Max Meirowsky
Max Meirowsky (* 1866 in Guttstadt ; † December 1, 1949 in Geneva ) was a German-Jewish industrialist and art collector.
Life
Max Meirowsky, the older brother of the dermatologist Emil Meirowsky , came to Cologne from East Prussia . From 1893–1901 he founded a company near the military site in Porz to manufacture insulating material ( mica , monazite and feldspar ) for the emerging electrical and motor industry.
When the company flourished, it was converted into a family company, Meirowsky AG , in 1910 , in which his brother Emil also participated.
His art collection included works by van Gogh , Renoir , Monet , Gauguin and Pissarro . In 1938 he lived in Berlin and prepared to emigrate to Switzerland. In order to finance his emigration, he was forced to auction his art collection at a " Jewish auction " on November 18, 1938 at the Berlin auction house HW Lange. A version of Ferdinand Hodler's song from a distance from 1914 was also sold for 2,800 Reichsmarks.
On October 28, 1938 he was born by his wife, Amélie Paula Feldsieger, geb. Felsch, divorced. His legacy is the Bona Terra Foundation, which has been supporting young Jews who want to take up a career in agriculture since 1954.
In 1941 Meirowsky AG was "aryanized" as Dielektra AG and was a GmbH until January 2006.
literature
- Lothar Jaenicke and Frieder W. Lichtenthaler : A Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Cologne: Emil Fischer, Konrad Adenauer and the Meirowsky Foundation , in: Angewandte Chemie, Volume 115, Issue 7, February 17, 2003, pp. 746-750.
Web links
- Mandy Schielke: The Paths of Images. The Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn and its purchasing policy in DLR culture . Online country report December 17, 2007.
- Meirowsky entry on the Lost Art.De homepage online here
Individual evidence
- ↑ Samuel Herzog: Doubt from a Distance , in: NZZ , October 17, 2015, p. 33. In 2015, Hodler's picture is owned by Christoph Blocher .
- ↑ http://www.berlin.de/aktuell/07_01/suchangebote/aktuell_85297.html ( Memento from August 11, 2012 on WebCite )
- ↑ "Dielektra" closes operations at Kölner Stadtanzeiger , February 16, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meirowsky, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist and art collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guttstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1, 1949 |
| Place of death | Geneva |