European. I'd very much like to think there was a European nationality, but I think I may be dreaming." Through his mother, Antonie Zadek, Berggruen was a cousin of the opera singer Hilde Zadek (1917–2019). In 1939, Berggruen married the American Lillian Zellerbach. They divorced in 1945. They had two children: John Berggruen, owner of the Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco and active in the Bay Area art scene since 1970; Helen Berggruen, a San Francisco-based artist. In 1960, he married the German actress Bettina Moissi, a Catholic of Albanian and German descent. They had two children: Olivier Berggruen, art historian and curator; Nicolas Berggruen, a financier and art collector. Death Berggruen died at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 23 February 2007. At his own wish he was buried in the forest cemetery in Waldfriedhof Dahlem, in Berlin. His funeral was attended by German chancellor Angela Merkel, and then-president Horst Köhler, among others. References External links 1914 births 2007 deaths Businesspeople from Berlin German art collectors 20th-century art collectors German art dealers Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Berggruen family United States Army personnel of World War II Art collectors from Paris