Amalie Redlich

Amalie Redlich , b. Zuckerkandl, (* 1868 in Budapest , Austrian Empire , † 1941 in Lodz ) was, among other things, an art collector.

biography

Amalie Redlich was born as Amalie Zuckerkandl in Budapest in 1868 . Her father was Leon Zuckerkandl, her mother Eleonore Zuckerkandl (1828–1900) née König. Redlich married Julius Rudinger in 1893. Her daughter Mathilde came from this marriage. In 1901 she divorced Julius Rudinger and married the neuropathologist Emil Redlich (born in Brno in 1866). Amalie Redlich had four siblings, all of whom played an important role in the social and economic life of the time: Victor Zuckerkandl was an industrialist, art collector and builder of the Purkersdorf sanatorium . Emil Zuckerkandl was an anatomist and university professor and married to the writer Berta Zuckerkandl . Otto Zuckerkandl was a urologist, surgeon and university professor. His first wife Amalie was portrayed by Gustav Klimt ( Portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl, 1917–1918, Austrian Gallery in the Belvedere). Robert Zuckerkandl was a lawyer and university professor in Prague .

After the death of her brother Victor and his wife Paula Zuckerkandl , Amalie Redlich inherited part of the Purkersdorf sanatorium in 1927. She moved to the "Villa Eugen" on the sanatorium grounds. In 1935 her daughter Mathilde Jorisch and her grandson Georg Jorisch also moved to Purkersdorf. Amalie Redlich acquired several paintings from her brother's estate: By Gustav Klimt Litzlberg am Attersee , Church in Cassone and Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller The School Course

While Amalie's son-in-law Luis Jorisch fled to Belgium with his son Georg (later called Georges) in 1939, Amalie Redlich stayed in Purkersdorf with her daughter Mathilde. In the summer of 1939 the Purkersdorf sanatorium was expropriated by the control bank for industry and trade . Amalie Redlich and her daughter were initially given the right to live in an outbuilding. In 1941 the two were deported to Litzmannstadt and murdered.

estate

After Amalie Redlich's deportation, her art collection was taken away by a furniture dealer who cooperated with the Gestapo . Friedrich Welz acquired the paintings Litzlberg am Attersee and Church in Cassone from Gustav Klimt in 1941 . Church in Cassone was sold to a private person before 1945. Friedrich Welz traded Litzlberg am Attersee with the Salzburg State Gallery, and in 1982 it was added to the holdings of the Modern Gallery and the Rupertinum Graphic Collection - now called the Museum der Moderne Salzburg .

Amalie Redlich's grandson Georges Jorisch survived National Socialism in Belgium. His father Luis Jorisch returned to Vienna in 1947 to look for his mother-in-law's estate. However, he did not find anything. Georges Jorisch emigrated to Canada in the 1950s. In the late 1990s, he began looking for the paintings that had disappeared. In the course of a private restitution, the church in Cassone was returned by Gustav Klimt to Georges Jorisch in 2009 . In 2011, the State of Salzburg returned Litzlberg am Attersee from Gustav Klimt, which was in the collection of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. As a thank you for this restitution, Georges Jorisch donated a generous sum for the renovation of the former water and observation tower on the Mönchsberg . This building has been called the Amalie Redlich Tower since 2014 .

The painting The School Course by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller bought back Georges Jorisch from a private collection and donated it to the Musée des Beaux-Arts Montreal to thank the city for its acceptance after the Second World War.

literature

• Sophie Lillie : What once was - Handbook of the expropriated art collections of Vienna. Vienna 2003
• Bernhard Fetz : Berg, Wittgenstein, Zuckerkandl. Central figures of Viennese modernism. Vienna 2018, p. 92f.

notes

1. ↑ "The whole secret was to play dead." Interview with Georges. Zeitgeschichte H. 45, 2011, p. 22ff.