Oskar Federer
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Oskar Federer (4 May 1884 in Jičín – 21 July 1968 in Canada) was a Czech-Canadian Jewish industrialist and art collector.[1] Forced to flee from his native Czechoslovakia to Canada by the Nazis, his property and art collection were plundered first by Nazis[2] and later by the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.[3]
In the journal Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente, Federer was described as "one of the most important and exciting personalities of the Czechoslovak economy in the interwar period".[1]
Federer worked with the Viennese Rothschilds for over thirty years, and was the general director of the Vitkovice Mining and Ironworks Union, one of the largest industrial firms in the country.[1]
Art collector
Federer's art collection included works by Lovis Corinth,[4] Claude Monet,[5] and Paul Gauguin.[6]
