Portrait of Charles Bottler
| Dating | presumably 1907 |
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| Material / technique | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 67 x 54 cm |
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| Exhibitions | Aachen, Germany 1911 (March), Suermondt Museum, exhibition Limburgse Kunstkring |
| Provenance | Bottler Family |
| Current residence | Private Property Hamburg |
| Signature | none |
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| Remarks | Charles Bottler (Cincinnati 1854 - Hamburg 1923) was a chemist and the director of the Nobel Dynamite factory in Hamburg. He is very likely the inventor of the antiseptic disinfectant Lysol, that he accidentally discovered in 1890 during research. He sold the results of his research to the firm of Schülke und Mayr in Hamburg. The disinfectant became a great success since the end of the 19th century was still regularly plagued by epidemics, including the last major cholera epidemic in 1892 in Hamburg. (Source: an unpublished biographical sketch of Charles Bottler, written by his grandson.) In 1899 Bottler married Rose Boy-Ed, the daughter of the writer Ida Boy-Ed. It was probably in 1907 that Henri Goovaerts got to know both Charles Bottler and Ida Boy-Ed through his patron, the wealthy art lover Hermann Schmitz. Goovaerts also portrayed Ida Boy-Ed. |