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Austria Czech SIG Lunch - Dr. Harold Chipman: Adolf and Willibald Duschnitz: an exceptional family, masters, triumphs and tragedies

En

12:30pm
Duration: 1 h 30 mn

18

JULY

2012

Austria

Czech Republic

 

In 1867, the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian empire were granted full citizenship with all attached rights and prerogatives. This extraordinary window of opportunity remained open for 73 years and was slammed shut on 12 March 1938. For a Duschnitz family from Sebes Kellemes near Prešov, Slovakia, this represented a golden opportunity. Adolf Duschnitz (1852-1909) left for Vienna around 1875 and by 1879 had created a textile industry that was to be successful with ups and downs for the next hundred years. His son Willibald (1884-1976) took over after his fathers’ death in 1909 and expanded the company internationally. Beyond these activities, Willibald Duschnitz built-up an art collection of world repute and advised art collectors and museum curators on three continents. The family villa in Vienna was re-modelled in 1915 by the pioneering modern architect Adolf Loos and remains a tribute to Willibald’s taste to this day. The events of 1938 found him well-prepared. In September that year, he left for France where he learned that he was betrayed by his confidante in Vienna, thus losing more than half his art collection. When France fell in 1940, he fled with friends to Brazil via Lisbon. He was able to re-build a life as well as recover some important possessions. His final achievement was to mentor the creation of splendid Eva Klabin museum in Rio-de-Janeiro, in many ways a reflection of his own collection in Vienna. This is a story about how this branch of the Duschnitz family managed opportunity, foresight and challenge as well as adversity and survival.

 

Speaker Location
Dr. Harold CHIPMAN
 Louis Armstrong A & B

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