Edmund de Unger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edmund de Unger

Hungarian art collector

Date of Birth: 06-Aug-1918

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 25-Jan-2011

Profession: art collector

Nationality: Hungary, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Edmund Robert Anthony de Unger (Hungarian: Ödön Antal Robert de Unger, b 6 August 1918, Budapest - d 25 January 2011, Ham, Surrey) was a Hungarian-born property developer and art collector.
In London he built up the Keir Collection, one of the greatest post-war collections of Islamic art, bequeathed in 2008 to the Pergamon Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin.
The arrangement for the museum to curate the collection came to an end in July 2012.
The collection is now hosted by the Dallas Museum of Art as of May 2014 for a 15-year renewable loan.