Auction 210 The James Isidor Kaiser Estate Part II - Important Old Masters, Decorative Art from the 15th-19th Centuries and a Magnificent Clock Collection
By Hammersite
Feb 27, 2022
40 Tagore str. Tel Aviv, Israel, 6920342

JAMES ISIDOR KAISER (Brilon 1890-Copenhagen 1965), entrepreneur, Berlin, Copenhagen. 

James Isidor Kaiser was born on May 6, 1890 in Brilon, North Rhine-Westphalia, the son of Arthur Kaiser and Mathilde Kaiser (née Steinberg). In October of 1912, at the age of twenty two, Isi was sent by his employer, Salomon Brothers & Co (a paper manufacturer), to the United States where he was mainly based in New York during his eight-year stay. After his return to Berlin, he founded Darag Deutsch-Amerikanische Rohstoff-Gesellschaft in 1922, which also dealt paper.

Throughout his life, Isidor showed great interest in old masters, antiques and silverware and built a formidable collection before WWII. With the outbreak of WWII in 1939 Isidor Kaiser immigrated to Denmark and continued to grow his vast collection until his death in Copenhagen on September 3, 1965, aged 75.

He bequeathed his estate to his two remaining siblings who resided in Israel. His beneficiaries sold most of the estate at 2 auctions:

1. Arne Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, Auction no. 191, Mar 22, 1966 

2. Hausewedell, Hamburg, Auction no. 144, May 21, 1966

The remainder of the estate was sent to Israel to be divided amongst his 2 heirs.


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LOT 34502:

Simon Jacobsz de Vlieger (1600-1653), A Traveler in a Wooded Path

Sold for: $1,500
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$ 800
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Simon Jacobsz de Vlieger (1600-1653), A Traveler in a Wooded Path
Black, grey chalk and brown wash on paper

21.8 X 20 cm

Provenance: Carl Benjamin Brüsaber, Hamburg ( L.311);
Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt ( L.2926), sale of his collection, Frankfurt-am-Main, Prestel, 4-5 October 1917, lot 522 (as Herman Saftleven);
Anonymous sale, Frankfurt-am-Main, Prestel, 1927 (as Herman Saftleven; according to further catalogue entry stuck to back of mount);
Estate of Isidor Kaiser, Copenhagen-Hamburg. L.4240

Notes: Presented for sale at Sotheby's (July 6th 2005) with the following notes: " The distinctive figure types and the soft handling, particularly in the foliage, make the traditional attribution to Herman Saftleven unsustainable. In fact, this drawing is stylistically closely comparable with a signed landscape by De Vlieger, sold, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 2 November 2004, lot 75."
Bears a watermark.