Michaelis, Sir Max

Michaelis, Sir Max
(1860–1932)
   South African art patron. Reaching South Africa from Germany at the age of sixteen, Michaelis became a wealthy diamond buyer in Kimberley, settled in Capetown and became a leading benefactor of art. He endowed the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Capetown and the art gallery in that city, to which he presented an important collection of Dutch masters.

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