Otto Anninger (February 20, 1874 – July 5, 1954, Lucerne) was a major industrialist and an art collector.
Life
editAnniger married Clara (née Wolf), (born January 12, 1886, Vienna; died September 23, 1938, Paris) They lived in the "Villa Anninger" located at Vienna XIX, Lannerstraße 36. The Anningers also had a villa in Vienna XIX, Billrothstraße 46.[1]
Anniger had a company "W. Abeles & Co.", agency and commission trade in Vienna I., located at Schottenbastei 4, as well as factories in Teesdorf, Lower Austria, and Dugaresa, Yugoslavia. He was a shareholder of Baumwoll-Import und Handels-A.G. in Bratislava, shareholder of the spinning and weaving mill Teesdorf-Schönau in Vienna.[1]
Art collection
editAnninger collected paintings and reliefs by, among others, Robert and Franz von Alt, Canaletto and Erwin Pendl.[2]
Nazi persecution
editWhen Austria merged with Nazi Germany in the Anschluss of 1938, the Anningers fled to Paris. His wife committed suicide. Anninger then fled to the U.S.[1]
In 1938, Anniger's company "W. Abeles & Co." was Aryanized (transferred to a non-Jewish owner) by the Austrian Kontrollbank, All his properties were confiscated.;[3]
According to the Louvre Museum in Paris, Anniger donated a painting by Jan de Heem in 1939.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Lost Art Internet Database - Jüdische Sammler und Kunsthändler (Opfer nationalsozialistischer Verfolgung und Enteignung) - Anninger, Otto". 2018-11-29. Archived from the original on 29 November 2018. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
- ^ "Lost Art Internet Database - Jüdische Sammler und Kunsthändler (Opfer nationalsozialistischer Verfolgung und Enteignung) - Anninger, Otto". 2018-11-29. Archived from the original on 29 November 2018. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
- ^ Lillie, Sophie (2003). Was einmal war : Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens. Czernin. ISBN 3-7076-0049-1. OCLC 53902915.
- ^ "Nature morte aux fleurs. Vanité - Louvre Collections". 2022-01-30. Archived from the original on 30 January 2022. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
Gustave Arens (1867-1936), Vienne (Autriche) ; par héritage, en 1936, sa fille Anna (1897-1994), mariée à Fritz Unger (1891-1954), Vienne ; don de ce dernier, Aurillac, mars 1939, au nom d'Otto Anninger [1874-1954], également de Vienne, associé d'Arens et de Fr. Unger dans leur firme industrielle Abeles et Cie, réfugié comme Unger à Paris puis à Aurillac en 1938-1939, puis parti lui aussi aux États-Unis (en 1939). Sur le don Unger, voir Claesz., R.F. 1939-11 et Trevisani (R.F. 1939-12, cf. Cat. peint. ital. 2007, p. 215, entré comme école française, XVIIIe s.). – À noter qu'Anninger a été oublié dans le répertoire des donateurs du Louvre (1989), son don ayant été placé à tort sous le nom de Fr. Unger.