Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

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Paul Robert Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (born November 14, 1875 in Berlin ; † May 10, 1935 there ) was a German banker.

Portrait of Max Liebermann 1909
Grave of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy in Börnicke

Life

Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was the eldest son of the banker Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1846–1909) and Marie, b. Warschauer (1855–1906), a granddaughter of Alexander Mendelssohn. After a few months at Balliol College in Oxford, studying law in Bonn and Berlin and joining the Society of Friends in 1901, he became a partner in the family bank Mendelssohn & Co. in early 1902. A few months later, he married Charlotte Reichenheim (* March 25, 1877; † 1946 ). The couple remained childless. After the divorce, he married Elsa Lucy Emmy Lolo von Lavergne-Péguilhen (born January 8, 1899 in Strasbourg ; † March 11, 1986) in a second, childless marriage in 1927 , which he also made his previous heiress.

Painting collection

Together with his first wife, Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy built a collection of paintings in the Stadtpalais Alsenstrasse 3 / 3a (architect: Bruno Paul ) and Schloss Börnicke (converted by the same architect) with top pieces by Pablo Picasso ( Boy with a Horse and The Mill from La Galette ) on.

Before his death in 1935, von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy had some Picasso paintings from his collection brought to Switzerland, where some of them were sold by the art dealer Justin K. Thannhauser and some were later donated to New York museums. In 2008 the heirs of Mendelssohn, with Julius H. Schoeps as their spokesman, demanded the return of the paintings; their whereabouts in the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City became possible in early 2009 through a comparison. The widow sold part of the remaining inheritance, including Hasenheide Castle and (after the war) Picasso's Boy with a Pipe , and in 1940 she married the Austrian Count Max von Kesselstatt. Picasso's portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto was compared with the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation , which had owned it since 1995, before a planned auction in 2010 . In 2020 the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC restituted Picasso's head of a woman to the heirs.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elsa Lucy Emmy Loco Countess Kesselstatt, In: Langheiter, Alexander: Miesbach - A cultural guide, Miesbach, 2006, p 334
  2. ↑ Dispute over the return of Picasso paintings . ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. art-magazin.de (accessed on August 27, 2008). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
  3. ↑ AGREEMENT IN NEW YORK: Picasso paintings are not coming back to Berlin . In: Spiegel Online - Kultur , 3. February 2009 (accessed 42009)
  4. ^ The picture of the century . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 2005 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Elsa Lucy Emmy Loco Countess Kesselstatt, In: Langheiter, Alexander: Miesbach - A cultural guide, Miesbach, 2006 S. 334th
  6. ↑ Picasso portrait returned by National Gallery to heirs of Jewish banker persecuted by Nazis , Washington Post, April 1, 2020, accessed April 2, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Paul von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Paul Robert Ernst von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1935
Place of death Berlin