Otto Anninger (February 20, 1874 – July 5, 1954, Lucerne) was a major industrialist and an art collector.
[1] Anniger had a company "W. Abeles & Co.", agency and commission trade in Vienna I., located at Schottenbastei 4, as well as factories in Teesdorf, Lower Austria, and Dugaresa, Yugoslavia.
[1] Anninger collected paintings and reliefs by, among others, Robert and Franz von Alt, Canaletto and Erwin Pendl.
Anninger then fled to the U.S.[1] In 1938, Anniger's company "W. Abeles & Co." was Aryanized (transferred to a non-Jewish owner) by the Austrian Kontrollbank, All his properties were confiscated.
;[3] According to the Louvre Museum in Paris, Anniger donated a painting by Jan de Heem in 1939.