Hermann Frenkel

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Hermann Frenkel (born May 21, 1850, Danzig - died May 26, 1932, Berlin) was a partner of the Jacquier and Securius Bank and after 1923 a partner of Friedrich Minoux, owner of the Wannsee Villa, later the venue of the Wannsee Conference. Frenkel was a Privy Commercial Councillor (Geheimer Kommerzienrat), and one of the founders of Universum Film AG. [1] [2] Frenkel was also a noted art collector, who concentrated on German, French, and Spanish 19th-century paintings, as well as Dutch 17th-century and Venetian 18th-century works. [3] His heirs sold most of the collection in October 1932. [4] Some works were not sold, among them a still-life by Snyders, which today is in the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, which was bought in 1938. [5]

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References

  1. Ingo Köhler. Die "Arisierung" der Privatbanken im Dritten Reich. CH Beck. Munich 2005 p315
  2. Klaus Kreimeier. The Ufa story: a history of Germany's greatest film company, 1918-1945. University of California Press 1999 p29
  3. Sven Kuhrau. Der Kunstsammler im Kaiserreich: Kunst und Repräsentation in der Berliner Privatsammlerkultur. Verlag Ludwig. Kiel 2005 p 273
  4. Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, Berlin [Hrsg.], Bilder und Kunstgegenstände aus dem Nachlass Geheimrat Hermann Frenkel, aus Berliner Privatsammlungen, der Faustzyklus von Lovis Corinth, Sammlung Dr. S, Berlin: Ausstellung: Montag, den 17. Oktober bis Mittwoch, den 19. Oktober 1932 ; Versteigerung: Donnerstag, den 20. Oktober 1932,
  5. "SMKP: Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast: Sammler und Förderer". www.smkp.de. Archived from the original on 2014-04-14.