Oscar Bondy

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Oscar Bondy (born October 19, 1870 in Vienna , † December 3, 1944 in New York ) was an Austrian entrepreneur and art collector.

Life

Oscar Bondy, also known as Zucker-Bondy, owned sugar factories in Zdic and České Meziříčí in Czechoslovakia , but had his business and private address in Vienna. His extensive art and musical instrument collection, which included the portfolios of Pieter Brueghel the Elder and the family portrait of Martin Johann Schmidt , was also in the apartment at Schubertring 3 in Vienna. In 1922 Oscar Bondy inherited Nellie Bly .

Bondy was of Jewish origin. When the Anschluss of Austria took place in 1938 , he was in Czechoslovakia. He was able to flee to Switzerland and later emigrated to the USA, where he died in 1944. His collection was Aryanized . The Central Office for Monument Protection transferred most of the works of art to the central depot of the Art History Museum in the Neue Burg. After the end of the Third Reich , most of the collector's items were returned to his widow Elisabeth, but there were restrictions against exporting them from Austria.

Bondy had an illegitimate daughter. His great-grandson Gerd von Seggern thought it likely that parts of his collection could have come into the possession of the Gurlitt family .

Works from Bondy's collection were on display in the exhibition Collectors' Pleasures , which took place in 2013 at the Abegg Foundation in Riggisberg .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "'Highly delighted' about Nazi-looted art" , derstandard.at , March 31, 2008
  2. ^ Nellie Bly's Will Filed , New York Times , March 21, 1922
  3. ↑ Various sources name different years of death.
  4. ↑ life data on lostart.de
  5. ↑ Karsten Kolloge, Art find radiates on Ganderkesee , on: nwzonline.de, November 14, 2013
  6. ↑ Stephanie Christ, Every potty has its lid , on: bernerzeitung.ch, May 2, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Bondy, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1944
Place of death new York