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Bleibtreustraße
Bleibtreustraße, or Bleibtreustrasse (see ß), is a street in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. History Bleibtreustraße starts at Lietzenburger Straße, crosses Kurfürstendamm, Mommsenstraße, Kantstraße and ends at Pestalozzistraße. It is connected to the neighboring Savignyplatz via the Else-Ury-Bogen, and the S-Bahn station of the same name can be reached from Bleibtreustraße by elevator Initially, the street was simply called Straße 12a in the Abt. V development plan until August 20, 1897, when it was named after the painter and graphic artist Georg Bleibtreu, who lived in the parallel Knesebeckstraße until his death in October 1892. It is considered to be in a "posh" area and has many shops and restaurants. Bleibtreustraße and the Holocaust Before the Nazis rose to power in 1933, about a third of Berlin's 160,000 Jews lived in western Charlottenburg district around Bleibtreustrasse. They tended to be middle-class professional families that were so wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotthard Laske
Gotthard Laske (March 3, 1882 in Stargard – November 23, 1936 in Berlin) was a German confectioner, bibliophile, and patron of the arts. Life Laske collected books that were beautifully and lavishly printed and bound. His library contained about 10,000 volumes. In addition, he collected paintings and prints. He remunerated artists with suits and other garments, which he had custom-made in his company. Laske encouraged the printing of many poems at the Officina Serpentis and paid the production costs. Likewise, he donated many prints to the members of the bibliophile societies to which he belonged. He was particularly interested in collecting books, manuscripts and drawings by Paul Scheerbart. On Laske's fiftieth birthday, the Berlin Fontane Evening had a capriccio printed by Josef Maria Frank about this, in which Laske's hunt for a Scheerbart manuscript is described. Nazi persecution When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Laske was persecuted because he was Jewish. Laske too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Luria
Juan Luria (20 December 1862 – 21 May 1943) was a Polish-Jewish operatic baritone. Born as Johannes Lorié, he studied with Joseph Gänsbacher in Vienna. He performed with the Stuttgart Opera (then the Stuttgart Hofheater) in 1885, then at NYC's Metropolitan Opera in the 1890–91 season. While in New York, he sang the roles of Pizarro, Kurwenal, Alberich and Gunther, the American premieres of some little remembered operas such as '' Diana von Solange'' (9 January 1891). Among other Metropolitan Opera appearances, he sang two Meyerbeer roles: De Nevers in ''Les Huguenots'' and Count Oberthal in ''Le Prophète''. He sang in the Berlin Theater des Westens, Brussels Théâtre de la Monnaie and the Dresden Hoftheater in 1884. In Italy he sang under the name Giovanni Luria in Genoa and at La Scala in Milan, 1893–94, creating the first Italian Wotan. Upon retirement he turned to teaching. His students included Käthe Heidersbach, Elfriede Marherr, Michael Bohnen and the tenor Got ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Bleibtreu
Georg Bleibtreu (27 March 1828 – 16 October 1892) was a German painter of military and historical scenes. Biography Born in Xanten on 27 March 1828, Bleibtreu was a painter, lithographer, designer and 'graveur sur bois'. He was a member of the Berlin Academy, receiving two gold medals for his works; he also received a medal at Vienna in 1873. Like many history painters of the 19th century, he studied at the Düsseldorf Academy between 1843 and 1848, and also with the historical and military painter, Theodore Hildebrandt. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. In 1858 he moved to Berlin. His reputation was built on large canvasses depicting the Prussian and German armies in battle, and he painted numerous scenes of the Second Schleswig War, Schleswig-Holstein War of 1864, the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, and the Franco-Prussian War. The background work to these paintings was done in the field as the artist accompanied the armies; in 1866, he traveled in the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
