Henry H. Arnhold

Henry H. Arnhold , anglicized from originally Heinrich-Hartmut Arnhold , completely Heinrich-Hartmut Richard Gustav Arnhold (born September 15, 1921 in Dresden ; † August 23, 2018 in New York City ) was an American banker of German origin, collector and Patron.

Life

Arnhold came from the Dresden banking family Arnhold . As one of five children of Heinrich Arnhold and his wife Lisa, née Mattersdorff, he first grew up in the family villa in Dresden's Tiergartenstrasse and attended the Kreuzschule . After the death of his father in 1935 and under the impression of the intensifying persecution of the Jews , to which the bank fell victim to “ Aryanization ”, he was sent to a Swiss boarding school in 1936. At the beginning of the Second World War he was visiting a school friend in Norway . He stayed there for the time being. After the occupation of Norway by German troops, he was temporarily arrested, but was released and managed to get to the USA via Sweden and Cuba in April 1942, where the rest of the family had meanwhile emigrated via Portugal and Brazil .

He studied at the University of California in Los Angeles and then joined the newly established family business in New York, the investment bank Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder , which he headed as Chairman from 1960 .

Arnhold died a few weeks before he would turn 97 in New York City.

engagement

In the USA

Henry Arnhold was President of the Arnhold Foundation , which primarily supports animal welfare, education and the arts. He was a member of various advisory institutions on US foreign policy and German-American cooperation, such as the American Council on Germany , Council on Foreign Relations , Foreign Policy Association and the National Committee on American Foreign Policy . Since 1985 he has been a member of the board of trustees (trustee) of the New School and board member (director) at Conservation International . In 1993, in memory of his brother, the pediatrician Rainer Arnhold, he founded the Mulago Foundation , which supports global projects aimed at overcoming poverty.

In Dresden

After the fall of the Berlin Wall he became very involved in his hometown Dresden. It enabled an exchange between the Technical University of Dresden and the New School in New York and supported the reconstruction of the Frauenkirche , the construction of the New Synagogue and the Dresden Art Collections . In memory of his parents and their discussion evenings he founded in 2001 a lecture and discussion series, along with the American Academy in Berlin from Dresden Heritage e. V. and is called Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold Lecture . The events take place twice a year. At the Palucca School in Dresden he donated the Esther-Arnhold-Seligmann-Scholarship in memory of his sister Esther (1918–2000), who had been a student at the school until 1937 . In 2012 the "Henry Arnhold Dresden Summer School" took place for the first time, which has been held annually since 2014 and is carried out by the Technical University of Dresden together with Dresden's cultural institutions such as the State Art Collections , the German Hygiene Museum and the Saxon State Library - State and University Library .

Collection of Meissen porcelain

Henry's mother Lisa Arnhold succeeded in saving the collection of Meissen porcelain with top pieces from the early years of the manufacture that she and Heinrich Arnhold had built up in exile. At that time it comprised about 270 pieces. The siblings agreed that Henry should keep the collection together and complete it. This resulted in one of the world's most important private collections of Meissen porcelain from the years up to 1750. Arnhold promised the collection as a gift from the Frick Collection , which in 2011 had the portico of the exhibition building glazed and furnished especially for this purpose .

Honors

Arnhold had been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2004 .

On May 25, 2011, Henry Arnhold, like his grandfather, father and uncle, was honored with the award of an honorary senator from the Technical University of Dresden.

The Dresden Art Collections honored him on his 90th birthday with a Dresden-New York festival .

On April 19, 2013 Arnhold received the Saxon Order of Merit in New York , the highest honor in Saxony.

literature

• Heike Biedermann: The Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold Collection. In: From Monet to Mondrian. 2006, ISBN 3-422-06691-8 , pp. 101-111.
• Maureen Cassidy-Geiger (Ed.): The Arnhold collection of Meissen porcelain 1710–50. [Exhibition The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710-50, March 25 - June 29, 2008]. Frick Collection, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-904832-44-7 , ISBN 978-0-912114-39-2 .
• Nina C. Illgen, Martin Roth : Dresden - New York: in honor of the 90th birthday of Henry H. Arnhold. German Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, DNB 1016550235 .
• Hans Vorländer (Ed.): Continue to build bridges: Speeches on the award of the honorary senator title of the TU Dresden to Henry Arnhold on May 25, 2011. Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-86780-243-7 .

Web links

• Peter Seifert: Speeches on the awarding of the honorary senator title to Henry Arnhold. TU Dresden, May 26, 2011, archived from the original on March 6, 2013 . 
• White Gold: Highlights from the Meissen Collection. (PDF, 186 kB) The Frick Collection, New York, December 7, 2011, archived from the original on December 13, 2011 (English, images). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice Henry H. Arnhold , FAZ from September 4, 2018
2. ↑ See Simone Lässig: National Socialist “Jewish Policy” and Jewish Self-Assertion Before the November Pogrom. The example of the banking family Arnhold. In: Reiner Pommerin (Ed.): Dresden under the swastika. (Dresden historical studies 3) Böhlau, Weimar / Cologne / Vienna a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-412-11197-X , pp. 129-192.
3. ^ Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder Board of Directors
4. ^ TU Dresden mourns Honorary Senator Henry Arnhold. Dresden, August 24, 2018, accessed on August 24, 2018.
5. ^ Mulago Foundation
6. ↑ Ulrike Knöfel: Saxon Heart . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 2005, p. 146 ( online ).
7. ^ The "Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold Lectures" , accessed on January 8, 2012
8. ↑ Esther-Arnhold-Seligmann-Scholarship ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ https://dresdensummerschool.de/
10. ↑ New Portico Gallery ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) Frick Collection, accessed January 8, 2012 
11. ↑ Gunnar Saft: A medal for the noble donor . In: Saxon newspaper . April 22, 2013 ( paid online [accessed April 22, 2013]).