Philanthropist. Florence Meyer was an American philanthropist who founded the Fondation franco-américaine Florence Blumenthal (Franco-American Florence Blumenthal Foundation), which awarded the Prix Blumenthal from 1919-1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians, to promote Franco- American relations. In 1919, she organized the La Fondation américaine Blumenthal pour la pensée et l'art français (American Foundation for French Art and Thought) in Paris to discover young French artists, aid them financially, and in the process draw the United States and France closer together through art, thought, and literature. In 1925, Blumenthal moved to Paris with her husband, later donating to the Children's Hospital in Paris the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Sorbonne in Paris. For their altruism, Florence Blumenthal and her husband George Blumenthal received the French Legion of Honor in 1929.
Philanthropist. Florence Meyer was an American philanthropist who founded the Fondation franco-américaine Florence Blumenthal (Franco-American Florence Blumenthal Foundation), which awarded the Prix Blumenthal from 1919-1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians, to promote Franco- American relations. In 1919, she organized the La Fondation américaine Blumenthal pour la pensée et l'art français (American Foundation for French Art and Thought) in Paris to discover young French artists, aid them financially, and in the process draw the United States and France closer together through art, thought, and literature. In 1925, Blumenthal moved to Paris with her husband, later donating to the Children's Hospital in Paris the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Sorbonne in Paris. For their altruism, Florence Blumenthal and her husband George Blumenthal received the French Legion of Honor in 1929.
Bio by: Ola K Ase
Gravesite Details
Remains shipped to New York, and cremated at Fresh Pond Crematory in Queens. Florence's ashes were taken back to Paris, and were spread in the garden of her Villa in the south of France, This was in accordance with her Will.
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