Rose Livingston

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Rose Livingston, 1893, drawing by Wilhelm Steinhausen

Rose Livingston (born September 25, 1860 in San Francisco , † December 18, 1914 in Frankfurt am Main ) was an art patron and benefactor. She was a US citizen all her life, but lived in Frankfurt am Main from 1870 until her death.

life and work

Rose Livingston was the youngest daughter of the German-born Jewish couple Marks (Marx) Löwenstein and Francis, nee Marks, who emigrated to the USA in the mid-19th century, changed the family name to Livingston and kept it when the family of five and now very wealthy returned to Europe in 1870 and settled in Frankfurt am Main. After the death of her father, Rose Livingston converted in St. Paul's Church in 1891 and became a Protestant. Her governess Minna Noll (* April 2, 1845, † March 14, 1909) played a decisive role in this decision . In her honor, after the death of her mother and her own mother, she founded the Nellini Foundation in 1909 , in which needy, single women could spend their retirement homes . When the house was rebuilt in 2007, it had long housed the nursing home of the Frankfurt Deaconess House, which was (re) opened in 2009 as a new, larger house on the same site. The 1912/13 by Bruno Paul built, neoclassical villa was however renovated and as a parent of the Frankfurt Deaconess Sisters set up, managed by the beginning of the pen.

Rose Livingston met the painter Wilhelm Steinhausen , also the son of a Jewish mother, in the Luther year of 1883 , at the baptism of one of his children in St. Paul's Church , and became his painting student and patron. She acquired numerous paintings by Steinhausen (Der Abend, Der Morgen etc.) and donated the painting of the Lukaskirche , which was about as expensive as the construction of the big church itself. Rose Livingston became godmother to one of the daughters of Ida and Wilhelm Steinhausen, who was her first name received and later - in the sense of the patroness - should manage Steinhausen's picturesque legacy: Rose Steinhausen . Livingston stood and remained in close contact with the Steinhausen family. Because of a chronic illness, she undertook trips to the Dutch North Sea ( Domburg ) and cures ( Bad Münster am Stein ), to which she regularly invited her former governess and Rose Steinhausen and friends. Livingston supported the Association for People's Kindergartens founded in 1895 . In the year of the outbreak of the First World War , she devoted herself to caring for the wounded, but soon died of cancer in December 1914 and was buried in the Frankfurt main cemetery (Gewann F at the Wall 460b). Her governess Minna Noll also found her final resting place in the grave. Wilhelm Steinhausen decided after the death of the patroness, her in the portrait of the Rhode (means: Rose ( Acts 12,13-16  EU )), her also deceased baptismal father, pastor Philipp Jakob Collischonn , in the portrait of Peter in the Lukaskirche (north wall- Predella ).

Services

Nellini pencil in Frankfurt, built by Bruno Paul in 1912/13. The building was renovated in 2008 and has served as the motherhouse of the Frankfurt deaconesses since 2009.

The importance of Rose Livingston is based on her patronage, on the one hand in the social ( Nellini pen ; kindergartens) on the other hand in the cultural area (painting), for which she brought almost her entire legacy.

literature

  • Hanna Lachenmann: Rose Livingston - founder of the Nellini pen. Lecture on October 10, 1944. In: Evangelical personalities in Frankfurt am Main. Series of publications by the Evangelical Lutheran Ministry of Preachers, Frankfurt am Main, Issue 3, Frankfurt am Main 1995, pp. 35–58.
  • Hanna Lachenmann: For the 150th birthday of Rose Livingston, founder of the Nellini pen. In: Leaves from the Frankfurt Deaconess House. No. 447 (2010), September edition, pp. 3-7. PDF version (5.8 MB)
  • Bruno Müller: Foundations in Frankfurt am Main. History and impact. Revised and continued by Hans-Otto Schembs , Frankfurt am Main 2006, p. 109.
  • Wilhelm Dieter Vogel: The painting of St. Luke's Church in Frankfurt am Main in the biblical work of Wilhelm Steinhausen. Evangelical Lutheran Luke Parish Frankfurt am Main-Sachsenhausen (ed.). Frankfurt am Main 1980.
  • Hanna Lachenmann: Rose Livingston - founder of the Nellini pen . In: Around the Hutturm . Citizen Letter No. 66, August 1996
  • Harald Jenner: The Livingston family and the Nellini pen in Frankfurt am Main, Verlag der Frankfurter Bürgerstiftung, Frankfurt / M. 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the question of the unusual connection between the star architect at the time and Rose Livingston: Bruno Paul worked for the Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau in 1912 , where Wilhelm Steinhausen's son-in-law, Alfons Paquet , worked for the German Werkbund at the same time (see list of members 1912 ( Memento from April 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ))
  2. ↑ The two large-format paintings hung in the dining room of the Frankfurt Deaconess Mother House on Eschersheimer Landstrasse until the renovation and moved to Schöneck Castle near Boppard in 2009 , which Wilhelm Steinhausen acquired in 1910.
  3. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Rose Livingston
personal data
SURNAME Livingston, Rose
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American founder and patron of the arts
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1914
Place of death Frankfurt am Main