Anna Caspari
Anna Caspari (born May 16, 1900 in Breslau ; † November 25, 1941 in Kaunas ) was a German art dealer .
Life
The daughter of Hugo Naphtali, a merchant in Breslau, and Olga Naphtali, b. Bielski studied art history, moved to Munich on January 1, 1920 and married the 42-year-old art dealer Georg Caspari. This was moved to the Bavarian capital in 1912. On June 20, 1913, he opened an "art dealership in the most elegant setting" in Palais Eichthal at Brienner Strasse 52 across from Café Luitpold . “Modern and old paintings, antiques and graphics” were offered.
There were large exhibition halls on the ground floor and eight smaller rooms on the upper floor, including a library. Caspari presented old masters such as Rottenhammer and Maulbertsch , works of the 19th century by Feuerbach , Böcklin , Leibl and Thoma .
In addition to Max Liebermann , Wilhelm Trübner , Max Slevogt , Edouard Manet , Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh , contemporary art was cultivated. The spectrum ranged from locals like Maria Caspar-Filser and Oskar Coester to international greats, Paul Klee , Kokoschka , Lehmbruck , Pablo Picasso . On the “forum evenings”, lectures from manuscripts by Wedekind , Heinrich Mann , Thomas Mann and Werfel attracted the metropolitan audience.
In 1928 the young Gerhart Frankl was able to enter the Munich art public with his paintings, watercolors and etchings. In 1930 baroque Venetians could be seen. In the same year Georg Caspari fell victim to a car accident. His widow had to look after the children Ernst (* 1926) and Paul (* 1922) alone. In 1935 the gallery was moved to Ottostraße 6.
On January 19, 1939, the Gestapo went to the "widowed Jewess" to "seize cultural property". An appraiser, an expert and a criminal secretary had their property, including a portrait of Lovis Corinth , moved to the Bavarian National Museum , the State Library and the State Graphic Collection .
Before she was deported , Anna Caspari managed to get her sons with the help of a Dr. Einstein to a college in London to safety. Her mother Olga Naphtali was abducted to Theresienstadt .
literature
- City Archives Munich, Biographical Memorial Book of Munich Jews , 1933–1945
- Munich New Secession, graphic exhibition 1918 , spring 1918, Munich 1918 digitized
- Stephan Kellner, Research into Nazi looted property at the Bavarian State Library, an interim report , Munich 2008
- Alexandra Lautenbacher, Robbery of Jewish Art Collections - onesprime.de
- Horst Keßler / Vanessa Voigt, The Confiscation of Jewish Art Collections in Munich in 1938/39. In: Regine Dehmel (Ed.), Nazi-looted property in museums, libraries and archives, Frankfurt am Main 2012, pp. 119–132.
- Lynn Rother: Art through credit: The Berlin museums and their acquisitions from the Dresdner Bank 1935 . Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Munich City Archives, Caspari, Aniela, b. Naphtali art dealer , in Biographical Memorial Book of Munich Jews, 1933–1945 .
- ^ Meike Hopp: Art Trade in National Socialism, Adolf Weinmüller in Munich and Vienna , Vienna 2012, p. 191.
- ↑ Anton Mash (ed.), Biographical sketches of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Berlin 1914
- ↑ Hans Lamm (Ed.): Past days, Jüdische Kultur in München , Munich 1982, p. 293.
- ^ Secret State Police, State Police Headquarters Munich, Securing of Cultural Property, National Archives, Washington, Jewish Claims, No. 0060, typescript, Munich January 19, 1939
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Caspari, Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Caspari, Aniela Julia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 1941 |
| Place of death | Kaunas |