Salomon Kohn (publisher)

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Salomon Kohn (born July 31, 1873 in Wessely , Göding district ( Moravia ), † 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was an Austrian photographer and publisher .

Life

Together with his brothers Adolf and Alfred, Kohn founded the "Postkartenverlag Brüder Kohn" ( BKWI ) in 1898 and for the first time published art postcards with motifs from Vienna , contemporary celebrities and caricatures by well-known graphic artists . Artists such as Karl Holiday (including SS Martha Washington ), Mela Köhler and Erwin Pendl worked on the design of this new type of postcard, as did well-known photographers. Kohn headed a cultural salon in which artists, writers, actors and scientists frequented - among others Gustav Mahler , Peter Altenberg , Lotte Lehmann , Bruno Walter and Max Reinhardt .

After the " Anschluss of Austria " to the Third Reich in 1938, the Jewish publishing house was " Aryanized "; Kohn continued to work as an employee of his company before he was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on June 20, 1942 with Transport No. 28 . From there he was transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp on October 28, 1944 , where he was murdered.

Works from the postcard publisher

literature

  • Felix Czeike : Viennese art postcards. In: Viennese history sheets . H. 4, 1983, ISSN 0043-5317, pp. 163-169-
  • Werner J. Schweiger: Departure and fulfillment. Commercial graphics of Viennese modernism 1897-1918. Vienna 1988, ISBN 978-3-854470-36-6 , p. 150.
  • From the postcard publisher Brothers Kohn. Viennese personalities around 1900. Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, Vienna 1994.

Web links

Commons : Postkartenverlag Brüder Kohn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Registration of Austrian Holocaust victims by name, Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance, Vienna
    Entry in the central database of the names of Holocaust victims at the Yad Vashem memorial
  2. ^ Entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
personal data
SURNAME Kohn, Solomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian photographer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Wessely , Göding District ( Moravia )
DATE OF DEATH 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp