Otto Kahn
Subtitle: Art, Money, and Modern Time
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 6, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780807826966
Subjects: Art funding, patronage & sponsorship; Banking; Biography: general; United States; Historical - U.S.; Biography & Autobiography; Banks And Banking; Kahn, Otto Hermann,; Biography / Autobiography; Historical - General; Biography/Autobiography; Business; Banks & Banking; Business & Economics / Banks & Banking; Bankers; History; Philanthropists; Philanthropy & Charity; 1867-1934; Art Patronage; Biography
First sentence: Otto Kahn was hardly one to dwell on the details of his founding years.
Description: "In the early decades of the twentieth century, almost everyone in modern theater, literature, or film knew of Otto Kahn (1867-1934), and those who read the financial press or followed the news from Wall Street could scarcely have missed his name. A partner of one of America's premier private banks, he played a leading role in reorganizing the U.S. railroad system and supporting the Allied war effort in World War I. The German-Jewish Kahn was also perhaps the most influential patron of the arts the nation has ever seen: he helped finance the Metropolitan Opera, brought the Ballets Russes to America, and bankrolled such promising young talent as poet Hart Crane, the Provincetown Players, and the editors of the Little Review."--BOOK JACKET.