Alfred Cassirer

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Alfred Cassirer (born July 29, 1875 in Görlitz ; † July 11, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German engineer , entrepreneur and art collector.

Life

Alfred Cassirer came from the family of entrepreneurs Cassirer and was the youngest son of Louis Cassirer and a brother of Paul , Hugo and Richard Cassirer . Together with his brother Hugo Cassirer and his uncle Julius Cassirer, he owned the company Kabelwerk Dr. Cassirer and Co. in Berlin-Hakenfelde . Cassirer was also the second representative of Section I of the mechanical engineering and small iron industry trade association .

He was also an active balloonist , co-founder of the Imperial Aero Club at the Johannisthal airfield near Berlin and won first prize in class 3 in the 1908 international race with his balloon "Hewald". He was also a partner in the motorized airship Study Society .

On July 15, 1912, Alfred Cassirer married Hannah nee Sotschek (1887–1974), who after the divorce around 1923 married Leo Blumenreich for the second time . The philosopher Eva Cassirer (1920–2009) emerged from the marriage.

Grave of Alfred Cassirer in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Alfred Cassirer died two and a half weeks before his 57th birthday on July 11, 1932 in Berlin. His grave is on the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 5-C-1/2). The grave monument consists of an unadorned base, consisting of three stones made of shell limestone , on which there is a bas-relief showing six grazing sheep. This frieze was created by the Schleicher & Co. company based on a drawing by August Gaul with the title "Sheep in the Campagna".

Cassirer was art collector and decreed in his will that his entire collection to the magistrate of Berlin had to give them the Märkisches Museum as a permanent loan supply. From March 1933 it was presented in five rooms on the first floor of the Ermelerhaus , a branch of the Märkisches Museum, Breite Strasse  11 in Berlin-Mitte . The works on display included drawings by Adolph von Menzel , works by Max Liebermann and Max Slevogt , and sculptures by Ernst Barlach , Georg Kolbe and August Gaul . The main works of the collection included paintings by French artists such as Gustave Courbet , Édouard Manet , Claude Monet , Edgar Degas , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Camille Pissarro , Alfred Sisley and Paul Cézanne .

Bibliography

  • Sigrid Bauschinger : The Cassirers. Entrepreneurs, art dealers, philosophers. CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67715-1 , pp. 19 f., 51, 55, 57, 96, 118, 125, 128f., 142, 145, 178, 220, 225, 229, 333, 345, 357, 393.
  • An impressionist gallery in the Ermeler house. In: Vossische Zeitung of March 11, 1933

Web links

Commons : Alfred Cassirer  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ S. Bauschinger gives as his birthday and place of birth September 14, 1882 in Breslau
  2. ↑ Cassirer, Alfred. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , p. 39.
  3. ↑ Cassirer, Alfred. In: Gustav Braunbeck (Ed.): Braunbeck's Sport Lexicon . Braunbeck-Gutenberg, Berlin 1911, p. 239. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  4. ↑ Shareholder. In: Yearbook of the Motor Airship Study Society , Vol. 3 (1908), p. 15.
  5. ↑ Shareholder. In: Yearbook of the Motor Airship Study Society , Vol. 4 (1910–1911), p. 21.
  6. ↑ see reference S. Bauschinger.
  7. ↑ District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin: Prominent graves in the state-owned cemetery Heerstrasse . Notice in the cemetery. As of November 2012. Read on December 3, 2019.
  8. ^ Alfred Cassirer's grave site . In: Jörg Haspel, Klaus von Krosigk (Ed.): Garden monuments in Berlin . Imhof, Petersberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86568-293-2 . P. 35.
personal data
SURNAME Cassirer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, entrepreneur and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1932
Place of death Berlin