Hermann Frenkel (born May 21, 1850, Danzig - died May 26, 1932, Berlin) was a partner of the Jacquier and Securius Bank and after 1923 a partner of Friedrich Minoux, owner of the Wannsee Villa, later the venue of the Wannsee Conference. Frenkel was a Privy Commercial Councillor (''Geheimer Kommerzienrat''), and one of the founders of

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. Frenkel was also a noted art collector, who concentrated on German, French, and Spanish 19th-century paintings, as well as Dutch 17th-century and Venetian 18th-century works. His heirs sold most of the collection in October 1932. Some works were not sold, among them a still-life by Snyders, which today is in the

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, which was bought in 1938.

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German bankers Businesspeople from Berlin People from the German Empire People from the Weimar Republic German art collectors 1850 births 1932 deaths {{Germany-business-bio-stub