Gustav Rau Art collector

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) | Date: January 10, 2002 | Copyright information

Gustav Rau

Art collector

Thursday, January 10, 2002

Frankfurt, Germany -- German art collector Gustav Rau, who worked as a doctor in Africa and last year donated his collection of more than 600 works to the U.N. Children's Fund, has died, the United Nations agency said. He was 79.

Rau died last Thursday near his home city of Stuttgart, the agency's German branch said, without giving further details.

Rau worked for his family's auto parts business until he started studying medicine at the age of 40. In 1972, he sold the family firm and went ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

	Owner told he can't have his paintings It took Gustav Rau 40 years to collect his 800 masterpieces worth more than pounds 300 million. Now he is fighting a ruling by a Swiss court that he is too senile to be allowed to manage the collection. Julian Coman reports from Paris Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London ; ...his own business affairs. Gustav Rau, a 78-year-old German citizen...foundations tried to persuade the art collector to change his mind. In desperation...set about proving that the art collector had gone mad. For some years...assets as I would like." The art collector ...
	Art collector dies Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ; Top art collector Baron Hans Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza, died at his home in Spain aged 81 .
	Paul's pictures. (art collector Paul Mellon; People Making News) Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report ; To almost any other art collector, the sale of 42 works by Picasso, van Gogh, Degas, Manet and others would represent total liquidation. To philanthropist art collector Paul Mellon, the pieces are but a very small selection. The 82-year-old, whose...
	SA: Art collector to open exhibition in his honour Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia) ; AAP General News (Australia) 11-03-1999 SA: Art collector to open exhibition in his honour Businessman and art collector WILLIAM BOWMORE, who's already donated works valued at $9 million to the South Australian Art Gallery, will open an exhibition...
	Call collect: Deciding to become art collector may be decision of the heart. Newspaper article from: Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK) ; ...Davis doesn't consider himself an art collector. He thinks he might like to be one. When I think of an art collector I think of someone who usually...worth of stuff. That's what an art collector is in my mind, he said during a...
	FERN ROCHE, 80; AVID ART COLLECTOR Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe ; ...Fern M. (Savoy) Roche, 80, of Waltham, a homemaker and art collector, died Nov. 21 in Youville Hospital in Cambridge. Born in...homemaker and active in political campaigns in Waltham. An avid art collector and painter, she was one of the founding members of the Mother...
	Benjamin A. Trustman, attorney, philanthropist, art collector; at 94 Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe ; Benjamin A. Trustman of Miami Shores, Fla., a retired attorney, art collector and philanthropist, died of complications from a heart attack...Minsk, Russia, and retired to Florida in the mid-1970s. As an art collector, he specialized in graphics, particularly lithographic prints...
	Chef Nigella Lawson weds art collector Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) ; Celebrity chef and cookbook author Nigella Lawson has married art collector Charles Saatchi in a small private wedding, a spokesman for the bride said Thursday. Lawson, 43, and Saatchi, 60, were married...
	Famous art collector, 3 others killed in Boracay.(Metro & National News) Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin ; Byline: ARIS R. ILAGAN Three Europeans, including a prominent art collector, and their Filipina housemaid, were hacked to death by still...galleries in Hong Kong and is reportedly known as a prominent art collector in Asia and Europe. Police identified the slain Filipina...
	Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Museum Matters).(gets 16th-century Italian art objects from private art collector)(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Art Business News ; The Philadelphia Museum of Art recently received an important gift from a private art collector of 16th-century Italian Maiolica plates, vases and pottery--considered to be one of the finest such collections in the U.S. The...