Lehmann Bernheimer (27 December 1841 - 29 May 1918) was a German antique dealer, who built the

Bernheimer-Haus The Bernheimer-Haus, also known as the Bernheimer Palace, is a residential and commercial building located on Lenbachplatz 3 in Munich. The building was built in 1888/89 by architect Friedrich von Thiersch with a Baroque Revival architecture, neo-b ...

in Munich. He was born on 27 December 1841 in Buttenhausen near

Münsingen Münsingen (Highest Alemannic German, Highest Alemannic: ''Münsige'') is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Bern-Mittelland (administrative district), Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the Cantons of Switzerland, cant ...

, Württemberg, the third child of Meier Bernheimer (1801-1870) and his wife Sarah, née Kahn (1803-1881). In 1887, Bernheimer bought a small coffee house and beer garden, owned and run by an Englishman, and called the ''English Café''. In its place was built the

, which was opened in December 1889 by

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. Initially the focus was on high-quality textiles, with the manufacture of

luxury goods In economics, a luxury good (or upmarket good) is a good for which demand increases more than what is proportional as income rises, so that expenditures on the good become a greater proportion of overall spending. Luxury goods are in contrast to n ...

being slowly added. After a fire in 1897, the building was extended and antiques, tapestries and carpets were added. On his death in 1918, his son,

Otto Bernheimer Otto Bernheimer (14 July 1877 – 5 July 1960) was a German collector of art, and an antique dealer. Life Otto Bernheimer, born 1877 in Munich, was the son of a supplier to the royal Bavarian court Lehmann Bernheimer Lehmann Bernheimer (27 ...

took over.

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Lehmann Lehmann is a German surname. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 75.3% of all bearers of the surname ''Lehmann'' were residents of Germany, 6.6% of the United States, 6.3% of Switzerland, 3.2% of France, 1.7% of Australia and 1.3% of Poland. In ...

German art dealers People from Münsingen, Germany