Walter von Pannwitz

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Walter Sigismund Emil Adolf von Pannwitz (born May 4, 1856 in Mehlsack , East Prussia ; † November 8, 1920 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) was a German lawyer , Lord Mayor , art collector and patron as well as Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John .

family

Pannwitz came from the old Upper Lusatia - Silesian noble family von Pannwitz , which was first mentioned in 1276. His parents were Sigismund von Pannwitz and Emilie Auguste von Pannwitz. His first marriage was on January 6, 1893 in Marburg an der Lahn Hedwig Faber († 1941 in Weimar), daughter of the trucking business owner Albert Faber and Marie Schmidt. The marriage was divorced on December 20, 1907 in Munich . In his second marriage, Pannwitz married Catalina (Käthe) Carolina Friedericke Georgine Roth on May 26, 1908 in Dresden (born September 3, 1876 in Rostock ; † May 20, 1959 in Zurich ). The marriage resulted in the daughter Ursula († 1989), who in 1940 married John Pelham, 8th Earl of Chichester.

Life

Pannwitz made a name for himself as a lawyer in Munich, especially in large criminal cases, for example, he represented Johann Berchtold in the robbery and murder trial of Karoline Roos around 1896/97 . In 1901 he was Mathias Kneißl's defender . He was artistically gifted, wrote plays and was friends with Ludwig Thoma . During this time he was appointed Lord Mayor of Kulmbach , where he earned merit from 1888 through a thorough administrative reform .

Pannwitz began collecting works of art at a young age and was advised by the art historians Max Friedländer and Wilhelm von Bode . In 1905 he had Hugo Helbing's collection of around 500 handicrafts auctioned off at the Munich auction house , which mainly consisted of porcelain, but also of textiles, clocks and gold and silversmiths. The Meissen porcelain in the collection in particular gained fame across Germany when it was exhibited in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts in 1904 . For example, one work from the collection is now in the collection of the Bavarian National Museum .

House Hartekamp , North Holland

In 1908 he married Catalina Roth, whose family owned extensive estates in Argentina. The couple also shared a love of art, as their wife had already acquired a large and important collection of paintings before they were married. As a result of the marriage, the two collections were merged and expanded in the following years to reflect their later importance and size. In 1914 the couple moved to the newly built Palais Pannwitz in Berlin.

Pannwitz Collection
Dirck Jacobsz. : Portrait of Pompejus Occo (1483–1537) , around 1531, Rijksmuseum , formerly the Pannwitz collection.
Jan Steen : The Doctor's Visit , 1650s, private collection, formerly the von Pannwitz collection.
Meister von Frankfurt : Saints Catherine and Barbara , around 1510–1520, Amsterdam, Mauritshuis , formerly the von Pannwitz collection.
Follower of Rembrandt van Rijn : Portrait of an old man with a beard and turban , 1637, Amersfoort / Rijswijk, Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed , formerly the Pannwitz collection.

After her husband's early death in 1920, Catalina von Pannwitz left the palace in Grunewald empty, bought Hartekamp Castle near Bennebroek in Holland and made it a social center for the European aristocracy over the course of the following decades . A special friend of the house was the German Emperor Wilhelm II , who paid more than a hundred visits to “his girlfriend Panni” in Hartekamp with his company. Catalina von Pannwitz continued to expand the art collection even after the death of her husband. In 1947 it was exhibited in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam . In addition to handicrafts, the collection now also comprised paintings and sculptures from the Renaissance to the Rococo and was particularly famous for his Dutch paintings, including Pieter de Hooch and Rembrandt van Rijn .

Walter and Catalina von Pannwitz were buried in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf , where their representative tomb still exists today.

Palais Pannwitz

Palais Pannwitz , Berlin-Grunewald

When the couple wanted to relocate to Berlin in 1910 , they commissioned the Munich architect German Bestelmeyer (with the participation of William Müller ) to build a representative residence in Grunewald , Brahmsstrasse 10, in order to create a worthy setting for their art collection. The Palais Pannwitz was built on 2.2 hectares between 1911 and 1914 , stylistically based on the classicism of the time around 1800.

