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This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Montblanc Cultural Foundation: an occasion to acknowledge considerable achievements, while recognising the challenges that lie ahead. Since its inception in 1992, through its various yet interrelated programmes, the Foundation continues to appreciate the significant role that art can play in instigating key shifts, and at times, ruptures, in our perception of and engagement with the cultural, social and political conditions of our times. Departing from this awareness, and coupled with the enduring conviction in the irrefutable link between knowledge and the written Sam Bardaouil word, the Foundation’s mission is underpinned by a profound understanding that several key players demand our support and recognition for a thriving arts culture to flourish. This has been manifested in the Foundation’s equal commitment to both, the artists who, needless to say, form the nucleus of any artistic community, and the patrons whose support provides artists with the various types of resources and opportunities they need to develop and disseminate their work.

Since 1992, through the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award, the Foundation has awarded some 280 patrons from more than 20 countries, recognising the considerable efforts and sacrifices that true patronage entails. The awardees have ranged from not-for-profit organisations to individual philanthropists. Till Fellrath They have included museum directors whose innovative programming, despite financial

hardship, has made it possible for their respective communities to continue having access 4 to artworks that otherwise would have ended up in storage. Among the awardees have 5 Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath been descendants of seminal artists whose hard work and perseverance has led to the Co-Chairmen, preservation and dissemination of that artist’s legacy. The awardees have also comprised Montblanc Cultural Foundation a heterogeneous number of foundations that, each in their own resourceful and creative manner has managed to create opportunities for a wide array of artists to conceive, create and exhibit new artworks. There have also been private collectors who, in recognising the importance of education, have opened up their collections making art ranging from countries as far flung as Japan, South Korea, China and India, to Germany, France, Italy, accessible through cutting-edge community outreach programmes. What the Montblanc Mexico and the US, just to name a few, mirrors the Foundation’s conviction in our responsibility as de la Culture Arts Patronage Award has identified amongst all these considerably diverse cultural practitioners to challenge the notions of centre vs. periphery leading the way to a more patrons is a shared courage to take risks, to envision the world differently, while inclusive art-historical canon that acknowledges diverse centres of artistic production, both from recognising all along the central position that artists and artworks occupy in this process the past and of the present. This is yet another one of the Montblanc Cultural Foundation’s visionary of evolution. This is one of the Montblanc Cultural Foundation’s achievements that we positions that we are cherishing today. acknowledge and celebrate today. With 25 years of great accomplishments to its name, the Foundation continues to firmly look ahead Another initiative that we must mark on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the towards all that is yet to be achieved. We are delighted to have been called upon to contribute to the Montblanc Cultural Foundation is its Cutting-Edge Art Collection programme. Initiated in shaping and advancement of the direction that the Foundation will take in the next chapter of its rich 2002, it now stands 210 works strong, representing more than 170 artists hailing from history. We are equally conscious of the responsibility at hand. While building on the successful 32 countries. Beyond including some of the last three decades’ most significant figures programmes that are already in place, we seek to develop new, inclusive initiatives that open up within the contemporary visual arts – most of whom were introduced into the collection additional possibilities for artists to produce and showcase their work, through an innovative plethora long before they rose to prominence – the collection’s geographical diversity reflects a of multidisciplinary platforms, where new audiences can connect with art that will challenge us today, fundamental conviction that remains integral to its raison d’être. The inclusion of artists and over the years to come. Preface Anniversary Patron of Art 2016

As the physical manifestation of the spoken language, the written word is the backbone de la Culture Arts Patronage Award was established, a visionary award that would recognize the work of human civilization. More than a means of communication between people, it gives and contributions of modern day art patrons. cultures a way of recording the events and thinking that has shaped their collective history. As an art form, otherwise knows as literature, it gives humanity the ability The Award continues to grow strong with more countries involved than ever before underscoring to express beliefs, ideas and stories. The written word gives every culture a sense of the importance of giving arts and culture the support they deserve. On the occasion of its permanence, a lasting reminder of who they are, where they came from, and where they 25th anniversary, sixteen patrons from around the world join a notable list of past winners that may be going. includes HRH The Prince of Wales, British maestro Sir Simon Rattle, Italian architect Renzo Piano and Japanese artist Yoko Ono. The 25th Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award is being Anchored in the culture of writing since 1906, Montblanc has never been the creator presented to patrons in China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, Spain, of the written word, merely a facilitator, crafting the tools that allow the expression of Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, and for the first time in Brazil, Colombia and Greece. The Montblanc de la Culture ideas, thoughts and emotions through the art of writing. Some would say quite simply, it’s winners are selected from a shortlist by an international jury of art influencers, a passionate network Arts Patronage Award about putting ‘pen to paper’. In the same way, there is a small group of individuals in every of the world’s most creative individuals brought together by the Montblanc Cultural Foundation to 1992 – 2016 society who do not actually create art or perform or curate. Rather, they are facilitators evaluate the candidates based on their history of personal commitment to the arts, and a concern that who give artists the means to express their creativity by providing financial means. the wider public should benefit from cultural projects. This year, the jury is made up of 43 members Patrons of art through the ages from Roman diplomat Maecenas, one of the earliest emanating from all countries participating in the award, and each member of the jury is invited to vote recorded patrons, to the illustrious Medici family or the eccentric Peggy Guggenheim, for the nominees in every country including their own. each and everyone has contributed to arts and culture, allowing them to flourish, and thus making an important contribution to human society. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine While the annual award in each of these countries pays homage to the the trajectory of human civilization without the creativity, thoughtfulness and beauty of most deserving and committed patrons following a thorough evaluation,

the poems of Ovid, the masterpieces of Leonardo da Vinci or the experimental painting of Montblanc believed that the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award has become much 6 Marcel Duchamp. the enjoyment of culture bigger than the individual ceremonies. Over the past 25 years, a network 7 comes from discovery, of international arts and culture experts, influencers, enthusiasts has When the Montblanc Cultural Foundation decided to honour artistic achievement in its emerged thanks to the award, bringing together individuals who are own unique way, it somehow didn’t make sense to create another award to celebrate first-hand experience constantly thinking about the arts, the challenges ahead but also the an artist, a work of art or a performance. Rather, it made sense to shine a light on a and education. opportunities for the future. Again, the Montblanc Cultural Foundation very small group of dedicated people working behind the scenes to help great works of has become the facilitator for these conversations, mobilizing an active art, performances and other cultural projects come to life. Through patronage, these family of former winners, finalists, members of the jury and the broader individuals, groups or foundations express their unrelenting passion and curiosity for the arts community. arts in all its forms from theatre to architecture, visual arts to dance, music to poetry. While the type of art they stand behind Looking back at the many awardees, and the different stories behind their patronage, reminds us of may vary, all modern day patrons are the impact they have made. Young artists given a platform to share their art, performers given access united by a common purpose – making to experiment and travel, young people invited into museums and galleries to learn about the richness arts and culture accessible to broader and diversity of visual arts. Building on each patron’s legacy, Montblanc presents a monetary prize with audiences, an important aspect that the every award, to benefit the cultural project or organization of the patron’s choice. In other words, it is Montblanc Cultural Foundation wanted to special gift from one patron to another: further funds to continue to make a difference. Since 1992, acknowledge on an international stage. nearly 4 million euros have been awarded with hundreds of arts projects reaching new audiences as Supporting an all-inclusive paradigm a result. for the arts, Montblanc believed that the enjoyment of culture comes from So what lies ahead for the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award? The role of art patrons discovery, first-hand experience and remains crucial in contemporary society, not just because they ensure the creative health of cultural education. Thus in 1992, the Montblanc scenes around the world, but also as they support the arts as a core component of a thriving civil Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award Arts Patronage Montblanc de la Culture Anniversary Patron of Art 2016

society where individuals can interact with the arts, experience new creative ideas and share their experiences with others, therefore actively contributing to the evolution of humanity. In a digitalized and interconnected world, there are certainly more opportunities for audiences to experience arts and culture across channels and mediums. However, every creative catalyst still requires funding or in-kind support. As it looks to the future, the mission of the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award remains to celebrate generosity and commitment to the arts, and in doing so, encourage a new Gloria Calzada, Aurelio López Rocha, Jorge Puentes, generation of patrons to come forward. Creativity should be given free reign to flourish Ana Eugenia Morales and audiences should continue to be enthralled and inspired by its boldness, courage and imagination. Human civilization depends on it.

