Otto Bondy

Otto and Julie Bondy, née Cassirer

Otto Bondy (born October 3, 1844 in Prague , died October 22, 1928 in Vienna ) was a Habsburg industrialist and art collector of Jewish descent who was active in Prague and Vienna.

Life

Otto Bondy was a son of the Prague industrialist Aron (Anton) Bondy and he had nine siblings: an older brother who was unknown by name and who died as a child, Robert Bondy (1841, died as a child), Hermine Bensinger (1842–1914), Edmund Bondy (1843–1917), Lucie Wiener, Franz Bondy (1851–1918), Martha Kafka (1853–1926), Friederike Pollak (born 1855) and Hugo Bondy (born 1863). In 1878 he married Julie Cassirer (1860–1914), the daughter of the entrepreneur Marcus Cassirer, who came from there in Breslau . The family had five children: Walter Bondy (1880–1940, painter and photographer), Hans Bondy (1881–1917, suicide), Antoinelle (1883–1961, later wife of Ernst Cassirer ), Martha Maria (1888–1942, later wife by Oscar Pollack (both deported in 1942) and Edith Lilli (1893–1977, later wife of Maximillian Waller).

Kabelfabrik Aktien Gesellschaft formerly Otto Bondy, around 1880

After the birth of Walter, the couple moved from Prague to Vienna in 1880. In 1882 Otto Bondy founded his cable factory in Penzing near Vienna , first as a representative of Chaudoir's brass and cable works and later named after him . His nephew Hugo Cassirer came to him after completing his studies, before becoming a partner in the cable factory Dr. Cassirer & Co his father Louis Cassirer got on board. Kabel-Fabrik AG was converted into a Hungarian joint-stock company in Bratislava in 1895 , and a new and larger plant went into operation there in 1986. In 1904, a larger factory was built in Vienna-Meidling, to which the Penziger plant was relocated in 1905 and from 1906 after the split from the AG in Bratislava as Kabelfabrik und Drahtindustrie AG Wien (KDAG) under the umbrella of the Mährisch-Schlesische Actiengesellschaft für Draht-Industrie , based in Troppau , traded. Otto Bondy probably moved to Berlin with his wife in 1907. In 1909 he left the board of directors of the company in Vienna-Meidling and was only reappointed to this committee in April 1927, to which he belonged until his death the following year.

Otto Bondy owned an art collection that in 1902 included over 70 mostly modern paintings, numerous bronzes and other sculptures. In the estate, however, there was only the painting “Wallküre” (sic!) By Hans Makart , which he bequeathed to his nephew Egon Bondy. No information is available about the sale of the collection.

supporting documents

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Tano Bojankin: Cable, copper, art. Walter Bondy and his family environment. Catalog 2008 (PDF; 748 kB)
^ ^A ^b Sigrid Bauschinger : The Cassirers. Entrepreneurs, art dealers, philosophers. CHBeck, Munich 2015; P. 447. ISBN 978-3-406-67714-4 .
^ Sigrid Bauschinger: The Cassirers. Entrepreneurs, art dealers, philosophers. CHBeck, Munich 2015; P. 20. ISBN 978-3-406-67714-4 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Bondy, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian industrialist and art collector of Jewish descent
DATE OF BIRTH	October 3, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague
DATE OF DEATH	October 22, 1928
Place of death	Vienna

[Bojankin-1] Tano Bojankin: Cable, copper, art. Walter Bondy and his family environment. Catalog 2008 (PDF; 748 kB)

[Bauschinger_2015,_447-2] A ^b Sigrid Bauschinger : The Cassirers. Entrepreneurs, art dealers, philosophers. CHBeck, Munich 2015; P. 447. ISBN 978-3-406-67714-4 .

[Bauschinger_2015,_20-3] Sigrid Bauschinger: The Cassirers. Entrepreneurs, art dealers, philosophers. CHBeck, Munich 2015; P. 20. ISBN 978-3-406-67714-4 .