Stefan Edlis (1925 in Vienna, Austria – October 15, 2019) was an Austrian born American art collector and philanthropist.
[1] Edlis escaped Nazi Reich annexed Austria with his mother and two siblings in 1941 and emigrated to the United States.
[5] In 1977 Edlis began his foray into forming a major collection with his purchase of Piet Mondrian’s Large Composition With Red, Blue, and Yellow.
[7] In 2000 Edlis and Neeson made a partial gift of their Jeff Koons's Rabbit to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
[12] Edlis and his second wife Gael Neeson, whom he married in the 1970s, pursued their passion for art together and had homes in Chicago and Aspen, Colorado.