Sigismund goetze biography definition
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Sigismund Christian Hubert Goetze (24 October 1866 – 24 October 1939) was an English painter and art patron, born in London.[1]
Early life
Goetze was the son of Rosina Hariet (née Bentley; d.
Sigismund goetze biography definition
1877) and James D. Goetze (d. 1911).[2] His sister Violet married the politician Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett.[3] He was educated first at University College School, then received a scholarship to study at the Slade School of Fine Art.[4] He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1885 and from 1888 was exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy and at the Paris Salon.[1]
In 1907 Goetze bought Grove House, a villa in Regent's Park built by Decimus Burton, at auction.
He decorated the music room with scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses and held philanthropic activities in the garden.[5] He is said to have had a particular fondness for Regent's Park and set aside a sum of money, the Constance Fund, to enable gifts of sculpture to parks in London as a memorial to his wife in the event of her dea