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Perhaps someone out there can help this individual. I've looked in Grove,
WorldCat, Biography Index, BGMI, and a few others sources with no success.
If you find out anything, PLEASE EMAIL THE QUERENT DIRECTLY at
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-- Roberto
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>>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 15:53:07 +0100
>>From: Denis Hall <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Research into Jewish art dealers and collectors
>>To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>>Cc: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>Dear sir or Madam
>>
>>This will, at least at first, appear to be a bizarre request but I would be
>>grateful for any help you can give.
>>
>>I am in the final stages of writing up my Ph.D. about the New York Art
>>Market 1900-40 and, over the years, I ahv come to realise that manyof the
>>most interesting and significant players in establishing a market for modern
>>art in America were Jewish. Dealers like Edith Halpert and Alfred Stieglitz
>>were important in ecouraging American artists to produce work and American
>>patrons to buy it. Collectors like Albert Rothbart, Eugene and Agnes Ernst
>>Meyer, Charles and Aline Meyer Liebman and Judge Proskauer, amongst others
>>were all collectors whose interst was not only in apreciating art but in
>>throwing a lifeline to struggling artists.
>>
>>I am trying to find a way get to all relevant biographical information. If
>>you can help in any way I would be grateful.
>>
>>One of the most interesting collectors, one of the first collectors of
>>twentieth century American art, Albert Roothbert. I am not entirely sure
>>that he was Jewish but mos tof his busienss and social network would appear
>>to have been Jewish.
>>
>>Albert Rothbarth was a partner in the investment bank, Hallgarten and Co, in
>>Pine Street New York and lived at 550 Park Avenue. He retired around 1925 -
>>and around that time managed to lose the 'h' from the end of his name! He
>>married in 1937, Baroness Toni von Horn, who at that time was a fashion
>>photographer for Vanity Fair. At some point thereafter, they moved to
>>Ridgefield, Connecticut. - they lived in Topstone Road.
>>
>>By this time, they had another change of name to ROOTHBERT; they founded the
>>Roothbert Fund and Topstone Fund, a charity for educational causes. Both of
>>their obituaries in the New York Times - October 1965 for Albert and 1970
>>for his wife, and Albert's mentions his support for the British Trade Union
>>Movement.
>>
>>He had a fascinating collection of both American and European modern art by
>>1926, which he auctioned in New York in order to start again; he was one of
>>the few collectors who was kind to artists and I have evidence of purchases
>>until the mid thirties.
>>
>>I am therefore trying to 'close the case' and wonder if you could provide me
>>with any details you might have about himor his donations - or suggestions
>>of a way to find out about sontations to individual Unions - likely to have
>>been between 1940-70
>>
>>I can happily let you have a copy of the chapter on Rothbart, Agnes Meyer or
>>Aline Liebman if it is of any interest.
>>
>>Any help you can give will be gratefully received.
>>
>>Regards, Denis Hall
>>
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Roberto C. Ferrari
Acting Head, Circulation/CPM Dept.
Arts & Humanities Librarian
Wimberly Library
Florida Atlantic University
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