Siegfried Kramarsky

He was the director of the Amsterdam branch of the banking firm Lisser & Rosenkranz, headquartered in Hamburg,[2] from 1923 until 1938. In light of the rise of Nazism in neighboring Germany, Kramarsky emigrated to Canada, and later New York City.[3][4]

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.[5]

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  Vincent van Gogh:
  Porträt des Dr. Gachet
  1890, private collection
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  Vincent van Gogh:
  Der Garten Daubignys
  1890, Hiroshima Museum of Art
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  Vincent van Gogh:
  Die Brücke von Trinquetaille
  1888, Privatsammlung, Leihgabe im Kunsthaus Zürich
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  Vincent van Gogh:
  Schuhe
  1888, Metropolitan Museum of Art