!!!Wolf, Sándor
b. Eisenstadt (Burgenland), Nov. 21, 1871,
d. Haifa (Israel), Jan. 2, 1946, wine wholesaler, art collector and
researcher. Started collecting art around 1900 (archaeology, art, arts
and crafts, and Judaica) which he made accessible to the public in a
private museum at Eisenstadt. Promoted the preservation of monuments
in his capacity as honorary curator of the national office for the
preservation of monuments. After the seizure and the expropriation of
his collection by the nazis, emigrated to Palestine in 1938.
!Publications
Die Kunst im Eisenstaedter Ghetto, 1912; Die Entwicklung
des juedischen Grabsteines und die Denkmaeler des Eisenstaedter
Friedhofes, in: B. Wachstein, Die Grabinschriften des alten
Judenfriedhofes in Eisenstadt, 1922.
!Literature
Collection Alexander (S.) W., in Oe. Kunsttopographie,
vol. 24, 1932; E. Boehm, Die Wolf-Familie, in: H. Gold (ed.),
Gedenkbuch der untergegangenen Judengemeinden des Bgld., 1970.
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