Language:
English
Pages:
65 pages :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1964
Keywords:
Cohn family.
;
Ehrenstamm family.
;
Ehrlich family
;
Goldschmidt family.
;
Hirschfeld family.
;
Lessing family.
;
Muther, Richard,
;
Steinschneider family.
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Art Study and teaching.
;
Jews Genealogy.
;
International travel.
;
Jewish way of life.
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Manners and customs 20th century.
;
Women art historians.
;
Women authors.
;
Wrocław (Poland)
;
Europe Description and travel.
;
Palestine Emigration and immigration.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Toni Ehrlich starts her 12 chapter "Recollections" by describing the changes that happened during the approx. 80 years of her lifetime, 1880-1964. She comments knowledgeably (and quite wittily and completely) on the developments that took part in the fields of household work, attire and clothing design, dances and leisure time-spending, transportation and infrastructure, medicine and medical treatment. She concludes her first chapter with remarks on the changes on the political and social sector; science, space travel and the exploration of atomic power she also mentions.
Abstract:
She then draws the picture of girls' education during the days of her youth in Breslau. She describes her alien feeling as a Jew amongst non-Jews and after being treated unfairly by German literature teacher and switching to a one third Jewish school. She is being transferred to the municipal Augusta-Schule where she drops out in 1896. Her mother takes her along on cultural trips, she sees Sicily, Corsica, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, Norway, the Orient and Rome in her late teens and early twenties. She spends her time self-teaching and starts attending Richard Muther's art history lectures at Breslau university. She becomes Muther's private assistant in 1902 (due to the lack of a regular "Abitur" she could not be a university employee). She helped Felix Rosen, who would later become a close friend, to complete his book "Die Natur in der Kunst" (Nature in Art) by researching photo material. She becomes acquainted with economist Werner Sombart. Muther sends her on trips to London, Milan and Sienna, Luxembourg, Rome where she is supposed to meet with scholars, artists and collectors and buy art from them. She is guest in the house of Eugene Mu(e)ntz (biographer of Leonardo DaVinci) in 1902 in Paris. There she also meets Rodin on the basis of a letter of recommendation by Jelka Rosen (an artist living in Paris at the time, who later married the composer Delius). She publishes her first academic paper on the Italian painter Rossetti in the Frankfurter Zeitung (after 1902). Gets acquainted with Max Lehmann, professor for history at the university of Goettingen (Germany) with whom she is keeping a letter-friendship over 25 years. Gets papers published in Deutsche Rundschau and Berliner Tageblatt. Is focusing on child psychology in relation to art later on.
Abstract:
In 1904 she starts teaching art history at a school. She mentions briefly that she got engaged in 1906. She writes of having children. In 1925 she gives lectures at the gallery of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin (lived there one and a half years) until the "premature death" of her husband. She continues giving private art history lessons in Breslau to sustain the family until the rise of Hitler made it impossible for her to welcome non-Jews to her classes. She emigrates to Palestine in 1939.
Abstract:
Her recollections then go back and into detail at certain episodes (travels, meetings with artists, photography etc.). She mentions to have been in possession of some autographs by Eleonora Duse and Ricarda Huch. One chapter deals with her life at Kleinburg, a Southern garden- suburb of Breslau, where Berlin architect Ernst Lessing built their house according to her husbands plans. She recounts a Scottish girl living with her family, Bessie Wilson (now Mrs. Archer at Salisbury) when she was still a teenager.
Abstract:
She goes into detail about her family tree: father's paternal side: Goldschmidts (great-grandfather: Salomon Elias Goldschmidt, founder of family-firm S. E. Goldschmidt & Son founded in Breslau in 1810 until Hitler). Her mother's side: Ehrenstamm-Steinschneiders from Austria. Feith Ehrenstamm (Napoleonic Era) was "only genius of the family". Robert Rother was her grandfather, her mother's maternal side came from the Hirschfelds. Husband’s maternal side changes name from Cohn to Lessing, Husband’s grandfather was Heymann Cohn. Husband’s paternal side was Ehrlichs, who ran the family business of “Herz & Ehrlich”. Husband’s grandmother was Mathilde Ehrlich, who was a descendent of the Auerbachs of Posen.
Note:
English
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