Background
Boiserée was born at Cologne in 1786.
lithographer painter art collector
Boiserée was born at Cologne in 1786.
The most important work in their collection, bought in 1808, was the Adoration of the Magi part of the Street Columba Altarpiece, which the brothers believed to be by January van Eyck although it is now attributed to Rogier van der Weyden. The collection was recorded in a series of 117 lithographs by the Danish printmaker Johann Nepomuk Strixner, published between 1821 and 1840 in 39 parts. Boisserée was the inventor of a new and simple method of painting on glass by means of the brush alone, and employed it for the reproduction of the best works in his collection, and of some chefs-d"oeuvre of the Italian school which are now at Bonn.
He died at Bonn in 1851.