FROM NOVEMBER 3rd, 2021 - MAY 2022
MAX FRANKENBURGER (1860—1943)
Bicycle pioneer and independent scholar
An exhibition in the Study Area of the Jewish Museum Munich.
Max Frankenburger, son of a teacher of Jewish religious studies from Middle Franconia and an enthusiastic cyclist, co-founded the “Victoria Fahrradwerke” in Nuremberg in 1888, which grew into one of the largest bicycle factories of its kind in Germany. After its transformation into a stock corporation around 1900, Frankenburger withdrew from the operative business and moved to Munich to devote his attention to his second passion—researching goldsmithery. In addition to…
FROM NOVEMBER 3rd, 2021 - MAY 2022
MAX FRANKENBURGER (1860—1943)
Bicycle pioneer and independent scholar
An exhibition in the Study Area of the Jewish Museum Munich.
Max Frankenburger, son of a teacher of Jewish religious studies from Middle Franconia and an enthusiastic cyclist, co-founded the “Victoria Fahrradwerke” in Nuremberg in 1888, which grew into one of the largest bicycle factories of its kind in Germany. After its transformation into a stock corporation around 1900, Frankenburger withdrew from the operative business and moved to Munich to devote his attention to his second passion—researching goldsmithery. In addition to numerous other publications, his book “Die Alt-Münchner Goldschmiede und ihre Kunst” (Old Munich Goldsmiths and their Art), published in 1909, is still considered an important standard work to this day. Little is known now of the life and death of its author who was murdered in Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943.
Curator
Bernhard Purin
Exhibition Design
Architect Martin Kohlbauer
Exhibition Produktion
Sabine Menges
Duration of exhibition
November 3rd, 2021 – April 14th, 2022
Where
Study Area
Curator
Bernhard Purin
Architecture
Architect Martin Kohlbauer
