Parents:  Simon Philippson  1778 - 1848  and  Esther Goldstein  ca.1785 - 1855 

1822 - 22  July - Dessau / Anhalt ( recorded under Moses in the Birth Register - Extract der Gebornen  1822-1823)   Dessau Archive. (In this study, he will be known as Mortiz Simon).
He was the second of four children  from the second marriage of Simon Philippson with Esther Goldstein.

1828 - 1837   Herzoglichen Franzschule , Dessau

1838 - 1841  Konigl. med. chir. Lehramt , Magdeburg

1841 - 1842  Uni.  Berlin

1842 - Taschenbuch 1842 (small leather bound diary beginning Nov. 1842 containing excerpts,

            poems, some sketches and written in miniature script).

1843 -  Nov.  3 - Baptism in Berlin-Weissensee

1843 - 1849  Military service  - Mainz and Wesel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1845 -  Portrait #1- (oil) as a military doctor in Prussian uniform  by A. Kosmt ?  Mainz  

1850 -  Qualified by the 'upper examination comission'  Magdeburg.

            Baden - War   Mainz - Wesel   Kreis Wund Arzt

 

            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait #2- (oil) in military uniform by Lancken or Läuchen  ? (Showing medals probably        

             added latter and Epaulette.)

1851-52  -  Sketchbook    Wetzlar to Düsseldorf

1856 -   'Gedichte'  book begun .  Family history, sketches and poems etc.

1857 - Mainz - Büderich

1858 -  Dec. 1 -   Kreiswundarzt des Kreises Mörs mit dem Sitz in Büderich am Rhein. 

1859 -  10 May  - Married  Johanna Greeven  in  M. Gladbach.

            (28. VI.1837 Röhrmuhle near M. Gladbach -- 1.VIII.1908,  Schillerstr.  79, M. Gladbach)

             Greeting - Johanna

1860 -  (23.X.1860)     Walter Heinrich - born  in Büderich  (d.1912)

1863 -   Emma born in Büderich  (d.1929)

1863 -  Gladbach -  Position as 'Kreis-Wund-Arzt ' and 'Polizeiarzt''.    

            (first lived on the Königplatz, later called Bismarkplatz)

1865 -  (23. VII.1865)    Emil born  in  M.  Gladbach  ( in the Bismarkplatz house)       (d.1914)

1870 -71  Director of the military hospital in  M. Gladbach.

1871 -  (23. VI. 1871)   Ernst Moritz born in  M. Gladbach  ( Bahnhofstr. Nr.9  ,later Bismarckstr.       

             15 )  (this house they built).             (d.1924)                                                  

1872 - 3. June -Promotion in Erlangen -  Doctorate Degree  -'Gut'.    (at age 50!)

            Dissertation :  "De trepanatione cranii"   (concerning opening of the skull)

1878 - Rohrmühle    (burned ?)

           As a surgeon he had a broad practice which included a private practice  especially in the area 

           of dermatology.  His cream and soap preparations  (tar soap) were still made during E.A.   

           Ph,'s youth by his gradmother and by the pharmacy in Viersen (Emil Ph.).

                 

During his 'rheinischen' military time Moritz Simon took classes in the Düsseldorfer Akademie and was a member of the Kunstverein Rheinland and Westfalen, Düsseldorf, known today as the Düsseldorfer Malkasten. Later in his  leisure hours
and Sunday afternoons he worked on his landscapes. He often copied paintings; a common learning process for an amateur.
On many of his paintings and sketches he has documented the source. Nevertheless ,it must be recognized that Moritz Simon was indeed a gifted artist.   

 

Such well known names  as Andreas Achenbach 1815 - 1910 and his brother  Oswald born in 1817, were both Professors in Düsseldorf.  Their subjects as well as their style can be recognized in the paintings of Moritz Simon.  cf. Westfälische Wassermühle by Andreas Achenbach. All the elements are present : the mill with its thatched roof, the wheel, the stream and the rural landscape. 

 

Many other artists names can be mentioned.:  Olof Jernberg cf. etching mentioned below;  etc.                                

          

Today we have 30 surviving paintings by Moritz Simon.  E.A. Ph. wrote me that a man by the name of Quack owned in addition to these some of the best paintings  by Moritz Simon. The name of Quack  does appear in the Greeven Family Tree.   Apparently these paintings had been given to Tante Emma Paulus as wedding gifts and were auctioned with the Paulus estate in order to support her after the family went bankrupt.  The pictures were later all lost in a fire and the topic was tabu in the family according to E.A.Ph.   

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Travel :  Vienna : with wife and Susette

              Italy ; with Walter

1882 -  12 March to 9 April  -  Italiensche Reise    (Map) -  Sketchbook

 

In later years Moritz Simon became blind because of retinal detachment.  

1884 - has smeared entries in his Gedicht book - after that follow dictated poems, letters and notes dated by friends and relatives.

Dated paintings come from the last years up to 1895.

1898 - Dec. 30 -  Died - M.-Gladbach  - Bismarckstr. 15 ( a stroke after Christmas dinner.)  

          Age: 77

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selected items which were either used or collected by Moritz Simon and which are still in the family:

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An Anatomy book    

8 cm. ( 3 1/4 ") x 15 .5 cm.  ( 6" ) x  2 1/2 cm. ( 1 " )

 

Kolb, Dr. C.   Grundriss der Anatomie des gesunden menschlichen Körpers .  Stuttgart. Verlag von Adolf Krabbe, 1868.    (Medicinische Repetitorien u. Examiniatorien.  IV Band. Stuttgart . 1868.

Signed :  M.Philippson   

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Metal Office Sign      (Black and White)  Oval 

M. Philippson

Kreis = Wundarzt 

Wund - Arzt 1ter Classe

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  Geburtshelfer

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Two black and white pictures from  Museo Nazionale, Napoli   18 cm  (7 ")  x  25.5 cm ( 10" )

Pane e Apollo  # 7220

Torso di Venere  # 7215

 

According to E.A. Ph. these pictures were brought back from Italy by Moritz Simon -  Italian Trip -  1882.

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The Singer , by Arthur Kampf     (E.A. Ph. called this drawing -  A Soldier.)

A pencil drawing       Signed :  A Kampf  (lower right)

                                   Dated :   1891   20  Aug.

Height :  14cm   (5 1/2" )

Width:    8cm.   (3 1/2" )

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Arthur Kampf was born 1864 in Aachen and died in 1950 in Kastrop-Rauxel.  His brother Eugen and his father Herbert Kampf were also artists.  He studied at the Düßeldorfer Academy in 1879  and became a Professor there in 1893.  In 1899 he was called to Berlin where he was Director of the Hochschule for Bildende Künste from 1915 - 1925.   E.A. Ph. wrote me in 1989 that Arthur Kampf was a young friend of Moritz Simon.  He visited him in M. Gladbach - see exchange of letters  in 1892  and apparently gave him this drawing.  The drawing is typical of Kampfs interest in historic themes and certainly could have been a study for a later painting.

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Pastoral Landscape with Sheep by Olof Jernberg  .  born 1855 in Düsseldorf.  and  Professor at the Düsseldorf Academy

Etching       Signed:   Olof Jernberg    (lower right in pencil)

                                   O Jernberg   (etched in plate - lower left)

Height:   10 cm (4" )

Width:    14cm   (5 1/2" )

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This was probably a gift from the artist or it was acquired during the Düsseldorf  Academy study period. Again we recognize the familiar rural theme of a shepherd with his flock of sheep.

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