The art collection of Alfred Pringsheim (1850–1941) (Q104785243)
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The art collection of Alfred Pringsheim (1850–1941) (English)
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The wealthy mathematician and university professor Alfred Pringsheim (1850–1941), Thomas Mann’s father-in-law, owned one of Germany’s most important private collections of Renaissance art – especially applied art. Amassed between 1880 and the First World War, it focused mainly on Italian maiolica and silver from German-speaking regions. Pringsheim displayed his collection in his own home, a mansion in Munich built by Berlin architects and furnished in southern German–Swiss Late Renaissance style. Photographs that have only recently come to light allow the ambitious staging of the ensemble within this historicist interior to be reconstructed. After the Nazi seizure of power, the Jewish Pringsheims were forced to sell their house to the National Socialists. The silver collection was confiscated by the Gestapo in 1938 and acquired by the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in 1941. Following their restitution to Pringsheim’s heirs, the silver objects at the centre of this study are now scattered all over the globe. (English)
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After the Nazi seizure of power, the Jewish Pringsheims were forced to sell their house to the National Socialists. The silver collection was confiscated by the Gestapo in 1938 and acquired by the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in 1941. Following their restitution to Pringsheim’s heirs, the silver objects at the centre of this study are now scattered all over the globe. (English)