Wilhelm Eduard Schorn
Wilhelm Eduard Schorn (born June 28, 1806 in Düsseldorf , † August 26, 1857 in Bonn ) was the first head of the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin .
Wilhelm Schorn was the youngest son of a Düsseldorf notary who died in 1825. His mother was the daughter of Josef Brulliot (1739-1827), a painter and inspector of the gallery in Düsseldorf.
After the death of his father, Wilhelm was given into the household of his uncle Franz Brulliot and his wife Josephine von Lajolais. The uncle had worked at the Kupferstichkabinett in Munich from 1808 and was entrusted with its management in 1822. With this Wilhelm Schorn went on educational trips through Europe and was able to study other art collections.
In 1827 the postmaster general von Nagler took Schorn into his private service with the task of tidying up his art collections in Berlin. When his brother Karl came to Berlin in 1834, Wilhelm moved in with him. Schorn became acquainted with Rumohr and entered into professional correspondence with him.
Because of his previous work and experience, Schorn was appointed inspector in 1831 and a year later as director of the copper engraving cabinet that was to be set up in Berlin. In 1835 the v. Nagler's collection of copper engravings bought by the Prussian state after the collections of Captain von Derschau, the diplomat and art collector Wilhelm Heinrich von Lepel (1755–1826) and those of Count Pierre Vernède de Corneillan (1754–1827) had already been acquired. Schorn brought the holdings together, arranged them and presented them to the public in Monbijou Castle .
Schorn also met Léon de Laborde (1807–1869), who was visiting Berlin , and entered into scientific correspondence with him from 1835 to 1839. In 1840 he reviewed his Histoire de la gravure en manière noire in the Stuttgarter Kunstblatt.
In 1848, Schorn managed the move of the Monbijou copper engraving cabinet to the newly constructed building and presented the collections in the new premises.
When a long-standing heart condition made him unable to work, he sought relief from his relatives in Bonn, but died there a few months later at the age of 51.
literature
- D [aniel] Sotzmann: W. Schorn. Director of the Kupferstichkabinet in Berlin . In: Deutsches Kunstblatt. 9 (1858) pp. 160-169
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schorn, Wilhelm Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | first director of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 1857 |
| Place of death | Bonn |