Swiss Art Collectors - Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Thomas Ammann, Emil Georg Buhrle, Lukas Vischer (Paperback)

Chapters: Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Thomas Ammann, Emil Georg Buhrle, Lukas Vischer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Thomas E. Ammann (19501993) was a leading Swiss art dealer in Impressionist and Twentieth Century Art and major collector of Post-war and Contemporary Art . Born 1950 in Ermatingen, Switzerland, as the youngest of four children (Eveline 1940, Doris 1943, Susan 1946), Ammann became an art collector while still a teen-ager. Aged 18 he went to work at Galerie Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich. It was during this time of apprenticeship that Ammann first met Andy Warhol who would become a close friend. In 1977 Ammann went into business for himself. His unique combination of knowledge, eye for quality, charm, humor, looks and absolute discretion catapulted him to the top of the art world by his mid 30's (Skis with Valentino, dines with Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor ... lives on the Concorde. Remember the roaring '80s, when Zurich-based art dealer deluxe Thomas Ammann trotted the globe, carting home the finest art of the day? ). Thomas Ammann died 9 June 1993, aged 43 - a memorial service for friends and family was held in his honour at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, 18 November 1993 with speakers Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Thomas Krens, William H. Luers, Ernst Beyeler, Robert Wilson (director), Bob Colacello, Bianca Jagger and artists Ross Bleckner, Francesco Clemente and Eric Fischl. In 1977 Ammann established his own gallery, Thomas Ammann Fine Art which was soon to be visited by major collectors throughout Europe and the Americas. Its patrons included Giovanni Agnelli, Gustavo Cisneros, David Geffen, Ronald Lauder, Samuel Newhouse Jr, Stavros Niarchos, Ronald Perelman, Yves Saint Laurent and Ba...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=764599