Johann Gottlob von Quandt
Johann Gottlob von Quandt ( born April 9, 1787 in Leipzig, † June 19, 1859 in Dresden ) was a German art historian and art patron.
Life
His father was a merchant and landowner in Wachau, Leipzig, and his mother died early. Although he attended neither school nor university, he enjoyed an excellent education. He received private lessons in oil painting, in architecture and garden design. 1811 Quandt took his Grand Tour, a kind of study tour of Italy. At that time he possessed the knowledge of an art historian.
A philosophy professor taught him in the Kantian philosophy. On a trip to Annaberg images inspired him from the life of Mary after the model of Albrecht Dürer. In the newspaper for the fashionable world, he published an article about it, which earned him further orders.
In 1815 he found in the attic of the Leipzig St. Thomas Church four paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder and sent Johann Wolfgang von Goethe chalk copies of some heads on these images. Goethe, in his "Message from Old German, discovered in Leipzig works of art" attention to Quandt's Fund.
1819 Quandt married in the village church of Plauen, near Dresden Bianca, born in Meissen and related products. Low, who had been raised by Elisa von der Recke. On their honeymoon in Rome their home became the meeting place for artists. Regular guests were Friedrich Overbeck, Julius Schnorr von Carol Field, Louise Seidler, Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein, etc. In each of the artists he ordered a picture, of course, for a fee.
1820 on the return, the couple visited Goethe, who introduced her to many important personalities. The Quandt's now settled in Dresden, where Bianca brought two sons to the world and her husband einrichtete the house as a museum, which was described by its own catalog.
1826 Quandt took over the presidency of the section painting and sculpture in the "Association for the Research and Preservation Antiquities of the Fatherland " (Royal Saxon antiquity club ). In 1831 he presented a historic preservation concept for the Erzgebirge. He pleaded for leaving the monuments to their original locations.
In art he saw the basis for patriotism and social harmony, the union of the physical and mental powers of a country ( "On the status of visual artists to the State ", 1826).
From 1828 to 1833 Quandt served on the board of the Saxon Art Association. In 1836 he was appointed to the Academic Council, he was an honorary member of the Royal Academies of Berlin and Munich.
In 1830 he bought the estate Dittersbach and the villages Eschendorf, Röhrsdorf (now Dürrröhrsdorf ), Rossendorf and Zeschnig. He attended not only by lectures for the education of farmers, trying to school physical education classes introduce ( what the authorities banned ), he celebrated with them and cared for beer and music. He sought the prosperity by establishing a savings bank aufzuhelfen. 1831/33 he built the " Belvedere " on the " Fine height" of Joseph Thürmer, it was designed in 1836/38 by Carl Gottlieb Peschel with frescoes and ballads of Goethe.