Nicola Moufang

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Nikolaus Friedrich Christof Maria Moufang (born May 30, 1886 in Heidelberg , Grand Duchy of Baden , German Empire ; † April 11, 1967 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg , Federal Republic of Germany ) was a German lawyer , prominent art historian and art collector .

Majolica plate around 1510 Florentine Renaissance from Caffagiolo , depicting a majolica painter at work
Teller, faience , dated 1555, probably made in Nuremberg . A faience consists of the same ceramic mass as the Italian variant majolica
Porcelain , shelf with raw goods, Ludwigsburg manufactory
Porcelain vase, amphora , with enamel painting and gilding, the Kronprinzen Palais in a cartouche , Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin , 1860
Bust of Napoleon I , Chaudet Louvre OA10410, bisque porcelain 1811, Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres

family

Nicola Moufang was the eldest son of Wilhelm Moufang senior, a doctor of law and attorney in Heidelberg, (born January 6, 1852 in Mainz ; † January 30, 1942 in Heidelberg) and his wife Julie Moufang, née. Stutzmann (born February 14, 1857 in Wiesbaden-Biebrich ; † September 29, 1938 in Heidelberg). Wilhelm Moufangs senior Sister, Wilhelmine Katharina Moufang, was married to Nicola Racke .

Nicola Moufang had four brothers, Fritz Moufang (born October 5, 1887 in Heidelberg; † March 10, 1906 in Heidelberg), Eugen Moufang (1889–1967), Franz Moufang (1893–1984) and Wilhelm Moufang (1895–1989)

Nicola Moufang's important ancestors in Mainz include Friedrich Lennig , Adam Franz Lennig , Christoph Moufang and Edmund Georg Nicolaus Hardy , religious historians and Indologists . Nicola Moufang was married to Eva Moufang, b. Kase, (* May 12, 1884 in Stettin , † May 29, 1963 in Heidelberg). The marriage remained childless. Nicola Moufang's great-nephews are Alexis Grammatidis, a doctor of dentistry and orthodontist , the composer and sound artist David Moufang, and Gabriel Grammatidis, a business graduate, system developer and international speaker .

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Training the brothers

All Moufang brothers were encouraged by their father to take up law studies. Most of them studied at the Ruperto Carola in Heidelberg, where they also received their doctorate. All four, including the fifth brother Fritz, who was still living at the time, were graduates of the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Heidelberg, which they graduated with excellent grades. Eugen Moufang spent several semesters in Freiburg, where he spent this time in the house of his aunt Anna Maria Probst, b. Moufang, a sister of his father Wilhelm Moufang senior, lived. Eugen was the only one of the Moufang brothers who ultimately continued to run his father's law firm, which was continued from 1966 by his stepson Jobst Wellensiek until 2011, as an active partner under the name Wellensiek & Partner , with nationwide branches.

Studies and PhDs

In 1913 Nicola Moufang from the law faculty of the Ruperto Carola with his dissertation on the criminal law provisions of the law on the security of building requests to the doctor jur. PhD. Following the passion of his early youth for ceramic works, Nicola Moufang completed his law studies and also studied art history at the Ruperto Carola. He could in 1914 his thesis on the Grand Ducal Majolica Manufactory in Karlsruhe present and was with this work, two days before the outbreak of World War I with the entry into the war of the German Empire on August 1, 1914, from the Faculty of Heidelberg University Dr. phil. PhD.

Time of the First World War

When Dr. jur. and newly minted Dr. phil., 28 years young, Nicola Moufang registered as a war volunteer for the 1st Badischer Leib-Dragoons Regiment No. 20 in Karlsruhe and served as a cavalryman in this regiment until the end of the war . Sharing the spirit of the times "We'll be back home at Christmas" and obeying the family code, the three Moufang brothers, Eugen, Franz and Wilhelm, who were still alive, also volunteered. Wilhelm Moufang, the youngest of the brothers, moved to the western front as a high school graduate, at the age of 19, with the Leib-Dragoons , served as a cavalryman, and returned home from the western front as a seriously wounded soldier .

Grand Ducal Majolica Manufactory

Returning in 1918 at the end of the war at the age of 32, it was a blessing for Nicola Moufang that, in his dissertation on The Grand Ducal Majolica Manufactory in Karlsruhe, he was already working intensively with the artists who have worked in this manufactory since it was founded, and their artistic works , had dealt with.

