1:15pm Mon. “Also Life Is An Art - The Case Max Emden”
Mon, Sep 16
|Jewish Federation of Western Connecticut
Almost no one knows the name Max Emden today - but his department stores are already familiar: the KaDeWe in Berlin, the Operpollinger in Munich, the Allas department store in Stockholm or Corvin Ahuraz in Budapest. During the Nazi occupation his wealth and art collection were confiscated leaving...
Time & Location
Sep 16, 2019, 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Jewish Federation of Western Connecticut, 444 Main St N, Southbury, CT 06488, USA
About the event
“Also Life Is An Art - The Case Max Emden”
1:15pm
Directors: André Schäfer, Eva Gerberding
Almost no one knows the name Max Emden today - but his department stores are already familiar: the KaDeWe in Berlin, the Operpollinger in Munich, the Allas department store in Stockholm or Corvin Ahuraz in Budapest.
Born in Hamburg in 1874, the son of a respected Jewish merchant family, he was more than a department store king. He was a patron of the University of Hamburg, donated the first golf club and a polo club to his hometown - and built up an unique art collection. In 1928 Emden moved to Switzerland because of the burgeoning anti-Semitism, he acquired the picturesque Brissago Islands in Lake Maggiore and equipped a villa with his breathtaking art collection of painters such as Van Gogh, Canaletto or Monet. Emden mastered the art of living like no other -…