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 soldaditos planos de estaño [tamaño de Núremberg] del Dr. José Mayoral Herrero
El hombre Hijo del matrimonio formado por el médico valenciano Pedro Mayoral Carpintero, desde 1922 catedrático de Microbiología, Anatomía Patológica y Farmacología Odontológica de la Facultad de Medicina de Madrid, hasta 1936, y de Virginia Herrero Morines, José Mayoral Herrero nació...
Mabel and María Castellano Fotheringham, collectors.
Grandfather Ignacio Fotheringham, Roca's lieutenant during the Conquest of the Desert, had come to the country from Southampton on the recommendation of his Argentine neighbors Juan Manuel and Manuelita Rosas. Married to Adela Ana Ordoñez from Cordoba, he settled in...
The Library and Documentary Collection of Jorge Martín Furt
The man
Jorge Martín Furt was born in the city of Buenos Aires on May 20, 1902. Son of Jorge Aquiles Furt, Argentine, from an old family originally from Bordeaux, France, and Etelvina Feliciana Biaus, born in Córdoba, of Basque-French descent....
La Biblioteca sobre Esgrima y Duelo de José Ramón García Donnell
El hombre José Ramón García Donnell, militar de alta graduación oriundo de Cuba, fue condecorado en 1885 como Caballero de la española Orden de Carlos III [1]. Esta certeza contrasta con la carencia de datos ciertos sobre sus relaciones de familia,...
La Biblioteca de Eduardo J. Bullrich
El hombre Eduardo Juan Bullrich, nacido el 27 de marzo de 1895 en la ciudad de Buenos Aires, era hijo de Eduardo Francisco Bullrich y de Julia Rebeca Ocampo. Estudiante de Derecho en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, en 1916 se...
La colección de Georges Claraz
El hombre Apasionado naturalista, incansable viajero-aventurero, explorador de zonas de nuestro país poco o nada conocidas por entonces, estanciero, escritor, periodista contestatario, inquieto hasta su ancianidad y gran filántropo, Georges, hijo de Ambroise Claraz y Elisabeth Buchs, nació 1832 en Friburgo...
La biblioteca de don Angel Battistessa.
El hombre
Don Ángel Battistessa nació en Buenos Aires el 17 de agosto de 1902. Fue, por sobre todo, un “hombre de letras”, escritor y poeta asistido siempre por la vitalidad de la inspiración. Trascendió como filólogo, fonetista y paleógrafo, crítico,...
La colección de armas orientales defensivas y ofensivas de Ernesto Herzfeld
El hombre
Ernst Herzfeld nació en Los Ángeles, estado de California (enero de 1897). Hijo del Dr. Herman Herzfeld y de Corinne Vidal Arcos. Se radicó en Argentina, donde en 1939 ejercía su profesión de médico en el Hospital Rawson, y...
The Library of Juan Jorge Cabodi
The man
Juan Jorge Cabodi was born in the city of Rojas, Buenos Aires, on January 8, 1905. He was the eldest son of the marriage formed by Juan Cabodi and Sofía Roqués.
He received his law degree from the National University...
The Collection of Eduardo Pedro Pereda
The man
Eduardo Pedro Pereda was born in the city of Buenos Aires on September 20, 1926. His parents were the agronomist Eduardo Félix Pereda Girado and Sara María Benedit Chapar. At the age of 17 he began working in livestock...
The collection of Latin American crafts at the José Hernández Museum
I had turned eighteen a few days before my parents took me to tour part of the continent. It was a middle-class Buenos Aires custom: you had to travel to understand how big and complex the world was. Perhaps the...
The Creole collection of Don Osvaldo Enrique Monti
The man
Osvaldo Enrique Monti was born in Buenos Aires on September 7, 1912. He died in General Alvear on July 17, 1993. Days later the newspaper La Nación briefly but accurately remembered him: «The death of Don Osvaldo Monti in...
