Boisserée

Boisserée, SULPIZ, was born at Cologne in 1783. Inspired with the idea of collecting the scattered specimens of early German art, he and his brother Melchior gathered together two hundred pictures in a gallery in Stuttgart. In 1827 the collection was sold to the king of Bavaria, and in 1836 transferred to the Munich Pinakothek. Sulpiz, who died in 1854, was author of Geschichte des Doms von Köln (1823-32) and other important works. See his Life by his widow (1862).