In 1941 the von Pannwitz family sold the Berlin Palais to the German Reich . After the Second World War , it was one of the few large houses in Berlin and the surrounding area that remained intact. It stood empty for a long time and only regained its splendor between 1951 and 1984 as the Gehrhus Castle Hotel . After reunification , it was extensively restored from 1991 and was reopened in 1994 as a castle hotel in Grunewald and is now a listed building. During the 2006 soccer world championship , the palace housed the German national team and thus became the setting for Sönke Wortmann's documentary film Germany. A summer fairy tale .

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A volume XIX, page 425, volume 92 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1987, ISSN  0435-2408 .
  • Max J. Friedländer , Otto von Falke (ed.): The Pannwitz Art Collection , Verlag Bruckmann, Munich 1925–1926.
  • Dora Heinze: The castle hotel in the Grunewald. History of an aristocratic palace . Berlin-Brandenburg, bre-bra-Verlag, 1997.
  • Lucia Albers, AJ Kramer, JLPM Krol, I. van Thiel-Stroman: Het landgoed de Hartekamp in Heemstede . Heemstede, VOHB, 1982.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch , Noble Houses, 2017
  2. ^ Between Rembrandt and Kaiser Wilhelm , Sieghard von Pannwitz, 2019, Osnabrück, self-published
  3. ↑ Person Page. In: www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved October 27, 2016 .
  4. ^ Anton Mayr: Der Räuber Kneißl , in: Brucker Echo, 1982
  5. ↑ Origins Unknown. (under "Collections"). In: www.herkomstgezocht.nl. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on November 29, 2019 .
  6. ^ Karl Voll: The collection v. Pannwitz in Munich . 1906, doi : 10.11588 / DIGLIT.4390.4 ( uni-heidelberg.de [accessed on November 29, 2019]).
  7. ^ Hugo Helbing: The collection of Pannwitz, Munich: Art and applied arts of the XV.-XVIII. Century; Auction in Munich at Galerie Helbing, Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th October 1905 . 1905, doi : 10.11588 / DIGLIT.15811 ( uni-heidelberg.de [accessed on November 29, 2019]).
  8. ^ Rudolf Seydlitz: The collection v. Pannwitz (Munich) . In: Arts and Crafts . tape VIII , 5 and 6, 1905, pp. 296-321 ( online resource ).
  9. ↑ A. Brüning: European porcelain of the XVIII. Century . Berlin 1904.
  10. ^ Johann Joachim KÄNDER: Pedestal from the centerpiece for Count Brühl. In: Bavarian National Museum Object Database. Retrieved November 29, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Juan D. Delius, Julia AM Delius: Erik Pringsheim's death in Argentina - a Bavarian-Punta-Scottish drama . In: Thomas Mann Yearbook . tape 25 , 2012, p. 297–331, here p. 316 ( online resource [PDF]).
  12. ↑ See Max J. Friedländer, Otto von Falke (ed.): Die Kunstsammlung von Pannwitz , Verlag Bruckmann, Munich 1925–1926.
  13. ^ Sieghard von Pannwitz: With Rembrandt and Kaiser Wilhelm . Self-published, Osnabrück 2019.
  14. ^ Sigurd von Ilsemann: The emperor in Holland. Notes from the last wing adjutant, Kaiser Wilhelm II. Ed .: Harald von Königswald. tape II . Biederstein Verlag, Munich 1968. Also: DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1982, ISBN 3-423-00791-5
  15. ^ JA de Jonge: Wilhelm II. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-412-01788-4
  16. ^ LG: The Pannwitz Collection . In: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs . tape 89 , no. 531 , June 1947, p. 159-160 , JSTOR : 869370 .
  17. ↑ a b noble residence Palais Pannwitz in Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Retrieved November 29, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Schlosshotel Grunewald, Berlin. At: 11km. June 19, 2018, accessed on November 29, 2019 (German).

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personal data
SURNAME Pannwitz, Walter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pannwitz, Walter Sigismund Emil Adolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Lord Mayor, art collector and patron, Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Mehlsack , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1920
Place of death Buenos Aires , Argentina