The gesture of a collector, the Carlos Franck Donation to the Tigre Art Museum
The MAT (El Tigre Art Museum) was born with the idea of materializing into a museum of figurative Argentine art, which would bring together works from the late 19th and 20th centuries, with an arm extended to contemporary times and...
De la cocina a la vitrina, la pasión de coleccionar cuchillas y una marca infrecuente
“R & W”, de Rueda y Wartenberg, ¿Una de las primeras fábricas industriales de cuchillos en Argentina? [1] Esta reseña histórica sobre la marca R & W se inicia con dos comentarios de colegas investigadores. Por un lado, Marcelo Miñones -de...
The pulse of history. Donation of the “Álvarez Colombres” documentary collection to the Peyrano Communal Museum
Family archives sometimes hold surprises for us. Forgotten, scattered, poorly kept papers describe traces and paths, loves and disagreements, the travels of a “bon vivant” uncle or those of the family who were left to “dress saints.” They can also...
The collection of Carlos Alberto Pueyrredon
The man
Carlos Alberto Pueyrredon was born in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1887. His parents were Julio Pueyrredon Carneiro Fontoura and Victoria Lynch García. He completed his primary and secondary studies at an English school and at the Nacional Norte...
Autographs. A collection of a thousand faces
«The fact of getting the signatures of people that one admires, be it because they excel in intellectual, scientific, artistic or sporting fields that one goes through as an amateur, or simply because they have skills that one does not...
The collection of Bartolomé J. Ronco
The man Bartolomé José Ronco was born in Buenos Aires on July 7, 1881. His parents were Juan Ronco (native of Genoa, died in 1902), a merchant based in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Telmo, and Manuela Díaz (died in...
La colección de Juan G. Maguire
El hombre Juan Gualterio Maguire nació en Buenos Aires el 13 de julio de 1906. Fueron sus padres Eduardo Pedro Maguire Gaynor y Catalina Murray Fox. Contrajo matrimonio el 4 de mayo de 1940 con María Susana Duhau Noceti. Falleció el...
The Jorge Llobet Cullen collection
The man
Jorge Llobet Cullen was born in Buenos Aires on December 16, 1889. His parents were Dr. Andrés F. Llobet and María Luisa Cullen. He married María Teresa Guerrero in 1918. An outstanding sportsman, renowned athlete, record holder and inter-American...
The Fernández Rivero Collection, a world of images
There are pivotal moments in the life of every human being, those that indicate a before and after; This is what happened to Juan Antonio Fernández Rivero - an economist from Malaga born in 1956 - when the book “The...
La colección de Enrique Amadeo Artayeta
El hombre
Enrique Mariano Alejo Amadeo Artayeta nació en Buenos Aires el 14 de febrero de 1879. Fueron sus padres Vicente Carlos Amadeo Cáceres y María Delfina Epifanía Artayeta Castex. Desde joven se dedicó a las tareas de campo en el...
La colección criolla de Martiniano Leguizamón
El hombre
Hijo del teniente coronel Martiniano Leguizamón (1810-1881), rosarino que sirvió a las órdenes de Urquiza, y de la entrerriana Paula Rodríguez Mendoza (1811), emparentada con Francisco Ramírez, Martiniano nació en Rosario del Tala, Entre Ríos, el 28 de abril...
La colección de armas del general José Ignacio Garmendia
El hombre
José Ignacio Garmendia, nació en Buenos Aires el 19 de marzo de 1841 y aquí murió el 11 de junio de 1925. Fueron sus padres José Ignacio Garmendia y Alurralde, y Manuela Suárez y Lastra. Se incorporó en su...
La colección de Victoria Aguirre
La mujer Victoria Aguirre nació en Buenos Aires el 13 de 1860. Hija de Manuel Alejandro Aguirre y Mercedes Anchorena, fue la penúltima de ocho hermanos, uno de los cuales fue el escultor Manuel Juan José Aguirre. Retrato de estudio de Victoria...
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...