Roy Neuberger

Roy Rothschild Neuberger ( born July 21, 1903 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, † December 24, 2010 in Manhattan, New York City ) was an American financier and patron of modern art.

Life

He spent his childhood in New York. At the age of twelve he was orphan. He enrolled at New York University to study journalism, but was soon on to become a businessman. In Manhattan he learned at B. Altman and Company buying and selling. At 20 he went to Paris, painted and studied art until 1928. Upon his return to the U.S., he earned his living on the exchange. In 1939 he founded the company Neuberger Berman Robert Berman.

Throughout his life he collected over 600 works of contemporary art and gave them to the named after him Neuberger Museum of Art at the University of the State of New York in Purchase. Among them were paintings of Edward Hopper, Helen Frankenthaler, Damien Hirst, Neo Rauch, and Marlene Dumas.