Maurice Kann
See also: Kann
Maurice Edouard Kann was a French banker and collector.
Resulting from a family of bankers of Francfort-sur-le-Main whose branch had been established in Paris at the 19th century, Maurice Kann marries Marianne Halphen.
In 1897, it acquires, with his/her brother Rodolphe, the property of Madam Samuel Pozzi, 49 to 51 Avenue of Iéna. It preserves for itself the piece of 784 m forming the n° 49 and makes cut down the stone-built house of size which it supports to make build by Ernest Sanson a vast private mansion.
The apartment of reception is designed to present the prestigious collection of tables and works of art of the owner. This unit was dispersed at the time of several public sales between 1909 and 1911. It included/understood nearly 800 tables, to the Gothic ivories, Italian bronzes and earthenware, the jewels of the Rebirth, the enamels limousins, the porcelains and the tapestries.
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