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- Arno Lustiger Collection
- Eike Geisel Collection
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- Uriel Birnbaum Collection
- Walter Boehlich Library
Uriel Birnbaum Collection
Uriel Birnbaum (1894-1956) was a painter and poet. He was born in Vienna on November 13, 1894 as the son of the Jewish religious philosopher Nathan Birnbaum. Until the outbreak of World War I, he lived in Berlin for several years together with his brother Menachem. After three years of participation in the war, he was severely wounded. Barely having escaped death, he made the war one of his most important artistic topics. However, his monarchist and orthodox convictions increasingly isolated him. After the "Anschluss" ("connection") of Austria to the German Reich, he emigrated with his family to the Netherlands, where he died in Amersfort on December 9, 1956. His work, which bears witness to an expressive formal language, is almost forgotten today.
Since 2006, the estate library with its approximately 2,000 volumes, as well as numerous drawings, artistic sketches, manuscripts, and other considerable parts of the estate, are located in the library of the Moses Mendelssohn Center.