Emma Budge, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Emma Budge

art collector

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1852

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Date of Death: 14-Feb-1937

Profession: art collector

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Emma Lazarus Budge (née Lazarus,17 February 1852 - 14 February 1937) was a wealthy Jewish socialite, philanthropist and art collector from Hamburg.She was born Emma Lazarus in Hamburg in 1852, the daughter of the merchant Ludwig Lazarus.
She married Henry Budge and they emigrated to the US, but returned to Hamburg in 1903.
They lived at the so-called "Budge-Palais" on the Alster, Hamburg, and amassed a large art collection.Budge had specified that her art collection was not to be sold in Nazi Germany, but a large portion was sold at auction in Berlin in October 1937, with the money going to a Budge estate account at M.
M.
Warburg & Co.
bank, which was subsequently Aryanized, her Jewish executors dismissed, and her heirs were unable to freely access their money.In May 2017, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) reached a settlement in respect of seven 18th-century Italian commedia dell'arte porcelain figures, which had been bought at the 1937 auction by Otto and Magdalena Blohm, then by Edward and Kiyi Pflueger, who bequeathed them to the MFA in 2006.