Heinrich, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon
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Heinrich Thyssen , since 1907 Heinrich Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon was a German-Hungarian entrepreneur and art collector. He was born on October 31, 1875 and died June 26, 1947 in Lugano.
After studying chemistry at the University of Heidelberg he married Margit Freiin Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva in 1906 and became a citizen of Austria-Hungary. The emperor Franz Joseph granted him the inheritable status of a baron. After World War I he moved to Den Haag in the Netherlands and directed some of the Thyssen commercial and industrial interests including the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart. He became a board member of the Vereinigte Stahlwerke in Germany, but kept his own inherited wealth in a separate organization, the August Thyssensche Unternehmungen des In- und Auslandes, GmbH.
In 1932, he moved to Lugano and started to enlarge his art collection. One year later he got divorced. He died in Lugano in 1947.
His son, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, continued his collection before he sold it in 1993 to the Spanish government for $350 million.
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- Partially translated from the German wikipedia from February 5, 2006
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[edit] External links
- Official biography by ThyssenKrupp
- Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza - museum link
