Matthias Joseph de Noël (28 December 1782 – 18 November 1849) was a German merchant, painter, art collector and writer.
Life
editBorn in Cologne, de Noël learned drawing after a commercial apprenticeship in his home town with Egidius Mengelberg and Caspar Arnold Grein, as well as oil painting with Benedikt Beckenkamp.[1] After this training, he spent longer periods in Rome and Paris to devote himself entirely to painting. After his father's death, de Noël returned to Cologne to continue his parents' business.
In 1828, de Noël became curator of Cologne's first municipal museum, the Wallrafianum, later Cologne's Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. There he took over from the curator Johann Jakob Peter Fuchs the care of the legacy of his friend Ferdinand Franz Wallraf bequeathed to the city of Cologne.[2] His own extensive art collection later became the foundation of the Cologne Kunstgewerbemuseums.[3][4]
As a writer, he contributed to the renewal of the Cologne Carnival. In addition, he is one of three authors responsible for the art-historical part of the first Cologne city guide from 1828.
de Noël died in Cologne at the age of 66 and was buried in Cologne at the Melaten cemetery (lit. D).[5]
Work
editSee also
edit- Bernhards Versuchung durch das Mädchen, Scheibe aus der Sammlung de Noël im Museum Schnütgen (Cologne)
- Bernhard gewinnt adelige Turniergäste, leadlight from the de Noël collection at the Museum Schnütgen
References
edit- ^ Cologne City Guide p. 18
- ^ Cologne City Guide, p. 168
- ^ Carl Dietmar, Chronik Kölns, p. 248
- ^ Matthias Joseph de Noel on Artnet
- ^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten – Kölner Gräber und Geschichte. Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3, p. 170
Further reading
edit- Elga Böhm: Matthias Joseph de Noel (1782–1849). In Rheinische Lebensbilder, vol. 7. Edited by Bernhard Poll on behalf of the Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde. Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1977, pp. 109–132.
- Skwirblies, Robert: De Noël, Matthias Joseph. In Savoy, Bénédicte und Nerlich, France (edit.): Pariser Lehrjahre. Ein Lexikon zur Ausbildung deutscher Maler in der französischen Hauptstadt. Vol. 1: 1793–1843, Berlin/Boston 2013, pp. 50–52.
- Der erste Kölner Stadtführer aus dem Jahre 1828, edited and commented by Uwe Westfehling, Cologne, Bachem, 1982, ISBN 3-7616-0615-X
- Carl Dietmar: Die Chronik Kölns, Chronik Verlag, Dortmund 1991, ISBN 3-611-00193-7
External links
edit- Literature by and about Matthias Joseph de Noël in the German National Library catalogue