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Conferred to outstanding patrons of the arts since 1992, this prize is always accompanied by a much coveted treasure: a specially designed piece from the limited series of 4810 ‘Patron of Art Edition’. For 2016 it is the Limited Edition Peggy Guggenheim together with a trophy specially designed for the 25th anniversary. Award Ceremony reception and exhibition ‘The Art of Writing’ at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, 2011. Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award Arts Patronage Montblanc de la Culture Anniversary Red Carpet 2016

In 1992, when the Arts Patronage Award was established, Montblanc also created a symbol for the noble supporters of the arts throughout the centuries. This symbol has been gifted to all the award winners through the years, as a token for the grand heritage every Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patron keeps alive. Every year, the winner of each country is celebrated with an extraordinary event, honouring their devotion to the arts. Dame Vivienne Westwood Julia Stoschek

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‘The pen is mightier than the sword.’ With the Dream Power School Project Yoko Ono helps to build schools in the most impoverished areas of the world.

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Peggy Guggenheim at home in Venice, next to a sculpture by Marino Marini, ‘Angel of the Citadel’ (1948, cast 1950). Marini became famous in the 1950s for his equestrian sculptures, of which this is a celebrated example.

Peggy Guggenheim hangs a painting by Joan Miró (‘Seated Woman II’, 1939) in her pavilion at the 24th Venice Biennale, 1948. PEGGY GUGGENHEIM 14

‘My motto was “buy a picture every day” 15 Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim, and I lived up to it.’ 1946, page 209.

Peggy Guggenheim had many of her favourite pieces surrounding her at home in Venice: a wide range of masterworks by Picasso, Braque, Duchamp, Léger, Brâncu¸si, Severini, Balla, Delaunay, Kupka, Picabia, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Arp, Miró, Giacometti, Klee, Ernst, Magritte, Dalí, Pollock, Rothko, Calder, Moore and Marini.

In her time she was one of the most influential American collectors and exhibitors of 20th-century art. Peggy Guggenheim was a patron of some of the greatest talents of her day – she had a knack for spotting outstanding work from emerging artists, the most celebrated of whom was Jackson Pollock. Peggy Guggenheim purchased Palazzo Venier and made it her home for the following thirty years. Her dedication to promoting modern art made her an iconic personality. Born in 1898, she was the Early in 1951, she opened her home and collection to the public and continued to do so every year until her death in 1979. niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim, eponymous founder of the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Peggy Guggenheim Peggy Anniversary Patron of Art 2016

Peggy Guggenheim in Venice – the ‘Ultima Dogaressa’. After a brief period in New York, Peggy Guggenheim moved back to Europe in 1947. Establishing herself in Venice, she influenced the European art world from this Italian city for almost three decades. In 1948 she acquired the historic Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal and converted it into a home with exhibition rooms for her collection. Open to the public, her palazzo attracted intellectuals and artists from all over the world. Because of her glamourous persona, the Venetians affectionately called Peggy Guggenheim La ultima Dogaressa (the last duchess). After her death, the private palazzo was restructured into a public museum in accordance with her will.

Peggy Guggenheim Limitation 4810 26.08.1898 – 23.12.1979 • Fountain Pen 146 size with black lacquered Launch and platinum-plated cap and barrel 2016 • Platinum-plated fittings • Cone with red translucent lacquer Limitation • Au750 solid gold nib, rhodium-plated 4810 Fountain Pens, with special design 888 Fountain Pens, • Montblanc emblem made of black and 81 Fountian Pens white precious resin

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• Fountain Pen 146 size made of 750 solid Champagne tone gold • Cap with black lacquered pattern • Hand engraved lion motif on the clip • Cone with red translucent lacquer • 750 solid gold nib • Montblanc emblem made of white marble

Limitation 888 The Constructivist works included in Guggenheim’s first-class collection are recalled in the lines and shapes of the cap and barrel of the Patron of Art Limited Edition Peggy Guggenheim. Venice is • Fountain Pen 146 size with red lacquered represented on the cone by a red lacquer inlay spiral, bringing to mind the striped mooring poles lining and ruthenium-plated cap and barrel Venetian waterways. The lions’ heads embossed on the cap ring refer to the name of Peggy • Au750 solid red gold fittings Guggenheim’s Venetian palace, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, as well as the lion of Saint Mark, which • Cone with red translucent lacquer is the symbol of Venice. 14 Lhasa Apso dogs shared Peggy Guggenheim’s luxurious lifestyle and were • Au750 solid red gold nib with special design • Montblanc emblem made of white marble daily at her side. The handcrafted Au 750 gold nib of the limited edition bears a fine engraving of the paws of her beloved dogs. Peggy Guggenheim Peggy Winners 2016

Laís Bodanzky and Xu Claudia Louis Roederer Foundation Andrea Basil and Marina Luiz Bolognesi Zhen Hakim Frédéric Rouzaud von Goetz & Schwanenfließ Theocharakis Brazil China Colombia France Germany Greece

The Cine Mambembe Support for visual arts NC-arte and development of the visual arts Partnership and support of art institutions Owner of VG&S Art Development The B&M Theocharakis Foundation for the in Colombia and Latin America and artists Fine Arts and Music

Creators of The Cine Mambembe Outstanding contemporary artist and art Founder of the cultural and educational Nominated for involving Champagne Founder of VG&S Art Development in Basil and Marina Theocharakis established [Roaming Movie Theate], aiming to bring promoter, nominated for his support for space NC-arte, which seeks to encourage Louis Roederer in the patronage of culture Hamburg, which helps companies to the B&M Theocharakis Foundation for cinema to people who had no access and development of visual arts. Previously the free expression of various viewpoints, and arts. The foundation aims to create realise projects in the arts and cultural the Fine Arts and Music, with a focus to traditional screening rooms. The pair in charge of China’s first artist-run space, establishing a dynamic communication a structured sponsorship programme sector. VG&S advises and represents on the development of modern art. 18 started out with a 16 mm projector, BizArt, Xu was responsible for developing between the public and the artwork. with a dedicated team and budget, and artists, and has close contact with The foundation aims to encourage the 19 a collapsible screen, a low-power the website Art-Ba-Ba, the leading online Its mission is to promote, research and supports artistic creation by facilitating collectors, curators, gallery owners and public to enter into a wide-ranging and generator and 12 short films. For their forum for discussion and critique of contextualise contemporary art practices its availability to members of the public. exhibitors. As a leader of the project interdisciplinary dialogue with music and Cine Tela Brasil sessions, they travel from contemporary art in Shanghai. In order to through exhibitions and multidisciplinary It has been involved in the creation and 15 Quadrat, she has spotted more than the visual arts, to promote the work of suburb to suburb, from city to city, bringing relinquish the concept of authorship, projects that encourage and invite reflection. development of the Gallery of Photography 100 artists in three years, presenting Greek artists abroad, to employ every free movies to the 92 per cent of Brazilian he has since founded MadeIn Company, On average, NC-arte organises six exhibitions of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, their artwork in schools to provide access means at its disposal to disseminate the municipalities without movie theatre. an art-creation corporation and has a year and has programmed educational a research grant for photography to for pupils. In addition, she instigates content of its activities, and to develop A significant share of the public attends established MadeIn Gallery to promote workshops, talks and screenings related to encourage young researchers, and the relationships between artists, collectors networks. It stages exhibitions, concerts, a movie theatre for the first time. young Chinese artists. its exhibition programme. sponsorship of artists, institutions and entrepreneurs through the exhibition lectures and seminars, and sponsors and festivals. series SELECTED. educational and academic research.

