Benjamin Altman

Benjamin Altman, nado o 12 de xullo de 1840 e finado o 7 de outubro de 1913, foi un empresario estadounidense de Nova York. Foi coñecido por crear a compañía B. Altman en 1865, e tamén por ser un grande amante e mecenas da arte, en especial do pintor Rembrandt. Altman chegou a ter unha importante colección de pinturas que doou ao Museo Metropolitano de Arte de Nova York.

 Biografía 
Benjamin Altman veu dunha familia de xudeus de Baviera, que emigraron a América en 1835 e onde abriron unha pequena tenda na Attorney Street de Nova York. Despois de traballar na tenda de mercadorías de seu pai, Altman estableceuse por conta propia. En 1865, fundou B. Altman & Co, unha tenda de tecidos situada na Terceira Avenida ao longo 10th Street, en Nova York. Co paso dos anos a tenda prosperou e puido ampliar por outros lugares. En 1877, abriu unha tenda en Sixth Avenida, coñecida como o "Palacio do Comercio" pola súa arquitectura de luxo, a tenda de Altman foi un dos primeiros en ter roupa para diferentes idades e en seccións diferentes.Abrams, Jeanne. "Benjamin Altman." In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, vol. 2, edited by William J. Hausman. German Historical Institute. Last modified November 14, 2013.

Altman utilizou a súa riqueza para financiar diversas iniciativas na súa cidade natal. Pouco antes do seu falecemento creou a Fundación Altman, unha organización benéfica para dar apoio ás institucións educativas da cidade de Nova York.

 Colección de artes 
Benjamin Altman era un gran coleccionista de pinturas de Rembrandt e porcelana oriental. Á súa morte, doou a colección ao Museo Metropolitano de Arte. A colección tamén contén retratos notables de comerciantes flamengos e alemáns do Renacemento.

 Pinturas do legado de Benjamin Altman, 1913 
ImaxeTítuloArtistaDataNº de inventarioUrl do museo center|128px Man with a Steel Gorget anonymous 1648 14.40.601 MET center|128px Yonker Ramp and his sweetheart Frans Hals 1623 14.40.602 MET center|128px Old Woman in an Armchair Jacob Adriaensz Backer 1640 14.40.603 MET center|128px The Fingernail Test Frans HalsJudith Leyster 1626 14.40.604 MET center|128px Shrovetide Revellers Frans Hals 1616 14.40.605 MET center|128px Saint Justina of Padua Bartolomeo Montagna  14.40.606 MET center|128px Self-Portrait Gerrit Dou 1665 14.40.607 MET center|128px Rembrandt's Son Titus anonymousRembrandt 1680s 14.40.608 MET center|128px Old Woman Cutting Her Nails anonymousRembrandt 1650s 14.40.609 MET center|128px Pilate Washing His Hands anonymousRembrandt 1660s 14.40.610 MET center|128px A Girl Asleep Johannes Vermeer 1657 14.40.611 MET center|128px Young Woman Peeling Apples Nicolaes Maes 1655 14.40.612 MET center|128px Interior with a Young Couple Pieter de Hooch 1662 14.40.613 MET center|128px Entrance to a Village Meindert Hobbema 1690s 14.40.614 MET center|128px Portrait of a Woman, Called the Marchesa Durazzo Anton van Dyck  14.40.615 MET center|128px Young Herdsmen with Cows Aelbert Cuyp  14.40.616 MET center|128px A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier Gerard ter Borch  14.40.617 MET center|128px Self portrait Rembrandt 1660 14.40.618 MET center|128px Lucas van Uffel (died 1637) Anton van Dyck 1624s 14.40.619 MET center|128px Portrait of a man with gloves in hand Rembrandt 1648 14.40.620 MET center|128px Man with a Magnifying Glass Rembrandt 1660s 14.40.621 MET center|128px Woman with a Pink Rembrandt 1660s 14.40.622 MET center|128px Wheat Fields Jacob van Ruisdael 1670 14.40.623 MET center|128px Portrait of a Man ("The Auctioneer") anonymousRembrandt 1658 14.40.624 MET center|128px Portrait of a Woman Rembrandt 1633 14.40.625 MET center|128px Portrait of Maria Portinari Hans Memling 1470 14.40.626–27 MET center|128px The Crucifixion Fra Angelico  14.40.628 MET center|128px Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace anonymous 1654 14.40.629 MET center|128px Ulrich Fugger (1490–1525) Hans Maler 1525 14.40.630 MET center|128px The Supper at Emmaus Diego Velázquez  14.40.631 MET center|128px Virgin and Child with Angels Bernard van Orley  14.40.632 MET center|128px Virgin and Child with Saint Anne Albrecht Dürer 1519 14.40.633 MET center|128px Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine Hans Memling 1479 14.40.634 MET center|128px Madonna and Child with Angels anonymous 1500s 14.40.635 MET center|128px Christ Taking Leave of His Mother Gerard David  14.40.636 MET center|128px Lady Lee (Margaret Wyatt, born about 1509) anonymous 1540s 14.40.637 MET center|128px Federigo Gonzaga (1500–1540) Francesco Francia 1510 14.40.638 MET center|128px Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain Diego Velázquez  14.40.639 MET center|128px Portrait of a Man Tiziano 1512 14.40.640 MET center|128px Madonna and Child with Saint Joseph and an Angel Raffaellino del Garbo  14.40.641 MET center|128px The Last Communion of Saint Jerome Sandro Botticelli 1495 14.40.642 MET center|128px The Holy Family with Saint Mary Magdalen Andrea Mantegna 1495 14.40.643 MET center|128px Portrait of a Man Dieric Bouts 1470 14.40.644 MET center|128px Portrait of a Young Man Antonello da Messina  14.40.645 MET center|128px Lady Rich (Elizabeth Jenks, died 1558) anonymous 1540 14.40.646 MET center|128px Madonna and Child anonymousAndrea del Verrocchio 1470 14.40.647 MET center|128px Portrait of an old man Hans Memling 1475 14.40.648 MET center|128px Portrait of a Young Man Cosimo Tura  14.40.649 MET center|128px Portrait of Cardinal Filippo Archinto Tiziano  14.40.650 MET center|128px Bathsheba at her Toilette Rembrandt 1643 14.40.651 MET center|128px Changing Pasture Anton Mauve  14.40.810 MET center|128px The Ferryman Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 1865s 14.40.811 MET center|128px Twilight Anton Mauve  14.40.812 MET center|128px A Pond in Picardy Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot  14.40.813 MET center|128px A Path among the Rocks Théodore Rousseau  14.40.814 MET center|128px The Banks of the Oise Charles-François Daubigny 1863 14.40.815 MET center|128px The Return to the Fold Anton Mauve  14.40.816 MET center|128px A Lane through the Trees Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot  14.40.817 MET center|128px A River Landscape with Storks Charles-François Daubigny 1864 14.40.818 MET center|128px The Edge of the Woods Narcisse-Virgile Díaz de la Peña 1872 14.40.819 MET

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Categoría:Nados en Nova York
Categoría:Nados en 1840
Categoría:Finados en 1913
Categoría:Empresarios dos Estados Unidos de América