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Eugen Kolb (Eugene Kolb; in Hungarian : Kolb Jenő; February 21, 1898, Sopron, Hungary - September 14, 1959, Givattayim) was an art critic, theorist of art and director of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art from 1952 until his death in 1959.〔Manor, Dalia "Critical master" Eugen Kolb - Buildings Culture in Eretz Yisrael," research, editing and introduction by Galia Bar Or, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, By Dalia Manor, Apr. 30, 2004".〕 ==Biography== Eugene (Jan) Kolb was born in 1892 in Sopron, Hungary. His mother was Gisela Schlesinger, and his father was Shimon Kolb who came from the famous Teitelbaum family from Satmar (Hasidic dynasty). In the First World War he was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, where he was wounded and taken prisoner in Russia. After the war, he studied art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (Akademie der Künste München Bildenden), and the University of Vienna. His teachers included Heinrich Flynn and Max Dvorak, who had a profound influence on his spiritual development and ideology. After graduating, he settled in Budapest. Kolb is one of the survivors of the Kastner train by which he arrived in 1944 in Switzerland with his wife and daughter. After settling in Palestine in 1946, he worked for Al Hamishmar, the newspaper of Hashomer Hatzair. In 1952 he was appointed general manager of the Tel Aviv Museum. He was married to Edith Meller and they had one daughter, Shoshanna Hasson-Kolb, who edited her father's recollections of his time in Bergen Belsen.〔Kolb, E. and Hasson-Kolb, S. and Barzel, A. and Rahe, T."Bergen-Belsen Tagebuch", 2000〕 He died at his home from a heart attack in 1959 at 61 years of age, and is buried in Kiryat Shaul cemetery. His funeral was attended by hundreds of people. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eugen Kolb」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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