Franz Mayer [SEP] place of death
Franz Mayer
Franz Mayer Traumann, better known as Franz Mayer (1882, Mannheim, Germany – 1975, Mexico) was a German-Mexican financier, photographer and collector, and the founder of the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City.
Biography.
Franz Mayer arrived in Mexico in 1905. He moved into the financial world at the age of 23 and by around 1908 he had already enrolled as an agent of an independent stock exchange, thus beginning a promising career.
During the Mexican Revolution, he left
over 10,000 artifacts were donated upon her death to the magazine and the Franz Mayer Museum. Several posthumous showings of the collection have taken place and in 2016, a research center bearing her name was opened in the former basement of the Franz Mayer Museum.
Early life.
Ruth Deutsch was born on 6 February 1920 in Vienna, Austria to Angela (née Reis) and Arnold Deutsch. Her father was a merchant and she grew up in a household with a younger brother, her parents and a grandmother. Deutsch's