Emanuel Kohn

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Emanuel Kohn (born May 3, 1863 in Munich , † July 19, 1942 in Theresienstadt ) was a German art dealer. He became a victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Emanuel Kohn was a son of Salomon Kohn, born on April 19, 1830 in Wassertrüdingen , who settled in Munich in 1859 as a master tanner and leather dealer and died in 1880. The mother Johanna, née Billmann (* 1841, married 1859 in Wassertrüdingen, † April 6, 1925) came from the village of Schwabing near Munich and was chairwoman of the Israelite women's association for many years. Emanuel grew up with his siblings Mathilde (* 1861, married Pfeiffer) and Heinrich (1866–1933) in Munich and, after elementary school, attended the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1874 to 1877 . With numerous other classmates of his year, he took part in the Jewish religious instruction of Abraham Wolfsheimer (1813-1894). Information about his further education is missing. On November 26, 1883, his entry into the class of antiquities at the Munich Art Academy with Gabriel Hackl is documented. He only worked as a painter for a short time, because as early as May 1900 he registered a company for the purchase and sale of art objects on Herzog-Rudolf-Strasse in Munich and in 1905 acquired the “home law” for Munich. In the same year he married Else Kunstadt, the daughter of a Jewish religious official in Vienna. The marriage resulted in the daughter Grete (* 1908) and the son Siegfried (* 1910).

Emanuel Kohn acquired, sold and brokered works of art of all kinds and was also in contact with active artists. His activity as an art dealer is u. a. evidenced by the example of the sale of Coptic textiles from the estate of Theodor Graf to the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart in 1905 and to the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt in 1908, as well as the mummy mask of a young man from Egypt for the Folkwang Museum in Essen in 1906.

On June 19, 1941, Emanuel Kohn's last residential address was the old people's home of the Israelite Religious Community in Munich, Klenzestrasse 4. On April 16, 1942, the almost 80-year-old was taken to the barracks camp at Knorrstrasse 148 and deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on June 18, 1942 , where he died.

Autographs

literature

  • Address book Munich 1906, p. 68: Artists: Kohn, Emanuel, Herzog Rudolfstr. 23/1.
  • Hans Kohn: The Kohn family from Wassertruedingen. Dresden 1932 ( digitized at the Leo Baeck Institute Center for Jewish History, New York ).
  • Jean Kohn: The Kohn family from Wassertrüdingen. Paris 1948 ( digitized ).
  • Heinrich Kohn and family . In: Announcements of the Münchner Anwaltsverein eV , August / September 2002.
  • Biographical memorial book of Munich Jews 1933-1945, Vol. 1, Munich 2003, pp. 727-273 (passport photos Emanuel Kohn as well as Heinrich, Elisabeth and Luise Kohn).
  • List of German Jews, murdered between 1933-1945: Kohn, Emanuel (* May 3, 1863), in: www.kristallnacht1938.org/list/k.html; March 2010.
  • Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1849 to 1918 . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 512-514 (photo).
  • Andreas Heusler, Andrea Sinn (ed.): The experience of exile: expulsion, emigration and new beginnings after 1933. A Munich reader . (= Studies on Jewish History and Culture in Bavaria , Vol. 10). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-486-70479-2 , p. 160, notes 60, 61.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He was in turn a son of Hänlein Salomon Kohn from Wassertrüdingen (1803–1888) and Zierle, née. Gutmann (1808-1875).
  2. ↑ Bavarian Israelite Community Newspaper . tape 1 , no. 4 , May 9, 1925, p. 71 .
  3. ↑ businessman in Munich; he was the father of the lawyer Elisabeth (* 1902) and the painter Luise Kohn (* 1904), who were deported and murdered together with their mother Olga, née Schulhöfer, in 1941, to Luise Kohn (Luiko): [1] .
  4. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1874/75 to 1876/77.
  5. ↑ Entry in the matriculation book .
  6. ↑ "the right acquired by birth or special grant to reside in a community, to acquire land and to operate a business (...)"
  7. ↑ * February 6, 1882; 1942 deported to Auschwitz and murdered; Daughter of Hermann Kunstadt († 1933) and Regina, née Freistadt.
  8. ↑ Grete married Salomon Lebrecht and was last registered in Berlin in 1937; Siegfried signed off for Vienna in 1933; from here he managed to emigrate to the USA via France. He died in New York in 1982.
  9. ↑ The Coptic Textiles in the State Museum Württemberg 2014.
  10. ^ Dorothee Renner-Volbach: The late antique and Coptic textiles in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1985, p. 9.
  11. ^ Entry in the museum database .
personal data
SURNAME Kohn, Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1942
Place of death Theresienstadt