Mathilde of Guaita
Mathilde von Guaita , born as Mathilde Thérèse Amalie Mumm (born January 26, 1815 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 19, 1890 ibid) was an art-loving wealthy patron and lady of society with multiple family connections to well-known families not only in the city of Frankfurt am Main Main.
Life
She comes from a Mumm family who moved to Frankfurt but had lived here for a long time, and whose individual family members had achieved considerable wealth through banking and trade. On May 22, 1837, she married Anton Friedrich Leberecht von Guaita in Frankfurt (born January 19, 1814 in Frankfurt; † March 6, 1875 there).
He was the son of the influential wealthy multiple Frankfurt mayor Georg Friedrich von Guaita (1772-1851) and his wife Madeleine Marie-Françoise Caroline called Meline (1788-1861), born Brentano . Both the ancestors of the Guiata family and those of the Brentano family had previously immigrated to Frankfurt from Lake Como / Lombardy .
The couple Mathilde and Leberecht von Guaita had several children, u. a .:
- Georg Friedrich Gottlieb von Guaita (1838–1862) 24 years
- Georg Philipp Clemens Max von Guaita (1842–1903) 61 years
- Bettina Catharina von Guaita (NN – NN)
- Louis Hermann Freimund von Guaita (1846–1878) 34 years
In 1893, three years after her death, her son Max von Guaita (1842–1903) had well-known architects build the splendid Villa Guaita on approximately twelve hectares as a summer residence in Kronberg . According to a list (based on 1910), his widow, Mrs. Sophie Verw., Who died in 1909, had assets of 16-17 million and an annual income of around 0.75 million Reichsmarks. Go Kommerzienrat Max v. Guaita, b. Levé, in the city of Cronberg one of the 100 richest people in the Empire. Her relative Heinrich Fritz Mumm von Schwarzenstein married her granddaughter Emilie von Guaita (1882–1953) and also had a villa Mumm / Haus Kastanienhöhe built as a summer residence in Kronberg. Also his father, the banker Albert Mumm von Schwarzenstein, Frankfurt am Main. Senior boss of the Frankfurt banking house A. Mumm & Co., founded in 1805, married to the very wealthy Rhenish industrialist daughter Eugenie Scheibler, counted in the same list (based on 1910) with 16-17 million assets and an annual income of approx. 0.78 million Reichsmarks 100 richest people in the empire.
In 1974, 84 years after her death, the city of Kronberg had an oversized memorial bowl set up in the city park in her honor. Correspondence, oil paintings, photographs and / or art objects are still reminiscent of them today.
literature
- Kurt Pritzkoleit: Who Owns Germany ? A Chronicle of Property and Power ; Vienna • Munich; Basel 1957; Pp. 61-72; The 100 richest in Prussia in 1910
Web links
- Dates of the Guaita family
- Location of the memorial bowl for Mathilde von Guaita from the city of Kronberg im Taunus
- To set up the memorial bowl for Mathilde von Guaita from the city of Kronberg im Taunus
- Anselm Feuerbach; 1865; Portrait of the woman of Guaita; Current location: Kunsthalle Kiel
- Arnold Böcklin; 1878; picture, honeymoon / Tuscan landscape / landscape in the character of the surroundings of Florence, first acquisition by Mathilde von Guaita, 1878; Current location: Berlin, State Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage, National Gallery
- Bettina von Arnim exchanged letters about Mathilde von Guaita's visit to Heinrich Heine in Paris
- Photo of Mathilde von Guaita; 1860
- On the genesis of the picture of the "island of the dead" by Arnold Böcklin
- Correspondence to Mathilde von Guaita from Friedrich Carl von Savigny, 1859
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guaita, Mathilde von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German patroness |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1890 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |