Paul Wassily

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Paul Johann Friedrich Wassily (born March 16, 1868 in Husum ; † May 7, 1951 in Kiel ) was a German doctor , painter and art collector .

Life

Wassily attended the Hermann-Taft high school in Husum until he graduated from high school. Following the example of his maternal grandfather, he studied medicine in Kiel and Berlin. Due to his positive experience with homeopathy , which he had gained in 1892 during a six-week voluntary work in the cholera epidemic in Hamburg, and through the healing of his protracted stomach ailment by a homeopath , he dedicated himself to homeopathy before the turn of the century. The publication of his positive experiences with homeopathic therapy resulted in a rejection of the final medical examination at the medical faculty in Kiel. Therefore, he passed the state examination in Leipzig. Wassily received his doctorate in Jena in 1893. After a year as a ship's doctor, which he completed as a conscript in 1894, and an assistantship with the well-known homeopathic doctor Carl Kunkel, which he began in 1895, he took over the practice and the house at Kehdenstrasse 6 in Kiel in 1897 after his death. This house had served the Count Rantzau family as a city apartment in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Outside of his medical work, his passion was music and painting. He was a committed art collector and became a friend and patron of numerous artists. In his music hall hung around seventy pictures by the Berlin painter Hermann Hendrich , among many others . Through Hendrich he got access to the Friedrichshagener poet circle and to the closer Bayreuth circle. His house was a meeting place for numerous artists and public figures. He ran a medical practice in Plön and later in Eutin. In 1948 he retired and returned to Kiel, where he had an apartment at Rathausstrasse 2. On his 80th birthday, Wassily bequeathed most of the art collection he still had after the bombing in 1941 to the Kunsthalle Kiel .

Honors

  • In Kiel, Wassilystraße is a reminder of the former doctor, painter and art collector.
  • A plaque on the new building at Kehdenstrasse 6 also keeps his name in mind.
  • The grave of honor is located in the Kiel South Cemetery , field K No. 13a.

literature

  • Hans Friedrich Rothert (Ed.): Kiel CVs from six centuries. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2006, ISBN 3-529-02749-9 .
  • Renate Jürgens: The Kiel doctor Dr. Paul Wassily (1868–1951) and his art collection. Evidence of German cultural history from the turn of the century to the Second World War. Kiel 1984 (in the series of writings of the Kiel City and Maritime Museum. )
  • Andreas Mettenleiter : Testimonials, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements III (I – Z). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 269-305, here: p. 299.
  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Paul Wassily . In: same: Kiel artist. Volume 3: In the Weimar Republic and National Socialism 1918–1945 , Heide: Boyens 2019 (special publications by the Society for Kiel City History; 88), ISBN 978-3-8042-1493-4 , pp. 409–427.
  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen (Ed.): "I have to ... collect." The art collection of the painter friend, Wagnerian and doctor Dr. Paul Wassily (1868–1951) in Kiel. Kiel: Ludwig 2006, ISBN 3-937719-41-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-G. Hilscher, Dietrich Bleihöfer: Wassilystraße. In: Kiel Street Lexicon. Continued since 2005 by the Office for Building Regulations, Surveying and Geoinformation of the State Capital Kiel, as of February 2017 ( kiel.de ).
  2. ↑ Graves of honor in Kiel: Paul Wassily.
personal data
SURNAME Wassily, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wassily, Paul Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, painter and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Husum
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1951
Place of death Kiel