János Scholz

János Scholz (December 20, 1903 – June 3, 1993) was a Hungarian-born American cellist and art collector.

Early life Scholz was born in 1903 in Sopron, Hungary. He graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He joined the Roth Quartet in 1932. to Morgan Library & Museum.

Personal life and death Scholz was married twice. In 1973 Scholz offered to bequeath his collection to the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York.

Scholz also donated more than 5,000 photographs to the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame as well as works to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In 2016 the Metropolitan Museum of Art reached a settlement with the family of Michael Berolzheimer, a Jewish art collector who had been persecuted by the Nazis, for a drawing of a stag that Scholz had gifted to the museum.

Selected works

Italian Master Drawings, 1350–1800, From The Janos Scholz Collection, Selected And Described by Janos Scholz