Otto Blumenfeld

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Otto Blumenfeld, painting by Max Slevogt (1915)

Otto Blumenfeld (born August 16, 1883 in Hamburg , † July 26, 1975 in West Dean, Seaford ) was a German shipping company manager , merchant and art collector .

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Otto Blumenfeld was the son of the businessman Bernhard Blumenfeld and his wife Helene, nee. Karpeles. His siblings were brother Ernst and sisters Martha and Clara . Blumenfeld was director of Norddeutsche Kohlen- und Kokswerke AG in Hamburg , and also head of the shipping company and coal import company Bernhard Blumenfeld KG, based in the Chilehaus . He was also the co-owner of the O. Blumenfeld and R. Samson racing team (since 1922). Until 1933 he was on the board of the Friends of the Kunsthalle and the Hamburg Art Association . In 1939 he was forced to give up his position as managing director of the shipping company Blumenfeld KG aA because as a Jew he fell under the Nuremberg race laws , and emigrated to England.

Blumenfeld owned an important collection of German and French art . In 1915 the impressionist artist Max Slevogt created a portrait and in 1925 the sculptor Friedrich Wield created a bronze sculpture of the art collector. His position on the denazification process for Hildebrand Gurlitt , who was the director of the Hamburger Kunstverein, and who was forced to resign in 1933 due to his advocacy of modern art, dates from October 9, 1946 . His friend, the painter Ivo Hauptmann, worked in his company from 1923 to 1939.

His nephew was Erik Blumenfeld .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Judeo-Christian episode of the Arnoldinum Gymnasium , which was re-established in 1853 , arnoldinum.de, accessed on January 3, 2015
  2. ^ Georg Kolbe estate : Correspondence between Georg Kolbe, Otto Blumenfeld, R. Grossmann and Blumenfeld KG , kalliope-verbund.info, accessed on January 3, 2015
  3. ↑ The truth is often improbable: Thomas Theodor Heine's letters to Franz Schoenberner from exile . Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-89244-465-7 , p. 287 (short biography)
  4. ↑ The Jewish Hamburg. A historical reference work.
  5. ↑ Naturalization Certificate: Otto Blumenfeld
  6. ↑ Heinrich Breloer , Horst Königstein : blood money: materials for a German history. Prometh, 1982, p. 134
  7. ↑ Portrait of Otto Blumenfeld (1915) by Max Slevogt on www.akg-images.de
  8. ^ Hamburgische Sezession ( Memento from December 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), hamburger-kunsthalle.de, accessed on January 3, 2015.
  9. ↑ Maike Steinkamp, ​​Ute Haug: Works and Values: About trading and collecting art under National Socialism. De Gruyter, 2010, p. 52 u. 59. Digitized
  10. ↑ Hauptmann, Ivo (paragraph 7).
personal data
SURNAME Blumenfeld, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shipowner, merchant and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1975
Place of death West Dean, Seaford