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13-517: Born in Görlitz , Cassirer came from the entrepreneurial Cassirer family and was the youngest son of Louis Cassirer and a brother of Paul , Hugo and Richard Cassirer . Together with his brother Hugo Cassirer and his uncle Julius Cassirer owner of the company Kabelwerk Dr. Cassirer und Co.  [ de ] in Berlin-Hakenfelde . Cassirer was also the second representative of Section I of

26-706: A noted German brain surgeon, and his other great uncles included a publisher, an industrialist and the philosopher, Ernst Cassirer . After the war, Cass worked in 1946–1947 as junior research engineer for Telephone Rentals in Knightsbridge, London, before embarking on an HND in Communication Technology at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London between 1947 and 1951. In 1979, Cass and his son, Mark, set up Image Bank UK, part of The Image Bank which

39-506: A second marriage. The marriage produced the philosopher Eva Cassirer (1920-2009). Cassirer died at age 56 on 11 July 1932 in Berlin. His grave is located in the state-owned Friedhof Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend . The grave monument consists of an unadorned plinth, consisting of three dimension stones from shell limestone , on which stands a relief showing six grazing sheep. This frieze

52-621: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Wilfred Cass Wilfred Cass CBE FRSA (11 November 1924 – 18 April 2022) co-founded the Cass Sculpture Foundation . Cass was born in Berlin and came from the Jewish Cassirer family. His great uncle, Paul Cassirer , was a significant dealer for the impressionists in Europe . His grandfather was Richard Cassirer ,

65-724: The Ermelerhaus  [ de ] , a branch of the Märkisches Museum, Breite Straße  [ de ] 11 in Mitte . The works on display included drawings by Adolph von Menzel , works by Max Liebermann and Max Slevogt , sculptures by Ernst Barlach , Georg Kolbe and August Gaul . Among the main works in the collection were paintings by French artists such as Gustave Courbet , Édouard Manet , Claude Monet , Edgar Degas , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Camille Pissarro , Alfred Sisley and Paul Cézanne . Cassirer From Misplaced Pages,

78-814: The "Maschinenbau- und Kleineisenindustrie- Berufsgenossenschaft  [ de ] ". He was also an active hot air ballooner , co-founder of the Kaiserlicher Aero-Club at the Johannisthal Air Field near Berlin and won 1st prize in Class 3 in the 1908 International Race with his balloon "Hewald" in the endurance flight. He was also a co-partner of the Motorluftschiff-Studiengesellschaft  [ de ] .= On 15 July 1912, Alfred Cassirer married Hannah Sotschek (1887-1974), who, after divorcing around 1923, married Leo Blumenreich in

91-703: The Cassirer family [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Cassirer . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cassirer&oldid=1256240459 " Categories : Surnames Surnames of Jewish origin Occupational surnames Hidden categories: Articles containing German-language text Articles with short description Short description

104-736: The Visual Arts". Cass was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) on 17 June 2006. In April 2008 Cass was awarded an honorary degree from the Open University as Doctor of the University. In later life the Casses lived on the grounds of the Cass Sculpture Foundation 's sculpture park. He died on 18 April 2022, at the age of 97. The National Portrait Gallery collection includes

117-593: The creation of their park. Based in Goodwood, West Sussex, the charitable foundation's aim was to promote and advance British sculpture to a global audience through a vigorous programme of commissioning, funding and marketing, the Foundation has enabled the fabrication of 150 major new works by leading British artists. In 1996, the charity won the National Art Collections Fund prize for "Promoting Enjoyment of

130-957: The 💕 Cassirer is a surname of Yiddish origin (קאַסירער kasirer , which means Cashier ; Kassierer ). Notable people with the surname include: Wilfred Cass , born Wolfgang Cassirer (1924–2022), German-Jewish founder of Cass Sculpture Foundation Bruno Cassirer (1872–1941), German-Jewish publisher and gallery owner in Berlin Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), German-Jewish philosopher Fritz Cassirer (1871–1926), German-Jewish conductor Heinz Cassirer (1903–1979), German-German philosopher Julius Cassirer (1841–1924), German-Jewish industrialist and art collector Paul Cassirer (1871–1926), German-Jewish art dealer and editor Richard Cassirer (1868–1925), German-Jewish neurologist See also [ edit ] Jerome P. Kassirer (born 1932), American nephrologist External links [ edit ] History of

143-457: The registered charity, The Cass Sculpture Foundation , previously known as Sculpture at Goodwood. Over the next year they visited some thirty sculpture parks around the world before deciding upon the style, aim and design of their own estate. Long-term friends of Henry Moore and Elisabeth Frink , Cass and his wife Jeannette sold their personal collection of Moores , Frinks and Ayrtons , which they had bought directly from these artists, to fund

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156-561: Was created by the firm Schleicher & Co. after a drawing by August Gaul entitled "Sheep in the Campagna". Cassirer was a art collector and decreed testamentarially that his entire collection was to be given to the Magistrat von Berlin  [ de ] to be given to the Märkisches Museum as a permanent loan. From March 1933, it was presented in five rooms on the first floor of

169-424: Was sold to Getty Images in 2001. In 1987 Cass became chairman and chief executive of Moss Bros Plc, where he reorganised the whole of the troubled group including moving and selling its head office, starting up a new range of Suit Shops and buying Cecil Gee Plc. He remained at the company until 1991. Upon retiring from Moss Bros in 1992, Cass moved from London to West Sussex, near Chichester, where he co-founded

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