Max de Beer
Date of birth: 25 January 1898
Place of birth: Emden
Date of death: 12 June 1974
Place of death: Hampstead, London
Category: art dealer
Identity:
He came from a Jewish family, and was the son of Isaac Daniel de Beer and his wife Recha.
By 1926 he had registered an agency in the Hansahaus at the Ringstraße 1. He planned to emigrate to the UK but was arrested and imprisoned 1935-1936. After his release he and his family went to the Netherlands and then to the UK in 1937.
Life:
Max de Beer was an art dealer and auctioneer, specialising in old master drawings, trading as the de Beer Fine Art Company. He was active 1939 - 1964.
He was based at 44/45 Piccadilly in London around 1948.
He was declared bankrupt in 1948, and by 1951, when he resided at 28, Woodlands, Golders Green, London, he had been 'guilty of misconduct in the proceedings' and his bankruptcy discharge was postponed for five years.
Around 1945/1948 he was involved in the sale of about ten paintings that included some works of doubtful authenticity, Harmony in White and Blue y126 and Portrait of a woman (Singer Memorial Museum, Laren).
Bibliography:
'Max de Beer', England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007, Ancestry.com; Research database, the British Museum. The London Gazette, 1 May 1951, online.
Uphoff, Rolf, 'Max de Beer', online, 2016 (citing : 'Stadtarchiv Emden: Standesamtsregister, Melderegister, Nds. Landesarchiv: Handelsregister; Gefangenenbuch des Amtsgerichts Emden und des Landgerichts Aurich, GB, Sterberegister London Hampstead. Infos von Dr Hanna Eichenberger, geb. de Beer').
