Bernhard, Count of Bylandt (3 January 1905 – 4 April 1998) was a German

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, artist, sculptor, writer and member of the House of Bylandt or more specifically the branch of Bylandt-Rheydt. He studied art under Professor Eduard Kämpffer at the Academy of Art in Breslau. In 1939 he married the German

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Dorothea Gmelin. After divorce he remarried

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Ilse Josten. In 1958, he became a

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of Art at the

Kunsthochschule Kassel Kunsthochschule Kassel (German; "Kassel College of Art") is a college of fine arts in Kassel, Germany. Founded in 1777, it is a semi-autonomous department of the University of Kassel. History Kassel Art Academy After the Seven Years' War (17 ...

. Bernhard's father, Count Alexander Friedrich von Bylandt-Rheydt (1863–1942) was the last owner of the

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Schloss Rheydt Schloss Rheydt is a Renaissance palace in Rheydt, Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Over the years the building has been the family seat of various noble families, including the Bylandt-Rheydt dynasty that ruled over Rheydt for ...

. The palace was sold to the town of

Rheydt Rheydt () is a borough of the German city Mönchengladbach, located in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia. Until 1918 and then again from 1933 (due to a split from Mönchengladbach arranged by Joseph Goebbels, who was born there) through 1975 it ...

and remains a museum to this day.

Titles

# Count of Bylandt (Ger: Graf von Bylandt) # Baron of Rheydt (Ger: Baron zu Rheydt)

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(German) Counts in Germany, Bylandt 1905 births 1998 deaths {{Germany-noble-stub