Richard Oertel (art historian)
Richard Edwin Oertel (* 1865 on Gut Großhermsdorf near Leipzig ; † September 18, 1943 in Miltach ) was a German art historian and collector .
Life
Richard Oertel was the son of the landowner Johann Ferdinand Oertel and Agnes Luise Oertel (née Hucho). He attended grammar school in Altenburg and then studied law and art history . After receiving his doctorate, he worked as a private scholar in Göttingen and Munich .
In Munich he had close contact and a. to Wilhelm Leibl , Max Slevogt , Thomas Mann , Ludwig Thoma , Stefan George , Richard Strauss , Wilhelm von Bode , Heinrich Wölfflin and Wilhelm Worringer .
After collecting his first graphics as a schoolboy, he devoted himself to old German wood sculpture from the beginning of the 1890s . After twenty years, his collection comprised late Gothic sculptures from Upper and Lower Bavaria, Tyrol, Swabia and the Upper Rhine region. These included, for example, the Dangolsheim Madonna , the Madonna from Marklkofen by Hans Leinberger , St. Sigismund from the Freising high altar retable by Jakob Kaschauer , the great Madonna from the Kaufbeurer high altar by Michel Erhart , the Christopherus from Babenhausen by Hans Thoman, a Madonna from the Schongau altar and an Ulm Madonna, all from the 15th century.
In 1913 he had to auction some of his collection, works went to the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin , the Düsseldorf Art Museum , Munich and Stuttgart , among others . In 1919 the Bavarian National Museum in Munich bought the Madonna from Michel Erhart. In 1979, another quarter of his collection was auctioned in Munich.
Richard Oertel died in 1943 in Miltach Castle , which he had bought in 1920.
His son Edwin was a lawyer, his daughters Hildegard Agnes and Elfride were also art historians.
Our Lady of Dangolsheim
St. Sigismund from the high altar retable in Freising
Publications (selection)
- Francisco de Goya , 1907
- On the life story of the poet and painter Friedrich Müller , 1875
literature
- Katja Brandt: Oertel, Richard Edwin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 451 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oertel, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oertel, Richard Edwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gut Großhermsdorf near Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1943 |
| Place of death | Miltach |