Jury voting for all countries

Brazil China Colombia France Germany Greece Rodrigo Santoro / Actor Huang Doudou / Dancer and choreographer Jose Roca / Architect and curator Marie Bovo / Photo artist Iris Berben / Actress Marina Lambraki Plaka / Paulo Abrão Esper / Opera singer, Lu RongZhi / Curator and author Maria José Arjona / Contemporary artist Frédèric Chambre / Auctioneer Till Brönner / Jazz musician Professor of History of Art artistic director and producer Wang Xiaohui / Photo artist Simon Brand / Film director Gaël Charbau / Art critic and curator Nora von Waldstätten / Actress Dimitris Tsitouras / Art collector Patricia Rousseaux / Editor and editorial director Peggy Guggenheim Peggy Winners 2016

Johnnie Giorgio Ryuichi Sang-Duck Soumaya Leonid To Marconi Sakamoto Yoo Slim Mikhelson Hong Kong Italy Japan Korea Mexico Russia

Fresh Wave and the Fresh Wave Short Film Marconi Foundation for Contemporary and Numerous projects supporting SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation The Soumaya Museum V-A-C Foundation Festival Modern Art young artists in the field of music and performing arts

Initiator of Fresh Wave and the Fresh Initiated the Marconi Foundation for Nominated for supporting artists from Son of Sung-Yeon, the founder of the Custodian of the cultural activities for her Founder of Victoria – the Art of Being Wave short film festival, for Contemporary and Modern Art. fields including music, performing arts, foundation which takes its name from father. Slim coordinates the publication Contemporary. The foundation funds the which he acts as an adviser. Fresh Wave The foundation is a non-profit institution painting and more. As artistic director his nom de plume SongEun (‘hidden pine of various art books and the Museo promotion of post-avant-garde Russian is an annual programme for Hong Kong for the promotion of contemporary art and of the Yamaguchi City Foundation, he tree’). Chairman Sang-Duk Yoo is keeping Soumaya’s monthly magazine, as well as art abroad, and aims to broaden the 20 film-makers. Since, 2010 it has evolved culture through exhibitions, publications, contributes to the artistic education to his father’s wish to help Korean artists. educational and cultural programmes and, domestic audience’s access to theory from 21 into the international short film festival, events and meetings. Marconi is chairman of children in the area, passing on his He has initiated the SongEun ArtAward, in 2010, co-founded Diseño y Arquitectura, the West. It stages exhibitions and projects fostering cultural exchange among the and director of the foundation which also skills to the next generation during an annual prize for Korean artists, and an initiative aimed at fostering and by Russian contemporary artists, has film community. To’s own personal also enhances important 20th-century diverse workshops. He is also involved provides a dedicated space within his promoting the value of design. She is instigated a scholarship for international network acts as mentors for Fresh collections and archives. In conjunction in worldwide efforts such as teaching office building for Korean artists. Yoo has vice president and curator of the new students to attend the Courtauld Institute, Wave participants every year, giving with Expo 2015, Marconi celebrated composition at the Berlin International Film also built the SongEun ArtCube, a space Soumaya Museum, a private complex London; and plans to set up a publishing the participants a glimpse of 50 years of activity with a group exhibition Festival’s Talent Campus, supporting child for younger artists on their first or second owned by the Carlos Slim Foundation; wing to translate Russian theory to English day-to-day film-making and and tribute to Lucio Fontana at the development through musical activities, exhibitions. Both venues are completely admission is free. It has over 66,000 works and vice versa. a provisional apprenticeship. Marconi Foundation. and representing and directing the Tohoku free to the public. by many of the best-known European Youth Orchestra. artists of the 15th to the 20th century.

Jury voting for all countries

Hong Kong Italy Japan Korea Mexico Russia Chiu Tsang Hei / Composer Sarah Cosulich Canarutto / Curator Kenichi Ebina / Performance artist Soon-Hoon Bae / Engineer Bernarndo Gomez-Pimienta / Dr Dimitri Ozerkov / Fine art expert and music producer and artistic director and choreographer and arts administrator Architect and designer Kirill Serebrennikov / Film-maker Chung King Fai / Actor and TV producer Franceso Bonami / Curator and writer R.S. Dewi Sukarno / Businesswoman, Hye-Jin Song / Traditional Korean Flor Garduño / Photographer and theatre director Simon Ma / Contemporary artist Filippo Timi / Actor, director and writer art lover and philanthropist music expert Cecilia Leon de la Barra / Designer Anna Svergun / Editor, PR expert for art, Soun Takeda / Calligrapher Humyong Yun / Author and poet architecture and design Peggy Guggenheim Peggy Winners 2016

Elena Henry Sir John CBE Maria Ochoa Foster Levy and Lady Sorrell Arena Bell Spain Switzerland UK USA

Ivorypress BINZ39 Foundation The Sorrell Foundation P.S. Arts; co-chair of MOCA

Ochoa Foster established the Ivorypress Co-founder of BINZ39 with his wife Nominated for co-chairing the Sorrell Nominated for her work as a philanthropist publishing house, and also directs the Lucia Coray. For 30 years, BINZ39 has Foundation. Since 1999, the Sorrells and patron of the arts, Mrs Arena Bell C Photo Project, conceived to promote been promoting young artists in Zurich, have worked with tens of thousands of serves as president-at-large for P.S. Arts photography and contemporary art providing 32 studios, seven of which are young people to inspire their creativity. which has provided arts education to 22 through publications, exhibitions and offered rent-free for two years. BINZ39 The foundation’s programmes link 11,000 Los Angeles schoolchildren from 23 academic and institutional support. was also one of the founders of ResArtis, schoolchildren with tutors and students low-income households. She serves as Furthermore, she is the creator of Ivory an international network of aritsts’ studios. at universities and colleges, and with co-chair of trustees at the Museum of Space, a gallery designed by her husband Since 2005, it has reactivated ARTEST, an professional designers, artists and Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), Norman Foster, dedicated to promoting exchange programme for visual artists architects. Over the last 15 years, and has helped raise millions to support young artists. She sets up and produces between Switzerland and ex-communist the foundation has worked with MOCA and its programmes. She also materials for its exhibitions and introduces Eastern Europe. Outside Zurich, the 10,000 young people across the chairs Americans For The Arts’ National exhibiting artists to collectors. foundation ran a cultural centre in Scuol UK on programmes including: Arts Awards, at which the Bell Family for many years, which has since been given Joinedupdesignforschools, the Young Foundation supports the annual Young over to the Fundazion NAIRS. Design Programme and Myplace, as well Artist Award. as the National Art&Design Saturday Club.

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Spain Switzerland UK USA Macarena Gómez / Actress Nicolas Le Moigne / Industrial designer Dame Zaha Hadid / Architect Dustin Yellin / Contemporary artist Lorenzo Caprile / Couture fashion designer Joel Dicker / Novelist Hans Ulrich Obrist / Curator and art critic Mikki Taylor / Author Antonio Lucas / Poet and journalist in culture Peggy Guggenheim Peggy 2015 Patron of Art 2015

Pavarotti performed many times at La Scala in the centre of the city of Milan, both in opera and recitals.

Pavarotti was blessed with a voice of a rare range, beauty and clarity. He became the first opera tenor to hit all nine ‘high C’s’ with his full voice in the opera ‘La Fille du Régiment’ by Gaetano Donizetti.

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In 1961, Luciano Pavarotti made his debut as Rodolfo in Puccini’s ‘La Boheme’ – the beginning of an unsurpassed singing career that would inspire millions. His performance of the aria ‘Nessun dorma’ In January 2000 Pavarotti performs as the painter Mario Cavaradossi in Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ at the from Puccini’s opera ‘Turandot’ made him the first opera singer to be celebrated as a superstar around Rome Opera House. His final performance was 2004 at In 2001, Pavarotti received the Nansen Medal from the UNHCR for his efforts raising the globe. the New York Metropolitan Opera, where he received a money on behalf of refugees worldwide. Through benefit concerts and volunteer work, standing ovation that lasted over 15 minutes. he has raised more than any other performer. LUCIANO LUCIANO Luciano Pavarotti Luciano Patron of Art 2015

Luciano Pavarotti was given numerous awards for his charity work, including his ‘Pavarotti & Friends’ concerts held in his home town Modena. He donated the proceeds of these events to social projects in international areas of conflict. Away from the big stage, the star tenor nurtured talented young up-and-coming singers from all over the world with free private singing lessons.

