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Katrin Bellinger
Katrin Bellinger (born October 1958) is a London-based German art dealer and collector, specialising in Old Master drawings. Early life Katrin Bellinger was born in October 1958. Her family owned a chain of department stores.Pilar Viladas (August 17, 2015)A Master Collector Shows Us Her Impeccable Taste'' Town & Country''. Career Bellinger is an art dealer and collector, specialising in Old Master drawings. Bellinger was a partner at London art dealers Colnaghi for thirteen years, until the company was merged with Spanish gallery Coll & Cortez in 2015. One of Bellinger’s primary roles was managing its art library and 225-foot archive, which she and her partner Konrad Bernheimer bought from Christoph Graf Douglas, the former head of Sotheby’s in Germany and the son-in-law of Rudolf August Oetker, whose company owned Colnaghi between Jacob Rothschild and Bernheimer. In addition to her professional career in the arts, Bellinger assembled a private collection of more than 900 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Henkel
Christoph Henkel (born 11 February 1958) is a London-based German billionaire businessman. As of September 2021, his net worth is estimated at US$1.7 billion. Early life Christoph Henkel was born on 11 February 1958 in Düsseldorf, West Germany. Henkel's grandfather, Friedrich Karl Henkel, founded Henkel, a cleaning products company, in 1876. His father, Konrad Henkel, took over the company and turned it into a global corporation. Christoph Henkel was born in February 1958 Career Henkel inherited a £1 billion stake in the German chemical company Henkel shortly after his father's death in 1999. He is a co-founder and co-owner of Canyon Equity, headquartered in Larkspur, California. He is also the owner of Dunton Hot Springs resort in Dunton, Colorado, US. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Düsseldorf in 2007. In the ''Sunday Times Rich List 2022 The ''Sunday Times Rich List 2022'' is the 34th annual survey of the wealthiest people resident i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Town & Country (magazine)
''Town & Country'', formerly the ''Home Journal'' and ''The National Press'', is a monthly American lifestyle magazine. It is the oldest continually published general interest magazine in the United States. History Early history The magazine was founded as ''The National Press'' by poet and essayist Nathaniel Parker Willis and ''New York Evening Mirror'' newspaper editor George Pope Morris in 1846. Eight months later, it was renamed ''The Home Journal''. After 1901, the magazine's name became "''Town & Country''", and it has retained that name ever since. Throughout most of the 19th century, this weekly magazine featured poetry, essays and fiction. As more influential people began reading it, the magazine began to include society news and gossip in its pages. After 1901, the magazine continued to chronicle the social events and leisure activities of the North American upper class, including debutante or cotillion balls, and also reported on the subsequent "advantageous marriag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Bernheimer
Konrad Otto Bernheimer (born 30 August 1950) is a German Venezuelan art dealer and collector. He is the chairman and owner of Bernheimer Fine Old Masters in Munich, and was the owner of Colnaghi in London. He sold Colnaghi to the Spanish dealers Jorge Coll and Nicolas Cortés in 2016. Early life Konrad Otto Bernheimer was born in Rubio, Venezuela, on 30 August 1950. Following Kristallnacht on 9–10 November 1938, which saw the huge plate glass windows of the Bernheimer-Haus smashed, the family was sent to Dachau concentration camp. The Mexican government intervened, as his grandfather Otto Bernheimer was the Mexican honorary consul in Munich. Hermann Göring, a Bernheimer client, did a deal whereby they bought his niece’s Venezuelan coffee plantation which was struggling, and were allowed to emigrate there, and also had to take Göring's aunt and her Jewish husband along, and support them until they died. His father Kurt Bernheimer (1911–1954) committed suicide (which Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sotheby’s
Sotheby's () is a British-founded American multinational corporation with headquarters in New York City. It is one of the world's largest brokers of fine and decorative art, jewellery, and collectibles. It has 80 locations in 40 countries, and maintains a significant presence in the UK. Sotheby's was established on 11 March 1744 in London by Samuel Baker, a bookseller. In 1767 the firm became Baker & Leigh, after George Leigh became a partner, and was renamed to Leigh and Sotheby in 1778 after Baker's death when Leigh's nephew, John Sotheby, inherited Leigh's share. Other former names include: Leigh, Sotheby and Wilkinson; Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge (1864–1924); Sotheby and Company (1924–83); Mssrs Sotheby; Sotheby & Wilkinson; Sotheby Mak van Waay; and Sotheby's & Co. The American holding company was initially incorporated in August 1983 in Michigan as Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. In June 2006, it was reincorporated in the State of Delaware and was renamed Sotheby's. In Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf August Oetker
