Lotte Friedlaender Family Collection
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains materials about the Mandl and the Friedländer families, as well as the Friedländers’ friends, Otto Kokoschka and Heinrich Schnitzler
Dates
- 1917-1972
Creator
- Friedlander, Tomas (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Biographical Note
Lotte Friedlaender, née Mandl was born 1905 into an assimilated Jewish family in Prossnitz, Moravia (today Prostějov in the Czech Repoblic). In 1910 she moved with her parents Anna and Erich Mandl to Vienna, where the family had a textile store in the city’s First District. Erich Mandl was a friend of the architect Adolf Loos, who convinced him to commission a portrait of his daughter from a starving artist, who turned out to be Oskar Kokoschka. He, as well as Peter Altenberg, Adolf Loos, and Arnold Schoenberg were frequent visitors in the Mandls' home, while Lotte herself was a close friend of Heinrich Schnitzler (Arthur Schnitzler’s son).
After a short marriage to Fritz Pinter at the age of 23, Lotte got married to Walter Friedlaender in 1932; their son Thomas was born in 1935. After the November-pogrom in 1938 (Kristallnacht), the family immigrated to the United States in 1939, where they were joined by Anna and Erich Mandl in 1940.
Extent
5 Folders
Abstract
The collection contains materials about the Mandl and the Friedländer families, as well as the Friedländers’ friends, Otto Kokoschka and Heinrich Schnitzler.
Microfilm
Partially available on microfilm MF 503
Bibliography
- Altenberg, Peter, 1859-1919
- Archival materials
- Correspondence
- Ehrlich, Rudolf
- Friedlander family
- Friedlander, Lotte Mandl
- Friedlander, Walter, 1903-
- Jews -- Intellectual life
- Katz, Leo
- Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980
- Mandl, Anna
- Mandl, Erich
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Schnitzler, Heinrich, 1902-
- Vienna (Austria)
- Zuckmayer, Carl, 1896-1977
- Title
- Guide to the Lotte Friedlaender Digital Collection AR 10379
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2013
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
