catalog, was auctioned off by Hugo Helbing .

Individual pieces, such as the silhouettes by Johann Friedrich Anthing , came into the art trade even later.

Fonts

François de Théas Comte de Thoranc, Goethe's lieutenant king. Munich: Bruckmann 1896

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literature

Grimmaic ECCE. 20 (1899), pp 58 -65

Catalogs

Cornelis Hofstede de Groot: Schubart Collection, formerly Dresden, now Munich: A selection of works by the old masters from this collection reproduced in heliogravure and phototype. With a foreword by the owner and an explanatory text. Munich 1894
From the art collection of Dr. Martin Schubart.

1: painting. Auction on October 23, 1899 in Munich under the direction of the art dealer Hugo Helbing in Munich. Munich: Bruckmann 1899

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2: Glass paintings, porcelain, antiques, furniture, books, color prints and mezzotints. Auctioned on October 26th and 27th, 1899.

Web links

Entry on Martin Schubart in Kalliope

Individual evidence

↑ ECCE (Lit.), Leipziger Zeitung 1899 No. 243 1st appendix. P. 4271.
↑ Peter Paul Rubens: Het bad van Diana, approx. 1635-1640 , accessed on October 13, 2016
↑ See also Hermann Grotefend : The king's lieutenant Count Thoranc in Frankfurt am Main: files on the occupation of the city by the French, 1759-1762. On behalf of the Association for History and Archeology in Frankfurt am Main, ed. by H. Grotefend. Frankfurt / Main KT Völcker, 1904, introduction
^ Gerhard Kölsch : Frankfurt Goethe Museum. The paintings. Inventory catalog. with Petra Maisak, ed. from the Free German Hochstift. Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811109-9-9 , pp.

personal data
SURNAME	Schubart, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schubart, Friedrich Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian, educator and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH	October 3, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mockery
DATE OF DEATH	April 27, 1899
Place of death	Munich

[1] ECCE (Lit.), Leipziger Zeitung 1899 No. 243 1st appendix. P. 4271.

[2] Peter Paul Rubens: Het bad van Diana, approx. 1635-1640 , accessed on October 13, 2016

[3] See also Hermann Grotefend : The king's lieutenant Count Thoranc in Frankfurt am Main: files on the occupation of the city by the French, 1759-1762. On behalf of the Association for History and Archeology in Frankfurt am Main, ed. by H. Grotefend. Frankfurt / Main KT Völcker, 1904, introduction

[4] Gerhard Kölsch : Frankfurt Goethe Museum. The paintings. Inventory catalog. with Petra Maisak, ed. from the Free German Hochstift. Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811109-9-9 , pp.