Sulpiz Boisserée

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Sulpiz Boisserée
drawing by Peter von Cornelius
Sulpiz Boisserée. Memorial plaque on the birthplace in Cologne, Blaubach 14 (by the sculptor Wolfgang Reuter from Cologne)

Johann Sulpiz Melchior Dominikus Boisserée (born August 2, 1783 in Cologne , † May 2, 1854 in Bonn ) was a German painting collector, art and architecture historian and one of the initiators of the completion of Cologne Cathedral .

Life

He was the son of the businessman Nicolas Boisserée and his wife Maria Magdalena, a daughter of the Cologne businessman Anton Brentano. The ancestors of the family immigrated from what is now Belgium in the 18th century. He grew up under the strict Catholic care of his grandmother after his mother had died in 1790 and his father in 1792. His younger brother Melchior Boisserée was also an art collector. In 1799, during his apprenticeship in Hamburg, Sulpiz Boisserée discovered his interest in art.

In 1804 the brothers began to systematically collect Old German and Old Dutch panel paintings . They did this together with their mutual friend Johann Baptist Bertram (born February 6, 1776 in Cologne, † April 19, 1841 in Munich), who was co-owner of their collection of paintings. From November 1810 to 1819 they showed the collection in the Palais Boisserée on Karlsplatz in Heidelberg, then in Stuttgart . They had regular contact with Ferdinand Franz Wallraf , Friedrich Schlegel and his wife Dorothea . Boisserée had been a close friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe since 1810, mediated by the diplomat Karl Friedrich Reinhard , with whom he met several times in Frankfurt and who visited him in Heidelberg in 1814 and 1815 to see his extensive collection of paintings. There, Duke Karl August von Weimar met with Goethe and the Willemer couple from Frankfurt. He was co-editor of Goethe's magazine Über Kunst und Altertum . Boisserée was also friends with Werner von Haxthausen . On his way to Frankfurt he always liked to stop by Christian Zais in Wiesbaden.

He and his brother sold the 215 panel paintings collection to King Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1827 , and from 1836 large parts of the collection were on view in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich .

Boisserée held the office of Bavarian General Conservator for almost two years before setting off on a journey in 1836. He toured Italy and southern France until 1838 . He had been dreaming of completing Cologne Cathedral since 1808. In 1816 he found half of the 4.05 m revised medieval facade plan by the cathedral builder Johannes in Paris . He was one of the most committed activists when it came to founding a cathedral building association in Cologne from 1840 to complete the great work.

In 1845 Boisserée was appointed Privy Councilor by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV . In the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Sulpiz Boisserée could no longer live his great dream, the completion of the Cologne Cathedral, he died on May 2, 1854 in Bonn. He and his brother were buried in the old cemetery in Bonn , where the tomb with a Christ relief by Christian Daniel Rauch has been preserved.

In 1888, Boisseréestrasse was inaugurated in honor of the family and is now part of the Neustadt-Süd district of Cologne .

Publications

  • Sulpiz Boisserée: History and description of the Cologne Cathedral along with studies of the old church architecture, as a text on the views, cracks and individual parts of the Cologne Cathedral. Munich 1823 Cotta.
  • Sulpiz Boisserée: History and description of the Cologne Cathedral with five illustrations. Second revised edition. Munich 1842 literary and artistic establishment.
  • Sulpiz Boisserée: architectural monuments from the 7th to the 13th century on the Lower Rhine. Munich 1833 Cotta.
  • Sulpiz Boisserée: Monuments d'architecture du septième au treizième siècle dans les contrées du Rhin inférieur. Munich 1842 Cotta.

literature

See also

Web links

Commons : Sulpiz Boisserée  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Sulpiz Boisserée  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sulpiz Boisserée, Diaries volumes 1 and 2, Eduard Roether Verlag, Darmstadt, 1978
  2. ^ Sulpice Boisserée's membership entry at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on December 16, 2016.
  3. ^ Rüdiger Schünemann-Steffen: Cologne Street Names Lexicon , 3rd exp. Ed., Jörg-Rüshü-Selbstverlag, Cologne 2016/17, p. 119.
personal data
SURNAME Boisserée, Sulpiz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boisserée, Johann Sulpiz Melchior Dominikus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painting collector, architecture and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1854
Place of death Bonn