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Matthias Joseph de Noël (28 December 1782 – 18 November 1849) was a German merchant, painter, art collector and writer.
In 1828, de Noël became
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*''Ausgewählte Gedichte''. In Hermann Marggraff: ''Hausschatz der deutschen Humoristik''. E. Wengler, Leipzig 1858,
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Life
Born in Cologne, de Noël learned drawing after a commercial apprenticeship in his home town withEgidius Mengelberg
Egidius Mengelberg (8 April 1770, Cologne - 26 October 1849, Cologne) was a German portrait painter, interior designer and art teacher.
Life and work
His family was originally from Linz am Rhein, where it can be traced back to the 16th centu ...
and Caspar Arnold Grein, as well as oil painting with Benedikt Beckenkamp.
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
A curator (from , meaning 'to take care') is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the particular ins ...
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
Ferdinand Franz Wallraf (20 July 1748 - 18 March 1824) was a German botanist, mathematician, theologian, art collector and Roman Catholic priest. His collection formed the founding nucleus of the Wallraf–Richartz Museum.
Biography
He was the ...
bequeathed to the city of Cologne.
His own extensive art collection later became the foundation of the Cologne Kunstgewerbemuseums.
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).Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: ''Melaten – Kölner Gräber und Geschichte''. Greven, Cologne 1997, ,
Work
*''Der Dom zu Köln. Historisch-archäologische Beschreibung''. 2nd enlarged edition. DuMont-Schauberg, Cologne 1837Numerized
*''Ausgewählte Gedichte''. In Hermann Marggraff: ''Hausschatz der deutschen Humoristik''. E. Wengler, Leipzig 1858,
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See also
* , Scheibe aus der Sammlung de Noël imMuseum Schnütgen
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers ...
(Cologne)
* , leadlight
Leadlights, leaded lights or leaded windows are decorative windows made of small sections of glass supported in lead cames. The technique of creating windows using glass and lead came to be known as came glasswork. The term 'leadlight' could b ...
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, . *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, . * ''Der erste Kölner Stadtführer aus dem Jahre 1828'', edited and commented by Uwe Westfehling, Cologne, Bachem, 1982, * Carl Dietmar: ''Die Chronik Kölns'', Chronik Verlag, Dortmund 1991,External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Noel, Matthias Joseph de German merchants German art collectors 1782 births 1849 deaths Businesspeople from Cologne Writers from Cologne