Matthias Joseph de Noël
Matthias Joseph de Noël (28 December 1782 – 18 November 1849) was a German merchant, painter, art collector and writer.
Life[]
Born in Cologne, de Noël learned drawing after a commercial apprenticeship in his home town with and , 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 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[]
- Der Dom zu Köln. Historisch-archäologische Beschreibung. 2nd enlarged edition. DuMont-Schauberg, Cologne 1837 (Numerized)
- Ausgewählte Gedichte. In Hermann Marggraff: Hausschatz der deutschen Humoristik. E. Wengler, Leipzig 1858, pp. 244–253 (Numerized)
See also[]
- Museum Schnütgen (Cologne) , Scheibe aus der Sammlung de Noël im
- leadlight from the de Noël collection at the Museum Schnütgen ,
References[]
Further reading[]
- Elga Böhm: Matthias Joseph de Noel (1782–1849). In Rheinische Lebensbilder, vol. 7. Edited by on behalf of the . 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[]
- Literature by and about Matthias Joseph de Noël in the German National Library catalogue
- German merchants
- German art collectors
- 1782 births
- 1849 deaths
- People from Cologne