Emanuel Lewenstein

Emanuel Albert Lewenstein (5 December 1870 – 10 June 1930) was a Dutch-Jewish art collector. Early life Emanuel Albert Lewenstein was born in Amsterdam on 5 December 1870, the son of German-Jewish Adolph Lewenstein and Dutch-Jewish Lea Joachimsthal from Amsterdam. His parents founded the Sewingmachinetrade A. Lewenstein (Dutch pronunciation: Naaimachinehandel v/h A. Lewenstein) in Amsterdam in 1868 and designed the famous sewingmachine Lewenstein. Their daughters Rosa and Betty Lewenstein ensured that the company grew into one of the largest supply companies for the clothing industry in the Netherlands. Rosa(Amsterdam, April 4, 1872) did not survive the Second World War. Betty(Amsterdam, Jan 25, 1880) did. Art collector Emanuel Albert Lewenstein was their older brother. Kandinsky's Das Bunte Leben Lewenstein bought Wassily Kandinsky's oil painting Das Bunte Leben (The Colourful Life) immediately after it was created in 1907. After his death, his widow Hedwig loaned it to Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum for safekeeping.