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Oppenheimer, Julius, 1871-1937 print view role Collector dates 1871-1937 city New York City state NY other cities Hanau, Germany; gender M historical notes Julius Oppenheimer was a German-Jewish immigrant who came to America from Germany in 1888. He became a successful cloth importer and along with his wife Ella Freedman Oppenheimer, he purchased several works of art. The collection included a 1901 “blue period” painting by Pablo Picasso entitled Mother and Child, a Rembrandt etching, and paintings by Edouard Vuillard, André Derain and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Three Vincent Van Gogh paintings—Enclosed Field with Rising Sun (Saint-Remy, 1889), First Steps (After Millet) (Saint-Remy, 1889) and Portrait of Adeline Ravoux (Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890), drawing by Paul Cézanne, a head by the French sculptor Charles Despiau, and a painting by Maurice de Vlaminck. decades of activity 1900-1910 updated 02/07/2020 18:21:31 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Archive Location Collection Title Links see also: Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 «  back