Art Collectors

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

1. Armando Álvares Penteado
2. Assis Chateaubriand
3. Bernardo Paz
4. Charles Cosac
5. Ciccillo Matarazzo
6. Ema Gordon Klabin
7. Eva Klabin
8. Gilberto Chateaubriand
9. Isai Leirner
10. Jacques van de Beuque
11. João da Cruz Vicente de Azevedo
12. Oscar Americano
13. Pierre Chalita
14. Pietro Maria Bardi
15. Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maia
16. Ricardo Brennand
17. Soraia Cals

British Art Collectors

• Dame Clarissa Reid, DBE
• James Guthrie Reid

German Art Collectors

1. Abraham Adelsberger
2. Albert Kasimir von Sachsen-Teschen
3. Paul Julius Arndt
4. Eduard Arnhold
5. Ferdinand Albert I. von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Beveren
6. Felix Auerbach
7. Edwin Bälz
8. Adolf von Beckrath
9. Otto Beit
10. Heinz Berggruen
11. Nicolas Berggruen
12. Zofia Bernstein
13. Siegfried Bing
14. Eberhard Freiherr von Bodenhausen-Degener
15. Gustav Bock
16. Melchior Boisserée
17. Samuel von Brukenthal
18. Lothar-Günther Buchheim
19. Emma Budge
20. Frieder Burda
21. Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel
22. Bruno Cassirer
23. Charlotte Cassirer
24. Dr. Hugo Cassirer
25. Paul Cassirer
26. Reinhold Cassirer
27. Karl Theodor (Pfalz und Bayern)
28. Guido Dessauer
29. Felix Deutsch
30. Angus Graf Douglas
31. Dr. Morton von Douglas
32. Tilla Durieux
33. Sophie Eltzbacher
34. Walther Epstein
35. Theodor Erlanger
36. Ernst Ludwig, Großherzog von Hessen und bei Rhein
37. Irene Eucken
38. Prf. Rudolf Eucken
39. Johanna Ey
40. Hermine Feist-Wollheim
41. Alfred Flechtheim
42. Bertha Flechtheim
43. Friedrich Christian Flick
44. Elisabeth Förster
45. Franz von Bayern
46. Franz I. (Erbach-Erbach)
47. Frederic Count de Thoms
48. Friedrich Karl von Hessen-Kassel
49. Heiner Friedrich
50. Hans Fürstenberg
51. Raymund Fugger von der Lilie
52. Hans Fugger von der Lilie
53. Friedrich von Gans
54. Johann Christian Gerning
55. Richard Goetz
56. Marie-Anne von Goldschmidt-Rothschild
57. Rudolph von Goldschmidt-Rothschild
58. Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt
59. Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky
60. Else von Guaita
61. Cornelius Gurlitt
62. Hildebrand Gurlitt
63. Eugen Gutmann
64. Fritz Gutmann
65. Oskar Hainauer
66. Elisabeth Harkort
67. Dr. Hermann Harkort IV
68. Gerhart Hauptmann
69. Curt Herrmann
70. Dr. Eduard Freiherr von der Heydt
71. Alfred von Heymel
72. Georg Hirth
73. Alfred Horstmann
74. Léonie Horstmann
75. Oscar Huldschinsky
76. Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine
77. Dr. Alfons Jaffé
78. Hedwig Jaffé
79. Marie Louise Jaffé
80. Moritz Jaffé
81. Otto Hermann Kahn
82. Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
83. Richard von Kaufmann
84. Harry Graf Kessler
85. August Kestner
86. Gustav von Klemperer
87. Elise Koenigs
88. Felix Koenigs
89. Franz Koenigs
90. Helene Kröller-Müller
91. Dr. Richard von Kühlmann
92. Albert Langen
93. Franz von Lenbach
94. Carl Robert Lessing
95. Leuchtenberg Gallery
96. Karl Max von Lichnowsky
97. Mechtilde von Lichnowsky
98. Max Martin Liebermann
99. Max Linde
100. Bernhard von Lindenau
101. Erna Löwenstein
102. Lilly von Mallinckrodt
103. Fritz Mannheimer
104. Margarethe Mauthner
105. Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria
106. Franz Mayer
107. Annemarie Meier-Graefe-Broch
108. Julius Meier-Graefe
109. Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
110. Richard Moritz Meyer
111. Paul Meyerheim
112. Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse
113. Rudolf Mosse
114. Dr. August Victor Freiherr von Mutzenbecher
115. Hedwig von Mutzenbecher
116. Dr. Robert Kurt von Mutzenbecher
117. Benoit Oppenheim
118. Dr. Franz Otto Oppenheim
119. Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse
120. Margarete Oppenheim
121. Karl Ernst Osthaus
122. Gertrud Osthaus
123. Alfred Pringsheim
124. Walther Rathenau
125. Johann Gottlob von Quandt
126. Bernhard von Reesen
127. Carl Mayer von Rothschild
128. Gunter Sachs
129. Albert Kasimir von Sachsen
130. Adolf Friedrich von Schack
131. Georg Schäfer
132. Arthur von Schnitzler
133. Hedwig von Schnitzler
134. Paul von Schnitzler
135. Richard von Schnitzler
136. Paul von Schwabach
137. Henri James Simon
138. Bernhard Sprengel
139. Carl Sternheim
140. Thea Sternheim
141. Sigismund Streit
142. Barthold Suermondt
143. Felix Tikotin
144. Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
145. Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wagener
146. Johann Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Wallmoden-Gimborn
147. The Walther Collection
148. Artur Walther
149. Arthur von Weinberg
150. Julius Wernher
151. Otto Wesendonck
152. Dr. Alfred Wolff
153. 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

Resources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_collectors
• http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:Colecionadores_de_arte_do_Br...