Rothbart, Albert |
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role
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Collector |
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dates
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1874-1965 |
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city
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Ridgefield |
| state | CT | | other cities | New York, NY; Frankfurt, Germany; |
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sex
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M |
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historical notes
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Albert Rothbart, aka Albert Rothbarth and Albert Roothbert, was a banker (Hallgarten & Co) and art collector.
Rothbart’s modern art collection was sold in 1926 via Anderson Galleries (https://archive.org/details/modernartcollect00ande). The sale featured one hundred and fourteen lots and included work by, among others, Velino Shije (Mah Pe Wi), Oscar Bluemner, Gaston Lachaise, Emile Branchard, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, Maurice Sterne, John Marin, Walt Kuhn, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Paul Signac, Henri Matisse, Gustave Courbet, Anders Zorn, and Max Klinger.
Rothbart married the Vanity Fair photographer Toni Von Horn (1899-1970) in 1937. The Roothbert’s established the Roothbert Fund in 1958.
Roothbert sponsored an archeological expedition to Egypt by the Viennese Egyptologist, Prof. Hermann Junker. The Roothbert’ s gave art and archeological artifacts to the Boston Museum, the Harvard University Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chinese Society of America, and the American Museum of Natural History.
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decades
of activity | 1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
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| website | http://www.roothbertfund.org/index.php |
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03/22/2024 12:09:32 |
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Archives/Repository |
Collection Title |
Collection Details |
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, 1904-1978 (bulk 1913-1974) |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Oscar Bluemner papers, 1886-1939, 1960 |
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The Museum of Modern Art
Library and Archives |
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Papers, 1927-1984 |
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The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library
10 East 71st Street |
The modern art collection of Albert Rothbart. |
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