Category

German art collectors

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Catherine II of Russia

The eighth and greatest Emperor of Russia (r. 1762–1796)

Frederick II of Prussia

King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 (1712-1786)

Ludwig II of Bavaria

King of Bavaria (1845–1886)

Augustus II the Strong

King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Elector of Saxony (1670–1733)

Ludwig I of Bavaria

King of Bavaria (1786-1868)

Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria

Ruler of the Electorate of Bavaria from 1679 to 1726

Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria

Elector Palatine (1742-1777), Elector of Bavaria (1777-1799)

Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse

German prince (1868–1940)

Franz, Duke of Bavaria

Head of the House of Wittelsbach

Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine

German nobleman (1658–1716)

Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen

Duke of Teschen from 1766 to 1822 (1738–1822)

German-Swiss industrial heir, socialite, art collector (1932-2011)

Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg

Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1827-1900)

Lothar-Günther Buchheim

author, artist (1918-2007)

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

German gallerist, art dealer and historian naturalised French (1884-1979)

Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633-1714)

Adolf Friedrich von Schack

German poet, historian of literature and art collector (1815–1894)

German-French art dealer (1838 - 1905)

Samuel von Brukenthal

Habsburg governor

Carl Mayer von Rothschild

German-Italian banker

German born businessman and mining magnate in South Africa (1853-1906)

Heinz Berggruen

art dealer, author (1914-2007)

German media entrepreneur (1926-2011)

Bernhard von Lindenau

German astronomer, lawyer and politician

Sulpiz Boisserée

German art and architecture historian (1783-1854)

Otto Hermann Kahn

American banker (1867–1934)

August Liebmann Mayer

German Jewish art historian (1885-1944), murdered in the Holocaust

Helga de Alvear

Heinrich Thyssen

German-Hungarian entrepreneur and art collector (1875-1947)

Ferdinand Franz Wallraf

German botanist, mathematician, theologian, priest and art collector (1748-1824)

German Jewish entrepreneur and art collector (1851-1932)

Mechtilde Lichnowsky

German writer and art collector (1879-1958)

German artist (1712-1790)

Adolph Carl von Rothschild

banker and philanthropist (1823–1900)

Johann Jakob Fugger

German banker and merchant (1516-1575)

Francis, Count of Erbach-Erbach

German art collector (1754-1823)

Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky

Prussian merchant, art dealer and diplomat

Johann Ludwig, Imperial Count of Wallmoden-Gimborn

German lieutenant-general and art collector (1736-1811); illegitimate son of George II of Great Britain by his mistress Amalie von Wallmoden

German writer (1727–1804)

German art collector (1862–1940)

German businessman (1531-1598)

German businessman (1489-1535)

Sir Otto John Beit, 1st Baronet

German-British financier, philanthropist and art connoisseur (1865-1930)

Johann Gottlob von Quandt

German art collector and artist (1787-1859); collection was sold in 1868

Richard von Kaufmann

German jurist and art collector (1850-1908)

Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld

German prince (1914-1988)

German Jewish art collector (1852-1937)

German painter (1769-1864)

Melchior Boisserée

artist and art collector from Germany (1786-1851)

German diplomat and collector of art

German businessman; art collector in London (1850-1912)

chemist, businessman, I. G. Farben director and art collector (1867-1940)

Christian Boros

German entrepreneur, publisher and art collector

Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn

painter (1712-1780)

Sigismund Streit

German art collector

German businessman

German architect (1893–1986)

German Jewish refugee art critic, art collector, author, publisher (1886-1963)

Fritz Mannheimer

German-Dutch banker and art collector (1890-1939)

Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers

German art historian (1891-1978)