Siegfried Buchenau (businessman)

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Carl Ludwig Siegfried Buchenau (born November 30, 1870 in Bremen ; † September 16, 1932 ) was a German merchant, landlord and art collector in the early 20th century .

Life

Siegfried Buchenau was the fourth child of the Bremen botanist and educator Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau and his wife Margarethe Auguste, nee. Adami († 1905). The numismatist Heinrich Buchenau was his oldest brother.

He went to Mexico , married Anna Emilie, b. Increase and was very successful in the agricultural trade in Torreón . Together with his father-in-law, the Vice Consul of the German Empire in Torreon Julius (Julio) A. Vermehren, he owned large areas of land there.

Classicist mansion of the Niendorf estate (2009)
Warleberg manor

On May 1, 1913, he leased the manor house Niendorf along with accessories and hunting (Gut Weißenrode) from the city of Lübeck , which he managed and lived in until his death. In 1920 he acquired the Warleberg estate ( Neuwittenbek municipality ), which is still managed by his descendants to this day.

In Lübeck, Buchenau had been a member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities since 1908 .

The couple's guests at Niendorf included the conductor and composer Hermann Hans Wetzler , who completed his Symphonic Fantasy for Orchestra, Op. 10 here in 1922, named it Weissenrode and dedicated it to Anna and Siegfried Buchenau.

Siegfried Buchenau became important as an art collector and patron. He was one of the founders of the Overbeck Society initiated by Karl Schaefer in 1918 . The cultural critic Abram B. Enns emphasizes that there were two qualified private collectors in Lübeck who made it possible for the committed museum director Carl Georg Heise in the twenties and until his dismissal in 1933 to acquire modern art in Lübeck several times (including those from abroad) to exhibit, next to the better known Max Linde he names Siegfried Buchenau.

Descendants

Edvard Munch in 1902 in the garden of the Lindesche Villa in Lübeck . In the background, The Age of Bronze by Auguste Rodin , which passed after the First World War in the collection Buchenaus

After the Second World War, the Lübeck museum director Hans Arnold Gräbke was able to occupy the pedestal of the young man by Georg Kolbe in the garden of the Behnhaus, which had been “vacated” in 1940, thanks to a loan from the Buchenau heirs with the bronze age of the sculptor Auguste Rodin , this loan from the collection Max Linde had passed to Siegfried Buchenau, but was withdrawn in the 1950s.

The son Franz (Wilhelm) Buchenau (born September 29, 1900 in Torreón; † March 13, 1969 in Mexico City ) became manager of the Solingen export company Heinrich Böker.

The daughter Margarete (* 1913) married the printer Alfred Zantop (* 1900 in Wildungen), who had lived in Barcelona since 1925 , ran a printing company there and whom the Allies suspected of being a defense agent of the German National Socialists in Spain and of In matters of looted art, Hermann Göring had a direct point of contact . He sold several works of art through the National Socialist art buyer Alois Miedl . In 1955, Zantop was mentioned in the catalog as the lender of the West Berlin " Adolph Menzel " exhibition in Berlin. A son of Alfred and Margarete Zantop was the geologist and professor at Dartmouth College Half Zantop who was murdered together with his wife Susanne in 2001 and whose estate includes parts of the Siegfried Buchenau collection.

Buchenau Collection

Siegfried Buchenau acquired an extensive art collection which he bequeathed to his wife and from which his widow Anna Buchenau and the heirs sold individual pieces in the following years. A complete documentation of this important collection in context is not known, however research on individual parts of the collection is available. According to current provenance research based on documented transactions on the art market, the Buchenau Collection included the following works (sorted according to sales or last proof of ownership) :

Sales by Siegfried Buchenau (until 1932)
  • Feuerbach Anselm girl with bird 01.JPG
  • Lovis Corinth Lying Naked Art Gallery Bremen.jpg
  • 1863 Böcklin The artist and his wife anagoria.JPG
Sales by the heirs or loans from the heirs (from 1933)
  • The birth of Venus - Arnold Böcklin.jpg
Remains in the family or unclear
  • Lovis Corinth : In the Puerperium (Charlotte with Wilhelmine) (BC 391) (1909):
  • Lovis Corinth : Chip basket on a brown tabletop / pink roses in the chip basket (BC 480), whereabouts unknown
  • Abraham van Beijeren :? (1676), 2001 in the household of Half and Susanne Zantop
  • Auguste Rodin : Faunesse à genoux , from the Linde collection, in 2001 in the household of Half and Susanne Zantop
  • Adolph Menzel : Bathing boys in the Saale near Kösen , on loan to Berlin in 1955
  • Philips Wouwerman : Heuvellandschap met enkele ruiters die hun Paarden drenken , acquired in 1924, whereabouts?
  • Julius Porcellis : Schepen op zee met rechtsvoor een vissersbootje 1958 still in family ownership , whereabouts?
  • Copy after Peter Paul Rubens : The meeting of David and Abigail , acquired?, Whereabouts?
  • Jan van der Heyden : View of the garden of Huis ten Bosch (1668), acquired in 1930 from Jacques Goudstikker , whereabouts?
  • Wilhelm Leibl : Head of a peasant woman with a black headscarf and peach-red jacket (1890/95) according to the Getty Provenance Index (1941)
Others in the wider context
  • In 1922 he acquired the equestrian monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I from Louis Tuaillon , which was originally intended for installation on the Lübeck market , and had it installed in the park of Gut Niendorf; In 1934 the city of Lübeck bought it back.
  • One of the main works of the sculptor Johannes Junge is the so-called Niendorfer Madonna in the St. Anne's Museum in Lübeck , dated around 1420 , named after the Lübeck city estate Niendorf, which was then leased from Buchenau, where it was found on the gable of a barn in the 1920s. It is said to have stood there with three other sculptures since the beginning of the 19th century. At the time, the estate belonged to the Lübeck mayor Friedrich Adolph von Heintze . It is believed that they could originally have been part of the furnishings of one of the Lübeck side churches or Gothic chapels that were demolished at the beginning of the 19th century.
  • EM - Wilhelm1.jpg

