COLLECTORS, STORIES AND ANECDOTES
At the suggestion of friends, we have created this new section that investigates the interior of collecting, from historical times to the present. Yesterday and today are linked with the same motivations.
La colección de Juan B. Ambrosetti y Elena Holmberg
El hombre
Naturalista, maestro de la arqueología y antropología en nuestro país y precursor de las investigaciones folklóricas; viajero y coleccionista, Juan Bautista Ambrosetti nació el 22 de agosto de 1865 en Gualeguay (provincia de Entre Ríos), hijo de un inmigrante...
Culture Fonds Library (Dilbeek, Belgium) and the Plantiniana Office
At the initiative of its honorary chairman baron Piet Van Waeyenberge, the De Eik investment company has developed an important collection of manuscripts and rare books since the 1990s. The core of the Cultura Fonds Library was formed by the...
Farewell to Doctor Héctor César Gotta, true master of photographic heritage
Towards 1990, unexpected news broke through the small group of researchers dedicated to a new historical theme, as our old photography was at that time. The exclusive Agfa Photogallery inaugurated a special exhibition dedicated to national heritage photography at its...
La colección criolla del Dr. Esteban Paz
Junto a los grandes coleccionistas han habido en nuestro país muchísimos otros que no han tenido ninguna notoriedad pública, la mayoría de las veces porque no estaban interesados en tenerla y porque consideraban a sus colecciones como algo propio de...
La colección de carruajes de Don Carlos Hillner
Cuando uno refiere al museo del transporte evoca de inmediato al existente en un pabellón del Complejo Museográfico e Histórico “Enrique Udaondo” de Luján. Pero existe otro museo público de esa especialidad, tal vez menos conocido, pero más exclusivo y...
Jakob Wolff, un coleccionista de mobiliario colonial.
Diría que es algo común y corriente que al hablar de los coleccionistas argentinos casi exclusivamente nos referimos a quienes tuvieron sus colecciones en Buenos Aires y que, en consecuencia, se nos haga cargo de olvidar a los del interior...
Don Carlos G. Daws y su “Museo Familiar Gauchesco”
Rodolfo Trostiné, propietario por entonces del recordado comercio de antigüedades «Bayard», me refirió hace unos treinta años que tenía unos quince años, por 1939 o 1940, cuando con compañeros suyos pasaban a diario frente a la casa de la calle...
The book and its world in Argentina. First half of the twentieth century.
It is an arduous task to summarize in this article the course of the book in Argentina throughout the first half of the twentieth century. The theme, so rich and diverse, forces us to go through different spaces that include...
La estirpe de un coleccionista, Alfredo González Garaño.
He was born in 1886 and together with his brothers Celina (1884 – 1963) and Alejo (1877 – 1946), he cultivated the pleasure of collecting works of art and antiques in general, being a scholar who transcended the mere pleasure...
“The abode of light. Julio Vásquez Cortés, story of an anomalous collector”.
The hobby or trade of collecting artistic works has traditionally been exercised by people with a profile and a relatively similar economic-social position. As a general rule, art collectors have been wealthy people belonging to influential and economically privileged sectors....
ED SHAW, THE GREAT COLLECTOR OF ANIMATE AND INANIMATE FRIENDS.
“I was born into a kind of United Nations created and cultivated by my paternal grandfather, Albert Shaw…on a spacious property on the Hudson River waterfront, outside of New York. My childhood companions… were the group of people at his...
MEXICAN OBJECTS FROM THE ZEBALLOS COLLECTION AT THE SILVER MUSEUM. THE TRUE AND THE FALSE.
In 1895 the Museo de La Plata received a donation of pre-Columbian objects of Mexican origin; they were delivered by Estanislao Zeballos, a personality of his time, and are part of the collection that bears his name. The study of...
MY MEMORIES OF CARLOS HOSS
By Guillermo Palombo
Throughout his life, Mr. Carlos Hoss built up an important private library and was a prominent figure in Argentine collecting in the last two decades of the 20th century.
Administrative director of the German Hospital and later a businessman,...
COMO SOMBRA AL CUERPO...
Hoy se celebra el día del coleccionista -texto publicado el 7 de Enero de 2022- y precisamente hoy queremos dejarles algunas reflexiones sobre esta pasión que nos une a muchos de nosotros.
Coleccionar, como toda actividad humana, puede comprender distintos grados de...
ESTANISLAO ZEBALLOS COLECCIONISTA.
By Guillermo Palombo
Estanislao S. Zeballos (1854-1923), to his office as statesman, writer, historian and jurist expert in international law, added a passion for collecting. At the beginning of the 20th century, he had gathered a remarkable set of pieces in...
THE MEANING OF COLLECTING.
By Sonia Decker
Collecting art can be a passion, a vocation or something that gives a very special meaning to the life of those who enter this fantastic world. Collecting has mutated in a thousand different ways from its origins to the...
A COLLECTION THAT DESIGNED ITS FUTURE, THE “IMAGOTECA PARAGUAYA”.
The good news motivated us to write an article to share with our readers. In this plan, we virtually interviewed the protagonist, Dr. Milda Rivarola, and we asked Dr. Ticio Escobar, two referents of cultural Paraguay, for her opinion. With...
THE PASSION OF THE COLLECTOR. A WALK THROUGH THE HISTORY OF ART THROUGH THE EYES OF THOSE WHO TREASURE IT.
By Ana Martínez Quijano
If we look at art through the eyes of collectors who have dedicated their lives to bringing together a set of significant works, such as the Emperor Hadrian, the Medici or Catherine of Russia; if we then...
Ángel María Zuloaga and his passion for books
Zuloaga (1885 - 1975), of Mendoza origin, was one of the creators of the national aeronautics; his feats in the air allowed him to break South American records (1), cross the Andes for the first time over its high peaks...