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He was the son of Edgar J. Kaufmann, a wealthy Pittsburgh businessman and philanthropist who owned Kaufmann's department store, and his wife Liliane. Kaufmann Jr. attended the School for Arts and Crafts at the Austrian Museum of Applied Art in Vienna, in the late 1920s.
Edgar Jonas Kaufmann (November 1, 1885 – April 15, 1955) [1] was an American businessman and philanthropist who owned and directed Kaufmann's Department Store, in Pittsburgh. He is also known for commissioning two modern architectural masterpieces, Fallingwater , designed by Frank Lloyd Wright , and the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs ...
Edgar Kaufmann Jr. announced in September 1963 that he would donate the house and about 1,500 acres (610 ha) to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. [ 202 ] [ 203 ] He said that he was motivated to donate the house because "My personal pleasure has to be subordinated to the future", particularly at a time when many of Wright's houses were ...
Edgar Kaufmann may refer to: Edgar J. Kaufmann (1885–1955), Jewish German-American businessman and philanthropist Edgar Kaufmann Jr. (1910–1989), American architect, author, and professor
Cleary, Richard L., "Edgar J. Kaufmann, Frank Lloyd Wright and the 'Pittsburgh Point Park Coney Island in Automobile Scale'", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, (Vol. LII, No 2): 139–158. Cleary, Richard L. (1999). Merchant Prince and Master Builder: Edgar J. Kaufmann and Frank Lloyd Wright. Pittsburgh: Heinz Architectural ...
Richard Neutra's famous Kaufmann Desert House, a Midcentury marvel in Palm Springs, is aiming for the city's all-time price record: $25 million.
The Edgar J. Kaufmann Conference Center is a conference hall on the 12th floor of 809 United Nations Plaza in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto for professor Edgar Kaufmann Jr. , it is one of four remaining designs by Aalto in the United States.
In 2012, investigators seemingly brought long-awaited closure to one of the nation's oldest and most high-profile kidnapping cases, solving it after more than 50 years.