The collection of a Jewish industrialist Max Silberberg consists of approximately two hundred fifty works of art, which were presented in 1920–1941 in the mansion located at 1–3 Landbergstrasse – today’s Kutnowska Street. The collection was often perceived as a Wrocław counterpart of a collection of an American millionaire Andrew Mellon, which constituted an origin of Washington’s National Gallery of Art.

Initially Silberberg collected only works of a realist and portraitist Wilhelm Leibl and painters from his circle, such as Carl Schuch or Wilhelm Trübner, but due to the huge popularity of these artists and difficulties related to acquisition of their works, he became interested in impressionist painting. He obtained several paintings of Degas, three paintings of Manet and three paintings of Cézanne, two paintings of Monet and two of Pissarro, five paintings of Renoir and some works of van Gogh, Rodin, Sisley, Seurat and Lieberman for his collection. It also included works of famous French painters, such as Corot, Delacroix or Courbet.

In the times of crisis of the 1930s Silberberg had to sell some works from his collection, and when the Nazis came to power, he was forced to sell more. Finally his property was taken by Germans in 1940, and Silberberg and his wife were killed in Auschwitz in 1941.

Today works which used to belong to Max Silberberg are the properties of the following museums: the Louvre, Musée d’Orsay or the Museum of Modern Art in New York.