Heinrich Grünwald

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The Grünwald family building on Kaiserstr. 40 right

Heinrich Grünwald was a German art dealer and honorary senator of the Technical University in Stuttgart . He had important picture galleries, little is known about their whereabouts .

Family and career

Heinrich Grünwald's father was Adolph Grünwald , who met his future wife in Cincinnati. She was a widowed Hess and a native Bear. Both had emigrated to the United States and were citizens there. However, both returned to Affaltrach around 1860 . They were the maternal grandparents of the well-known art dealer and writer Dr. Siegfried Aram . They had four children, Heinrich was the only son and their three daughters were Bertha, Thekla and Auguste. Auguste died relatively early. Heinrich Grünwald had a higher education, and in Bruchsal Heinrich Grünwald completed his military training with the field artillery.

art

He mastered playing various musical instruments such as cello and piano. He had his own large library and used to go to the theater. He also loved to draw, with a special focus on drawing caricatures. He traveled extensively in France and Italy, became a partner in an art gallery in Paris and finally founded his own art gallery in Baden-Baden with a branch in Berlin. Grünwald succeeded in finding works of art that had long been believed to be lost. After a long search he found the Judith von Titian and Andrea del Verrocchio the sleeping boy .

He enlarged his father Adolph Grünwald's silver collection .

The Technical University of Stuttgart made him an honorary senator. The Kaiser-Café in Klarastraße in Heilbronn also owed it to him.

Private life

Heinrich Grünwald teamed up with Kommerzienrat Martin Erhardt, and both now ran the world-famous Ehrhard art gallery. He was the friend of the well-known Stuttgart art historian Hans Hildebrand. Heinrich received art critics and art historians in his establishment in Berlin, and Heinrich felt particularly close to Mr. Eberlein, a sculptor.

politics

The hatred of the National Socialists also applied to Grünwald because he had been involved in the Heilbronn Association for the Defense against Anti-Semitism . The Shoah survived Grünwald only by flight, first in Czechoslovakia, then to southern France. There he died without any fortune.

Building history Heilbronn

Adolph and Heinrich Grünwald are particularly well known in Heilbronn's architectural history. The large office building on Kiliansplatz was built for them there , behind the choir of Kilian's Church between Kaiserstraße and Klostergasse. Schmolz-Weckbach describes this building as follows: “... the building at Kaiserstr. 40 , with the exception of the windows on the first floor ( Art Nouveau ), is designed in neo-baroque forms, occasionally interrupted by classicist elements. The structure of the bel étage and the 2nd floor appears pompous thanks to a colossal arrangement . This house, built in 1897, also has a tower structure that is apparently intended to correspond with the two opposite turrets with lanterns of the Barbarinoeck and the harbor market tower ... "

For another building in Grünwald, at Kaiserstrasse 46, see Heinrich Grünwald house .

literature

• Helmut Schmolz , Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn: The old town in words and pictures , Volume 2. Anton H. Konrad Verlag 1967
• Hans Franke : History and Fate of the Jews in Heilbronn - From the Middle Ages to the Time of National Socialist Persecution (1050–1945) , Heilbronn 1963 (also as PDF , 14.3 MB)