Tim Bonyhady
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119 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
Tim Bonyhady’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you only do one, by making them so rare... Forced scarcity.
Yeah, forced scarcity.
And if you've got a big potential clientele for whom he is the acme of art, this is a way in which he can ratchet up his prices.
But within 10 years, his prices have tripled.
And so the Gulliers have caught Klimt at a good time.
At that point, to have two Klimts put the Gulliers at the very sort of forefront of being big Klimt collectors.
Many people have one Klimt, but the number of two or more is tinier.
Antisemitism spikes around the turn of the century in Vienna, and it spikes partly because of kind of conventional populist right-wing politics, which we still see in many places, many countries, and existed in Vienna then.
She and Moritz have four children, one boy, three girls, and all four children have just been converted by their parents from Judaism to Catholicism.
Partly, in Hermina's case, because of her partially Catholic background,
upbringing, but also as a means of trying to improve the prospects of the children in a society where there is deep anti-Semitism.
And the mayor of Vienna, Karl Weger, is the only mayor of a European city who has been elected on an explicitly anti-Semitic platform.
Moritz dies in 1918, Hermine dies in 1936, and one of the four children, Lena, dies in 1927.
But the three surviving children are in this extraordinarily chaotic and terrifying and dangerous feeling.
The so-called Anschluss and the German military come in and Hitler visits.
Immediately Jews in Vienna are
persecuted in a way in which they haven't been persecuted in five years of Nazi rule in Germany they are not only rounded up and sent to Dachau but their homes are invaded, their businesses are seized they are thrown out of their jobs, they are thrown out of
Schools, many who are not sent to concentration camps are imprisoned.
The violence in Vienna, the transformation of the lives of Austrian Jews is like nothing which has happened under Nazi rule before.
partly because of their wealth and their contacts.
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