Franz Kleinberger

Franz Kleinberger was a European art dealer[1]. He set up a gallery in Paris in 1848, principally involved in selling to US buyers. By 1913 he had set up a gallery on lower Fifth Avenue in New York, near the Duveen Gallery. Harry S. Sperling took over as the firm's president after Kleinberger's death around 1936[2].

He was the intermediary in the purchase of Fabritius's The Goldfinch by art collector Abraham Bredius for 6,200 francs at the sale of the Émile Martinet collection on 27 February 1896.[3][4] Ik liet Kleinburger op de veiling bieden... de heer zich om, en zegt: "nu zou ik well eens willen weten, wie de kooper is!" "C'est moi", luidde het antwoord. [I let Kleinburger bid at the auction ... the gentleman turned around and said, "now I would like to know who the buyer is!" "C'est moi" was the answer.][5]

References
  1. "Discover art dealer (person) Franz Kleinberger". rkd.nl.
  2. "Archives Directory for the History of Collecting". research.frick.org.
  3. Jowell, Frances Suzman (2003). "Thoré-Bürger's art collection: "A rather unusual gallery of bric-à-brac"". Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art. 30 (1/2): 54 –119 (61, 68). doi:10.2307/3780951. JSTOR 3780951.
  4. Schneider, Norbert (2003). Still Life. Cologne: Taschen. p. 203. ISBN 978-3-8228-2081-0.
  5. Bredius, Abraham (1939). "Een vroeg werk van Carel Fabritius" [An early work by Carel Fabritius]. Oud Holland (in Dutch). 56: 3–14. JSTOR 42722845.
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