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...AUSTRIAN EXPRESSIONISTS-St.Etienne,24 West 57th. A good peek at the southerly, softer version of Teutonic expressionism: 67 watercolors, drawings and prints by Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Laske, L. H. Jungenickel, Anton Faistauer, and Herbert Boeckl. along with a rare Self-Portrait by the late gifted Richard Gerstl, the second work of the posthumously discovered artist ever to be on view in the U.S. Through...
Supported by his indebted friend Metternich, Salomon won the right to sell lottery bonds to the public in order to build the Austrian Empire's first important railway. Brother Jakob, who had a lease on both the Bourbons and Napoleon III, laid down France's first railways (on which he made a great profit by artificially running up prices of the shares). The British Rothschilds ignored the country's industrial boom, but propped the young government of the U.S. with loans and, in combination with de Rothschild Frères, made loans to Brazil. "Money...
...just before the revolution of 1830 toppled them. Because of Russia's pogroms, the Rothschilds refused to grant loans to the czars. In many ways governments began to feel respect for, or fear of, the Rothschilds. Amschel became treasurer of the German Confederation, and Jakob the Austrian consul in Paris. Nathan's son Lionel was elected to the British House of Commons four times, but four times Parliament refused to seat him because he would not swear a Christian oath. Parliament finally gave in, and Lionel sat from...
...calmly finished his lunch, dabbed his fingers in a finger bowl, smoked a cigarette, approved the next day's menu-and then was marched off to prison. A year later, after Heinrich Himmler visited his cell, his freedom was bought in return for all the assets of the Austrian branch in Austria and abroad, and Louis found refuge in Vermont; the Austrian house never revived.† After Paris was occupied, the Rothschilds were forced to sell most of their French stocks on an already depressed market, and the Nazis carted off trainloads of priceless Rothschild objets. By 1940, when...
...extended, and also pulls in the Western currency that Russia needs in her trade offensive. But in the "third-man" atmosphere of Vienna, few believe that its sole concern is insurance. It twice got into trouble for trying to buy into Western European projects in violation of Austrian law, and strong suspicion persists that it owns sizable shares of stock in several Western European manufacturers. It has ties with about 40 insurance agents in the West, has pressed the Austrian government for the right to become a full banking institution. But its image as an independent business is not helped...