Moritz Julius Binder

Moritz Julius Binder (born March 17, 1877 in Stuttgart ; † January 8, 1947 ) was a German art historian, art collector and museum director.

Life

MJ Binder
Director of the State Museums in Berlin (1977–1947), at the Nordfriedhof in Düsseldorf

Moritz Julius Binder was born as the son of the factory owner Adolf Binder and his wife Clothilde, b. Bichler-Roell, born. After attending secondary school, he studied music at the Vienna Conservatory . For a short time he took over the family company for special tools for saddlers and interior decorators in Stuttgart. After completing his Abitur in 1905, he studied art history in Berlin , Vienna and Tübingen . Binder was in close contact with the Mainz cathedral capitular and art historian Friedrich Schneider , who promoted him. Binder was also active as an art collector from an early age. The focus of his collection included smaller sculptures from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as well as Dutch painting from the 16th and 17th centuries.

In 1908 Binder did his doctorate in Tübingen on Jan van Scorel and then worked as an assistant director at the Städel in Frankfurt . From 1910 to 1912, Binder was an employee and assistant to Wilhelm von Bode at the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin . In October 1912 he then worked in the Berlin armory , where he took over the post of director in March 1913, which he held for almost 20 years. In contrast to his predecessors, Binder was not a high-ranking military man and therefore his museum policy also focused on the cultural-historical area, for which he was criticized from right-wing circles. The "Berliner Börsenzeitung", on the other hand, said on Binder's 50th birthday that "entrusting an art scholar with this post was a very fortunate choice for the purposes of the Zeughaus in particular".

Due to the National Socialist law to restore the civil service , Binder was dismissed from civil service on August 21, 1933. He advised the Berlin art dealer Hinrichsen, from whom Herrmann Göring also made art purchases, and provided expert reports for various purposes. During the Second World War, Binder was evacuated to the Burg estate in Weinstadt-Beutelsbach.

Margareta Henriette Breuer (1905–1994), secretary of the Georg Bondi publishing house in Berlin , whose owner Helmut Küpper was friends with Binder, inherited his art collection . In 1948, the Binders collection became part of the Düsseldorf Museum Kunstpalast .

Publications

• The Ansbach wine press picture . In: Blätter für Pictorialkunde, Vol. 3, 1906, pp. 61–64.
• A Byzantine-Venetian house altar. In: Studies from Art and History. Dedicated to Friedrich Schneider on the occasion of his seventieth birthday by his friends and admirers, Freiburg i.Br .: Herder 1906, pp. 501–505.
• The Ansbach wine press picture . In: Blätter für Pictorialkunde, Vol. 3, 1906/07, pp. 61–64 (online [1] )
• Studies on the history of the development of the painter 'Jan Scorel' , Tübingen 1908 (dissertation)
• The Heinrich Kaven Collection, Berlin-Grunewald , above: Imberg & Lefson 1909.
• together with Wilhelm von Bode: Frans Hals: His life and his works , 2 volumes, Berlin 1914.
• A flat landscape by Philips de Koninck . In: Der Cicerone, Vol. 17, 1925, pp. 468-469.
• A new acquisition by the armory. In: Berliner Museen, vol. 50, 1929, issue 4, pp. 75–77.

literature

• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. German business publisher, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .
• Jochen Becker: The Dutch paintings in the Moritz Julius Binder collection in the museum kunst palast Düsseldorf. Catalog , Hamburg: ConferencePoint 2002 ISBN 978-3-936406-00-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Börsenzeitung, No. 125, March 16, 1927, p. 12.