Hugo Haberfeld

Hugo Haberfeld (November 24, 1875 – February 6, 1946), was an Austrian Jewish art dealer, who owned Galerie Miethke in early 20th century Vienna. When Austria joined Nazi Germany in the 1938 Anschluss, Haberfeld fled to Paris.

Biography Haberfeld was the son of the Jewish factory owner Julius Haberfeld and his wife Rosa.

After graduating from the Staatsobergymnasium in Bielitz, Haberfeld studied law and philosophy in Berlin and Vienna before earning his doctorate in 1900 in Breslau on Piero di Cosimo. He had studied art history, archaeology, history and philosophy there beforehand. His professors included Ernst Robert Curtius, Max Dessoir, Richard Förster, Richard Muther, Max Semrau and Georg Simmel.

Haberfeld married Paula Köberl on March 30, 1902 in Lipnik-Biala. In 1904, his daughter Marianne was born on April 16. Haberfeld earned his living by contributing as a freelance writer, for example, to the Viennese newspaper Die Zeit and the Berlin magazine Kunst und Künstler. Haberfeld became the business manager of the Miethke Gallery in Vienna in 1907. Haberfeld kept in touch with Wilhelm von Bode, the director of the Royal Museums in Berlin.

He helped his son in law, René Sennhein, to form an art collection.

Director of the Miethke Gallery and a freelance writer, Haberfeld lived at Reisnerstraße 15 until February 4, 1938, according to the Vienna Meldearchiv.

Galerie Miethke Haberfeld joined the Miethke Gallery in 1907 as a replacement for Emil Maria Steininger. However competition between Hugo Haberfeld and Carl Moll led to the departure of Moll from gallery on July 31, 1912. the Breuers, the Hellmanns, the Oppenheimers and many other Jewish collectors who were later plundered by the Nazis.

Hugo Haberfeld and Adolf Loos Haberfeld entrusted Loos with the design of the apartment furnishings in Alser Strasse in Vienna's ninth district and Loos furnished Haberfeld's apartment with dining room, study and bedroom.

Hugo Haberfeld and Christian Morgenstern Morgenstern dedicated the poem ODI PROFANUM to Haberfeld in 1911. Haberfeld reviewed Morgenstern's poems IN PHANTAS SCHLOSS and HORATIUS TRAVESTITUS in the Wiener Rundschau.

Writings

Piero di Cosimo, Dr. R. Galle’s Buchdruckerei: Breslau, 1902. Dissertation Diavortrag über Gustav Klimt, in: Die Kunst für Alle. Monatsheft für freie und angewandte Kunst, Jg. 13, Heft 4, Januar 1912, pp. 173–183. Ferdinand Waldmüller. Galerie Miethke Ausstellung von Werken alter und moderner Kunst. November-Dezember 1904. Chwala: Wien, 1904. Beiträge in der Monatsschrift „Kunst und Künstler“: 1902–1903 1904 1905 1906 „Religiöse Kunst in der Wiener Secession“, in: Kunst und Künstler, 1906, p. 164–170. Berliner Secession, in: „Die Zeit“ vom 15. September 1900 Bd. 23, Nr. 311 Unsere Ausstellungen, in: „Die Zeit“ vom 1. Dezember 1900 Bd. 23, Nr. 322 „Der Bildhauer Franz Metzner“, in: Kunstgewerbeblatt, 18. Jahrgang, Seemann: Leipzig, 1907, p. 89–102. "Modern Plastic Work in Austria", in: Holme, Charls (Hg.): “The Art-Revival in Austria” "The Architectural Revival in Austria", in: Holme, Charls (Hg.): “The Art-Revival in Austria” „Deutsch-Böhmische Kunst“, in: Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Vol. 19, Nov. 1906, p. 139–160. Der Bildhauer Anton Hanak. In: Neues Wiener Journal, Jg. 27, Nr. 9179, 23. Mai 1919, p. 5–6 (online). „Die Wiener Amateurphotographen“, in: Die photographische Kunst im Jahre 1906, p. 34–48.

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