JAMES ISIDOR KAISER (Brilon 1890-Copenhagen 1965), entrepreneur, Berlin, Copenhagen.
James Isidor Kaiser was born on May 6, 1890 in Brilon, North Rhine-Westphalia, the son of Arthur Kaiser and Mathilde Kaiser (née Steinberg). In October of 1912, at the age of twenty two, Isi was sent by his employer, Salomon Brothers & Co (a paper manufacturer), to the United States where he was mainly based in New York during his eight-year stay. After his return to Berlin, he founded Darag Deutsch-Amerikanische Rohstoff-Gesellschaft in 1922, which also dealt paper.
Throughout his life, Isidor showed great interest in old masters, antiques and silverware and built a formidable collection before WWII. With the outbreak of WWII in 1939 Isidor Kaiser immigrated to Denmark and continued to grow his vast collection until his death in Copenhagen on September 3, 1965, aged 75.
He bequeathed his estate to his two remaining siblings who resided in Israel. His beneficiaries sold most of the estate at 2 auctions:
1. Arne Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, Auction no. 191, Mar 22, 1966
2. Hausewedell, Hamburg, Auction no. 144, May 21, 1966
The remainder of the estate was sent to Israel to be divided amongst his 2 heirs.
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LOT 34507:
Hans Baldung Called Grien (1484-1545), Head of a Bearded Man in Profile
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Hans Baldung Called Grien (1484-1545), Head of a Bearded Man in Profile
Pen, black ink and grey wash heightened with white on brown prepared paper
1519
Dated 1519 (lower left).
12.5 x 8.8 cm
Provenance: Delius Giese Gallery London, 1927;
Estate of Isidor Kaiser, Copenhagen-Hamburg. L.4240
Note: See a translation of a correspondence between Gert Christian von der Osten and the Kaiser estate concerning the drawing:
Prof. Dr. Gert von der Osten
5000 Cologne 91
Overather Str. 9
February 2nd, 1977
Dear Mr. Kaiser,
From the enclosed photocopy of a letter that I wrote on 22 July 1976 addressed to the late Mr. James I. Kaiser, you see my concern [interest].
My colleague Dr. Erik Fischer from the Kupferstichkabinett in Copenhagen was kind enough to find the addresses of his three [two] heirs with the help of your relative's executor and to give them to me.
My request emerges from the photocopy. I would like to know where the drawing assigned to Hans Baldung Grien is today and I would also like to have a photograph of it, of course at my expense.
Perhaps I should like to say that you would be of great help to my scientific work, but that it cannot be a matter of indifference to the owner of the sheet whether or not it is included in the work in progress on Corpus.
With warm thanks in advance for a friendly help or information, I am with binding greetings
Gert Christian von der Osten (1910-1983) was a German art historian and museum director. From 1960 to 1975 he was general director of the museums of the city of Cologne and director of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum as well as professor of art history at the University of Cologne.
