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Irene Beran (Subak)

Birthdate:
Death: April 1979 (92-93)
Palma, Balearic Islands, Balearic Islands, Spain
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Alois Louis Subak and Leopoldina Subak
Wife of Bruno Beran
Ex-wife of Philipp Beran
Mother of Hermine (Minnie) Görig (nee Beran); Stillborn Beran and Rudolf Oscar Wolfgang Beran
Sister of Oskar Subak and Emma Korwill

Managed by: Itai Hermelin
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About Irene Beran

Marriage record http://www.badatelna.eu/fond/1073/reprodukce/?zaznamId=170&reproId=... BRNO 131/126

Death https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VM91-Z2H


Jewish Telegraph 13 May 2022

STOLEN PAINTING FINALLY RETURNED AFTER 80 YEARS

IT may have taken four generations, but a painting stolen by the Nazis more than 80 years ago has been reunited with its rightful owners.

Schäfchen (Little Sheep) hung proudly in the home of Irene Beran before the Second World War, and was finally returned to her ancestors, grandson Max and great-grandson Tom in a ceremony in Potsdam, Germany.

“Having the painting returned to us is such an important way for us to look back at our family history,” Tom told the Jewish Telegraph.

“This is a rich history which has crossed wars, pogroms, geography and culture.

“It is such a wide-ranging subject, but this painting has an enormous amount of sentimental value knowing that it was previously owned by my great-grandmother.”

In the early 1900s, Irene along with husband Philipp and his younger brother, Bruno, was building her artistic collection.

The family had earned their wealth from the woollen textile industry, and accrued a collection which mostly comprised of work from artists in their close circle, including Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.

Bruno chose to make painting his career, and moved to Munich where he befriended landlord and artist Hugo von Habermann as well as Thomas Heine, the man who painted Schäfchen.

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Irene Beran's Timeline

1886
April 26, 1886
1907
August 3, 1907
Brno
1911
April 26, 1911
Brno, Brno, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic
1913
November 16, 1913
Brno, Brno, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic
1979
April 1979
Age 92
Palma, Balearic Islands, Balearic Islands, Spain