Leopold Weininger

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Leopold Weininger (* 1854 ; † April 1, 1922 ) was an Austrian goldsmith . He was the father of the philosopher Otto Weininger .

family

Weininger came from a middle-class Jewish family in Vienna , was wealthy, assimilated and Germanophile . He adored the music of Richard Wagner . His wife Adelheid Weininger died of tuberculosis at the age of 55 . Two of their six children died before they were 18 years old. Another son, Otto Weininger, committed suicide at the age of 23 years suicide . A younger son, Richard Weininger, died very old in his country estate near New York.

job

Weininger's work included gold, silver and jewelery work. In 1909 he was listed as a specialist in enamel and antique imitations in the trade directory of the master lists.

Emil Lucka , a friend of Otto Weininger, described Leopold Weininger's work after his death in 1922 in the newspaper Neue Freie Presse as follows:

“He is the last of the family of the great goldsmiths, of the Benvenuto Cellini clan . His work has been sought and valued in England, France, Italy, Russia, America, much is in museums, others in the houses of the rich. The structures of his art, made of gold , platinum , lapis lazuli , rock crystal , luminous gemstones of all kinds, enamel and other beautiful and rare things, are out of fashion and wanted to be out of fashion. Only once he has given me the statue of a seated Kirke shown - from ivory with a topasenen coat - a work of art, which he describes as "modern"; Everything else, however, trophies , ornate clocks with images of the zodiac on a crystal frame, caskets , boxes and whatever else it might be, everything was invented, designed and designed by him, assigned the styles that come from the Renaissance to about Louis XVI The man who would have had a lot to tell, who had been to Paris, London and Italy year after year, who was often called into the distance just to be an expert to see and appraise an object of rare art, almost never spoke. "

Gravestone for the son

For Lucka's book Otto Weininger - His Work and His Personality (1905), Leopold Weininger wrote an afterword with the title Explanation and Correction . After this son's suicide, the father wrote an epitaph:

“This stone closes the resting place of a young man whose spirit never found rest here. And when he had made known the revelations of himself and those of his soul, he suffered no more from the living. He looked for the death zone of a very great person in the Viennese Black Spaniard House and destroyed his body there. "

Emil Lucka reported about the funeral:

“I can clearly see him - that was almost twenty years ago now - at the open grave of his eldest son, not with bowed head, but motionless looking into the face of the clergyman who spoke the Our Father. That funeral was full of excitement, but without looking to the right or to the left, the man stood like a statue. He didn't cry, not then, but I believe that he digged deeper, more convulsively, even more self-tormented, to the very closed, horrible thing that must have been in him, which I don't know how to interpret. In those days I visited him often, I felt a certain shy admiration for him, and it seemed to me that my visits were welcome. At that time he showed me with a painful smile how it sometimes went over his face, the worn leather cover of an eyeglass - Otto had given it to him on the day of his suicide. Only now did the father know how to interpret the gift. "

literature

personal data
SURNAME Weininger, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian goldsmith, father of the philosopher Otto Weininger
DATE OF BIRTH 1854
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1922