Oskar Federer

Oskar Federer (May 4, 1884, in Jičín – July 21, 1968, in Canada) was a Jewish industrialist living in Czechoslovakia.

[3] In the journal Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente, Federer was described as "one of the most important and exciting personalities of the Czechoslovak economy in the interwar period".

[1] Federer worked with the Viennese Rothschilds for over thirty years, and was the general director of the Vitkovice Mining and Ironworks Union, one of the largest industrial firms in the country.

[1] Federer's art collection included works by Lovis Corinth,[4] Claude Monet,[5] and Paul Gauguin.

Works included those by Edvard Munch, Oskar Kokoschka, Otakar Nejedlý and Antonín Slavíček.