Rudolf August Oetker (20 September 1916 – 16 January 2007) was a German entrepreneur and former member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, Nazi Party, who became a billionaire running his private food company Oetker-Gruppe, founded by his grandfather August Oetker. Biography Early life Oetker served and volunteered in the Waffen-SS from 1941 to 1944. Rudolf Oetker became the president of his family-run business in 1944. The business was inherited from his grandfather, August Oetker, who invented a popular mixture of baking powder. Career Rudolf August Oetker elevated the company to a household name in Germany today. The Oetker-Gruppe was one of the symbols of the post-World War II recovery effort in the country. Oetker retired as executive director in 1981, turning the position over to his son August Oetker (jr.). In 2006, his net worth was estimated by ''Forbes'' at US$8.0 billion. Personal life Oetker married three times and had eight children. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Rothschild
Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, (born 29 April 1936) is a British peer, investment banker and a member of the Rothschild banking family. Now mostly retired, he has held many important roles in business, finance and British public life, and has been active in several charitable and philanthropic areas. Early life Born in Berkshire, England,} he is the eldest son of Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, by his first wife Barbara Judith Rothschild (née Hutchinson). His father was born into a Jewish family, while his mother converted to Orthodox Judaism when they married. Rothschild was educated at Eton College and then at Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained a First in history, tutored by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Emma Georgina Rothschild and Amschel Rothschild are his half-siblings. Business career From 1963 Rothschild worked at the family bank N M Rothschild & Sons in London, before resigning in 1980 due to a family dispute. The chairmanshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Gallery
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director of the National Gallery is Gabriele Finaldi. The National Gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Its collection belongs to the government on behalf of the British public, and entry to the main collection is free of charge. Unlike comparable museums in continental Europe, the National Gallery was not formed by nationalising an existing royal or princely art collection. It came into being when the British government bought 38 paintings from the heirs of John Julius Angerstein in 1824. After that initial purchase, the Gallery was shaped mainly by its early directors, especially Charles Lock Eastlake, and by private donations, which now account for two-thirds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunton Hot Springs, Colorado
Dunton Hot Springs, also known as Dunton, Colorado (unincorporated), is a grouping of log buildings that sits at 8,600 feet on the West Fork of the Dolores River in the San Juan Mountains in the southwestern corner of Colorado. Dunton is northeast of Cortez, Colorado, and 25 miles southwest of Telluride. It is currently a ghost town and is historically known for its thermal mineral springs. History In 1885, Dunton Hot Springs was a homestead that was settled by Horatio Dunton, a miner. The area was attractive to miners due to he mineral-rich geology, and the hot springs in the area. The Smuggler, Emma, and American mines were located nearby. The settlement was deserted for the most part by 1919 due to the fact that it was difficult to transport ore from the remote location. At the peak of its population, 500 people lived in Dunton. In the 1890s, Dunton Hot Springs attracted gold miners, trappers and prostitutes. In 1895, Joe and Dominica Roscio founded the town and establishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Births
Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles. ** Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls to Earth from its orbit, and burns up. * January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol. * January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the "Lacy-Zarubin Agreement, Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C. * January 31 – The first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit. February * February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite, to form the United Arab Republic. * February 6 – Seven Manchester United F.C., Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Art Dealers
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British Art Collectors
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *'' Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles The terminology of the British Isles refers to the words and phrases that are used to describe the (sometimes overlapping) geographical a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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