You are bidding on one letter to Philipp Friedrich Gwinner (1796-1868), lawyer, art historian and one of the last mayors of the Free City of Frankfurt before the Prussian occupation.
DatedFrankfurt am Main, 2. December 1857.
Based on his work “Art and Artists in Frankfurt am Main”, which only appeared in 1862.
Written by the architect Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (according to Frankfurt address book from 1857 living at Neue Kräme 10; according to handwritten note born in Erfurt around 1828); He announces his personnel announcement for the above-mentioned plant as an attachment (this attachment is not available here).
Signed "FW Ludwig, architect".
Scope: one of four pages described (27.3 x 21.5 cm).
Written on thin paper.
Condition:Folded, slightly browned and creased, otherwise good. Please also note the pictures!
Internal note: Folder 4/7.
About Philipp Friedrich Gwinner (Source: wikipedia & ADB):
Philipp Friedrich Gwinner (* 11. January 1796 in Frankfurt am Main; † 11. December 1868 ibid) was a German lawyer, art historian and one of the last mayors of the Free City of Frankfurt before the Prussian occupation.
Life and work: Gwinner attended the municipal high school in Frankfurt and, at the age of sixteen, took part in the campaign against France as a war volunteer. He then studied jura in Berlin, Giessen and Jena. From 1816 Gwinner was a member of the Christian-German fraternity / Ehrenspiegelfraschenschaft Gießen and in 1817 became a member of the original fraternity[1] and took part on the 18th. October 1817 took part in the Wartburg Festival.
After receiving his doctorate in Gießen in 1818, he settled in his hometown and held various offices. He became a Criminalrath (investigating judge) in 1823, a member of the Legislative Assembly in 1826, the Permanent Citizens' Representation in 1831, a Senator in 1835, a member of the City Court in 1836, a lay judge of the Court of Appeal in 1854 and a Syndic of the Free City of Frankfurt in 1862.
However, his attempts to be elected mayor were initially unsuccessful. It was only on his twelfth attempt in 1864 that he was elected senior mayor. He was the last person to serve a full term (1. January to 31st December 1865). His successor was Karl Konstanz Viktor Fellner, who began the occupation of the city by Prussian troops on the 18th. He lost his office in July 1866 and committed suicide a few days later.
Gwinner was an art lover and published numerous small essays on art history, including in the Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art. His most important work was the publication Kunst und Künstler in Frankfurt am Main from 13. Century until the opening of the Städel Art Institute. After Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen first attempted a Frankfurt art history in 1780 with his news from Franckfurt artists and art items and the Artistic Magazine in 1790, Gwinner's work was only the second author ever to devote comprehensive research to the topic. Although Gwinner expressly praised Hüsgen for his courage in the introduction, he corrected many things that had been made obsolete by research of the past 80 years.
Despite the Frankfurter Künstler 1223-1700 by Walther Karl Zülch, which was published in 1935 and was crucial for Frankfurt art history, the “Gwinner” has hardly lost any of its relevance today. It includes the 18th, which Zülch did not cover. Century and goes much more in-depth with individual artists, such as the work of Matthäus Merian. In addition to artist biographies, Gwinner also documented Frankfurt's architectural monuments and private art collections in the middle of the 19th century. century. This meant that it was in a state that preceded the massive building boom of the second half of the 19th century. Century, which gives the work a high documentary value.
He was a member of the Frankfurt Freemason Lodge “Socrates for Steadfastness”.
He died on the 11th after a short illness. December 1868 in Frankfurt am Main. A street in the Seckbach district of Frankfurt is named after Gwinner. His grave is in Frankfurt's main cemetery.
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Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main from 13. Century until the opening of the Städel Art Institute. Joseph Baer, Frankfurt 1862
Gwinner: Philipp Friedrich G., art historian and lawyer, born. on the 11th January 1796 at the Gutleuthof near Frankfurt a. M., who was then leased by his father from the city, received his high school education in his hometown and in Darmstadt, after completing it as an 18-year-old youth he moved to France with the group of volunteer hunters, studied law for four years in Berlin, Giessen and Jena, took part on the 31st. Oct. 1817 at the Wartburg Festival and became a co-founder of the German fraternity. In 1818 he received his doctorate in Giessen and in 1819 he joined the ranks of lawyers in his hometown. In 1823 he became a criminal councilor (in this position he knew how to reconcile the duties of this office, which was made difficult by political investigations, with the considerations of humanity), in 1826 he became a member of the legislative assembly, in 1831 of the permanent citizens' representation, in 1835 a senator, in 1862 and 1865 older mayor, in which capacity he signed the well-known notes to Austria and Prussia, the last older mayor of the “free city of Frankfurt”, who held this office until the end of the year. From 1836 he was a senator in the city court, whose directory he headed several times, from 1854 he was a lay judge in the appeal court, in 1862 he was appointed syndic, in 1857 he was already deputed to the city treasury and the foundation deputation, in 1863 he took part in the Federal Commission as a member Discussion of the draft [241] of the Dresden Code of Obligations lively and gratefully acknowledged participation. He gained importance for wider circles through his work as an art connoisseur, art critic and art historian. Not only did he own a select collection of paintings and engravings himself, he not only sought out all the scattered paintings belonging to the city, identified them according to their school or their master, inventoried them and combined them into a city gallery, but also as a writer in this special field - since Hüsgen ( “News from Frankfurt artists and art matters”, 1780) by local scholars, such as A. Kirchner, only touched on - through his work: “Art and artists in Frankfurt a. M. from 13. Century until the opening of the Städel Institute", 1862 and through the "additions and corrections" to it in 1867 with his mastery and exhaustion of the rich material, with thorough knowledge, his artistic sense and in-depth understanding, so that the coming The editors will hardly be left with any gleanings. By the way, G. has one in the possession of Professor Dr. K. Halm created an autograph collection in Munich, the value of which lay not only in the manuscripts of famous men, but also in the importance and characteristic peculiarity of the documents, so that it was often used as a source for literary and historical research. G. died on the 11th after a short illness. December 1868, two months after his doctor's anniversary, whose special day the modest man even kept secret from his closest relatives. In the necrologist, the justice councilor Dr. Euler in the historical club on the 29th. Decbr. In 1868, he emphasized, in addition to his honest, honorable character, his rich goodness of heart, integrity and loyalty, as well as his manly courage, qualities which, coupled with rare unpretentiousness, have earned him general respect as a person.