Hermann Frenkel

Who was Hermann Frenkel?

Hermann Frenkel was a partner of the Jacquier and Securius Bank and after 1923 a partner of Friedrich Minoux, owner of the Wannsee Villa, later the venue of the Wannsee Conference. Frenkel was a Privy Commercial Councillor, and one of the founders of Universum Film AG. Frenkel was also a noted art collector, who concentrated on German, French, and Spanish 19th-century paintings, as well as Dutch 17th-century and Venetian 18th-century works. His heirs sold most of the collection in October 1932. Some works werde not sold, among them a stillife by Snyders, which is today in Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, which was bought in 1938.