Just as Pavarotti wore his black tuxedo with a white bow tie and shirt when on stage, the Limited Edition 4810 also comes in black and white lacquer. Delicate flower patterns on the red lacquer cone, as well as the turquoise cabochon, are reminiscent of the colourful Hawaiian shirts Pavarotti typically wore. Luciano Pavarotti 12.10.1935 – 06.09.2007

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Limitation 4810 The Limited Edition 888 is inspired by the opera ‘Turandot’, the performance of which catapulted Pavarotti to world fame. The Eastern influence found in the music is reflected in the black and white • Cone lacquered with red, translucent lacquer dragon with its red garnet eyes adorning the cap. Fine engravings depicting opera ornaments lacquer and turquoise resin decorate the Au 750 gold cone, which is adorned with a faceted garnet. The forepart of the Limited • Au 750 solid gold nib with special design Edition 888 is embellished with five engraved rings, symbolising the five tiers at the ‘Teatro Comunale • Montblanc emblem made of black Luciano Pavarotti’ opera house – the same symbolic rings are found on the cap ring of the Limited and white precious resin Edition 4810.

A delicate engraving of Pavarotti’s unconventional good-luck charm, a bent nail, decorates the Au 750 solid gold nib of both limited editions. Also featured in both limited editions is the gold-plated clip recalling Pavarotti’s trademark extravagant scarves. Luciano Pavarotti Luciano Winners 2015

Zhang Laurent Dorit and Alexander Umberta Tetsuya Kim Fan Dumas Otto Gnutti Beretta Kumakawa Dongho China France Germany Italy Japan Korea

China MIDI Music School and Festival Revelations Emerige Dorit and Alexander Otto Stiftung Poldi Pezzoli Museum’s Chief of Restoration Support of young classical dancers Busan Film Festival and others Midi Scholarship Fond de Dotation Emerige Atelier Freistiel Fondazione Museo Poldi Pezzoli K-Ballet School Co. Ltd. The Player’s Welfare Foundation of Korea

Honoured for his unparalleled influence on Dumas established and continues to fund Nominated for continuing a family history Nominated for her support to the Founder of the K-Ballet, aiming to provide Founded the Busan International Film modern music, jazz and pop in China over the Revelations Emerge project. An avid of philanthropy in their native Hamburg. conservation of Italy’s historic artistic Japan with classical ballet of the highest Festival (BIFF) in 1996. With Kim’s years, Zhang is founder of the Beijing Midi collector, his patronage goes beyond The Ottos’ gift of € 15 million, together patrimony. For many years, Gnutti has quality. Kumakawa is one of Japan’s guidance, the BIFF is one of Asia’s leading

School of Music (BMSM), aiming to provide accumulating art into ensuring that artists with design and construction work as been a supporter of the Milan’s Museo leading dancers and has a 20-year film festivals, with a focus on supporting 30 a first-class education in all aspects of in France can flourish. Revelations Emerige an in-kind donation, allowed the city’s Poldi Pezzoli, tasked with all fundraising. commitment to improving the classical young film-makers and introducing young 31 modern music comparable to that offered is open to artists under the age of 35 Kunsthalle to modernise to reflect current She has provided the museum with ballet tradition in Japan, establishing audiences to the best in cinema. to the country’s classical musicians. and offers successful candidates studio curatorial standards. The pair have also the funds necessary for a complete first a company then a school offering Showing 299 films from 70 countries, Building on its work, he has since founded space, technical support and a show at a funded the restoration of St Catherine’s refurbishment, while her financial and professional training for aspiring dancers. the estimated audience for the 2013 BIFF Midi Festival, the biggest outdoor music prominent commercial gallery. church in the old centre. Traditionally seen organisational support has enabled Since declaring himself ‘stunned at the was 215,000. Alongside the event in China, and in 2005, organised He is also keen to share his collection as the church of the sailors who carried the it to set up curatorial and outreach devastation of ballet education in Japan’, festival, BIFF operates education and Beijing International Jazz Festival. and regularly selects an artist from his wealth of the world into Hamburg’s port, programmes. Gnutti and her husband have his K-Ballet School has become the support programmes for Asian and collection to receive a solo exhibition it was reopened in 2012 after a five-year also funded the restoration of one if its key model for dance schools in Japan and Korean film-makers. These include at the Villa Emerige. closure. masterpieces, Bellini’s Imago Pietatis. produced a stream of internationally a fund for independent film production renowned dancers. and a finance scheme aimed at documentary makers.

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China France Germany Italy Japan Korea Qin Yi / Actress Loren Stosskopf / Designer Iris Berben / Actress Caroline Corbetta / Critic and author Kashiwa Sato / Kashiwa Sato Bae Byungwoo / Photographer Zhai Mo / Artist Loris Gréaud / Artist Hardy Krüger Jr / Artist Paolo Giordano / Author Naomi Kawase / Film director Shin Dong-Yup / Author Lu RongZhi / Curator and author Valérie Maltaverne / Curator and critic Till Brönner / Musician Vincenzo De Bellis / Curator and writer Shin Sujung / Pianist Luciano Pavarotti Luciano Winners 2015

Alondra Sergi Maja Richard Peter M. de la Parra Ferrer Salat Hoffmann Reed Brant Mexico Spain Switzerland UK USA

Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americans Fundacion de Musica Ferrer Salat LUMA Foundation Art Everywhere The Brant Foundation Conductors Retreat at Medomak Conservatori del Liceu Human Rights Watch Switzerland

De la Parra founded the Philharmonic Chairman and guiding light of the Ferrer Nominated for a range of arts patronage Founder of Art Everywhere, the world’s Nominated for his commitment to the Orchestra of the Americas (POA) in 2004, Salat Foundation, originally set up by activities. Established by Maja Hoffmann, largest art show. Each summer, Art visual arts and his belief that the arts can when she was 23, aiming to showcase his father in 1982. The foundation aims the LUMA Foundation is committed to Everywhere transforms UK streets into be a force for good, his Brant Foundation young performers and composers from to stimulate the creation of music in its supporting artists and institutions working an open-air gallery, with 30,000 sites, Art Study Centre has adopted the 32 the Americas, and give music from the various forms and provide a platform in the fields of art and photography, including buses, displaying 25 works promotion, education and appreciation 33 region an unquestioned place in world to enable the work of composers to be publishing, documentary and multimedia. selected by the public. The longlist is put of contemporary art and design as orchestral repertoire. Since then, the POA disseminated to the widest possible It promotes artistic projects with particular together by some of the finest curators its mission. Like his father, Brant has has completed several concert tours and audience. Among its activities are the interest in environmental issues, human and creative minds in the UK; works amassed an expansive collection, primarily made a real contribution to the career Reina Sofia Prize for Composition, rights and education. LUMA’s current focus displayed range from the latest young focused on contemporary US artists. The development of over 100 Latin American a programme of scholarships at the Liceu is to develop, with architect Frank Gehry, talent to the oldest of Old Masters. foundation makes works available to musicians. De la Parra is the first Mexican Conservatory for musicians under the a truly experimental cultural complex, Art Everywhere represents the ultimate institutions and individuals for scholarly woman to conduct in New York City, and is age of 26, and the International Jazz the Parc des Ateliers in Arles: a centre for democratisation of the visual arts, utilising study and examination, and presents an official cultural ambassador for Mexico. Festival of Barcelona which it has exhibitions, research and education. modern means – the Internet, ad sites, long-term exhibitions curated primarily supported since 2007. social media – to expose a broad range from the collection. of work.

