Hermann Frenkel

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 werde not sold, among them a stillife by Snyders, which is today in Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, which was bought in 1938.^[5]

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. http://www.smkp.de/sammlungen/gemaeldegalerie/sammler-und-foerderer