Siegfried Kramarsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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banker, art collector, and philatropist
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Place of Birth: Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
About Siegfried Kramarsky
- Siegfried Kramarsky (April 14, 1893 – December 25, 1961) was a German American banker, philanthropist, and art collector of Jewish descent.
- He was the director of the Amsterdam branch of the banking firm Lisser & Rosenkranz, headquartered in Hamburg, from 1923 until 1938.
- In light of the rise of Nazism in neighboring Germany, Kramarsky emigrated to Canada, and later New York City.While in Amsterdam, Kramarsky compiled a large art collection that included several paintings of Vincent van Gogh.
- Shortly before the German invasion of the Netherlands, he bought Daubigny's Garden and the Portrait of Dr.
- Gachet from Franz Koenigs.
- In 1990, the latter was sold by Kramarsky's heirs to Ryoei Saito for $82.5 million, making it one of the most expensive paintings in the world.
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