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Mexico Spain Switzerland UK USA Sergio Sarmiento / Writer and critic Josep Bros / Opera singer Ugo Rondinone / Artist Rankin / Photographer Cameron Silver / Designer Bruno Bichir / Actor Daniel Canogar / Artist Philipp Keel / Artist and writer Wayne McGregor / Dancer Emmy Rossum / Singer-songwriter Betsabe Romero / Multimedia Artist and choreographer and actor Luciano Pavarotti Luciano 2014 Patron of Art 2014

Henry Steinway stands for the epitome of excellence and craftsmanship. One of the most famous instruments was the Style 2 Grand Piano with rosewood case, filigree music stand and ornately carved lyre.

Henry Steinway believed in being a ‘hands-on’ family businessman. In 1836, Steinway built his first piano in the kitchen of his home in Seesen, Germany, which is commonly referred to as the ‘kitchen’ piano. The piano is currently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. HENRY E. STEINWAY 36 ‘The best piano is the one made without compromise in quality. 37 Strive always to improve the instrument.’

As the Steinway’s reputation for excellence grew in America so did the European demand. The family opened a further factory in Hamburg.

Henry E. Steinway, born in Germany in 1797, was without doubt the most important piano building pioneer of all time.

After a short period working for other piano makers, the Steinway family became entrepreneurs and began manufacturing their own pianos. They then progressed from workshop to factory and opened the first Steinway manufacturing plant in Queens, New York. Henry E. Steinway Patron of Art 2014

After his emigration to New York in 1853, Henry E. Steinway founded ‘Steinway & Sons’ – the legendary company whose inventive spirit is manifested in 128 patents to date. Many of the early ones, such as the overstringing technique and the rim-bending patent covering the process of shaping the curved wooden grand piano rim, determined the shape and construction techniques of the classic grand piano. To this day, Steinway instruments have as strong a reputation as ever for their unique and unmistakable sound and the firm principles of traditional piano building.

Apart from being a true innovator of his craft, Steinway actively supported New York’s music scene and, in 1866, founded the Steinway Hall in Manhattan. The first and Henry E. Steinway largest concert hall of its time was a historical success: to this day, Steinway Halls all 15.02.1797 – 07.02.1871 over the world serve as cultural meeting places for international musicians and music connoisseurs. Launch 2014 Limitation 4810 Fountain Pens, 888 Fountain Pens

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Limitation 4810 The Patron of Art Limited Edition Henry E. Steinway refers to the classic beauty of a Steinway piano. A gold-plated piano frame decorates the cap whereas the cap of the 888 Edition is made of artfully • Cap and barrel made of skeletonised Au 750 solid gold. Black and white piano keys adorn the barrel of the 888 Edition, and the deep black lacquer 4810 Edition features a barrel in classic black lacquer finish. The clip resembles the patented screw • Cap with gold-plated piano frame used for bending the grand piano rim. ‘Steinway & Sons’, the name to be found above the keyboard • Handcrafted Au 750 gold nib with of every Steinway piano, is engraved on the cone ring of these limited editions, completed by an portrait of Henry E. Steinway engraved portrait of Henry E. Steinway on the Au 750 solid gold nib. Henry E. Steinway Winners 2014

Yin Li Quan and Wang Steve and Chiara Heiner and Ulla Maria Flora Seiji Sam-Koo Wei Rosenblum Pietzsch Monini Ozawa Park China France Germany Italy Japan Korea

The Long Museum Shanghai The Rosenblum Collection and Friends The Pietzsch Collection The Monini Foundation Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-juku and The Seiji The Kum Ho Asiana Foundation Children’s Summer Holiday Program Checkpoint Ilgen Ozawa International Music Academy (IMA) Tongyeong International Music Foundation International Academy Switzerland

Co-founders of The Long Museum Nominated for the creation of a new Nominated for assembling an exceptional President-founder of the Monini Foundation, Nominated for career-long support for Established the Kum Ho Asiana Cultural Shanghai, Yin Li Quan and Wang Wei public gallery and in recognition of art collection, they have acquired major which preserves the legacy of composer musical education, two of the conductor’s Foundation in 1977, which started out began their art collection over 20 years their awareness of the changing role of works by surrealists including Magritte, Giancarlo Menotti and the Two Worlds projects stand out in particular: providing educational scholarships but ago. They have acquired important collectors and galleries. Keen to show Miró and Dalí. The collection also offers Festival. Among its activities are the in 2000, he founded the Seiji Ozawa extended to include classical music and the 40 pieces from selected historical periods, their collection and support artists, the the possibility to follow this artistic provision of scholarships, a digital Ongaku-juku with the goal of nurturing fine arts. Among its activities are the free 41 establishing three areas of expertise: Rosenblums have developed a venue development into the US with works by the catalogue of Menotti’s work and an archive young musicians and extending their loan of rare instruments and the provision Chinese traditional art, Chinese that is also a social space: a former abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock, of materials from the festival. In 2010, the experience through opera performances. of airline tickets to gifted musicians. revolutionary art and contemporary art. photo laboratory designed to recreate a Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko. In 2010, it foundation acquired Menotti’s residence in His International Music Academy in The Foundation owns the Kum Ho Art Hall, Their collection is housed in a spectacular home, with a dining room, library, kitchen was announced that the entire collection – Spoleto, restoring the building to provide a Switzerland aims to provide the most specifically created for chamber music new gallery, entirely paid for by the pair. and children’s area. Drawing inspiration valued at € 12 million – was to be donated museum dedicated to him. After a gap of talented young instrumentalists with concerts, as well as Mun Ho Art Hall and The Long Museum operates to the highest from the Internet, Rosenblum Collection to the National Gallery in Berlin. The works several years, Menotti and the foundation personal tuition and practical experience. the Kum Ho Museum of Art. curatorial standards and aims to bring and Friends facilitates real-world social will close a gap in the country’s collection have re-established the festival as a major All its tutors are internationally renowned Park also inaugurated the Asiana art to the public with a comprehensive networks, with artists acting as the of modern art. event in the European cultural calendar. artists, with selection so rigorous that International Short Film Festival (AISFF) series of exhibitions and a structured connectors between all the ‘friends’. only the best, most highly qualified and the Kum Ho Prodigy Concert Series. education programme. instrumentalists make it through.

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China France Germany Italy Japan Korea Wang Xiaohui / Photographer Sonia Sieff / Photographer Jan Josef Liefers / Actor Toni Servillio / Actor and director Masashi Kawamura / Designer Sung Wong Yang / Musician Feng Ying / Dancer and choreographer Cyril Durand-Behar / Designer Sunnyi Melles / Actress Valeria Golino / Actress Kazuyo Sejima / Architect Yong Hun Cho / Writer Yue Ming Jun / Artist Rudy Riciotti / Architect Herbert Knaup / Actor Stefano Acorsi / Actor Kwang Su Oh / Critic and writer Thomas Heinze / Actor Henry E. Steinway Winners 201 4

Alejandro Mikhail Helga Paul Jane Ramirez Magana Piotrovsky de Alvear Ruddock Rosenthal Mexico Russia Spain UK USA

The Morelia International Film Festival The State Hermitage Museum The Helga de Alvear Foundation Long-term support of the arts Tribeca Film Festival (FCIM) Centro de Artes Visuales Fundacion The Victoria and Albert Conservatorio de las Rosas a.c. Helga de Alvear Museum Foundation

