Sulpiz Boisserée

Johann Melchior Sulpiz Dominic Boisserée ( born August 2, 1783 in Cologne, † May 2, 1854 in Bonn ) was a German painting collectors, art and architecture historians as well as an important patron of the completion of Cologne Cathedral.

Life

He was a son of the merchant Nicolas Boisserée and his wife Maria Magdalena, daughter of Cologne businessman Anton Brentano. He grew up under the strict Catholic custody to his grandmother after his mother in 1790 and his father had died in 1792. His younger brother Melchior Boisserée (* April 23, 1786 in Cologne, † May 14, 1851 in Bonn ) was also an art collector. 1799, during his apprenticeship in Hamburg, Sulpiz Boisserée discovered his interest in art.

1804, the brothers began Old German and Old Dutch tablature with the systematic collecting. They did this together with the common friend Johann Baptist Bertram ( born February 6, 1776 in Cologne, † April 19, 1841 in Munich), who was co-owner of her paintings collection. They used a regular Ferdinand Franz Wallraf handling, Friedrich Schlegel and his wife Dorothea. Sulpice was a close friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, with whom he repeatedly met in Frankfurt and went to see him in Heidelberg, to see its extensive collection of paintings. There also met Duke Karl August of Weimar with Goethe and the couple Willemer from Frankfurt. Friendly Sulpiz was with Werner von Haxthausen.

The 215 panel paintings comprehensive collection he sold in 1827 and his brother were at King Ludwig I of Bavaria, in 1836 to see large parts of the collection in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.

Sulpiz had for almost two years held the office of the Bavarian general conservator before 1836 began to travel. He traveled to 1838 Italy and southern France. Since 1808, he dreamed of the completion of Cologne Cathedral. In 1816 he was one half of the 4.05 m wide revised plan of the medieval facade cathedral architect John in Paris. He was one of the most dedicated activist than in 1840 concern was to establish a Cathedral Building Society in Cologne, to complete the great work.

In 1845 Sulpiz was appointed a Privy Councillor IV by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm.

His great dream, the completion of Cologne Cathedral, Sulpiz Boisserée did not live, he died on May 2, 1854 in Bonn.