Roy Neuberger
Roy Rothschild Neuberger (born July 21, 1903 in Bridgeport , Connecticut , † December 24, 2010 in Manhattan , New York City ) was an American financier and patron of modern art.
Life
He spent his childhood in New York. He grew up in a Jewish family . At the age of twelve he became an orphan. He enrolled at New York University to study journalism, but soon gave up to become a businessman. In Manhattan he learned buying and selling at B. Altman and Company. At the age of 20 he went to Paris, painted and studied art until 1928. After his return to the USA he earned his living on the stock exchange. In 1939 he founded the Neuberger Berman company with Robert Berman .
In the course of his life he collected over 600 works of contemporary art and donated them to the Neuberger Museum of Art, named after him, at the University of New York State in Purchase . These included paintings by Edward Hopper , Helen Frankenthaler , Damien Hirst , Neo Rauch and Marlene Dumas .
literature
- Roy Neuberger: So Far So Good - The First 94 Years. John Wiley & Sons., 1997, ISBN 047-1171-86-7 .
- Roy R. Neuberger, Alfred Connable and Roma Connable: The Passionate Collector: Eighty Years in the World of Art . John Wiley & Sons., 2003, ISBN 978-0-471-27343-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ US art collector Neuberger died in: Schweizer Fernsehen from December 26, 2010
- ^ Roy R. Neuberger Dies at 107; Applied a Stock Trader's Acumen to Art in: The New York Times, December 24, 2010
- ↑ Reuters: US financial magnate Roy Neuberger dies at the age of 107 , accessed December 26, 2010
- ^ The Lehman Brothers Art Collection , faz.net, accessed July 22, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neuberger, Roy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neuberger, Roy Rothschild (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American financier and art patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bridgeport , Connecticut |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 2010 |
| Place of death | Manhattan , New York |