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on the father in Who is it? 2 (1906) p. 156
  2. ^ Entry on the father in Who is it? 2 (1906) p. 156
  3. ↑ Related to but not identical to Julius Vermehren
  4. ^ Jürgen Buchenau: Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-present. Albuquerque: UNM Press 2004 ISBN 9780826330888 , p. 111
  5. ↑ Provenance research ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Gut Warleberg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nok-sh.de  
  7. ↑ Lübeckische Blätter 50 (1908), p. 692
  8. ↑ Symphonic Fantasy in E-flat major, op.10 (1922) ( Memento from January 3, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  9. ^ Enns, Art and Bourgeoisie. The controversial twenties in Lübeck. Christians / Weiland, Hamburg / Lübeck 1978, p. 173 ISBN 3-7672-0571-8 ; so also Carl Georg Heise himself in his inventory of Lübeck art maintenance, 1920-1933: On behalf of the head of the Museum for Art and Cultural History , Museums for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1934, p. 80
  10. ^ Annunciation (1924), memorial for the German booksellers; back in place as a replica ( File: Overbeck-Gesellschaft09.JPG ): Original in the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin
  11. ↑ Enns, Art and Citizenship , p. 140
  12. ^ Jürgen Buchenau: Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-present. Albuquerque: UNM Press 2004 ISBN 9780826330888 , pp. 111 and 211
  13. ↑ ESPAÑA Y EL EXPOLIO DE LAS COLECCIONES ARTÍSTICAS EUROPEAS DURANTE LA SEGUNDA GUERRA MUNDIAL ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ^ Entry in the Lost Art database
  15. ^ First Supplement to the Appendix US and Allied Efforts To Recover and Restore Gold and Other Assets Stolen or Hidden by Germany During World War II - Finding Aid to Records at the National Archives at College Park , 1997, p. 199: Guide to Goering Papers pdf
  16. ^ Post-War Reports: Art Looting Intelligence Unit (ALIU) Reports 1945-1946 and ALIU Red Flag Names List and Index (digitized) ; en: Alois Miedl
  17. ^ Exhibition Adolph von Menzel on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death: Berlin, May to June 1955 in the Museum Dahlem, Arnimallee , Nationalgalerie (West), Museum Dahlem 1955, p. 17; 50
  18. ↑ See also Eric Francis: The Dartmouth Murders. New York: St. Martin's True Crime ISBN 0-312-98231-3 ; en: 2001 Dartmouth College murders
  19. ↑ Provenance research ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  20. ↑ Charlotte Berend-Corinth: The paintings of Lovis Corinth. Munich: Bruckmann 1958, p. 75
  21. ^ Proof of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
  22. ^ Entry in the database for the Munich Central Collecting Point
  23. ↑ Auction catalog
  24. ^ Auction catalog , lot no.3042, p. 62
  25. ↑ Provenance research ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  26. ^ Walter A. Liedtke: Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2007 ISBN 9781588392732 , pp. 407 f., Note 3
  27. ↑ Explore Salomon Konninck
  28. ↑ Adriaan E. Waiboer: Gabriel Metsu (1629--1667): Life and Work. Diss. New York 2007 ISBN 9780549257363 , Cat. B 1, p. 818
  29. ↑ Auguste Rodin: Age of Bronze
  30. ↑ Auction catalog , accessed on January 3, 2015
  31. ↑ Provenance research ( Memento from January 3, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  32. ↑ Provenance research ( memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), entry in the database on the Munich Central Collecting Point
  33. ↑ Birgit Schwarz: Geniewahn: Hitler and the art. Vienna: Böhlau 2009 ISBN 9783205783077 , p. 157 with ill. 53
  34. ^ Entry in the database for the Munich Central Collecting Point
  35. ^ Walter A. Liedtke: Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , Volumes 1–2, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007, p. 407/408 (footnote 3 on p. 407)
  36. ^ Proof of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
  37. ^ Proof of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
  38. ^ Proof of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
  39. ↑ Charlotte Berend-Corinth: The paintings of Lovis Corinth. Munich: Bruckmann 1958, p. 104
  40. ↑ Charlotte Berend-Corinth: The paintings of Lovis Corinth. Munich: Bruckmann 1958, p. 116
  41. ↑ Eric Francis: The Dartmouth Murders. New York: St. Martin's True Crime ISBN 0-312-98231-3 , p. 13; en: 2001 Dartmouth College murders
  42. ↑ Eric Francis: The Dartmouth Murders. New York: St. Martin's True Crime ISBN 0-312-98231-3 , p. 13; en: 2001 Dartmouth College murders
  43. ^ Proof of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
  44. ^ Proof of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
  45. ^ Proof of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
  46. ^ Proof of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
  47. ^ Art in public space Lübeck
  48. ^ Walter Paatz : The Luebeck stone sculpture from the first half of the 15th century (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Luebeck 9, ZDB -ID 520795-2 ). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1929; Hildegard Vogeler : Madonnas in Lübeck. Lübeck 1993, No. 40, p. 82 .; Anna Elisabeth Albrecht: Stone sculpture in Lübeck around 1400: Foundation and origin. Reimer, Berlin 1997, p. 86 ff. ISBN 3-496-01172-6
personal data
SURNAME Buchenau, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchenau, Carl Ludwig Siegfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, landlord and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1932