Eduard Arnhold

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German entrepreneur, patron of the arts and philanthropist

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Eduard Arnhold (10 June 1849 – 10 August 1925) was a German

Born in Dessau, Arnhold was the son of the Jewish doctor Adolph Arnhold (1808-1872) and his wife Mathilde Arnhold née Cohn (1826-1905). The bankers Georg and Max Arnhold were his brothers. Henry H. Arnhold was his great grand-nephew.

Coal magnate

Arnhold became one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs under the Kaiser and the Weimar republic in the

In addition to his villa on Wannsee and a city flat, he acquired the Hirschfelde manor near Werneuchen at the turn of the century. He redesigned the park there into a sculpture park and brought together works of art by numerous contemporary artists, but also found objects from distant countries. In the park, for example, he had a marble fountain built that had been excavated in Herculaneum on Mount Vesuvius.

A Van Gogh painting, Path in the Public Garden, owned by the Arnholds went missing during the Second World War, and their great-grandson, Christoph Kunheim, is searching for further information.^[8]

Social Philanthropist

In addition to art, Arnhold was also socially committed. In 1907, he donated the Youth Education Centre Kurt Löwenstein [de] in Werftpfuhl, neighbouring Hirschfelde, named after his wife. In this orphanage for girls, the protégés received an education both in the arts and with a perspective for the labour market.

From 1880, Arnhold was a member of the

Arnhold died in 1925 at the age of 76 in Neuhaus am Schliersee. His grave is located at the Friedhof Wannsee, Lindenstraße [de] in Wannsee. He rests there at the side of his wife Johanna Arnhold née Arnthal (1859-1929).^[9] In front of the grave wall with inscription plaques is a sculpture by Theodor Georgii [de] depicting a farewell scene.^[10] By decision of the Senate of Berlin, the final resting place of Eduard Arnhold (grave location Li AT FW-38) has been dedicated as an honorary grave of the State of Berlin since 1992. The dedication was extended in 2018 for the usual period of twenty years.^[11]

Arnhold and his wife's had a daughter Elisabeth (1883-1952).^[12]

References

Further reading

• Johanna Arnhold: Eduard Arnhold. Ein Gedenkbuch. self-published, Berlin 1928.
• Peter von Becker: Eduard Arnhold. Reichtum verpflichtet – Unternehmer und Kunstmäzen. (Jüdische Miniaturen, Band 237.) Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin / Leipzig 2019,
  ISBN 978-3-95565-321-7
  .
• Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo (ed.): Eduard Arnhold. Accademia Tedesca Villa Massimo, Rome 1988.
• Michael Dorrmann: Eduard Arnhold (1849–1925). Eine biographische Studie zu Unternehmer- und Mäzenatentum im Deutschen Kaiserreich. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002,
  ISBN 3-05-003748-2
  .
• Adolf Harnack: Gedächtnisrede bei der Trauerfeier für Herrn Geheimen Kommerzienrat Eduard Arnhold am 15. August 1925. Holten, Berlin 1925.
• Sven Kuhrau: Der Kunstsammler im Kaiserreich. Kunst und Repräsentation in der Berliner Privatsammlerkultur. Ludwig, Kiel 2005,
  ISBN 3-937719-20-2
  .
• ISSN 0944-5560, pp. 64–69 Portrait
  on luise-berlin.de).
• Angela Windholz: Villa Massimo. Zur Gründungsgeschichte der Deutschen Akademie in Rom und ihrer Bauten. Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2003,
  ISBN 3-935590-93-8
  .

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