Oscar Huldschinsky

Oscar Huldschinsky (16 November 1846 in Breslau – 21 September 1931 in Berlin) was a German coal and steel entrepreneur, art collector and philanthropist.

[2] Like his brother Edwin Huldschinsky, he became a partner in the company S. Huldschinsky & Sons founded by his father, which was active in the coal mining and iron industry in Silesia and operated, among other things, tube rolling mills in Sosnowitz (then Russian Poland) and iron and steel works in Gleiwitz.

From 1904 to 1913 Oscar Huldschinsky was the owner of the sailing yacht Susanne designed by William Fife, which won numerous regattas.

[4][5] Oscar Huldschinsky, who was a founding member of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum Association,[6] invested part of his money in an extensive art collection that included paintings by Sandro Botticelli, Tiepolo, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael and Peter Paul Rubens.

For example, the National Gallery received the pastel painting Entertainment from Edgar Degas and the sculpture The Thinker from Auguste Rodin, and the Gemäldegalerie received the Lamentation of Christ from Hugo van der Goes and Maria with the Child from the workshop of Jan van Scorel.

After his release, Paul Huldschinsky and his family fled to the US, where he settled in Santa Monica, west of Los Angeles, and became part of the German-speaking community in exile there.

In 1937, the Gestapo arrested Anna-Susanne's husband, Hans, who worked in film, as he performed on the Scala Theatre stage, demanding that he divorce his Jewish wife, which he refused to do.