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Gustav Adolf Wilhelm Graf von Ingenheim (2 January 1789,

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4 September 1855,

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) was a prominent German art collector.

Biography

He was the son of King

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of Prussia and his

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wife, Julie von Voss, who had been given the title "Countess Ingenheim". She died of

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two months after he was born. Upon turning twenty-one, he became a Royal

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. Following the

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, he was awarded the

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. Three years later, he was named a

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, in service to his half-brother, King

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. It was at then that he decided to devote his life to his true passion, art, and began acquiring a collection. In pursuit of that goal, he lived in Italy from 1816 to 1818, and again from 1822, purchasing works for the newly established museums in Berlin, as well as for himself. He also hosted a salon that alternated between Rome and Berlin, while cultivating contacts with well known contemporary artists, such as Johann Erdmann Hummel,

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and

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. In addition, he supported

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and Franz Ludwig Catel with his own commissions and secured funds for the archaeological research being conducted by

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. In 1825, his half-sister, , and her husband,

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, converted to

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. A year later, he followed suit and married Eugenie de Thierry (1808–1881), a distant relative. As a result, the King banned him from Berlin, cutting off the funds that were necessary to continue his collecting. He remained in Rome until 1833. Some of the works he had already acquired were sold to museums. The remainder were kept at the Villa Ingenheim in

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. In 1883, the collection was transferred to Castle Reisewitz, which had been purchased by his widow. The castle was looted in 1945, and the collection was scattered. Few of the works have been accounted for.''1005613: Sammlung Gustav Adolf Wilhelm Graf von Ingenheim''
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References

External links

Brief biography
in the Neues Preussisches Adels-Lexicon @ Google Books {{DEFAULTSORT:Ingenheim, Gustav Adolf Wilhelm von 1789 births 1855 deaths German nobility German art collectors Converts to Roman Catholicism People from Berlin