Albert Herzfeld

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Albert Herzfeld (born August 19, 1865 in Düsseldorf ; died February 12, 1943 in Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was a German painter and author.

Life

Herzfeld, who was of Jewish descent, was the son of the largest textile manufacturer in Düsseldorf, the owner of the company J. Herzfeld and Sons. He received an artistic training at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts . He worked in his father's textile company until 1905, then left the family business and worked from then on as a freelance painter in Düsseldorf. For his more than 30 years of membership in the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten , on his seventieth birthday in 1935, he received "in a very loving letter" the congratulations from its chairman Otto Ackermann , which nevertheless did not prevent him from sending him six weeks later with eight other "non-Aryan “To remove members from the membership list. In 1938 he was banned from painting by the President of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts . Herzfeld was married to Else Volkmar, born on June 10, 1882 in Berlin, a daughter of Paul Deussen's brother-in-law , who owned a Schopenhauer portrait of Herzfeld.

Stumbling blocks Albert, Else and Annemarie Herzfeld, in front of the house at Feldstrasse 37 in Pempelfort

Herzfeld and his wife were deported from Düsseldorf to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where he died the following year. The daughter Annemarie (born January 12, 1903) was deported to Minsk on November 10, 1941 and later pronounced dead. The Herzfelds' house at Feldstrasse 37, which he owned, was looted; part of Paul Deussen's estate was lost.

His diaries from 1935 to 1939 provide detailed information about the worsening situation of the Jewish community in Düsseldorf.

literature

  • A Non-Aryan German: The Diaries of Albert Herzfeld 1935–1939 , ed. and edit on behalf of the state capital Düsseldorf by Hugo Weidenhaupt , Düsseldorf, 1982
  • Hans Seeling: Jonas Herzfeld (1793–1880) and descendants in business and politics . In: Neusser Jahrbuch , Neuss 1987, p. 12

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Burleigh The time of National Socialism: an overall representation . 2000, page 354
  2. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016) , PDF
  3. ↑ a b Heiner Feldhoff : Nietzsche's friend: the life story of Paul Deussen . 2008, pp. 187 and 235
  4. ↑ Götz Aly , Wolf D. Gruner: The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany, 1933–1945, Volume 2 Oldenbourg, 2009; P. 524 [from this the quote from Albert Herzfeld's diaries 1935–1939:] “… birthday in a very loving letter from chairman Otto Ackermann congratulated me on my personal… u. 6 weeks later, along with the other 8 non-Aryan members, deleted me from the list of members. ”Otto Ackermann (1872–1953), landscape painter in Düsseldorf.
  5. ↑ Feldstr. 37, E. Herzfeld, Albert, painter, U u. 1; Herzfeld, Annemarie, Dr. jur., U u. 1 , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1939, p. 132
personal data
SURNAME Herzfeld, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herzfeld, Albert Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1943
Place of death Theresienstadt concentration camp