Wilhelm Hummel (chemist)

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Wilhelm Hummel (born July 28, 1862 in Bremen , † November 14, 1934 in Florence ) was a German chemist , industrialist and art collector .

Life

Hummel was a grandson of the composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel and a son of the painter Carl Hummel . He studied chemistry and became a successful inventor in this field, registering numerous patents. He also worked as a businessman in Newcastle upon Tyne and Hamburg until he settled in Florence in 1903 for health reasons .

There he acquired the villa “La Selva” in Via del Pergolino 16 in 1912, which developed into an important cultural meeting point in the city. He also kept the valuable estate of his grandfather and his wife Elisabeth Röckel in the villa , which is an important basis for the extensive biography of Hummel by Karl Benyovszky published in 1934 .

After his death, the Hummel estate came to his daughter Maria Hummel (1905–1975), who sold most of it to the Goethe Museum in Düsseldorf in 1975 . A small part, including relics of Ludwig van Beethoven , remained in the family's possession.

Hummel was not related to the Swiss painter Willy Hummel .

progeny

Wilhelm Hummel had two children:

  • William Hummel (born October 5, 1902 in Weimar , † around 1994 in Los Angeles ) emigrated to the USA in 1925 , where he worked as a businessman in Fallbrook and Vista near San Diego .
  • After the death of her father, Maria Hummel (* 1905 in Hamburg; † 23 August 1975 in Florence) inherited his father's villa in Florence and the Hummel estate, the majority of which went to the Goethe Museum in Düsseldorf in 1975. Their uncle was the art historian Edwin Redslob .

literature

  • Karl Benyovszky , JN Hummel, the man and artist , Bratislava 1934
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel, 1778–1837, an exhibition by the Goethe Museum Düsseldorf, Anton-und-Katharina-Kippenberg-Stiftung, in cooperation with the cultural department of the Burgenland Provincial Government, Esterházy Castle, Eisenstadt, October 25th to December 3rd, 1978 , Eisenstadt 1978
  • Klaus Martin Kopitz , Beethoven, Elisabeth Röckel and the album sheet “ Für Elise ” , Cologne 2010 (there partly confusion with Willy Hummel)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Fritz Felzmann , The Singer Elisabeth Röckel . “Donna Anna” in Hoffmann's “Don Juan”. Personality and Family , in: Mitteilungen der ETA Hoffmann-Gesellschaft , Heft 21 (1975), pp. 27–37, here p. 36
personal data
SURNAME Hummel, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, industrialist and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1934
Place of death Florence