Nominated for transforming the Morelia Nominated for his work maintaining Founder of the Helga de Alvear Foundation Mastermind of some of the largest Co-founder of the TriBeCa Film Festival. Film Festival, the CEO of Mexico’s largest The State Hermitage Museum. With its to share her collection and provide fundraising initiatives in the UK. Donations As one of the key dates in the film calendar, cinema chain, Magana used the company’s unparalleled collection, the museum had the city of Cáceres with a centre for by Sir Paul have helped the Victoria and this festival was set up in response to the administrative capabilities to grow what been dependent on state support, first research, promotion and education in Albert Museum raise £ 32 million and 11 September 2001 attacks on the World 42 was previously a small regional festival. from the czars then the Soviet state, visual arts. Since 2006, the foundation funded renovation of the British Museum. Trade Center and the consequent loss of 43 FCIM now attracts major figures in cinema since its inception. Piotrovsky was the has disseminated her collection through In collaboration with King Edward’s School, vitality in the TriBeCa neighbourhood of from around the world. As well as the main first to realise that the end of the USSR exhibitions, exchanges, publications Birmingham, Sir Paul and his wife Jill have Lower Manhattan. The initial festival in festival, Magana organises screenings, could threaten the museum. Among his and computer-based media; promoted also funded a performing arts centre. 2012 was put together in just four months seminars and encounter groups, all innovations are Hermitages Abroad, where research into the production of visual arts; He is chairman of the Gilbert Trust for the by over 1,000 volunteers. It has since designed to bring Latin American cinema items from the collection are exhibited and conserved and added to the collection. Arts, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries screened over 1,300 films from over into the mainstream. Alongside Arte outside Russia, an important source of These activities take place in the Cáceres of London and continues to support 80 countries. More than 3.7 million Careyes, he also runs a programme to fund income; and establishing a non-profit Visual Arts Centre, an internationally the Courtauld Institute for Art, Donmar attendees have generated an estimated the showing of work by young independent organisation to raise and distribute an recognised venue that fully involves Warehouse theatre and National Trust. $ 725 million (USD) in economic activity for directors in mainstream cinemas. endowment for the museum. the people of the city. New York City.

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Mexico Russia Spain UK USA Tatiana Bilboa Spamer / Architect Yuri Bashmet / Musician Calixto Bieto / Theatre director Edward Watson / Dancer Anthony Mackie / Actor Guiliermo Osorno / Writer Andris Liepa / Dancer Eduardo Mendoza / Writer Julia Peyton-Jones / Author Christopher Forbes / Writer Marina Stevenhagen / Artist Victor Ullate / Dancer and choreographer Rankin / Photographer Prabal Gurung / Designer Henry E. Steinway 2013 Patron of Art 2013

Leonardo’s Horse was commissioned by the Duke of Milan in 1482, yet was never completed. It was intended to be the largest equestrian statue in the world.

Sforza Castle in Milan, Italy, which was turned into a princely residence in 1452 by Francesco Sforza. In 1494, his son Ludovico Sforza, then Duke of Milan, called numerous artists to decorate the castle, amongst which Leonardo da Vinci (in collaboration with Bernardino Zenale and Bernardino Butinone). DUKE OF MILAN 46

‘… my library was dukedom large enough. 47 (…) Knowing I loved my books, he (Gonzalo) furnish’d me from mine Prospero (The Duke of Milan) own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.’ in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

Milan, Italy: Piazza del Duomo, Cathedral Square. Much of the patronage lavished by Luovic Sforza was for the aggrandisementof the Duomo, Milan’s flamboyant landmark.

Ludovico Sforza was born in 1452 as the fourth son of the Milanese duke Francesco Sforza. After being crowned Duke of Milan in 1494, Ludovico promoted humanist education at the University of Milan and commissioned the expansion of the Renaissance Castello Sforzesco. One of many portraits of Ludovico Maria Sforza also known as Il Moro (‘the Moor’) because of his black hair and his dark complexion. This miniature was created by Bonifacio Bembo ca 1460. Ludovico Sforza – Duke of Milan – Duke Sforza Ludovico Patron of Art 2013

Throughout his reign, Ludovico Sforza supported numerous outstanding artists with commissions at the Milanese court, including the architect Donato Bramante and the greatest genius of his era, Leonardo da Vinci. This universal genius worked for the Duke of Milan for a decade and a half, during which time he created two of his best-known works for his patron: ‘The Last Supper’ in the convent church of Santa Maria delle Grazie and ‘The Lady with an Ermine’.

Ludovico Sforza 27.07.1452 – 27.05.1508

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Limitation 4810 The design of the Patron of Art Limited Edition Ludovico Sforza 4810 and 888 cap top and cone is characterised by the striking architecture of the Castello Sforzesco. The black lacquer of the 4810 • Cap and barrel made of Edition is adorned with ornaments inspired by da Vinci’s ceiling fresco from the ‘Sala delle Asse’ in the Ag 925 sterling silver and black lacquer Milanese castle. Leonardo’s pattern also adorns the blue translucent lacquer of the Limited Edition 888. • Rhodium-plated Au 750 solid gold nib • Inlays of Ag 925 sterling silver The embossment on the cap ring is reminiscent of the ‘testone’, a silver coin of the Italian Renaissance minted in honour of Ludovico Sforza. Inlays of Ag 925 sterling silver (4810) and fittings of Au 750 solid gold (888) round off this fascinating limited edition in honour of Ludovico Sforza. The Sforza family coat of arms served as the inspiration for the engraving on the Au 750 solid gold nibs on both editions. Ludovico Sforza – Duke of Milan – Duke Sforza Ludovico Winners 2013

Feng Yvon Marli Dr Yip Elisabetta Enoh Ji Cai Lambert Hoppe-Ritter Wai Hong Sgarbi Ichikawa China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

Feng Ji-Cai Chinese Folklore, Art and Lambert Collection, Hotel de Caumont Marli Hoppe-Ritter Stiftung Music Education in Hong Kong Fondazione Sgarbi Theatrical education and training Culture Foundation Collection Lambert Young Euro Classic and Kuenstlerbund Hong Kong Children’s Symphony Orchestra General funds of the foundation The 21st Century Kabuki Gumi The Protection of Traditional Baden-Wuerttemberg e. V. Villages Project

Founder of the Feng Ji-Cai Chinese Nominated for gifting his private colllection Setting up the Marli Hoppe-Ritter-Stiftung Nominated for popularising music Nominated for her contribution to the art Nominated for developing talented young Folklore, Art and Culture Foundation. to the city of Avignon. The Lambert zur Förderung der Kunst, Hoppe-Ritter has education in Hong Kong, Dr Yip is a music of cinema in Italy, Ms Sgarbi is founder of kabuki actors. For over 300 years, the Since encouraging the authorities in Tianjin Collection is unique in France for its size worked quietly and consistently to support director and conductor for the Pan Asia La Milanesiana Literature Music Cinema world of kabuki has been essentially to preserve historic sites, the foundation and breadth. Lambert was one of the first young visual artists working in Germany. Symphony Orchestra, which he founded Science which brings together various closed: no one could become an actor of 50 has created a census of all the country’s to champion conceptual artists of the Her engagement dates back to 1985 when in 1976. To further promote music culture, forms of cultural activity with particular any fame without coming from one of 51 threatened cultural and folkloric resources 1960s. He has also accumulated sculptures she began acquiring modern art with her Dr Yip has held seminars at numerous reference to their impact on cinema. the established kabuki families. Ichikawa and artefacts. Feng has been called the by Carl Andre, paintings by Cy Twombly, husband and she has since played a key international conferences and his Yip’s Her Elisabetta Sgarbi Foundation aims to continues to refresh the tradition of kabuki ‘the guardian angel of Chinese folklore photographs by Nan Golding and videos role in developing the careers of several Children’s Music Education System has promote the relationships built during the through his 21st Century’s Kabuki Gumi and culture’ by the government, while by the likes of Douglas Gordon. Lambert contemporary German painters. In 2004, been widely adopted worldwide. He serves run of each year’s festival. The foundation company which aims to recruit as few his Literature and Study Centre finances is motivated by the idea of collecting the Museum Ritter was opened to house as chairman of the International Society supports and devises a radical programme actors as possible from the established exhibitions of Chinese culture at home artists who were under-represented in and display her collection; it also has a of Children’s Choral and Performing Arts of free artistic research and contributes to families. By lending his historic stage name and abroad, provides research grants and French national collections. The collection strong focus on education for children and and has founded the Hong Kong Children’s the promotion of literature on the subject. to actors from the Kabuki Gumi, Enoh has organises education to bring best practice has made the Hotel de Caumont one of young people, the artists, collectors and Symphony Orchestra, the Yip’s Children’s given countless young actors a place in the in conservation to China. Avignon’s most popular museums. art lovers of tomorrow. Choir and Hong Kong Children’s Choir. world of kabuki.

