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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margherita Sarfatti | Margherita Sarfatti | 1880 | 1961 | Italian | journalist, art critic, patron, collector, socialite, and prominent propaganda adviser of the National Fascist Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margherita_Sarfatti |
| Pannonica de Koenigswarter | Baroness Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter | 1913 | 1988 | British | jazz patron and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonica_de_Koenigswarter |
| Hasdai ibn Shaprut | Hasdai (Abu Yusuf ben Yitzhak ben Ezra) ibn Shaprut | null | null | null | Jewish scholar, physician, diplomat, and patron of science | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasdai_ibn_Shaprut |
| Arlene Schnitzer | Arlene Schnitzer | 1929 | 2020 | American | arts patron and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlene_Schnitzer |
| Ida Rubinstein | Ida Lvovna Rubinstein | none | 1960 | Russian | dancer, actress, art patron and Belle Époque figure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Rubinstein |
| Otto Hermann Kahn | Otto Hermann Kahn | 1867 | 1934 | German | investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Hermann_Kahn |
| Isaac Rice | Isaac Leopold Rice | 1850 | 1915 | German | Jewish businessman, investor, musicologist, author, and chess patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Rice |
| Maurice Wertheim | Maurice Wertheim | 1886 | 1950 | American | investment banker, chess player, chess patron, art collector, environmentalist, and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wertheim |
| Charles Brasch | Charles Orwell Brasch | 1909 | 1973 | New Zealand | poet, literary editor and arts patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brasch |
| Alfred Pringsheim | Alfred Pringsheim | 1850 | 1941 | German | mathematician and patron of the arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Pringsheim |
| Marie-Laure de Noailles | Marie-Laure de Noailles, Vicomtesse de Noailles | 1902 | 1970 | French | artist, regarded one of the 20th century's most daring and influential patrons of the arts, noted for her associations with Salvador Dalí, Balthus, Jean Cocteau, Ned Rorem, Man Ray, Luis Buñuel, Francis Poulenc, Wolfgang Paalen, Jean Hugo, Jean-Michel Frank and others as well as her tempestuous life and eccentric personality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Laure_de_Noailles |
| Eduard Arnhold | Eduard Arnhold | 1849 | 1925 | German | entrepreneur, coal magnate, patron of the arts and philanthropist from the famous Arnhold family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Arnhold |
| Mathilde von Rothschild | Hannah Mathilde von Rothschild | 1832 | 1924 | German | Jewish baroness, composer and patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathilde_von_Rothschild |
| Ken Myer | Kenneth Baillieu Myer | 1921 | 1992 | American | patron of the arts, humanities and sciences; diplomat, administrator, businessman and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Myer |
| Jacqueline Piatigorsky | Jacqueline Rebecca Louise Piatigorsky | 1911 | 2012 | French | chess player, author, sculptor, philanthropist, and arts patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Piatigorsky |
| Albert M. Bender | Albert Maurice Bender | 1866 | 1941 | American | art collector who was one of the leading patrons of the arts in San Francisco in the 1920s and 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_M._Bender |
| Lessing J. Rosenwald | Lessing Julius Rosenwald | 1891 | 1979 | American | businessman, a collector of rare books and art, a chess patron, and a philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessing_J._Rosenwald |
| Heinrich Hirschsprung | Heinrich Hirschsprung | 1836 | 1908 | Danish | tobacco manufacturer, arts patron and art collector most known for founding the Hirschsprung Collection in Copenhagen, a museum dedicated to Danish art from the 19th and early 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hirschsprung |
| Aristide Blank | Aristide or Aristid Blank | 1883 | 1960 | Romanian | financier, economist, arts patron and playwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristide_Blank |
| Margaret Gardiner (artist) | Margaret Emilia Gardiner OBE | 1904 | 2005 | null | radical modern British patron of artists and resident of Hampstead, London, from 1932, where she was also a left wing political activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Gardiner_(artist) |
| Victor Smorgon | Victor Smorgon | 1913 | 2009 | Australian | industrialist, arts patron and benefactor, who was founder and former head of the Victor Smorgon Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Smorgon |
| Marc-André Raffalovich | Marc-André Raffalovich | 1864 | 1934 | French | poet and writer on homosexuality, best known today for his patronage of the arts and for his lifelong relationship with the poet John Gray | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc-André_Raffalovich |
| Edward Warburg | Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg | 1908 | 1992 | American | philanthropist and patron of the arts from New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Warburg |
| Diane Hamilton | Diane Hamilton | 1924 | 1991 | American | pseudonym of Diane Guggenheim (1924 – 1991), an American mining heiress, folksong patron and founder of Tradition Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Hamilton |
| Max Silberberg | Max Silberberg | 1878 | 1942 | null | major cultural figure in Breslau, a German Jewish entrepreneur, art collector and patron who was robbed and murdered by the Nazis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Silberberg |
| Georges Mora | Georges Mora | 1913 | 1992 | German | entrepreneur, art dealer, patron, connoisseur and restaurateur | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Mora |
| Dorothy Norman | Dorothy Norman | 1905 | 1997 | American | photographer, writer, editor, arts patron and advocate for social change | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Norman |
| Henri Hinrichsen | Henri Hinrichsen | 1868 | 1942 | German | music publisher and patron of music in Leipzig | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Hinrichsen |
| Leopoldo Franchetti | Leopoldo Franchetti | 1847 | 1917 | Italian | publicist, politician, and patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldo_Franchetti |
| Max Michaelis | Sir Maximillian Michaelis | 1852 | 1932 | South African | financier, mining magnate, benefactor and patron of the arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Michaelis |
| Paul Fromm (philanthropist) | Paul Fromm | 1906 | 1987 | null | Jewish Chicago wine merchant and performing arts patron through the Fromm Music Foundation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fromm_(philanthropist) |
