Hugo Feigl

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Hugo Feigl (born March 15, 1889 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; died February 5, 1961 in New York City ) was a Czechoslovak-American gallery owner.

Life

Hugo Feigl was the son of the lawyer for the poor, Josef Isak Feigl (1846-1905) and Julie Busch (1849-1905). His siblings were Irene Feigl (1880–1942), Karl Feigl (1882–1942), the painter Friedrich Feigl (1884–1965), Kamilla Feigl (1885–1942) and the journalist Ernst Feigl (1887–1957). In 1924 he married Margareta Meller (1900–1987), they had their daughter Marion Feigl (1929–2018), who worked as a book designer in the USA.

Feigl studied law at the German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague. He was a soldier in World War I and was taken prisoner by the Russians. After his return he received his doctorate in law in 1919. He then worked for a short time as a journalist for the German-language newspaper Prager Tagblatt . Feigl founded an art gallery in Prague in 1924 that dealt with modern art. From 1934 to 1938 he represented Oskar Kokoschka , among others, and dedicated a solo exhibition to him in 1933/34, 1935 and 1937. During these years he bought and sold the majority of Kokoschka's paintings, if they had not already been pre-ordered or sold, and drawings. He exhibited works by Jan Bauch , František Bílek , Josef Čapek , Marc Chagall , Friedrich Feigl , Georges Kars , Otakar Kubín , Max Liebermann , Willi Nowak , Pablo Picasso , Georges Rouault , Jan Slavíček, painter of the bridge and a retrospective of German expressionists out. Ludwig Meidner portrayed him in 1924.

On the day before the German occupation of the Czech Republic , on March 14, 1939, he fled headlong to France and from there to the USA, taking only a few pictures with him, leaving everything else behind, i.e. pictures, card index, archive, correspondence. His daughter Marion was rescued on a Kindertransport organized by Nicolas Winton , and his wife managed to escape a month later. His brother Karl and his family were victims of the Holocaust , and his sisters Irene and Kamilla were also deported to concentration camps and murdered.

In 1942 he opened the Feigl Gallery in New York City , 601 Madison Avenue , where he again represented modern European art.

Fonts (selection)

  • Podobizny ze čtyř století . Catalog, 1929
  • Výstava židovských umělců 19. a 20. století . Catalog, 1930
  • Krajiny ze čtyř století . Catalog, 1931
  • Portraits from four centuries: 24 portraits from Prague's private collection . With accompanying text. Published by the "Kunstverein für Böhmen" for its members in 1929-30
  • Landscapes from four centuries: 22 paintings from private collections in Prague in colored autotype or rotogravure printing . With accompanying text. Edited by the Art Association for Bohemia for its members in 1931/32
  • O obchodnících s uměním a O sběratelích a sběratelství v revue Život . Essay, 1935
  • Umëní po stránce historické, vystavovatelské a obchodní

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arno Pařík : Zemřela Marion Feigl (June 7, 1929 Praha - February 12, 2018 New York) , obituary, in: Roš chodeš, Věstník židovských náboženských obcí v českých zemích a na Slovensku, issue 4, 2018, p. 20
  2. ↑ Ludwig Meidner: Hugo Feigl , public domain after 2037
  3. ↑ Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) Prague, view from the Moldaulände, 1936/37 , at SMB
  4. ↑ Jana Burešová: Nicholas Winton, Man and Myth: A Czech Perspective , in: Andrea Hammel, Bea Lewkowicz (Ed.): The Kindertransport to Britain 1938/39: new perspectives . Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012 ISBN 978-90-420-3615-4 , p. 52
personal data
SURNAME Feigl, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak-American gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1961
Place of death New York City