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=== Life ===

==== Family ====

Alma del Banco came from an [[Jewish assimilation|assimilated Jewish]] family. Her father Eduard Moses del Banco (1810-1881) ran a retail business selling furs, pig bristles, horsehair and feathers for bedding, located at [[Deichstraße]] 16. Her mother Therese Vallentin (1824-1884) originally came from [[Sweden]]. While the family was Jewish, the children were not raised religiously. After her father died, her youngest [[Half brother|half-brother]] Siegmund (1846-1938) took over his fathers business at 21 years old and continued running it, presumably until 1890. After her mother died, Siegmund became head of the family and also the main provider for his three half-sisters Alma, Fanny (1857-1923) and Eleonore (1862-1934), who would later marry Hans Lübbe. The siblings lived together at their parents' apartment at Katharinenstraße 20.<ref name="Weimar">Weimar: ''Alma del Banco. Eine Hamburger Künstlerin 1862–1943.'' 2011, Sp. 20, 21.</ref> Alma and Siegmund would continue to live together from 1919 onward, since they were both unmarried. They moved a couple of times, but always stayed in the [[Altstadt, Hamburg|Old Town]] and [[Neustadt, Hamburg|New Town]] districts of Hamburg, which at the time were home to three quarters of the citys entire Jewish population.<ref name="Weimar" /> Siegmund rented a [[studio]] located at Große Theaterstraße 34/35, in which Alma lived from 1934 onward<ref>[[Britta Reimers]]: ''84. Station Große Theaterstraße 34/35 (alte Nummerierung) Alma del Banco (Aline Henriette), Malerin, Graphikerin, Modelliererin (20. Jh.)''. In: [[Rita Bake]]: ''Verschiedene Welten II. 109 historische und aktuelle Stationen in Hamburgs Neustadt.'' 2010, Sp. 254, 255.</ref>.

==== Education in painting ====