Collofino

Feinhals is praised as an important supporter of the expressionist movement in the Rhineland, having contributed to the 1906 Art Exhibit in Cologne.{{cite book

| last = Philippi

| first = Simone

|author2=Marc Scheps |author3=Iris Bruckgraber

| title = 20th Century Art: Museum Ludwig Colone

| publisher = Taschen

| date = 1996

| page = 6

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CsJPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22josef+feinhals%22

| isbn = 978-3-8228-8647-2}} His company also supported individual artists, such as his friend, the poet Johannes Theodor Kuhlemann (1891-1939), who had worked for eight years in Feinhals's "tobacco museum."{{cite web

| last = Voß

| first = Florian

| title = Fünf Lyriker aus dem bislang unveröffentlichten Anthologiemanuskript Fremde Fahnen – Vergessene Dichter der Moderne

| url = http://florianvoss.com/projekte/vergessene.html

| access-date = 2009-07-22

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100311183921/http://www.florianvoss.com/projekte/vergessene.html

| archive-date = 2010-03-11

| url-status = dead

}} Kuhlemann subsequently wrote a book on tobacco, Vom Tabak, which Feinhals published in 1936.{{cite web

| title = Johannes Theodor Kuhlemann

| work = Literarische Nachlässe im rheinischen Archiven

| url = http://www.rheinische-literaturnachlaesse.de/index.php?id=00000019&article_id=00000024&letter=%&location=&estate_id=00000197&show=works&key=#works

| access-date = 2009-07-22}}

Feinhals was a friend of Hermann Hesse, who had stayed in his Marienburg villa in 1914.{{cite web

| last = Limberg

| first = Michael

| title = 'Wo ich nötigenfalls zu lesen bereit bin': Hesses Lesereisen im Rheinland

| publisher = Literatur-Archiv-NRW

| url = http://www.literatur-archiv-nrw.de/sonderausstellung/Beiden_Rheinufern_angeh_rig/Michael_Limberg___wo_ich_n_tigenfalls_zu_lesen_bereit_bin_/seite_2.html

| access-date = 2009-07-22}} Hesse made a number of (sometimes oblique) references to him and the antiquarian anecdotes he had collected in Die Geschichten des Collofino, a book privately published in 1918. In Hesse's short story "Journey to the East," the character "Collofino der Rauchzauberer" ("Collofino the Smoke Magician") is based on Feinhals.{{cite book

| last = Mileck

| first = Joseph

| title = Hermann Hesse: Life and Art

| publisher = U of California P

| date = 1981

| pages = 152–53, 222, 278

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jqpUPffItN8C&q=josef+feinhals&pg=PA152

| isbn = 978-0-520-04152-3}}{{cite book

| last = Rose

| first = Ernst

| title = Faith from the abyss: Hermann Hesse's way from romanticism to modernity

| publisher = New York UP

| date = 1965

| page = 138

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=RwUrAAAAIAAJ&q=%22josef+feinhals%22

}} In turn, Feinhals helped Hesse with translating German passages into Latin for Hesse's magnum opus, The Glass Bead Game,{{cite book

| last = Bruhn

| first = Siglind

| title = The musical order of the world: Kepler, Hesse, Hindemith

| publisher = Pendragon

| date = 2005

| page = [https://archive.org/details/musicalorderofwo0000bruh/page/28 28]

| url = https://archive.org/details/musicalorderofwo0000bruh

| url-access = registration

| isbn = 978-1-57647-117-3}} for which he is thanked and named as "Collof."{{cite book

| last = Retsch

| first = Annette

| title = Paratext und Textanfang

| publisher = Königshausen & Neumann

| date = 2000

| page = 122

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=OwsK33OfRp4C&pg=PA122

| isbn = 978-3-8260-1889-3}}

In 1911 Feinhals authored "Der Tabak in kunst und kulture".{{Cite book |last=Feinhals |first=Joseph. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.65425 |title=Der tabak in kunst und kultur |date=1911 |publisher=Feinhals |location=Cöln}}

Die Geschichten des Collofino (1918) is a collection of anecdotes and observations. Privately published by the author and printed by Dumont Schauberg in Cologne, the book is very rare.{{cite web

| title = Herzlich Zugeeignet: 300 Widmungsexemplare und signierte Bücher

| publisher = Eberhard Köstler

| url = http://www.autographs.de/Kat06_Widmungsexemplare.pdf

| access-date = 2009-07-22}} p. 10-11.

