Franz Hermesdorff

The painter Franz Hermesdorff was born in Trier and died in Kerkrade. He studied architecture at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 1882. His art collection was auctioned off by Hugo Helbing in Munich on 14 December 1904; other parts of his estate were sold on 4-5 March 1907 by Lempertz in Cologne. At the Helbing auction a painting by Pieter van Slingeland, then attributed to Gabriel Metsu, Intérieur, was offered as lot nr. 143. This artwork became part of the Adolphe Schloss Collection.

Links: Entry of the artwork at the ERR database: https://www.errproject.org/jeudepaume/card_view.php?CardId=51875 Helbing, Hugo. “Katalog von Antiquitäten, Kunstgegenständen, Ölgemälden alter Meister, Handzeichnungen, Kupferstichen etc. aus dem Nachlasse des Herrn Franz Hermesdorff, Kerkrade in Holland, sowie aus anderem Besitze.” 14.12.1905, München https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/helbing1905_12_14/0002 Lot Nr. 143 Katalog der nachgelassenen Gemäldesammlungen der Herren Gustavo de Mauer aus Bogotá (Columia), verstorben in Reichenhall, Kunstmalers F. Hermesdorff, Franz (1854-1904), […] Köln, 4.-5.03.1907, Lempertz Cologne https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/lempertz1906_12_03/0009 Entry on Franz Hermesdorff at the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek: https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/person/gnd/174379374?lang=en Entry on Franz Hermesdorff at the RKD: https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/218865 Entry on Franz Hermesdorff at the AKL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/database/AKL/entry/_00649461/html   Entry on Franz Hermesdorff at the Matrikeldatenbank of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts: 04198 Franz Peter Hermesdorff, Matrikelbuch 1841-1884, https://matrikel.adbk.de/matrikel/mb_1841-1884/jahr_1882/matrikel-04198

Entry on Franz Hermesdorff at Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Hermesdorf