Otto Anninger

Otto Anninger (20 February 1874 – 5 July 1954, Lucerne) was a major industrialist and an art collector.

Life Anniger married Clara (née Wolf), (born 12 January 1886, Vienna; died 23 September 1938, Paris) They lived in the "Villa Anninger" located at Vienna XIX, Lannerstraße 36. The Anningers also had a villa in Vienna XIX, Billrothstraße 46.

Art collection Anninger collected paintings and reliefs by, among others, Robert and Franz von Alt, Canaletto and Erwin Pendl.

Nazi persecution When Austria merged with Nazi Germany in the Anschluss of 1938, the Anningers fled to Paris. His wife committed suicide. Anninger then fled to the U.S.

According to the Louvre Museum in Paris, Anniger donated a painting by Jan de Heem in 1939.