Sándor (Alexander) Wolf

Sándor (Alexander) WOLF, born on December 21st, 1871 in Eisenstadt/Burgenland (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Eisenstadt, Citizenship: Austria), died on January 2nd, 1946 in Haifa/Israel, lived in Wien 1, Falkestraße 6. He run excavations near Eisenstadt, was very active as art collector and was enrolled finally in the spring term 1938 at the Philosophical School in the 17th year of his studies as extraordinary student and took courses in Art History.
In April 1938 he was arrested by the Gestapo, but he was able to emigrate to Haifa/Israel in 1939. Sándor Wolf died in 1946, while he was preparing his return to Eisenstadt/Austria. The Burgenland county museum received his extensive collection, which is today mainly owned by the Galerie Fischer in Luzern/Switzerland.

The exhibition "Ausgegrenzt, Vertrieben, Ermordet" (January 22nd - May 14th, 2010) at the Department of History of Art of the University of Vienna is dedicated to the memory of Sándor Wolf and 20 other former students of the University of Vienna focused on art history.

Lit.: Edit BALÁSZ u.a., Jüdische Erinnerungen in der West-Pannonischen EuRegion, Burgenland, Komitate Gyõr-Moson-Sopron, Vas und Zala, (hgg. v. Szombathelyi Magyar-Izraeli Baráti Társaság), Szombathely, 2008; Sabine LICHTENBERGER u. Gert TSCHÖGL, Zur burgenländisch-jüdischen Geschichte, in: Gert Tschögl, Barbara Tobler u. Alfred Lang (Hg.), Vertrieben. Erinnerungen burgenländischer Juden und Jüdinnen. Wien 2004, S. 494-513; Johannes REISS, ... weil man uns die Heimatliebe ausgebläut hat ... . Ein Spaziergang durch die jüdische Geschichte Eisenstadts, Eisenstadt 2001; Shlomo SPITZER, Beiträge zu Geschichte der Juden im Burgenland, Wien 1995; E. BÖHM, Die Wolf-Familie, in: Hugo Gold (Hg.), Gedenkbuch der untergegangenen Judengemeinden des Burgenlandes, Tel Aviv 1970, 37-50.; Sammlung Alexander (S.) Wolf, in: Österreichische Kunsttopographie, Band 24, 1932; KNIEFACZ/POSCH 2017a.

Herbert Posch