| Ian Froman | Ian Froman | 1937 | n/a | South African | former tennis player and tennis patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Froman |
| Bluma Appel | Bluma Appel | 1919 | 2007 | Canadian | philanthropist and patron of the arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluma_Appel |
| Maria Kalergis | Maria Kalergis von Nesselrode-Ereshoven | 1822 | 1874 | Polish | noblewoman, pianist, salon hostess and patron of the arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Kalergis |
| Beth Rudin DeWoody | Beth Rudin DeWoody | 1952 | n/a | American | art patron, collector, curator, and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Rudin_DeWoody |
| Lewis Manilow | Lewis Manilow | 1927 | 2017 | American | attorney, real estate developer, and arts patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Manilow |
| Frances Lasker Brody | Frances Lasker Brody | 1916 | 2009 | American | arts advocate, collector, and philanthropist who influenced the development of Los Angeles' cultural life as a founding benefactor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and later as a guiding patron of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Gardens | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Lasker_Brody |
| Florence, Lady Phillips | Dorothea Sarah Florence Alexandra, Lady Phillips | 1863 | 1940 | South African | art patroness and promoter of indigenous culture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence,_Lady_Phillips |
| Louis Abrahams (art patron) | Louis Abrahams | 1852 | 1903 | British | tobacconist, art patron, painter and etcher associated with the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian Impressionism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Abrahams_(art_patron) |
| Morris C. Shumiatcher | Morris Cyril "Shumi" Shumiatcher | 1917 | 2004 | Canadian | lawyer, human rights activist, philanthropist, arts patron, art collector, author, and lecturer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_C._Shumiatcher |
| Maxim Vinaver | Maxim Moissejewitsch Vinaver | 1863 | 1926 | Russian | lawyer, politician and patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Vinaver |
| Sándor Hatvany-Deutsch | Baron Sándor Hatvany-Deutsch | 1852 | 1913 | null | leading Hungarian Jewish industrialist, business magnate, philanthropist, investor and art patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sándor_Hatvany-Deutsch |
| Amélie Jakobovits | Amélie Jakobovits, Baroness Jakobovits | 1928 | 2010 | British | charity patron, and the wife of Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, and an important figure in Jewish life in the UK in her own right, who was known as the "Queen Mother" of the UK's Jewish community | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amélie_Jakobovits |
| Nathaniel Meyer von Rothschild | Nathaniel Meyer von Rothschild | 1836 | 1905 | null | member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria, known as art collector and patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Meyer_von_Rothschild |
| Abraham Oppenheim | Abraham Oppenheim | 1804 | 1878 | German | banker and patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Oppenheim |
| Denis Adam | Denis Frederick Adam | 1924 | 2018 | New Zealand | businessman and patron of the arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Adam |
| Sara Grotthuis | Sara Grotthuis | 1763 | 1828 | null | one of the most well-known "salonnières" (salon hostesses and patrons of the arts) of the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Berlin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Grotthuis |
| Betty von Rothschild | Betty von Rothschild, Baronne de Rothschild | 1805 | 1886 | null | noted salonnière, patron of the arts and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_von_Rothschild |
| Sybil Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley | Sybil Rachel Betty Cecile Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley | 1894 | 1989 | British | socialite, patron of the arts, and Chief Staff Officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) during the Second World War | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_Cholmondeley,_Marchioness_of_Cholmondeley |
| Maud Nelke | Maud Julia Augusta Russell | 1891 | 1982 | British | socialite and art patron, who aided Jewish relatives in their escape from Nazi Germany during the 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Nelke |
| Melva Bucksbaum | Melva Jane Bucksbaum | 1933 | 2015 | American | art collector, curator, and patron of the arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melva_Bucksbaum |
| Doron Sabag | Doron Sebbag | null | null | Israeli | art patron and a CEO of the human resources company ORS. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doron_Sabag |
| Lazar Brodsky | Lazar Izrayilevich Brodsky | null | null | Russian | Imperial businessman of Jewish origin, sugar magnate, philanthropist and patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Brodsky |
| Edward Beddington-Behrens | Major Sir Edward Beddington-Behrens | 1897 | 1968 | British | soldier, businessman and patron of the arts, and a leading advocate of European co-operation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Beddington-Behrens |
| Joanna Semel Rose | Joanna Semel Rose | null | null | American | art patron and collector, publisher, philanthropist, and connector, whose salons and dinners in her New York home brought together an international group of intellectuals, artists, authors and educators | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Semel_Rose |
| Frank Schuster (music patron) | Frank Schuster | 1852 | 1927 | British | music-lover and patron of the arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Schuster_(music_patron) |
| Constance Schweich | Constance Schweich | 1869 | 1951 | British | philanthropist and patron of the arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Schweich |
| James Simon (art collector) | (Henri) James Simon | 1851 | 1932 | German | Jewish entrepreneur, art collector, philanthropist and patron of the arts during the Wilhelmine period | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Simon_(art_collector) |
| Sam Salz | Sam Salz | null | null | null | art dealer, art collector, and patron of the arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Salz |
| Gotthard Laske | Gotthard Laske | 1882 | 1936 | German | confectioner, bibliophile, and patron of the arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Laske |
| Stella Heinsheimer Freiberg | Stella Heinsheimer Freiberg | 1862 | 1962 | American | patron of the arts and society figure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Heinsheimer_Freiberg |
| Vincennes Synagogue | The Vincennes Synagogue | null | null | null | one of several funded by the banker patron Daniel Iffla | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincennes_Synagogue |