Walter Feilchenfeldt
Walter Feilchenfeldt (born January 21, 1894 in Berlin ; † December 9, 1953 in Zurich ) was a German publisher and art dealer .
Berlin
Walter Feilchenfeldt was born the son of a general practitioner . In 1919 he joined Paul Cassirer's publishing house as an employee and in 1922 became a member of the management team. In 1924 he became a partner in Paul Cassirer Kunsthandlung and, after Cassirer's death, continued the art and publishing bookshop together with Grete Ring (1887–1952), the niece of Max Liebermann . In 1930 he met the writer Erich Maria Remarque , whom he was enthusiastic about art, who became his customer and with whom he had a long-standing friendship that lasted until the end of his life. In October 1932, the last auction of the house of Cassirer was the auction of the estate of Lesser Ury .
Amsterdam and Zurich
Since he was of Jewish descent, Feilchenfeldt left Berlin in 1933 after paying the Reich flight tax and emigrated to Amsterdam . There he took over from Helmuth Lütjens (1893–1986) the management of the branch founded in 1923, which then became the headquarters of the art dealership. He still managed to bring the most valuable pictures of the main Berlin store and the art objects of the customers he looked after abroad. In Amsterdam in 1936 he married Marianne Breslauer . Their first son, Walter Feilchenfeldt, was born in 1939 and the writer Erich Maria Remarque became his godfather.
In 1937, co-owner Grete Ring dissolved the book publisher that had remained in Berlin and founded the Paul Cassirer Limited art dealership in London .
Before the occupation of the Netherlands in 1940, Feilchenfeldt and his family moved to Switzerland , where he lived in Ascona and Zurich . From there he was able to help some artists and writers to flee Germany. In 1944 his second son Konrad Feilchenfeldt was born. In 1948 he founded the Walter Feilchenfeldt art dealership in Zurich, which he managed until his death in 1953. The art shop was run by his wife Marianne Breslauer-Feilchenfeldt until 1990. In 1966 his son Walter Feilchenfeldt joined the Zürcher Kunsthandlung, who managed it until 2011, and has since become head of an art mediation company in Zurich. Walter Feilchenfeldt (junior) became famous for completing the cataloging of Paul Cézanne's works in 1996.
literature
- Marianne Feilchenfeldt Breslauer, Pictures of my Life - Memories. Wädenswil, Switzerland, 2009, ISBN 978-3-907142-03-5
- Walter Feilchenfeld [sic!], In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 168f.
Web links
- FAZ.net: From the central archive of the international art trade: 1937 - the fateful year of the Berlin art trade (accessed on October 7, 2008)
- Christine Feilchenfeldt in Der Tagesspiegel: My Grandfather's Legacy (accessed October 7, 2008)
- Website by Walter Maria Feilchenfeldt, Zurich
- NIMBUS Art and Books, Zurich: History of the Berlin Art Salon Paul Cassirer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Else Lasker-Schüler: Works and Letters: Critical Edition . Edited by Norbert Oellers, Heinz Rölleke, Itta Shedletzky. Jüdischer Verlag, 1996 ISBN 978-3-633-54216-1 p. 638
- ↑ Report by Christina Feilchenfeldt (accessed October 7, 2008)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feilchenfeldt, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Feilchenfeld, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher and gallery owner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1953 |
| Place of death | Zurich |