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About Saemy Rosenberg
Saemy Rosenberg was forced to sell his share of the Guelph Treasure to Hermann Göring in the 1930s. A court case seeking restitution is underway in 2021. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guelph_Treasure
https://www.timesofisrael.com/heirs-seek-return-of-cursed-200m-gold...
Saemy Rosenberg, president of Rosenberg & Stiebel, 32 East 57th Street, a leading inter national art dealer, died Friday in New York Hospital. He was 78 years old and lived at 101 Central Park West.
In 1962 Mr. Rosenberg bid $2.25‐million, on behalf of the Cleveland Museum of Art, for Rembrandt's “Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Horner.”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art bought it at auction for $2.3‐million.
Mr. Rosenberg later recalled the moment of defeat: “I had no particular feeling—after 54 years in the business, I never have feelings any more.”
He paused and reconsidered: “I was sorry I couldn't get it for Cleveland,” he said.
Mr. Rosenberg's association with Cleveland dates to 1930 when, as a dealer in Frankfurt, Germany, he obtained for the Cleveland Museum the Guelph Treasure, an important collection of medieval art.
His firm's customers included Paul Getty, the oil tycoon, and William S. Paley, chairman of the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Through the company the Metropolitan Museum of Art bought the Merode altarpiece for the Cloisters.
Mr. Rosenberg was born in Berlin and moved as a young mart to Frankfurt, where he helped develop the antique bus iness founded by his grand father into an international art firm.
He left Germany at the be ginning of the Hitler regime and set up important art houses in Amsterdam, Paris and London.
In 1940 Mr. Rosenberg came to New York with his family and as president of Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., became one of the leading art dealers in the United States.
Through his knowledge of art, which he had studied in Munich, he discovered many art treasures for the foremost museums and private collections here and abroad.
He was a member of the Art Dealers Association of America and the Art and Antique Dealers League of America.
Surviving are his widow, Lieselotte; a daughter, Gaby Leiber; three brothers, Jacob, Erich and Siegfried; a sister, Lotte Freudenstein, and two grandchildren.
A private service was held yesterday.
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Saemy Rosenberg's Timeline
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July 27, 1892
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Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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| 1971 |
January 1, 1971
Age 78
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New York, New York, New York, United States
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Beth Olom Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens, Queens County, New York, United States
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