Oscar Huldschinsky

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Oscar Huldschinsky (* 16th November 1846 in Breslau , † 21st September 1931 in Berlin ) was a German Montan - entrepreneurs , who as an art collector and patron emerged.

Life

Oscar Huldschinsky was a son of the factory owner Salomon Huldschinsky. He was, like his brother Edwin Huldschinsky, partner in the founded by his father company S. Huldschinsky & Sons, in the coal industry and the iron industry of Silesia was active and, among others, tube mills in Sosnowiec (then Russian Poland) and metallurgical plants in Gliwice operational . Oscar Huldschinsky himself moved to Berlin in the 1870s. In 1914 his fortune was estimated at 30 million marks . In 1897 he joined the Society of Friends .

In 1882 he married Ida Brandeis-Weikersheim (1860–1912), a daughter of the Viennese wholesaler, banker and British consul Salomon Brandeis-Weikersheim (1813–1877) in Vienna . Huldschinsky had a villa built on the Großer Wannsee in 1890/1891 , which at that time had the address Friedrich-Karl-Straße 19. Another villa for his children was built in the neo-baroque style in 1907/1908 in the immediate vicinity. Today the property has the address Am Sandwerder 33/35. In addition to the two houses and gardens, it also comprised a boat harbor with a structure on which there was a viewing terrace, a garden pavilion with an open arched hall and a winter garden, which Alfred Breslauer and Oscar Huldschinsky's son Paul later expanded. From 1904 to 1913 Oscar Huldschinsky was the owner of the sailing yacht Susanne designed by William Fife , which won numerous regattas.

Oscar Huldschinsky, who was a founding member of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum Association , invested part of his money in an extensive art collection that included paintings by Sandro Botticelli , Tiepolo , Rembrandt , Frans Hals , Jacob van Ruisdael and Peter Paul Rubens , among others . He gave the Berlin museums several generous foundations. For example, the National Gallery received the pastel painting Entertainment from Edgar Degas and the sculpture The Thinker from Auguste Rodin , and the Gemäldegalerie received the Lamentation of Christ from Hugo van der Goes and Maria with the Child from the workshop of Jan van Scorel . In 1898 Wilhelm von Bode , who advised Huldschinsky on his purchases, presented the Huldschinsky collection in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie . In 1909 he published a brochure on Huldschinsky's collection. In 1926, Huldschinsky was portrayed by Max Liebermann .

Oscar Huldschinsky had to auction some of his works of art in 1928 after he lost all of his holdings in Upper Silesia in the referendum in Upper Silesia in 1921. He also had to sell his residence at Wannsee. The industrialist and banker Georgschicht , who emigrated to London a few years after the purchase , became the new owner . In 1942 the property became the property of the German Reich. It was initially used by the Reich Forest Administration, later the Italian ambassador moved to Huldschinsky's villa. On June 19, 1948, the establishment of the Free University of Berlin was discussed there. Between 1954 and 1995 the villa served as a hospital; In 1999 the main building was sold. The side villa, in which Huldschinsky's children once lived, is being renovated.

Huldschinsky crypts families in the Wannsee cemetery in Berlin-Zehlendorf

Oscar Huldschinsky was buried as a Jew in the New Cemetery in Wannsee. His grave in a family crypt of Otto Stahn has been preserved. While he was still alive, he applied for Jews to be buried in this cemetery. His son Paul was later buried in the USA according to the Catholic rite.

literature

Web links

Commons : Oscar Huldschinsky  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Oscar Huldschinsky. ( Memento of January 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). In: ghwk.de , October 10, 2004.
  2. ^ Beginning and development. ( Memento from August 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: “Zikaron - Memory” Association for the Jewish Heritage of Gliwice , (English).
  3. ↑ Georg Gaugusch : Who once was. The upper Jewish bourgeoisie in Vienna 1800–1938 . Volume 1: AK . Amalthea, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85002-750-2 , p. 301.
  4. ^ Westward, Britannia, White Heather (II) and Susanne, crossing the Royal Yacht Squadron line at Cowes, 1920 . In: Christie's , (English)
  5. ^ Atlantic wins again. American Yacht First of Auxillaries in Hellgoland Race. (PDF) In: The New York Times , June 20, 1905.
  6. ^ Walter Ludwig: Constructors. William Fife. ( Memento from June 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). In: classicyachten.de .
  7. ↑ Founding members of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum Association , accessed on May 22, 2020.
  8. ^ Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond - The Art Institute of Chicago. In: artic.edu. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  9. ^ Cella-Margaretha Girardet: Jewish patrons for the Prussian museums in Berlin , p. 172.
  10. ↑ Andrea Pophanken, Felix Billeter: The modern age and their collectors. Akademie-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-05-003546-8 , p. 23.
  11. ↑ Michael Zajonz: The master bedroom as a museum room. From James Simon to Reinhold Würth: the museum has always benefited from its collectors. In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 19, 2006.
  12. ↑ Brochure: Bode, W. (Ed.), The Oscar Huldschinsky Collection. With 48 plates and some text illustrations. Frankfurt, J. Baer 1909. In: Ketterer Kunst, art auctions , September 8, 2007 in Hamburg, lot 37.
  13. ^ Frontispiece : Portrait of Oscar Huldschinsky. In: Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer (ed.), The Oscar Huldschinsky Collection , Berlin 1928, digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library.
  14. ↑ Marianne Gertis: Villenkolonie Wannsee. In: Association for Culture and History in Wannsee eV , February 11, 2010.
  15. ↑ Brigitte Ferlet: Oscar Huldschinsky. In: berlin-die-hauptstadt.de , June 30, 2017.
  16. ^ The New Cemetery in Berlin-Wannsee . ( Memento of September 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: ghwk.de .
  17. ^ Topic: Paul Huldschinsky. In: thomasmann.de , Forum Thomas Mann, 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Huldschinsky, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huldschinsky, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, art collector and patron
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1931
Place of death Berlin