- Philipp Hainhofer
Philipp Hainhofer (
21 July 1578 – 1647) was a merchant, banker, diplomat and art collector inAugsburg . He is remembered, among other things, for thecuriosity cabinet s ("Kunstschränke") which he created with the assistance of a large number of Augsburg artisans.Hainhofer studied Law at the Universities of Siena and Padua, traveled through
Italy ,Germany and theNetherlands , and acquired a good knowledge of art and several languages. He was elected to the senate of Augsburg in 1605 and was chosen as political correspondent in the city by theKing of France , theMargrave of Baden and DukePhilip II of Pomerania . he last of these was of particular significance and Hainhofer acted as agent for the Duke in acquiring art and objects for a "Kunstkammer " (curiosity chamber ), and in composing the famous so-called "Pommerscher Kunstschrank" (Pomeranian curiosity cabinet), which was made 1615-1617 and given as a gift to the Duke; tragically, it was destroyed in a fire at the end ofWorld War II .Philip of Pomerania and other princes used Hainhofer for various diplomatic missions and the contacts Hainhofer made on his journeys also served to develop his business as an art agent, and he produced additional curiosity cabinets. In 1632, one was presented by Hainhofer on behalf of the City of Augsburg to King
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden . This cabinet, which is the best preserved of Hainhofer's "Kunstschränke", is on display in the Museum Gustavianum of theUniversity of Uppsala . Another one, made forAugustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg , is preserved in theRijksmuseum inAmsterdam .References
*Oscar Doering, [http://mdz.bib-bvb.de/digbib/lexika/adb/images/adb049/@ebt-link?target=idmatch(entityref,adb0490721) Biography] in "
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ", Bd 49, p.719.Further reading
*Jochen Brüning & Friedrich Niewöhner (eds.), "Augsburg in der Frühen Neuzeit. Beiträge zu einem Forschungsprogramm" (1995)
External links
* [http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/BK-NM-7325?lang=en&context_space=&context_id= Presentation and very large and detailed image] of the cabinet made for Duke August of Brunswick-Lüneburg, at the Rijksmuseum.
* [http://info.uu.se/fakta.nsf/sidor/the.augsburg.id5A.html The Augsburg Art Cabinet] , about the Uppsala cabinet
* [http://www.kunstkammer.dk/H_R/H_R_UK/GBkunstkamre.shtml The King's Kunstkammer] , a Danish Internet exhibition on the idea behind renaissance art and curiosity chambers (text in English)
* [http://www.beyars.com/kunstlexikon/lexikon_7134.html Pommerscher Kunstschrank]
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