BRONISLAW HUBERMAN - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH 11/13/1936 - HFSID 344569

BRONISLAW HUBERMAN
The concert violinist signs this photograph of himself playing to a fan, dated 1936
Photograph signed: "For 'Lulu'/Bronislaw Huberman/13.XI.1936" in black ink. 9x7. Bronislaw Huberman (1882-1947) was a Jewish Polish violinist. In his youth he was a pupil of Mieczyslaw Michalowicz and Maurycy Rosen at the Warsaw Conservatory, and of Isidor Lotto in Paris. In 1892, at the age of ten, he studied under Joseph Joachim in Berlin. In the 1920s and early 1930s, Huberman toured around Europe and North America with the pianist Siegfried Schultze and performed on the most famous stages in New York, Milan, Vienna, Berlin, and other major cities. Over the course of many years, the duet Huberman-Schultze were regularly invited in private by European Royal Families. Countless recordings of these artists were done during that period at the "Berliner Rundfunk" and unfortunately destroyed during the Second World War. Huberman is also remembered for founding the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (then known as the Palestine Philharmonic) in 1936 and thus providing refuge from the Third Reich for nearly 1,000 European Jews. Huberman recruited leading Jewish musicians from Europe, showing "the prescience to realize that far more than a new job was at stake for these artists." The Gibson ex-Huberman Stradivarius violin which bears his name was stolen and recovered twice during the period in which Huberman owned the instrument. The second time it was stolen was in 1936 from his dressing room either by New York nightclub musician Julian Altman or a friend of his. Altman kept the violin for the next half century and confessed to stealing it on his deathbed. It is now owned by violinist Joshua Bell, who purchased it for just under 4 million dollars. Toned. Corners rounded and slightly creased. Signature faint but legible. Lightly soiled on verso. Otherwise, fine condition.