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China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan Wang Xiaohui / Photographer Thierry Dreyfus / Artist Sunnyi Melles / Actress Simon Birch / Artist Andre G Pinketts / Author Paul Noritaka Tange / Architect Shenyang / Opera singer Charles Zana / Designer Thomas Heinze / Actor Hanjin Tan / Songwriter and lyricist Paola Maugeri / Author and critic Tomomi Nishimoto / Conductor Teng Hua Tao / Film director Jean-Claude Jitrois / Designer Herbert Knaup / Actor Luca Trevisani / Artist Chen Gang / Composer Ludovico Sforza – Duke of Milan – Duke Sforza Ludovico Winners 2013

Higgin Agustin Olga Helena Lady Valerie Sanford Kim Coppel Sviblova Revoredo Solti Weill Korea Mexico Russia Spain UK USA

Long-term support of music in Korea Isabel and Agustin Coppel Foundation Long-term patronage of the art of Prosegur Art Collection Long-term support of classical music Carnegie Hall Sejong Soloists Art fund of the Jardín Botánico Culiacan photography Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in the UK and elsewhere Sonoma State University; The Weill Hall at and Estrella Guia The Center of Social Rehabilitation of The Solti Foundation the Green Music Center Disabled Children ‘Yuzhnoye Butovo’

Founder of the the Byucksan Culture Nominated for being one of his country’s Founder of the Moscow House of Nominated for her support of art and Creator of the Solti Foundation, Nominated for his support of the arts, Foundation to support art and culture in most admired art patrons. For Mr Coppel, Photography, Olga Sviblova has supported culture in Spain, particularly the creation which gives grants and career advice. particularly music, over many years, Korea, Kim supports Sejong Soloists, the being a patron is not all about acquisition, the art of photography in Russia for more of the Prosegur Art Collection, Revoredo Committed to opera and symphony Mr Weill is chairman of the board of premier conductorless string orchestra, rather about joining the artist in living the than 30 years, from back when it was is a member of the Friends of the through her marriage to Sir Georg, Lady Carnegie Hall, one of the most prestigious 52 and has been chairman of the Korea experience. The Isabel and Agustin Coppel an underground art, suspected by the Prado Museum Association, as well as Solti continues to raise funds for many venues in the world. Carnegie Hall has its 53 Festival Ensemble and Korean Symphony Collection comprises between 800 and authorities. She has worked to encourage a supporter of the Gala-Salvador Dalí of the organisations with which he had own artistic programming, development Orchestra. He finances a series of direct 1,000 pieces, all of them first rank in terms young practitioners, support established Foundation. She is a donor to Madrid’s an association, including the Chicago and marketing departments, and presents scholarships to some of Korea’s leading of quality and art-historical interest. It is a artists and help educate the upcoming Royal Theatre and has collaborated in Symphony Orchestra, the World Orchestra about 250 performances each season. conservatoires and supports programmes collection noted for its open-mindedness generation. The House of Photography the annual presentation of the Prince of for Peace, the Mariinsky Theatre Trust, Mr Weill is an avid champion of classical which allow young musicians to borrow and highly personal tone. Far from a seeks out hidden archives from the Asturias Award. She donates to music the Liszt Academy Budapest and the Solti music in the US. One of his many instruments, activities that earned him the ‘stamp collection’ of fashionable names, Soviet era and tracks down neglected education initiatives and is also involved Conducting competition. She also runs patronage activities was a gift made in Mecenat Award from the Korean Business the collection embodies the Coppels’ photographers, making its in heritage, including promoting the the Solti Accademia bel Canto which runs March 2011 of $ 12 million (USD) to allow Council for the Arts in 2011. distinct personal taste. founder-director Ms Sviblova a restoration of the castle of Torrefuerte masterclasses each summer and is a Sonoma State University to complete powerhouse of international renown. to create a sculpture park. supporter of Sadler’s Wells Theatre. its Music Center concert hall.

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Korea Mexico Russia Spain UK USA Kyung-Ok Park / Cellist Daniela Michel / Film director Yevgeny Mironov / Actor Ferran Adrià / Chef Julia Peyton-Jones / Curator and Rosie Perez / Actress Junho Choe / Author José Luis Cuevas / Artist Diana Vishneva / Ballet dancer Juan Echanove / Actor gallery director Patrick McMullan / Photographer Hyung-Min Chung / Curator Nicolas Alverado / Artist Ofelia Grande / Author Andrew Logan / Artist Zandra Rhodes / Artist Ludovico Sforza – Duke of Milan – Duke Sforza Ludovico 2012 Patron of Art 2012

The heraldic crest of Emperor Joseph II by the grace of god elected Holy Roman Emperor.

Joseph II with two of his sisters, Hapsburg Archduchess Maria Ann and Maria Elizabeth. (Marie Antoinette was also a sister.) JOSEPH II 56

‘Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don’t take it too hard. Your work is 57 ingenious. It’s quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that’s all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect. Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?’

Joseph II declared the Burgtheater in Vienna to be known as The German National Theatre. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart premiered ‘The Abduction from the Serail’, ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ and ‘Cosi fan tutte’ there.

In 1764, Joseph II ascended to the throne to become King of the Romans (King in Germany) and a year later he became the emperor of the Roman Empire.

Castle Schönbrunn, built in the baroque style with 1,441 bedrooms and extensive gardens, was the imperial summer residence of the Hapsburg family. It is in the heart of Vienna and its history spans 300 years. Joseph II Patron of Art 2012

With his enlightenment policy – ‘Josephinism’ – Joseph II implemented extensive cultural reforms on account of which the cultural city of Vienna flourished anew. As an avid music lover, the monarch was especially fascinated by piano concerts of an aspiring artist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Bestowing contracts upon Mozart for years, Joseph II opened the way for him to become one of the greatest composers in music history – and thus Joseph II entered history not only as the ‘Reform Emperor’ but also as one of the most important promoters and patrons of Mozart.

Joseph II 13.03.1741 – 20.02.1790

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Chen Dong Edouard Julia Cissy Pao Renzo Soichiro Sheng Carmignac Stoschek Watari Piano Fukutake China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

The Top Space Project Carmignac Contemporary Art Foundation The Stoschek Collection Hong Kong Ballet Fondazione Renzo Piano Benesse Foundation The Carmingac Award for Photojournalism The Stoschek Foundation The HK Ballet Education Fund The Naoshima Fukutake Museum

Established China’s first and only Developed a park and gallery space on Founded the Julia Stoschek Foundation Chairman of the board of governors of Priztker Prize-winning architect, who Created the Benesse Foundation to international music festival in 2004. the island of Porquerolles to house the in 2007. The foundation’s aim is to make Hong Kong Ballet since 1995, Watari created the Fondazione Renzo Piano in create an environment, available to all, For two weeks every August, BIMFA foundation’s 200 artworks. Set up in Stoschek’s collection of mainly is acknowledged as a leader whose 2004, which sponsors work-experience where architecture and landscaping, fine pursues a varied programme of orchestral 2000, Fondation Carmignac specialises time-based media art available to the dedication has given shape to its artistic courses for students and young architects and applied arts are brought carefully 60 and chamber concerts, masterclasses in collecting works by pop artists and the public. Stoschek deliberately acquires achievement. Committed to enhancing from 12 universities around the world. The together to demonstrate the human ability 61 and open competitions aimed at young New German School. Works are also on works by younger artists – what she calls Hong Kong’s position as an artistically foundation also archives and conserves to ‘live well’ in harmony with itself and with musicians of any nationality, bringing permanent display at Carmignac’s Paris ‘collecting forward’ – and supports them vibrant city, Watari was chairman of the Piano’s work and publishes monographs nature. The foundation has created the together established artists, teachers and head office, with staff encouraged to learn with in-depth exposure. She has been a board of governors of Hong Kong Arts based on his practice’s projects. Piano’s Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a unique arts music students from around the world about individual pieces through talks with member of the board of trustees of the Centre, 2006 – 2009. Awarded a Hong Kong repertoire of cultural buildings includes the and environmental project. By situating in a unique collaboration. a resident art historian. The foundation Kunst-Werke Berlin since 2004, as well as Dance Award and Bronze Bauhinia Star in Morgan Library expansion in NYC and the modern art and architecture within the also funds an annual photojournalism a member of the acquisitions committee recognition of outstanding achievement new wing of the Chicago Art Institute. nature and the unique culture of the Seto prize, the winner of which is is paid to of the media and performance art in promoting HK art and culture, Watari Inland Sea, it has created a landscape photograph conflict zones for four months. department of the MoMA, New York. is also chair of Public Art Hong Kong, with a powerful cultural and historical a non-profit organisation promoting resonance. public art.

