Eugen Kolb

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Eugen Kolb (Eugene Kolb; Kolb Jenő; February 21, 1898 – September 14, 1959) was an art critic, theorist of art and director of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art from 1952 until his death in 1959. Eugene (Jan) Kolb was born in 1898 in Sopron, Hungary. His mother was Gisela Schlesinger, and his father was Shimon Kolb who came from the famous Teitelbaum family from Satmar (Hasidic dynasty). In World War I, he was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, where he was wounded and taken prisoner in Russia. After the war, he studied art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (Akademie der Künste München Bildenden), and the University of Vienna. His teachers included Heinrich Flynn and Max Dvořák, who had a profound influence on his spiritual development and ideology. After graduating, he settled in Budapest. Kolb is one of the survivors of the Kastner train by which he arrived in 1944 in Switzerland with his wife and daughter. After settling in Palestine in 1946, he worked for Al Hamishmar, the newspaper of Hashomer Hatzair. In 1952 he was appointed general manager of the Tel Aviv Museum.