Meine Lebenserinnerungen 1865-1935

Description of business career in tube industry; interest in art and acquisition of large private art collection; personal friendship with the painter Max Liebermann; encounter with Henri Matisse and the sculptor Arno Breker; journey to Palestine in 1935.Berthold Nothmann was born in the small town of Langendorf (Upper Silesia, today Wielowieś, Poland) in 1865 into an orthodox Jewish family. He rose in the Hudschinsky tube factory from an employee to become the director of the Gleiwitz branch. After World War I, Nothmann organized a tube industry syndicate which he led as the director of the board.Brief summary in Max Kreutzberger: "Leo Baeck Institute New York, Bibliothek und Archiv; Katalog": C 29