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    Artist

  • Marx, Johann, 1866-1937

    • Title

  • Portrait of Hermann Wronker

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 120.7 x 97 cm ; 47.5 x 38 in

  • Date

    1930

  • Notes

    Signed and dated "März 1930" in upper right.

  • Summary

    Portrait of an older man standing next to a table or desk, holding a document in his left hand. He has a mustache and gray hair, blue eyes, and he wears a dark suit and striped tie. A ring is visible on his right hand.

  • Depicted

    Wronker, Hermann, 1867-1942

  • Subject

    Men, Portraits

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

  • Part Of

    Lili Wronker Family Collection, AR 25255

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Hermann Wronker was born on August 5, 1867 in eastern Prussia, the son of Lewin Wronker and Emilie Wronker née Sandel. When he was fourteen he began an apprenticeship at the business of H. & C. Tietz in Prenzlau; during this time he opened stores in Bamberg and Coburg. In 1887 he founded a business with his elder brother Simon, S. Wronker & Co., in Mannheim. He left Mannheim in 1891 to found a branch of the business in Frankfurt am Main. By November 1896 the store had grown successful enough that a neighboring building was purchased for its expansion. Further branches were opened in Baden, Hessen, and Alsace. A fire in 1897 destroyed the Frankfurt store, but it was rebuilt. In 1921 the business was incorporated as the Hermann Wronker AG, and by 1926 it had been expanded once again. With the purchase of the Kaufhaus Hansa in Frankfurt and the Warenhaus zum Strauss in Nuremberg, the Hermann Wronker AG had become one of the largest businesses in southern Germany. In 1934 the business was disbanded and taken over by the Nazis, becoming the Hansa AG. Hermann Wronker had three children with his wife Ida Wronker née Friedeberg: Erich, Max, and Alice. Hermann and Ida Wronker died in Auschwitz in 1942.

Johann Marx was a German portrait and landscape painter. Born in Heidelberg in 1866, he studied at the Academy in Munich between 1884 and 1888, and then at the Académie Julian in Paris beginning in 1895. Marx died in 1937.

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Marx, Johann: Portrait of Hermann Wronker, Leo Baeck Institute, 75.1.