Max Silberberg 27 February , in Neuruppin — after , in Ghetto Theresienstadt or Auschwitz concentration camp was a major cultural figure in Breslau, [ 1 ] a German Jewish entrepreneur, art collector and patron who was robbed and murdered by the Nazis. His art collection, among the finest of its era, has been the object of numerous restitution claims. Max Silberberg was born in Neuruppin in Brandenburg in as the son of the tailor Isidor Silberberg.
Silberberg's talents were recognized and he was sent to high school while his sister Margarete trained as a seamstress. At the age of 24, Silberberg joined the factory for metal processing M. Their son Alfred Silberberg was born on 8 November In Max Silberberg moved to Breslau with his family.
The dining room, including the furniture and the carpet, was designed by architect August Endell in in the Art Deco style and decorated with outstanding collection of paintings, mostly with German and French works from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Silberberg also had an extensive art library - mainly with French-language literature on modern art. Silberberg was involved in the cultural life of Wroclaw and invited to lectures in his house - for example on the history of Judaism. He was one of the co-founders of the Jewish Museum Association in Wroclaw, as its 1st chairman since March Together with the director of the Breslau Castle Museum, Erwin Hinze, he was one of the organizers of the exhibition Judaism in the history of Silesia in In addition, he supported the Jewish Museum as a patron and donated a silver Torah shield from the 18th century and a silver Torah pointer.
He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts and helped found and was a member of the board of the Society of Friends of Art, which supported the museum as a funding institution.
