| Rothbart, Albert | ||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector | |||||||||||||||
| dates | 1874-1965 | |||||||||||||||
| city | Ridgefield | |||||||||||||||
| state | CT | |||||||||||||||
| other cities | New York, NY; Frankfurt, Germany; | |||||||||||||||
| sex | M | |||||||||||||||
| history |
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 | 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 |
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| website | http://www.roothbertfund.org/index.php | |||||||||||||||
| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:25 | |||||||||||||||
| research links |
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