Henri van Abbe
Henri Jacob van Abbe (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɛnri ˈjaːkɔp fɑn ˈɑbə];[a] 8 January 1880 – 18 November 1940) was a Dutch tobacco industrialist and art collector. He is the founder of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
Life
Henri Jacob van Abbe was born on 8 January 1880 in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.
Van Abbe was a cigar manufacturer in Eindhoven. In 1900, he founded a cigar factory in Amsterdam, which later expanded. A committed art collector, he founded the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven in 1936 and made a major donation to it.[1][2]
In the 1930s, he regularly travelled to Belgium with Tinus van Bakel, a colleague in the tobacco trade and an art collector, to acquire works of art. In 1936, one of the places they visited was the artists' colony of Sint-Martens-Latem.[3]
Van Abbe died on 18 November 1940 in Eindhoven.
Notes
- ↑ In isolation, van is pronounced [vɑn].
References
- ↑ Bevolo, Marco (9 October 2009). The Golden Crossroads: Multidisciplinary Findings for Business Success from the Worlds of Fine Arts, Design and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-230-25069-7.
- ↑ Lorente, Jesús Pedro (2011). The Museums of Contemporary Art: Notion and Development. Ashgate. p. 100. ISBN 9781409405863.
- ↑ Boyens, Piet (1998). Sint-Martens-Latem. Lannoo. p. 147. ISBN 9789020934977.
External links
- Henri van Abbe Archived 2017-02-06 at the Wayback Machine at Thuis in Brabant