Nicolaus Hudtwalcker

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Nicolaus Hudtwalcker , 1852, portrait by Ferdinand Heilbuth , oil on canvas, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Nicolaus Hudtwalcker , 1859, portrait by Friedrich Wilhelm Graupenstein , lithograph, Hamburg State and University Library
Villa at Harvestehuder Weg 24, which was owned by Nicolaus Hudtwalcker for a while

Nicolaus Hudtwalcker (born March 10, 1794 in Hamburg ; † February 26, 1863 ibid) was a Hamburg insurance broker , art collector and patron .

Life

Nicolaus Hudtwalcker was born as the son of Nicolaus Hudtwalcker (1757-1832) and his wife Charlotte Amalie Hudtwalcker, née Ohmann (1767-1842). He came from the respected Hamburg merchant family Hudtwalcker . He was a nephew of Johann Michael Hudtwalcker , Elisabeth Hudtwalcker and Christian Martin Hudtwalcker and brother of Martin Hieronymus Hudtwalcker . Heinrich Hudtwalcker was his second nephew . Karl Johann Wesselhoeft (1816-1903), the step-son of his sister Susette Wesselhoeft, born Hudtwalcker (1800-1883), he took to his teachings in his company Hudtwalcker insurance industry , which was once founded his father and later Hudtwalcker & Wesselhoeft be called upon .

In 1822 Nicolaus Hudtwalcker was one of the 30 founding members of the Kunstverein in Hamburg . From 1842 to 1843 he had a house built by Alexis de Chateauneuf at Hermannstrasse 14 in the Hamburg-Altstadt district ; the interior architect was Ludovicus Piglhein . Hudtwalcker was temporarily the owner of the villa at Harvesterhuder Weg 24 . In 1838 he acquired Georg August Spangenberg's art collection, which he was constantly expanding. In 1858 the committee was founded to build a public museum in Hamburg , which was supported by Nicolaus Hudtwalker, among others. In 1863 he also made a private foundation. Like many Hamburgers, he also donated for the construction of the Hamburger Kunsthalle . The sum was 12,000 marks . In his will, the unmarried and childless Hudtwalcker suspended a foundation in favor of unmarried young women.

After his death Nicolaus Hudtwalcker was buried in one of the Dammtor cemeteries. In honor of his family, two streets in Hamburg-Winterhude were named Hudtwalckertwiete and Hudtwalckerstraße . The latter gave its name to the Hudtwalckerstraße underground station .

Nicolaus Hudtwalcker bequeathed the then modern part of his art collection to the picture gallery of the future Hamburger Kunsthalle, and Karl Johann Wesselhoeft inherited his company, his house on Hermannstrasse , his books from the painting room , as well as the old masters of his art collection, which mainly consisted of works by Flemish and Dutch Master insisted. Wesselhoeft sold almost all of the Italian and French works from the collection, as well as some Dutch works that he considered to be two-tier, by Cornelis Dubois, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout , Adriaen Hendriksz Verboom and Dirck Wijntrack, among others , to replace them with Dutch masterpieces. Paintings by Gerard ter Borch , Jan van Goyen , Jacob van Ruisdael , Jan Steen and a Rembrandt van Rijn were also added . After speculating on the stock exchange, he had to sell the art collection in 1888. 98 of the works up for sale were acquired by the Hamburger Kunsthalle as the Hudtwalcker-Wesselhoeft collection with a special permit from the Hamburg Senate .

Before he bequeathed works to the Gemäldegalerie or works by Wesselhoeft were sold, Hudtwalcker's collection contained paintings and drawings by Andreas Achenbach , Alexander Adriaanssen (also Adriaanszen ), Willem van Aelst , Jacopo Amigoni , Jan Asselijn , Ludolf Bakhuizen , Jan Abrahamszoon Beerstrats , Dirck van Bergen, Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem , Antonio Bernieri, Pieter de Bloot , Pieter Boel , Abraham van Boresum, Jan Both , Jan de Bray, Bartholome Bremberg, Bartholomeus Breenbergh , Quiringh van Brekelenkam , Jan Brueghel the Elder , Adriaen Brouwer , Carletto Caliari, Annibale Carracci , Lodovico Carracci , Anthonie Jansz. van der Croos, Aelbert Jacobsz. Cuyp , Cornelis Gerritsz. Decker , Balthasar Denner , François Desportes , Abraham van Diepenbeeck , Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich , Simon van der Does, Giovanni Dominici, Gerard Dou , Cornelis Dubois, Karel Dujardin , Cornelis Dusart , Gerbrand van den Eeckhout , Adam Elsheimer , Jacob Esselens, Allart van Everdingen , Govaert Flinck , Jacob Gensler , Jan van Goyen , Robert Griffier, Jan Hackaert , Hermann Rudolf Hardorff , Cornelis de Heem , Bartholomeus van der Helst , Jan van der Heyden , Melchior de Hondecoeter , Pieter de Hooch , C. van Hoolen, Jan van Huchtenburgh , Ludolf de Jongh, Willem Kalf , Alexander Keirincx , Wouter Knijff (also Knyff ), Klaes Koedyk, Pieter van Laer , Filippo Lauri, Le Nain brothers , Johannes Lingelbach , Bernardino Luini , Johann Liss , Jacob van Loo, Carlo Maratta , Jean-Louis de Marne, Anton Raphael Mengs , Jan Miel, Jan van Mieris , Willem van Mieris , Jan Miense Molenaer , Nicolaes Molenaer, Carel de Moor , Emanuel Murant, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo , Aert van der Neer , C aspar Netscher , Giuseppe Nogari , Adriaen van Ostade , Isaac van Ostade , Anthonie Palamedesz. , Cornelis van Poelenburgh , Gaspard Poussin , Nicolas Poussin , Adam Pijnacker , Rembrandt van Rijn , Theodoor Rombouts, Rachel Ruysch , Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael , Salomon van Ruysdael , David Ryckaert , Herman Saftleven , Godefridus Schalcken , Bartolomeo Schedoni , Pieter Schoubroeck , Aernout Smit, Frans Snyders , Jan Frans Soolmaker, Jan Steen , Jacques Stella , Jacob van Strij, David Teniers the Elder , David Teniers the Younger , Drost van Terlee, Gillis van Tilborgh , Lucas van Uden , Balthasar van der Veen, Adriaen van de Velde , Adriaen Hendriksz Verboom , Jan Vermeer van Haarlem the Younger, Bonifazio Veronese , Marten de Vos , Jan Reynier de Vries, Jan Weenix , Adriaen van der Werff , Jan Wils , Jan Wouwerman, Philips Wouwerman , Pieter Wouwerman, Thomas Wyck , Jan Wijnants , Domenicus van Wijnen (also Wynen ), Dirck Wijntrack and Reinier Zeeman .

