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Rolf de Maré
Rolf de Maré (9 May 1888 – 28 April 1964), sometimes called Rolf de Mare, was a Swedish art collector and leader of the Ballets Suédois in Paris in 1920–25. In 1933 he founded the world's first museum for dance in Paris.
Biography.
Rolf de Maré was born in Stockholm in 1888 as the son of diplomat Henrik de Maré and sculptor Ellen Roosval von Hallwyl. In 1913 he made friends with post-impressionist painter Nils von Dardel who was not particularly well off
fourth died in infancy), two are more known to history. The eldest, Ebba von Eckermann, are known as a social activist and philanthropist. The middle one, Ellen, a sculptor, married the diplomat Henrik de Maré and was the mother of Rolf de Maré, founder of the Ballets suédois. After a scandalous divorce, Ellen remarried the art historian Johnny Roosval.