Art collecting was common among the wealthy in the Ancient World in both Europe and East Asia, and in the Middle Ages, but developed in its modern form during the Renaissance and continues to the present day.
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Brazilian Art Collectors
- Armando Álvares Penteado
- Assis Chateaubriand
- Bernardo Paz
- Charles Cosac
- Ciccillo Matarazzo
- Ema Gordon Klabin
- Eva Klabin
- Gilberto Chateaubriand
- Isai Leirner
- Jacques van de Beuque
- João da Cruz Vicente de Azevedo
- Oscar Americano
- Pierre Chalita
- Pietro Maria Bardi
- Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maia
- Ricardo Brennand
- Soraia Cals
British Art Collectors
German Art Collectors
- Abraham Adelsberger
- Albert Kasimir von Sachsen-Teschen
- Paul Julius Arndt
- Eduard Arnhold
- Ferdinand Albert I. von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Beveren
- Felix Auerbach
- Edwin Bälz
- Adolf von Beckrath
- Otto Beit
- Heinz Berggruen
- Nicolas Berggruen
- Zofia Bernstein
- Siegfried Bing
- Eberhard Freiherr von Bodenhausen-Degener
- Gustav Bock
- Melchior Boisserée
- Samuel von Brukenthal
- Lothar-Günther Buchheim
- Emma Budge
- Frieder Burda
- Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel
- Bruno Cassirer
- Charlotte Cassirer
- Dr. Hugo Cassirer
- Paul Cassirer
- Reinhold Cassirer
- Karl Theodor (Pfalz und Bayern)
- Guido Dessauer
- Felix Deutsch
- Angus Graf Douglas
- Dr. Morton von Douglas
- Tilla Durieux
- Sophie Eltzbacher
- Walther Epstein
- Theodor Erlanger
- Ernst Ludwig, Großherzog von Hessen und bei Rhein
- Irene Eucken
- Prf. Rudolf Eucken
- Johanna Ey
- Hermine Feist-Wollheim
- Alfred Flechtheim
- Bertha Flechtheim
- Friedrich Christian Flick
- Elisabeth Förster
- Franz von Bayern
- Franz I. (Erbach-Erbach)
- Frederic Count de Thoms
- Friedrich Karl von Hessen-Kassel
- Heiner Friedrich
- Hans Fürstenberg
- Raymund Fugger von der Lilie
- Hans Fugger von der Lilie
- Friedrich von Gans
- Johann Christian Gerning
- Richard Goetz
- Marie-Anne von Goldschmidt-Rothschild
- Rudolph von Goldschmidt-Rothschild
- Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt
- Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky
- Else von Guaita
- Cornelius Gurlitt
- Hildebrand Gurlitt
- Eugen Gutmann
- Fritz Gutmann
- Oskar Hainauer
- Elisabeth Harkort
- Dr. Hermann Harkort IV
- Gerhart Hauptmann
- Curt Herrmann
- Dr. Eduard Freiherr von der Heydt
- Alfred von Heymel
- Georg Hirth
- Alfred Horstmann
- Léonie Horstmann
- Oscar Huldschinsky
- Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine
- Dr. Alfons Jaffé
- Hedwig Jaffé
- Marie Louise Jaffé
- Moritz Jaffé
- Otto Hermann Kahn
- Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
- Richard von Kaufmann
- Harry Graf Kessler
- August Kestner
- Gustav von Klemperer
- Elise Koenigs
- Felix Koenigs
- Franz Koenigs
- Helene Kröller-Müller
- Dr. Richard von Kühlmann
- Albert Langen
- Franz von Lenbach
- Carl Robert Lessing
- Leuchtenberg Gallery
- Karl Max von Lichnowsky
- Mechtilde von Lichnowsky
- Max Martin Liebermann
- Max Linde
- Bernhard von Lindenau
- Erna Löwenstein
- Lilly von Mallinckrodt
- Fritz Mannheimer
- Margarethe Mauthner
- Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria
- Franz Mayer
- Annemarie Meier-Graefe-Broch
- Julius Meier-Graefe
- Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
- Richard Moritz Meyer
- Paul Meyerheim
- Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse
- Rudolf Mosse
- Dr. August Victor Freiherr von Mutzenbecher
- Hedwig von Mutzenbecher
- Dr. Robert Kurt von Mutzenbecher
- Benoit Oppenheim
- Dr. Franz Otto Oppenheim
- Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse
- Margarete Oppenheim
- Karl Ernst Osthaus
- Gertrud Osthaus
- Alfred Pringsheim
- Walther Rathenau
- Johann Gottlob von Quandt
- Bernhard von Reesen
- Carl Mayer von Rothschild
- Gunter Sachs
- Albert Kasimir von Sachsen
- Adolf Friedrich von Schack
- Georg Schäfer
- Arthur von Schnitzler
- Hedwig von Schnitzler
- Paul von Schnitzler
- Richard von Schnitzler
- Paul von Schwabach
- Henri James Simon
- Bernhard Sprengel
- Carl Sternheim
- Thea Sternheim
- Sigismund Streit
- Barthold Suermondt
- Felix Tikotin
- Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
- Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wagener
- Johann Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Wallmoden-Gimborn
- The Walther Collection
- Artur Walther
- Arthur von Weinberg
- Julius Wernher
- Otto Wesendonck
- Dr. Alfred Wolff
- Reinhold Würth
Israeli Art Collectors
- יגאל אהובי Igal Ahouvi (b. ) An Israeli businessman and art collector. The Igal Ahouvi Art Collection is Israel’s largest private art collection. He is the Chairman of the Board of Blenheim Properties Group Ltd and of Ravad Ltd. He owns more than £3 billion worth of real estate in Israel, Europe and Vietnam.
- נועם גוטסמן Noam Gottesman (b. 1963) New York based businessman and art collector. Known for co-founding of GLG Partners, and is listed on the Forbes 400 list of richest people in America,
- ראובן הכט Reuben Hecht (1909 – 1993) Industrialist and art collector. He established the Hecht Museum at Haifa University to house his collections of archeological artifacts and 19th-century paintings.
- אמיר קבירי Amir Gross Kabiri (b. 1980) Businessman and CEO best known as the President of the M.T. Abraham Center for the Visual Arts Foundation and the Hermitage Museum Foundation Israel.
- שרה קישון Sara Kishon (1931 – 2002) was a pianist, art collector, and the wife of the Israeli author and satirist Ephraim Kishon.
- ארנון מילצ׳ן Arnon Milchan (b. 1944) Israeli billionaire businessman and art collector who has produced over 130 full-length motion pictures.
- יוסף מוגרבי Jose Mugrabi (b. 1939) Businessman and art collector. His art collection includes works by Renoir, Picasso, Rodin, Ernst, Daumier, Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, in addition to 800 Warhols.
- יעקב פינס Jacob Pins (1917 – 2005) German-Israeli woodcut artist and notable art collector, particularly of Japanese prints and paintings.
- הארי רקנטי Harry Recanati (1919 – 2011) Banker, art collector and founders of the Recanati Foundation that established and runs the Ralli Museums of art in Uruguay, Chile, Spain & Israel.
- רבקה סאקר Rivka Saker (b. ) Philanthropist and art collector. Based in New York and Tel Aviv, she serves as a chairman of the Sotheby's Israel, and the founder and board chair of Artis. In 2004, Saker founded Artis, a non-profit art organization to support Israeli artists and to create opportunities for their exposure abroad.
- ברטה אורדאנג Bertha Urdang (1912 – 2001) Israeli art collector and gallery owner born in England. She was important for encouraging and fostering Israeli abstract and conceptual art, as well as for distributing and publicizing Israeli art in the United States.
- אילה זקס אברמוב Ayala Zacks-Abramov (1912 – 2011) Israeli-Canadian art collector.
Portuguese Art Collectors
- Calouste Gulbenkian
- José Campas
- José Manuel Rodrigues Berardo
- João Maria Correia Aires de Campos
USA Art Collectors
- Sandy Besser
- Isabella Stewart Gardner
- Albert Otten
- Peggy Guggenheim
- Solomon R. Guggenheim
- James Guthrie Reid
- Chara Schreyer
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