James Loeb
James Loeb (August 6, 1867, New York – May 27, 1933, Murnau, Germany) was a Jewish-German-American banker and philanthropist.
He was the second born son of Solomon Loeb and Betty Loeb.[1]
James Loeb joined his father at Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in 1888 and was made partner in 1894, but he retired from the bank in 1901 due to severe illnesses.
In memory of his former lecturer and friend Charles Eliot Norton, in 1907 Loeb created The Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship.[2] In 1911 he founded and endowed the Loeb Classical Library, and founded the Institute of Musical Art, which later became part of the Juilliard School of Music.
A large portion of his significant art collection he left to the Museum Antiker Kleinkunst" in Munich (today the Staatliche Antikensammlungen) ("Sammlung James Loeb").
Further reading
- James Loeb, 1887-1933: Kunstsammler und Mäzen, by Brigitte Salmen (ed.) for the Schloßmuseum des Marktes Murnau, Murnau, 2000 [3]
References
- ^ Born Betty Gallenberg. Salomon Loeb met and married her in Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany in 1862. She was then 28 years old, educated as a musician, she also taught the piano. The James Loeb biography from the Loeb Classical Library calls her Betty (Goldman) Loeb.
- ^ The Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship, Archaeological Institute of America
- ^ This is a German language exhibition-catalogue for a presentation of the life of James Loeb, collector and philantropist at the Schloßmuseum Murnau, April 7 - July 9, 2000. The book contains essays from various authors (Brigitte Salmen, Dorothea McEwan, Erika Simon and others). It also contains a German translation of James Loeb's biographical essay Our Father: A Memorial [privately printed, 1929]; James Loeb: Unser Vater: Eine Denkschrift für Salomon Loeb, p. 9-16.
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