Генриетта Герц

Генриетта Герц (6 января 1846 года, Кельн -9 апреля 1913 года, Рим ), была немецкой филантропом и коллекционером искусства . Она пожертвовала Палаццо Цуккари , чтобы разместить библиотеку Герцциана в 1912 году.

Ранний период жизни

Герц учился в школе в Кельне, где ее семья поселилась в 1844 году. Генриетта была четвертой ребенком, старшей девочкой, семнадцати детей, из которых семь пережили младенчество. Она провела школьные годы, изучая живопись и историю искусства. В 1871 году Герц, который родился евреем, обратился к протестантизму .

Жизнь в Риме, до 1912 года

Генриетта Герц в настоящее время известна главным образом благодаря ее созданию библиотеки Герцена, предоставленной Институту Кайзера Вильгельма (KWI) в 1913 году (с 1953 года, обществу Макса Планк ).

The Palazzo Zuccari in Rome was an "open house"

In 1889 Hertz, with her wealthy friends Frida and Ludwig Mond, rented parts of the Palazzo Zuccari in Rome. Backed by Ludwig Mond's fortune earned in the British soda industry, the Monds and Hertz maintained an "open house" salon in Rome; regular visitors included Gabriele d'Annunzio, the Italian mathematician Pietro Blaserna, Paul Deussen, the writer Olga von Gerstfeldt and the art historian Ernst Steinmann, Wolfgang Helbig, Theodor Mommsen, Giovanni Morelli, and the violinist Teresina Tua, a/k/a Teresa Tua. В 1904 году Палаццо был куплен во имя Герца вместе с соседним зданием, Casa Dei Preti. При поддержке Фриды Монд и Стейнманна Герц начал собирать книги по итальянскому искусству.

During the ensuing years (1904–1912), Hertz collected the core of a research library focussed upon the art of Italy, and particularly of Rome. Extensive re-modelling of the palazzetto enabled the ground floor to be used for the library, which was installed in the winter of 1910–1911. The Sala di Disegno in the palazzetto has retained its original early twentieth-century furnishings, and was one of the five rooms originally used for the library. Despite opposition from Paul Fridolin Kehr, director of the Prussian Historical Institute in Rome, the Bibliotheca Hertziana was gifted to the KWI in 1912 with Ernst Steinmann as its foundation director. The Bibliotheca hosted the tenth International Congress of Art History of 1912, which featured a plenary paper presented by Aby Warburg.

The Bibliotheca Hertziana and the KWI

On 15 January 1913, the Bibliotheca was officially inaugurated. Hertz gave the palazzetto and the entire inventory of its library to the KWI, along with substantial legacies to fund the operation of the institute, and to expand the library.

Hertz died in Rome on 9 April 1913, and was buried in the Cimitero Acattolico. Her tombstone was crafted by the artist Otto Placzek.

British Academy bequest

A bequest from Henriette Hertz to the British Academy established a fund to support three lecture series and to enable the academy to support scholarly research and publication. The Aspects of Art Lectures, first given in 1916, deal with the relation of visual art or music to human culture. The Philosophical Lectures, first given in 1914, were converted into a series of symposia from 1993 to 2001 and then in 2015 the series of single lectures was revived. The Master-Mind Lectures, first delivered in 1916, were "intended to be an appreciation of an individual of ‘genius’, connected with any of the disciplines of the academy." The Master-Mind Lecture series was discontinued after 2017 upon the British Academy's development of a series of events on ‘Thinkers for our time’.

Literature

Thomas Adam, Transnational Philanthropy: the Mond Family's Support for Public Institutions in Western Europe from 1890 to 1938, New York 2016.