The picture of a sleeping cook in a kitchen was mistaken for a painting by Jan Vermeer by Hudtwalker , whose subsequent owner Théophile Thoré also thought it was a Vermeer, but nowadays it is no longer attributed to Vermeer.

On April 23, 1960, the painting Rider on the Dune by Philips Wouwerman , which was once in the collection of Nicolaus Hudtwalcker, was stolen from the Old Masters Department of the Hamburger Kunsthalle . The Hamburg police offered a reward of 1000 Deutsche Mark for clues about the perpetrator or the recovery of the painting.

Works (selection)

  • The Messenger of Love , oil painting by Pieter de Hooch , Hudtwalcker Collection, sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1888

  • Maid standing in a kitchen next to a butter churn , 1645, oil painting by Willem Kalf , Hudtwalcker Collection, sold 1863, now Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

  • Portrait of a Smoking Painter , 1688, oil painting by Jan van Mieris , Hudtwalcker Collection, sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1888

  • The escaping bird , 1687, oil painting, by Willem van Mieris , Hudtwalcker Collection, sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1888

  • Portrait of Maurits Huygens , 1632, oil painting by Rembrandt van Rijn , bought by Wesselhoeft in 1870, sold to the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1888

  • Pinksterblom (Dutch Whitsun Festival), oil painting by Jan Steen , bought by Wesselhoeft in 1881, sold in 1888 to the Hamburger Kunsthalle, which sold it again around 1930

literature

  • Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexikon , edited by the Association for Hamburg History , Hoffmann and Campe 1854, page 308 (short entry from the living art collectors) ( digitized version )
  • Catalog of the painting collection by Nicolaus Hudtwalcker in Hamburg , Langhoff, Hamburg 1854
  • Explanatory catalog of the painting collection by Nicolaus Hudtwalcker, in Hamburg , Perthes-Besser and Mauke, 1861
  • Gustav Parthey : Deutscher Bildersaal: Directory of the oil paintings of deceased painters in all schools in Germany , Volume 1, 1863 ( Enter Hudthwalcker above as a search term, then all or almost all will be displayed) ( digital copy )
  • Gustav Parthey: Deutscher Bildersaal: Directory of the oil paintings of deceased painters in all schools in Germany , Volume 2, 1864 ( Enter Hudthwalcker above as a search term, then almost all of them will be displayed) ( digitized version )
  • Wilhelm von Bode : Painting collection of Mr. Johannes Wesselhoeft in Hamburg , Society for Reproductive Art, Vienna 1885 ( digitized version )
  • Alfred Lichtwark : The acquisition of the Wesselhoeft Collection in Hamburg for the Kunsthalle in the magazine Die Kunst für alle: Painting, Sculpture, Graphics, Architecture , 1888, 3 pages ( digitized version )
  • Gustav Leithäuser: Hamburger Kunsthalle: The paintings Hudtwalcker-Wesselhoeft collection , Herold'sche Buchhandlung, 1889 (One of the books is listed at the Lost Art Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property .)

Web links

Commons : Nicolaus Hudtwalcker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In the list of members of the record books from 1822–1842 (PDF-p. 53). PDF file from kunstverein.de
  2. ↑ Proof on page 113 (original 107) of the dissertation Collectors in Hamburg. The merchant and art lover consul Eduard Friedrich Weber (1830-1907) by Carla Schmincke
  3. ↑ Mentioned in the article Hundred Years of the Hamburger Kunsthalle in the Hamburger Abendblatt of 23 August 1969
  4. ↑ Camilla John: The district series: Winterhude. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. March 25, 2012 ( online ).
  5. ↑ PDF file Citizenship and fine arts in Hamburg in the late 18th and 19th centuries Dissertation by Ulrike Renz, 2001, page 140
  6. ^ Théophile Thoré : Jan Vermeer van Delft , 1905, page 55 below
  7. ^ Article in the Hamburger Abendblatt from April 25, 1960
  8. ↑ Article 1000 D-Mark reward in the Hamburger Abendblatt from April 26, 1960
  9. ↑ Book at Lost Art
personal data
SURNAME Hudtwalcker, Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg insurance broker, art collector and patron
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1863
Place of death Hamburg