Fritz Kamm

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Fritz Kamm , actually Fridolin Kamm ( January 14, 1897 in Netstal - July 16, 1967 in Zug ) was a Swiss banker and art collector .

life and work

Kamm was the son of Johann Melchior Kamm (1860–1944), an innkeeper and butcher, and of Katharina geb. Menzi (1860-1936). After a banking apprenticeship in Switzerland, he came to Vienna in 1917 , where he worked for ten years as a stock exchange and foreign exchange trader . He then worked in Berlin for five years and returned to Switzerland in 1932. There he founded the Arbitrium Handels-Aktiengesellschaft , a company for securities trading, with Richard Kronstein .

His first marriage was to Amy Löwinger (1901–1925), who came from Vienna. In 1932 he entered into a second marriage with Editha Ehrbar (1901–1980), who was also born in Vienna. The couple had two children, a son and a daughter. His wife also had a son from a previous marriage. Together with his wife and under the advice of Fritz Wotruba , he created the Kamm Collection (especially in the 1950s and 1960s) with large groups of works from Viennese Modernism , French Cubism and German Expressionism . It includes 400 works by Gustav Klimt , Egon Schiele , Oskar Kokoschka , Herbert Boeckl , Richard Gerstl , Josef Hoffmann , Otto Wagner , Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , Fernand Léger , August Macke , Franz Marc and Fritz Wotruba. The collection also includes works by the Wiener Werkstätte .

From 1953 to 1965 he was the owner of the Würthle Gallery in Vienna.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jehli-Kamm family research: Fridolin Kamm , accessed on January 31, 2020
  2. ^ History on the website of the Kamm Collection Foundation
  3. ^ Sonja Niederacher: Leopold Museum Privatstiftung LM Inv. No. 626. Vienna: Leopold Museum , 2011, pp. 15–16.
personal data
SURNAME Kamm, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss banker and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Netstal
DATE OF DEATH 1967