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Johann Friedrich (* 1 November 1728 in Frankfurt/Main; "† 2 December 1816) was a German private banker and
father was the Johann Daniel which moved in the year 1718 to Frankfurt, originating from Strasbourg, a "Spezereienhandel (spice trade) opened and 1719 Maria Dorothea Petzel, daughter of a wealthy buyer, married. After the death of parents 1777 and 1778 Johann Friedrich continued the business first, transacted however increasingly cash transactions. finally it changed completely in the banking transaction. This were for example loan business with the city Frankfurt and the bishop of Strasbourg. In the year 1777 it lived in the parental house at the grain market, before it referred its own house at the Rossmarkt.
Starting from the year 1770 painting and designs, which he bought in Paris, Amsterdam, London, in addition, in Frankfurt, collected the collection amounted up to death on approximately 500 paintings, predominantly Dutch and German artist 17. and 18. Century; beyond that about 2000 pressure diagrams (copper passes) and designs. Interest in the copper passes from the collection showed Johann Wolfgang Goethe, who visited several times for the inspection of the works.
In the year 1793 planned for the first time an art donation, possibly lively by the opening of the Louvre as public gallery in the same year. In the year 1811 he asked the prince Karl Theodor of Dalberg for the donation decree. In the will, which was changed last 1815, that both a public art collection was to be established, Kunstinstitut and an art school, at whom alike by sex and religion should be informed free of charge, were ordered the today national academy of art. It was the first civil establishment of this kind. The entire works of art into the possession from changed to the donation, remain however first in house at the Rossmarkt.
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