Melchior Boisserée
Melchior Hermann Joseph Georg Boisserée (born April 23, 1786 in Cologne , † May 14, 1851 in Bonn ) was a German art collector .
Life
Melchior was born as the youngest of 11 children of the merchant Nicolas Boisserrée and his wife Maria Magdalena Brentano. After the parents' early death in 1790 and 1792, the grandmother took over the care of the children. He attended the boarding school of the Principality of Salm in Anholt until about 1799 and then the École Centrale in Cologne , where he studied natural sciences. In 1803 the brothers traveled to Paris and made the acquaintance of Friedrich Schlegel , whom they then brought to Cologne, where he taught at the central school.
Together with his older brother Sulpiz Boisserée and their mutual friend Johann Baptist Bertram , he founded a collection of paintings of old German art from 1804, which was favored in its construction by the upheavals after the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . From November 1810 to 1819 they showed the collection in the Palais Boisserée on Karlsplatz in Heidelberg, then in Stuttgart . He and his brother sold the 215 panel paintings collection to King Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1827 , and from 1836 large parts of the collection were on view in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich . Melchior Boisserée documented this collection as the editor of a larger lithographic work, which appeared in 114 sheets by the lithographer Johann Nepomuk Strixner between 1821 and 1840 .
He promoted the revival of the tradition of glass painting in Germany in connection with the commitment of both brothers to the completion of Cologne Cathedral . He and his brother were buried in the old cemetery in Bonn , where the tomb with a Christ relief by Christian Daniel Rauch has been preserved.
In 1888, Boisseréestrasse was inaugurated in honor of the family and is now part of the Neustadt-Süd district of Cologne .
literature
- Leonhard Ennen : Boisserée, Sulpiz and Melchior . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 87-90.
- Paul Arthur Loos: Boisserée, Melchior. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 427 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Melchior Boisserée in Dictionary of Art Historians
Individual evidence
- ^ Rüdiger Schünemann-Steffen: Cologne Street Names Lexicon , 3rd exp. Ed., Jörg-Rüshü-Selbstverlag, Cologne 2016/17, p. 119.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boisserée, Melchior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boisserée, Melchior Hermann Joseph Georg (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1786 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1851 |
| Place of death | Bonn |