Pierre Louis Ravené
Pierre Louis Ravené (born February 10, 1793 in Berlin ; † December 31, 1861 there , also Peter Ludwig Ravené ) was a steel and iron wholesaler. He died honored as a patron of the arts.
Life
Pierre Louis Ravené was a descendant of Huguenot refugees from France. His parents were Jacob (Jaques) Ravené (1751-1828) and his wife Dorothee Butzer, a daughter of the hardware dealer Albrecht Butzer .
He took part in the Wars of Liberation as a volunteer . From his father Jacques he took over the iron shop Ravené in 1824 together with his brother Karl Peter (1777–1841) and his brother-in-law Lüddecke , which he continuously expanded as Jacob Ravené Sons . In 1825 Karl Peter retired from the Ravené & Sons company after a dispute with his brother and brother-in-law and went to Potsdam. From 1833, Pierre Louis was the sole manager.
In 1837 he participated in the construction of Carl Justus Heckmann's copper rolling mill in front of the Schlesisches Tor on today's Heckmannufer, today in the district of Berlin-Kreuzberg , until it became economically independent in 1841.
As the main supplier of the Anhalt and Potsdam railways, especially with sleepers, he became very rich.
He invested the exorbitant profits in art, mainly in paintings from the Düsseldorf School and the Berlin School. In 1853 he opened the Ravené Gallery with 124 pictures , which was Berlin's first publicly accessible art collection.
Towards the end of his life he became a follower of the occult . He firmly believed in a prophecy that he would die in 1861. He just made it to New Year's Eve.
Pierre Louis Ravené was buried in the cemetery of the French community in Berlin. The tomb shows him life-size as a dead / sleeping person. It was created by Gustav Blaeser . The canopy comes from Friedrich August Stüler . Although some putti are missing today, it is still the most expensive tomb in the cemetery.
He married Albertine Amalie Lüdecke (1802–1840) in 1822. After the divorce she married the later Prussian Lieutenant General Ferdinand von Mertens . His son Louis Fréderic Jacques Ravené continued both the company and the artistic interests. After the divorce he married Edmunde Natalie Amande Ravache (1817–1890). The couple had several children: Albert Gustav, Eduard Louis Carl, Henri Peter, Hans Edmund and Caroline Luise.
literature
- Felix Escher : Ravené, Peter (Pierre) Louis. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 220 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Konrad Beck: The Ravenés . In: Communications from the Association for the History of Berlin . Volume 81, Issue 3. Berlin 1985, p. 310-313 .
- Karl Seidel: The Ravené company in Wallstrasse . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 11, 1994, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 83-88 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heckmannufer. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- ↑ Gemäldegalerie in Wallstraße im Baedeker from 1855 on lexikus.de
- ↑ This is also reproduced on the information board in the cemetery created by historians.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ravené, Pierre Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ravené, Louis; Ravené, Peter Ludwig; Ravené, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist, patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1793 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1861 |
| Place of death | Berlin |