Non Olet, privately published in 1939 under the pseudonym Collofino, is a "rare eccentric compilation on scatology and smoking, with songs and verse."{{cite book

| last = Randolph

| first = Vance

|author2=Gershon Legman

| title = Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore: Blow the candle out

| publisher = U of Arkansas P

| date = 1992

| page = 907

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=S93LdPw2KP0C&pg=PA907

| isbn = 978-1-55728-237-8}} The "thousand page compendium and discussion" is representative{{cite book

| last = Dundes

| first = Alan

|author2=Carl R. Pagter

| title = Work hard and you shall be rewarded: urban folklore from the paperwork empire

| publisher = Wayne State UP

| date = 1992

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=cFvY2jWqBlQC

| isbn = 978-0-8143-2432-5}} p. 79 of what has been called "a strong anal component in [the German] national character."Dundes p. 75. The book contains anecdotes and observations, a number of which Collofino claims to have gleaned from old German chronicles. It also includes the proposal for a society which should occupy itself with various matters related to feces. For instance, the society should study the fart as "a natural phenomenon, a problem in pneumatics, an acoustic phenomenon, an insult, a means of defense, an educator," and in "its dependence on other functions, its relation to the cosmos, in literature, in society, in politics, in its relation with subordinates," as well as "among the church fathers."Cited in {{cite book

| last = Komrij

| first = Gerrit

| author-link = Gerrit Komrij

| title = Komrij's Kakafonie: Encyclopedie van de stront

| publisher = De Bezige Bij

| date = 2006

| page = 258

| isbn = 978-90-234-1907-5}}

Feinhals lived in a villa designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich, built 1908-1909, completed by Bruno Paul,{{cite book

| last = Olbrich

| first = Joseph Maria

|author2=Peter Haiko |author3=Bernd Krimmel |author4=Renate Ulmer

| title = Architecture

| publisher = Rizzoli

| date = 1988

| page = 28

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1thPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22josef+feinhals%22

| isbn = 978-3-8053-3459-4}}{{Cite journal|last=Maciuika|first=John V.|date=October 2006|title=Bruno Paul: The Life and Work of a Pragmatic Modernist. William Owen Harrod|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/studdecoarts.14.1.40663292|journal=Studies in the Decorative Arts|volume=14|issue=1|pages=119–121|doi=10.1086/studdecoarts.14.1.40663292|issn=1069-8825|quote=In 1909, Paul completed the interiors of the Villa Feinhals in Cologne, a project begun by Olbrich in 1908. Had Olbrich lived, he would have designed the interiors of the house himself, but he died prematurely while his drawings were still incomplete and the house was under construction. Feinhals owned the company that made Manoli cigarettes, and was a prominent supporter of the Werkbund. Paul was a personal friend, and one of the few artists considered capable of succeeding Olbrich.|url-access=subscription}} and destroyed in World War II. Here he had a noteworthy collection of modern art on display.{{cite book

| last = Wenge

| first = Nicola

| title = Integration und Ausgrenzung in der städtischen Gesellschaft

| publisher = Philipp von Zabern

| date = 2005

| page = 142

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8rBtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22josef+feinhals%22

| isbn = 978-3-8053-3459-4}} Artworks in collection included Ernst Kirchner's Das Boskett, which was seized by the Nazis as "Degenerate Art" after Feinhals donated it to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne.{{Cite web |title=Freie Universität Berlin: Beschlagnahmeinventar "Entartete Kunst" |url=http://emuseum.campus.fu-berlin.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=117571&viewType=detailView |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=emuseum.campus.fu-berlin.de}}

• {{cite book

| title = Das Geheimnis der Marchesa oder Giorgione da Castel Franco

| publisher = N.p.

| date = 1918

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=G6AlHAAACAAJ&q=%22josef+feinhals%22

}}

• {{cite book

| title = Die Geschichten des Collofino: Eine Sammlung merkwürdiger Begebenheiten und rätselhaften Abenteuer, märchenhafter Schilderungen und höchst seltsamer Beobachtungen aus dem Leben von Menschen und Tieren aller Zeiten, Länder, und Zonen

| publisher = N.p.

| date = 1918

| location = Cologne

}}

• {{cite book| title =Non olet oder Die heiteren Tischgespräche des Collofino über den Orbis Cacatus nebst den neuesten erkenntnistheoretischen Betrachtungen über das Leben in seiner phantastischen Wirklichkeit erzählt von ihm selbst.| publisher =N.p.| date =1939| location =Cologne| url =http://www.ilab.org/db/detail.php?lang=ru&membernr=505&ordernr=1978}}{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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