Vladimir Rosenbaum

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Wladimir Rosenbaum (born December 10, 1894 in Minsk , † September 24, 1984 in Ascona ) was a Swiss lawyer , antiquarian and art dealer of Russian-Jewish origin.

Life

Wladimir Rosenbaum was the son of a Jewish lawyer and member of the Duma . To protect against pogroms in Russia, his father brought him to Switzerland in 1902. From 1903 he lived with his mother in Geneva . After the boarding school in Glarisegg (where he was a classmate of Friedrich Glauser ), he studied law at the University of Bern . He was later naturalized in Zurich and was married from 1917 to 1940 to the concert pianist Aline Valangin , with whom he ran a salon in Zurich , where he had close ties to the artistic avant-garde, including Hans Arp and Max Ernst , Ignazio Silone and Ernst Toller , Elias Canetti , Thomas Mann , Hermann Hesse and Martin Buber are their guests. He worked at the food office and was admitted to the bar .

He also had contact with CG Jung and with psychoanalysis , was friends with representatives of Dadaism in Zurich, at the same time made a career as a criminal defense lawyer and was active against National Socialism and anti-Semitism . In 1929 he and his wife bought Casa Barca in Comologno in the Onsernone Valley , which became a meeting place for persecuted artists. Including Kurt Tucholsky , Ignazio Silone , Elias Canetti , Max Bill , Meret Oppenheim and Max Ernst .

In 1936 arms transactions for the Spanish Civil War were made through Rosenbaum's law firm, which is why he was arrested in Switzerland in 1937 and lost his license to practice as a lawyer. In 1938 the federal court sentenced him to a four-month prison term.

Rosenbaum's grave in the Ascona cemetery

After his release, he and his wife moved to Ascona , where he lived as an antiquarian and art dealer in Casa Serodine until 1984 and built a new life for himself. In 1939 he gave the speech at the opening of the factory museum of the expressionist Marianne von Werefkin , today's Fondazione Marianne Werefkin . His second marriage was to the Swiss photographer and writer Anne de Valenti-Montet (1912–2009) and his third marriage, since 1957, to the librarian and actress Sybille Kroeber (1915–1997). The Asconesians voted him their honorary citizen.

literature

  • Peter Kamber: story of two lives. Wladimir Rosenbaum and Aline Valangin , Limmat, Zurich 1990 (supplemented: 2000), ISBN 978-3-85791-342-6

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personal data
SURNAME Rosenbaum, Vladimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Minsk
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1984
Place of death Ascona