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Otto Hermann Kahn, the one of the eight children of Bernhard and Emma (Eberstadt) Kahn, was born on February 21, 1867 in Mannheim, Germany. His father was a banker, and he was brought up in an atmosphere of culture, surrounded by valuable works of art.
Kahn learned to play both violin and 'cello in early youth. His father decreed that Otto, too, should be a financier, and so apprenticed him in his teens to a small bank in Karlsruhe. Here he cleaned inkwells, posted letters, brought beer and sausages for his superiors, and was general handyman.
At seventeen Kahn became a real clerk in a bank at Karlsruhe. He spent his leisure time in musical studies and in attending lectures at the University. At seventeen he had already written two five-act tragedies in blank verse (never performed). At twenty he was called upon for his year of military service to the state and passed it in a regiment of hussars, acquiring an erect, soldierly bearing which he never lost. At twenty-one he entered the Deutsche Bank in Berlin but was presently transferred to its London branch. He quickly grew fond of England and became a naturalized British citizen. After five years with this bank, he was offered and accepted a position in New York with the banking house of Speyer & Company.
He landed in New York in August 1893. After two years of work with Speyer, he spent a year in Europe, gratifying his love of travel, art, and music. On January 1, 1897, still a little short of his thirtieth birthday, he became a member of the New York banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company; Kahn himself was by this time acquiring considerable means and becoming a noted collector of objects of art. He was for many years the chief financial genius of Kuhn, Loeb & Company. Edward H. Harriman, who was rising to power when Kahn entered the company, became his close friend and depended upon him for much of the financing of his titanic railroad transactions.
Meanwhile he had begun his patronage of music and and art. In 1903 he became a stockholder in the Metropolitan Opera Company, then under the direction of Heinrich Conried. It was not prospering, and its condition became precarious when Oscar Hammerstein set up a rival company at the Manhattan Opera House. During the season of 1907-1908, Kahn and William K. Vanderbilt, Sr. , bought out the Conried company for $100, 000 each of them paying one-half. They then organized a new Metropolitan Opera Company, and later Kahn took over the Vanderbilt holdings in it. He is said to have contributed $350, 000 from his own pocket to make good the company's losses during the period 1908-1910, and also to have paid $1, 200, 000 of his own money to Hammerstein to eliminate the Manhattan and its associated Philadelphia Opera Company from competition. "I must atone for my wealth, " was his remark on more than one occasion. In 1908, from La Scala at Milan he brought Giulio Gatti-Casazza as director and Arturo Toscanini as chief conductor of the Metropolitan.
He became chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Company in 1911 and for more than a quarter-century was one of its chief pillars of strength. In 1918 he became president of the company and so continued until 1931. At his death he owned eighty-four percent of the stock. In 1905 he was one of several wealthy men who planned and built the New Theatre in New York, designed to be a great American home for the finest in the drama, but it was not successful, as the house was too large. In 1913 he bought a princely manor in England, but he permitted it to be used as a home for blinded soldiers. His homes on Fifth Avenue in New York and at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, for their luxuriousness and works of art, were compared to "the palaces of the Medicis. " Among his treasures was a Frans Hals painting, "The Painter and His Family, " for which he paid $500, 000. Not until the United States entered the First World War in 1917 did Kahn give up his British citizenship. Notwithstanding his German origin, he labored hard and contributed generously of his means to the American and Allied causes.
The full extent of his benefactions to the arts will never be known, as he concealed many of his gifts. It is known, however, that he gave both paintings and cash to civic museums throughout the country; that he endowed university art courses and clubs, and helped orchestras, art schools, and operatic and theatrical projects. He gave a large sum towards the restoration of the Parthenon at Athens. In 1930 it was discovered that he had for years been giving money prizes for Negro artists in New York. He was one of the promoters of the Chicago Opera Company, and for a time one of the directors of the Boston Opera Company.
He suffered heavy losses in the financial crash of 1929 and paid no income tax in the years 1930-31-32. He died suddenly of a heart attack, while lunching with his partners.
Kahn played an important part in reorganizing the Union Pacific, Baltimore & Ohio, Missouri Pacific, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Wabash, Texas & Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande, and other great transportation companies. He was undoubtedly the greatest patron of the arts that America had yet known. He launched the period of the opera's greatest prosperity and artistic success. France gave him the Legion of Honor decoration in 1921 for his financial help during the First World War. Italy, Spain, Belgium, and Japan also bestowed high honors upon him.
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Kahn was made an honorary member of the Moscow Art Theatre for his generosity in financing the tour of the Russian Ballet in America during the war--only one of the several such large projects which he backed. He became also an honorary director of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, London. He was a trustee of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rutgers College, and was trustee, director, or otherwise connected with dozens of civic, business, and artistic organizations.
On January 6, 1896, Kahn married Addie Wolff, daughter of a former partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Company. He was survived by his wife and four children: Maude Emily, Gilbert Wolff, Margaret Dorothy, and Roger Wolff (changed by him to Wolf).
