Friedrich M. Nicholas Mitt: Mocha Lawyer, Disney Hall for concerts
Frederick M. Nicholas, a war champion, a lawyer and a real estate developer, formed many arts and public service institutions in Los Angeles, peacefully at his home on Saturday. It was 105.
Nicholas led the design and development of the major Los Angeles features, including the Museum of Contemporary Art and Walt Disney Hall.
Surprisingly, Nicholas discovered his love for the arts at the University of Chicago University. “When I went to the city center, I saw an art exhibition for the first time,” he said in 2022 YouTube Interview with Blake Midel, The creator of a young movie. “I went inside and looked at him and I was drowning.”
When he returned to Los Angeles, where he studied journalism at the University of Southern California, Nicholas took lessons in visual arts and building a legal practice that included the representation of artists and exhibitions. He played several distinguished roles in the arts community, where he held the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors and Vice Chairman of the Board for a period of 11 years of cumulative and faithful to the rest of his life. Nicholas had a fundamental role in developing Jeffen’s contemporary in the music hall in Mocha and Walt Disney.
No wonder that he was named “”Master Downtown Culture“In the eighties of the last century, Nicholas led the city from cultural recession and turned it into a cultural force and global engineering.
Former mayor Eric Jerstei said in A. Message to Nicholas On his birthday.
The famous architect Frank Jerry The Times said Nicholas was involved in MoCA “it was so good to be incredible.”
Jerry said in 1982: “He is a very smart man, and he is sensitive.
Nicholas negotiated with Giusepe Panza from Varese, Italy, to get the Panza group. Including the works of Mark Rothco, Franz Klein and others, art is now the essence of the permanent MCA collection.
As Chairman of the Party Committee in Walt Disney Hall, which begins in 1987, Nicholas chaired a committee to find an architect (Jerry was eventually appointed to get a desirable disturbing) and collect donations and planning the construction process.
For 105 years, Nicholas participated with some of the greatest artists in history. “I met Pablo Picasso and had a dinner with him,” said Middle Brezili.
The effect of Nicholas in Los Angeles also extended to the world of public service as well. After an incredibly successful legal profession, it turned into free work. “I thought that lawyers should do something to help the poor,” Nicholas told meidel. The foundations of Nicholas General Adviser In 1970, which provided legal support to vulnerable people, including veterans and unqualified families, what is now the largest company of its kind in the United States
“The public lawyer is in fact the greatest legacy of him,” Anthony Nicholas, son of Nicholas, told the Times on Tuesday. “They still help people today.”
Nicholas was born on May 30, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York when he was 14 years old, his family moved to Los Angeles in 1941, and Nicholas served the army and left after five years.
“One of the things that made me successful in the law is that I was always in a hurry. I was always keen to move because I felt that I had lost a lot of time in the war. I had to spend it,” said Nicholas, one of the oldest and older than my warriors in World War II.
Nicholas was his family. Anthony recalled “a cheerful smile”, “great and great energy” and “love that spreads all over the world.”
Nicholas survived by his children, Deborah, Jean and Onthony; Anthony’s wife Mona; Six grandchildren three grandchildren. And sister Helen Davor.