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Richard Zinser

Header: Richard Zinser
Also known as: Richard Zinser; primary name: Zinser, Richard
Details: individual; dealer/auction house; German; Male
Life dates: 1884-1984
Biography: Print dealer, originally from Stuttgart, where intially jeweller to the court. Became a dealer in old master prints in the 1920s, buying in Germany and selling to the USA. Settled in the USA on the outbreak of WWII. Partner with Colnaghi in the purchase of the Liechtenstein print collection in the early 1950s; he took the most important prints for sale in the USA to get the foreign currency that allowed the purchase of the next tranche of the collection. These prints were marked with his FL and shield stamp. Retired in the early 1970s to Switzerland, and his heirs sold his personal collection through N.G.Stogdon.
Bibliography: N. Stogdon, 'A descriptive catalogue of the etchings by Rembrandt in a private collection, Switzerland', s.l., 2011, pp.377-378. Adrian Eeles, 'The Hoehn Collection', San Diego 2014, p.64.