Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky was a Prussian merchant with a successful trade in trinkets, silk, taft, porcelain, grain and bills of exchange. Moreover, he acted as a diplomat and important art dealer. His paintings formed the basis and the beginning of the collection in the Hermitage Museum.
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Gotzkowsky lived at Brüderstraße 13, Berlin, Mitte
The merchant Gotzkowsky asks the Russian commander lying on the sofa (Tottleben?) to indulge the city of Berlin
Auerbachs Hof in Leipzig where Gotzkowsky and Streckfuss ran a jewelry shop
Early 1763 Gotzkowsky bought Palais Marschall (with the blue roofs) at Wilhelmsstraße 78, but had to sell it a few months later. To the left the Königliche Gold- und Silbermanufaktur (Wilhelmsstraße No. 79), rented by Ephraim
Ahasverus and Haman at the feast of Esther, Rembrandt (1660), 73x94cm, Pushkin museum. The painting is rather dark, because of the varnish that once has been usedAbout this person
Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky was a Prussian merchant with a successful trade in trinkets, silk, taft, porcelain, grain and bills of exchange. Moreover, he acted as a diplomat and important art dealer. His paintings formed the basis and the beginning of the collection in the Hermitage Museum. Gotzkowsky died impoverished and having left behind an autobiography: Geschichte eines patriotischen Kaufmanns (1768), which was translated into French and reprinted three times in the 18th century.
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