Philipp Fiedler
Philipp Fiedler (born August 15, 1840 in Oederan , † November 15, 1919 in Crostewitz ) was a German manor owner and art patron .
Life
Philipp Fiedler was the son of the Oederan textile manufacturer Hermann Fiedler. The later art historian Konrad Fiedler was his younger brother. Hermann Fiedler retired from the textile trade in 1847 and bought the manor Crostewitz south of Leipzig , which his eldest son was to take over one day.
He therefore received a good education from private tutors and at the prince's school Sankt Afra in Meißen . He then studied natural sciences at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and the Charles University in Prague . Then he switched to law studies at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , which he finally completed at the University of Leipzig with a doctorate and the result satis bene (grade 4).
He found it difficult to get used to the duties of a landowner. Instead, his brother Konrad certified that he had “pretty poetic ideas” and that he “made very good verses very easily”. After her father's death in 1854, her mother, Luise Marie Fiedler, had taken over the management of the estate. The two brothers went on a study trip to the Orient , Egypt , Greece and Turkey .
Crostewitz manor around 1860
Robert Schumann memorial donated by Philipp Fiedler
Bronze plate Philipp Fiedler by Adolf Lehnert (1919)
After that Konrad devoted himself to the theory of art and Philipp dutifully to the Gut Crostewitz, but continued to write poetry. He published this in 1883 under the pseudonym Curt Falkenau with the title From the diary of a lonely (A soul life in fragments) .
After all, he made Gut Crostewitz a place for excursions for many guests from cultural life, including the painter Hans von Marees , who was a friend of Konrad, and the writer Helene von Nostitz , who in her book From Old Europe devoted a whole chapter to Philipp Fiedler, the pianist and teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory Josef Pembaur and the Gewandhauskapellmeister Carl Reinecke . There was music and performances in the Gutspark Theater.
Philipp Fiedlers was a member of the Leipzig Artists' Association of the Leonids . His enthusiasm for music is expressed not least in the fact that in 1875, initially anonymously, he donated the world's first monument to Robert Schumann to the city of Leipzig, which is still behind the Moritzbastei today, and his membership of the board of directors of the Gewandhaus from 1892 to in his death year 1919.
literature
- Maja Anter: And by the way, Gewandhaus director . Gewandhausmagazin No. 103, summer 2019, pp. 50/51
Web links
- Crostewitz manor. In: State Archives Leipzig. Retrieved May 30, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar - Nekrolog: 1901–1935. S 181 (digitized version)
- ↑ Gewandhausmagazin No. 103, p. 51
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fiedler, Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Manor owners and patrons of art |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oederan |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1919 |
| Place of death | Crostewitz |