Serge Sabarsky

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Serge Sabarsky (born Siegfried Sabarsky ; born November 3, 1912 in Vienna ; † February 23, 1996 in New York , NY , USA ) was an important art collector and art dealer of the 20th century.

Life

The trained graphic artist and set designer emigrated to France in 1938 and to the USA in 1939. In 1968 he opened a gallery on New York's Madison Avenue . Sabarsky mainly dealt with expressionist works of all kinds and also collects himself. In the course of time he was able to collect several pictures by Egon Schiele , Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka , most of which are now exhibited in the Neue Galerie .

Other famous artists who can be found in the former Sabarsky collection: Wassily Kandinsky , Paul Klee , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Lyonel Feininger , Otto Dix , George Grosz .

Together with Ronald Lauder , he planned the Neue Galerie Museum in New York, which was founded by Lauder after his death in 1996, in memory of Sabarsky and in his honor. The museum café, reminiscent of a Viennese coffee house, bears his name in his honor.

In 2006 the public became aware of Sabarsky posthumously when the Klimt painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer for the Neue Galerie was sold for a record price of 135 million dollars.

Serge Sabarsky belonged to Gerwald Sonnberger, A (1950–2001) and Hana Jirmusová, CZ - to the construction team of the Egon Schiele Art Center . Since his death in February 1996, the idea of ​​making art accessible to as many people as possible has been carried on in his memory by the Centrum.

Publications

  • Egon Schiele. 100 drawings and watercolors . Jesuit Church - Aschaffenburg City Gallery, Aschaffenburg 1994.
  • I, Serge Sabarsky. Autobiography . Verlag Holzhausen, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-900518-69-6

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personal data
SURNAME Sabarsky, Serge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sabarsky, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art dealer and collector
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1996
Place of death new York