Melchior Boisserée

Melchior Boisserée (1786 – 1851) was a German art collector and artist.

Life Boiserée was born at Cologne in 1786. In the wake of the French occupation and the closure of many churches, by early German and Netherlandish painters, to which the three devoted twenty years' labour and the bulk of their fortunes.

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.