It became the ticket for Nicola Moufang into the management of the Karlsruhe Majolika and the lucky entry into an incomparably significant creative period under Moufang as director of the Grand Ducal Majolica Manufactory from 1921 to 1925. An enormous intellectual potential could take shape in the artistic works of this period accept. Here are the names of some of the important artists who have received intensive support from Moufang during these years: Max Laeuger , Bruno Paul , Ludwig König . The Swiss ceramist and sculptor Paul Speck (1896–1966) was appointed head of the building ceramics department and in 1924 he moved into one of the three master studios set up by Nicola Moufang.

Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin

This tomb was erected in 1887 by Dr. jur. Wilhelm Moufang senior and his wife Julie Moufang geb. Stutzmann for their son Fritz, who died early. In addition to Fritz Moufang, his parents, Fritz Moufang's eldest brother Nicola Moufang and his wife Eva nee, also rest here. Cheese
View from the beginning of the row of professors in the (Dept. D) of the Heidelberg mountain cemetery, onto the back of the Moufang family's grave cross, and the younger part of the cemetery in west direction, Rohrbacherstrasse

In 1925 Nicola Moufang went to Berlin. Here he was artistic director of the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin until 1929 . Nicola Moufang and his wife Eva had the gift and ability to cultivate meaningful friendships. Inwardly, Moufang was particularly close to all personalities who were outstanding through artistic originality. Nicola Moufang's special inclination belonged to German Expressionism , its development before and after the First World War, as well as modern sculpture and the development of contemporary sculpture . 31 guest books of the couple Nicola and Eva Moufang, in which the largest number of the most important entries come from their time in Berlin, in large-format parchment volumes, contain entries by artists, many of whom were branded as " degenerate artists " in the Third Reich . The Moufang couple's guest books contain over a thousand watercolors . But people from political and social life were also guests in the Moufang house, from 1922 until the couple's later years, and have entered into these books.

Nicola Moufang was on the board of the Deutscher Werkbund together with Alfred Fischer , Walter Gropius , Theodor Heuss , Fritz Höger , Ernst Jäckh , Friedrich Krauss , Wilhelm Kreis , Richard Lisker , Elisabeth Michahelles, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , Oskar von Miller , Günther von Pechmann , Adolf Rading , Lilly Reich , Paul Renner , Richard Riemerschmid , Walter Riezler , Ludwig Roselius , Richard Schulz (Berlin: Manufacture for bronze work), Otto Ernst Sutter , Fritz Tarnow , Erich Wienbeck .

Baden State Museum

Liegestein with the life data of Nicola Moufang and his wife Eva Moufang nee Kase, family grave Nicola Moufang Heidelberg Bergfriedhof (Dept. D)
Family grave Nicola Moufang in the Heidelberg mountain cemetery in (Dept. D). Here rest with him, his brother Fritz, who died young, his parents and his wife Eva
Grave of the grandparents of Nicola Moufang, Friedrich Stutzmann ∞ Eugenie Stutzmann née Boyssel, in the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof (Dept. D), in the row of professors
Tomb of Marie Stutzmann, aunt of Nicola Moufang and his brothers, the tomb is on the oldest grave of the family, here over 150 years ago the great-grandfather Pierre Boyssel from Toulouse found his final resting place, Heidelberg mountain cemetery, so-called row of professors (Dept. D)

A few years ago the Badisches Landesmuseum acquired these 31 volumes, a unique testimony to the 20th century. They are a mirror of contemporary history, especially of culture and art after the First World War up to the late fifties and early sixties. The intimate family life of the Moufangs is evidenced by many entries on the occasion of small and large family celebrations. But, especially the significant cultural events from 1918 to the late 1950s and early 1960s, are documented in the couple's guest books. The guest books contain many photos, verses, caricatures, sayings and philosophical things from the time of the Karlsruhe and Berlin years that reflect the zeitgeist . Nicola and Eva Moufang's friends included, among others, the Karlsruhe Academy Director Hans Thoma , the painter Wilhelm Schnarrenberger , the ceramist Max Laeuger , the sculptors Georg Kolbe , Edwin Scharff and Renée Sintenis , and the American constructivist of Ukrainian origin Alexander Archipenko , Josef Scharl and the architect and satirical draftsman Bruno Paul .

Quote from Maren Topp: "In 1928 Moufang's activity at the State Manufactory came to an inglorious end after he was accused of buying an unauthorized company car from the Manufactory's funds, accounting for income from books financed by the Manufactory privately and appearing to have employed his brother as a private secretary. 1933 the proceedings came to the indictment and Günter von Pechmann was discontinued as Moufang's successor ". Published by Maren Topp in Karamos magazine.

United workshops Berlin

From 1929 to 1942 Nicola Moufang was head of the United Workshops in Berlin. In the last years of the war he became special commissioner of the German Empire at the State Porcelain Manufactory Sèvres ( Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres ) in France and the Royal Porcelain Manufactory Copenhagen ( Royal Copenhagen ) in Denmark. In 1943, the Moufangs' apartment in Berlin was bombed out. At the end of the Second World War , Moufang and his wife Eva returned to his hometown Heidelberg, where his three brothers also lived and worked.

