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Alex Vömel
Alexander Vömel, or Voemel (23 September 1897 – 20 June 1985), was a German gallery owner and Nazi Party, Nazi party member who took over the gallery of the Jewish art dealer Alfred Flechtheim when it was Aryanization, Aryanized in 1933. Early life Vömel was the son of the Protestant pastor Alexander Vömel (1863–1949) from Frankfurt and Elisabeth, née Bartels (1863–1922). He was born in Emmishofen. After a grammar school in Konstanz, he attended a private military school in Frankfurt in 1916. In the First World War he fought as an officer and was wounded. Early on he became a member of the Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, a monarchist, far right veterans association. After apprenticing as a bookseller, from 1920 to 1922 in Frankfurt at "Reitz & Kölher" at Schillerstraße 15, he began working for Alfred Flechtheim in December 1922. In 1924, Alex Vömel was sent for six months to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's gallery in Paris and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
