caption birth_place nationality birth_date image article_title name occupation
christian ringnes -lrb- 2014 -rrb- oslo norwegian 3 march 1954 christian ringnes - 2014-02-13 at 18-43-45 . jpg christian ringnes
 christian ringnes businessman , investor
christian ringnes

christian ringnes -lrb- born 3 march 1954 -rrb- is well known as a flamboyant businessman and art collector from norway whose family started the country 's largest brewery ringnes more than a hundred years ago .
in his hometown of oslo , ringnes owns restaurants , hotels and museums , and recently donated more than $ 70 million for the creation of a large sculpture and cultural park , which opened in 2013 .
over decades he has built one of the largest private collections of art in the world .
christian holds an mba from the university of lausanne in switzerland and an mba from harvard business school in the united states .
he has since 1984 been an active real estate investor and is currently the largest shareholder and ceo of real estate companies eiendomsspar and victoria eiendom .
in 2001 he bought the dilapidated ekeberg restaurant in oslo , not far from the place where edvard munch painted `` scream '' , he renovated it and opened the restaurant in 2005 .
he has also given oslo the sculptures `` peacock fountain '' at the national theatre station and `` kate moss '' at the opera passage .
marketing association in oslo appointed christian ringnes to `` oslo ambassador '' for his efforts to promote oslo as a city and destination .
in 2005 he was awarded the honorary award `` city patriot '' by oslo .
in 2013 he was voted `` citizen of the year '' by the readers of norways largest media outlet aftenposten .
at the age of seven , ringnes developed a hobby after he received an unusual gift from his father : a half-empty gordon gin miniature liquor bottle .
it was this afterthought of a gift that led him on a path towards amassing what is recognized today as the largest mini-bottle collection in the world with over 52,000 miniature liquor bottles commissioned to a three-story museum in oslo .