Back in Heidelberg

Here in Heidelberg, too, after the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , but with the spirit of hope to create a reconstruction, Nicola Moufang has found friendships with his own kind. The Electoral Palatinate Museum of the City of Heidelberg received many works of art from the Nicola Moufang collection during the years under its management by its then director Georg Poensgen . "In front of a broad public, they testify to the spirit to which the jubilee felt a lifelong connection."

Nicola Moufang outlived his wife Eva by four years. He rests next to her in the listed family grave with his parents Wilhelm and Julie Moufang and their brother Fritz, who died young. The grave complex is located in the Bergfriedhof (Heidelberg) in Department D, Row 1, No. 175/176.

Honors

  • In 1964, "Nicola Moufang was presented with the Golden Doctoral Degree from Ruperto Carola in view of a rich scientific harvest." Source: Heidelberg City Archives.

Fonts

  • The criminal law provisions of the Law on Securing Construction Claims . Poeschel, Leipzig, 1914, 77 pages, dissertation to obtain the award of the Dr. jur. to Ruperto Carola Heidelberg, 1913.
  • The Grand Ducal Majolica Manufactory in Karlsruhe . Carl Winter, Heidelberg, 1920. Dissertation for the award of the Dr. phil. at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Heidelberg, 1914.
  • Exhibition of master and student works from ceramic teaching and experimental workshops in the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts . Edler & Krische, Charlottenburg, 1927.
  • Old Berlin in porcelain . A cabinet from the State Porcelain Manufactory Berlin. Berlin, Stubenrauch, 1927. 2 °. 51 pp. With 10 exhibition sketches and 56 (25 colored) plates.

Individual evidence

  1. BIORAB Empire online. Alphabet: Racke, Josef Adolf Nicola Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 2, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / zhsf.gesis.org
  2. Document death notice published in the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung on January 28, 1989, advertised by the widow Minnie Moufang and her daughter Barbara Kempe, document Heidelberg City Archives, ZGS 2 155.
  3. Edmund Hardy in Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bsbndb.bsb.lrz-muenchen.de
  4. ^ German biography - Hardy, Edmund. (No longer available online.) In: bsbndb.bsb.lrz-muenchen.de. Archived from the original on February 21, 2016 ; accessed on January 9, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bsbndb.bsb.lrz-muenchen.de
  5. a b Heidelberg City Archives, Franz Moufang family records
  6. ^ Family association Feuerlein. In: Familienverband-feuerlein.de. Retrieved January 9, 2015 .
  7. ^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , Feuilleton, January 7, 1986, article: Eugen Moufang 75 years old, presentation of the diploma for the golden anniversary of his doctorate
  8. ^ Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, guide through the museum in the majolica; Joanna Flawia Figiel: Karlsruhe majolica. Other, 2004, ISBN 978-3-881-90368-4 , p. 33. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  9. ^ Karlsruhe majolica: Guide through the museum in the majolica. Author: Joanna Flawia Figiel and Peter Schmitt
  10. German Expressionism. (No longer available online.) In: kettererkunst.de. Archived from the original on March 30, 2014 ; accessed on January 9, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kettererkunst.de
  11. The hand-made paper was produced in the Moufangschen paper factory, Albert Gieseler - Oberschmitten paper factory, W. & J. Moufang Akt.-Ges. In: albert-gieseler.de. Retrieved January 9, 2015 .
  12. ^ Deutscher Werkbund North Rhine-Westphalia: Deutscher Werkbund NW, 1926: From the Werkbund. (No longer available online.) In: deutscherwerkbund-nw.de. Archived from the original on January 9, 2015 ; accessed on January 9, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutscherwerkbund-nw.de
  13. Press release from the Badisches Landesmuseum.
  14. Maren Topp author of the article. It is not clear to what extent the content can be reliably substantiated: Nicola Moufang as special representative of the Third Reich. In: Keramos. Journal of the Society for Ceramic Friends, Issue 222, 2013, pp. 61–70.
  15. ^ United workshops for art in craft. In: designlexikon.net. Retrieved January 9, 2015 .
  16. ^ The Palatinate Museum of the City of Heidelberg
  17. Quotation from the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , features section, Whitsun edition 1966, article by Dr. Nicola Moufang 80 years . Document from Heidelberg City Archives ZGS 2/155
  18. ^ Administration of the Bergfriedhof Heidelberg
  19. ^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , "Nicola Moufang 80 years"

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