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China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan Timmy Yip / Artist Phillippe Huart / Artist Thomas Heinze / Actor Lee Chi Ching / Artist Fabio Novembre /Architect Ukon Ichikawa / Actor Pang Gongkai / Painter Olivia Putman / Designer Sunnyi Melles / Actress Isabella Ragonese / Actress Shinpei Naito / Artist Zhou Long / Composer David Edwards / Writer Herbert Knaup / Actor Joseph II Winners 2012

Hee-Ja César Yevgeny Leopoldo Andrew Quincy Chung Cervantes Mironov Rodés Lloyd Webber Jones Korea Mexico Russia Spain UK USA

Artsonje Center and Museum Museu Universitario de Arte The ‘Artist’ Foundation Fundación Arte y Mecenazgo The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Long-term support of music education The Sonje Award, Busan International Contemporaneo The general funds of the foundation The Quincy Jones’ Listen Up’ Foundation Film Festival The museum’s acquistion fund

Founded Artsonje Museum in 1991, the A collector and patron who has also Yevgeny Mironov has supported activities Created the Fundación Arte y Mecenazgo, Set up The Andrew Lloyd Webber Quincy Jones has been a long-term first private modern art museum in Korea, made a substantial donation to the in Russia over many years. He has been which aims to educate Spain’s business Foundation in 1992. The foundation’s supporter of US music. Alongside his own focusing on works from its contempoary Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo a presidential adviser on culture and art, leaders on the role of the collector and objectives are to promote arts, culture career, he has developed the talents of art collection and retrospectives by in Mexico City. Cervantes has been a and formed the lobbying group Action To patron. Many would like to contribute but and heritage for the public benefit. young musicians, preserving the heritage 62 established artists. Chung also set up well-known collector of art in Mexico Support The Russian Theatre. Mironov not so many are clear on how to go about The foundation mainly concentrates of African American music, and using 63 Artsonje Center to support contemporary for 16 years, gaining a reputation as is also co-founder of the charitable it; many think that supporting the arts on visual arts with particular focus on music and the arts to give a lifeline to art. The centre participates in international someone who leads rather than follows. foundation Artist, which supports older is only for the very rich. Rodes seeks to English art and the Pre-Raphaelites. marginalised voices. Jones is involved in exchange activities, introduces Korean His donation of works is among the largest artists. The foundation also provides dispel these doubts; in so doing he wants Lloyd Webber’s interventions on behalf the Institute for Black American Music artists to the international art field and of its kind and has established the Museo material and moral assistance to actors to ensure that the culture of patronage of the arts are calculated to the greatest (IBAM), the National Black Arts Festival provides education programmes for as a major institution. Few collectors show with disabilities and veterans of stage and in Spain remains healthy for a long time possible good. When central government (NBAF) and the Quincy Jones Listen Up children and adults. Chung also sponsors Cervantes’s flair and discrimination, and film, assisting those who devoted their life to come. By introducing new generations arts funding started to bite, the foundation Foundation, devoted to breaking Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) fewer still are so committed to making sure to art, but now have no opportunity to the pleasures and responsibilities distributed a seven-figure one-off sum to the cycle of poverty and violence by and has established its Sonje Award for that their collections are as seen as widely to live the full and secure life that their of patronage, Rodes has contributed those arts groups in gravest danger introducing children to culture, education short films. as possible. work merited. immensely to the well-being of the arts of closure. and technology. in Spain.

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Korea Mexico Russia Spain USA Choon-Soo Chung / Violinist Felipe Fernández del Paso / Artist Valery Gergiev / Conductor Antonio de Felipe / Artist Fran Lebowitz / Author Eun-Hee Park / Pianist Jacobo Zabludovsky / Writer Nikolai Tsiskaridze / Ballet dancer Patricia Urquiola / Architect Michael Bastian / Designer Ji-Eun Rhee / Writer Plácido Domingo / Opera singer Joseph II 2011 Patron of Art 2011

His name has become a byword for a wealthy, generous and enlightened patron of the arts. Maecenas was an important patron for the new generation of Augustan poets, including both Horace and Virgil.

Gaius Maecenas was an ally, friend and political advisor to Octavian who was to become the first Emperor of Rome as Caesar Augustus GAIUS MAECENAS IMPERĀTOR CAESAR DĪVĪ FĪLIVS AVGVSTUS 66 67 ‘We thank Gaius Maecenas for the nobility of soul we attribute to Virgil.’

Maecenas had a truly magnificent villa constructed near Tivoli; the most beautiful gardens welcomed waterfalls and even a swimming pool. It fell into disrepair, yet in 1713 there was a plan to rebuild it.

Gaius Cilnius Maecenas is regarded as the first patron of the arts in cultural history and is a symbolic figurehead for cultural responsibility and unselfish commitment. The Auditorium Maecenas was discovered during excavations in 1874. Historians believe it was a summer banqueting hall where plays and poetry were the main entertainment. Gaius Maecenas Patron of Art 2011

The name of Gaius Cilnius Maecenas has become a byword for all enlightened patrons of the arts and his spirit lives on in all those people who feel committed to selflessly supporting artists and the creators of culture.

To mark the 20th anniversary of the Montblanc Patron of Art Edition, Montblanc is honouring the founder of artistic patronage with an edition of most precious fountain pens whose shape reflects the columns of a Roman temple.

In the 4810 Edition, the barrel is fashioned from marbled lacquer. The cap, like the rings, is made of Ag 925 sterling silver and is embellished with the first line of an ode to Maecenas Gaius Maecenas written by Horace. 70 BC – 8 BC

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Limitation 4810 In the 888 Edition, the body is shaped from precious marble and adorned with fine decorations on the rings of Au 750 solid gold. The skeletonised cap bears the words ‘MAECENAS ATAVIS EDITE REGIBUS’ – • Cap and mountings made the first line of Horace’s ode to Maecenas. of Ag 925 sterling silver • Barrel of marbled lacquer Both writing instruments are decorated with fine engravings of laurel wreaths and the Roman • Maecenas’ likeness on the cone base numerals ‘MMXI’ on the Au 750 solid gold nib, which is rhodium-plated in the 4810 Edition. A likeness • Rhodium-plated Au 750 solid gold nib of Maecenas is featured on the representation of an ancient Roman coin in the cone and completes this edition in honour of the founding father of artistic patronage. Gaius Maecenas Winners 2011

Liao Yoyo Prof. Dr Harald Chung Andrée Ruth Yoko Chang Yong Maeght Falckenberg King-fai Shammah Ono China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

Liao Chanyang Vocal Art Special Fund Maeght Foundation Kulturstiftung Phoenix Art Long-term and diverse support of the arts Teatro Franco Parenti: Milan The ‘Dream Power’ project The Scholarship Fund The general exhibition fund of The Outreach programme of The Teatro Franco Parenti the foundation the Kulturstiftung education programme

Liao Chang Yong set up ‘The Liao Yoyo Maeght is the driving force behind the Harald Falckenberg has long been one Chung King-fai is a major pioneer of the Andrée Ruth Shammah became president A lifelong supporter of arts projects in Changyang Vocal Art Special Fund’ Maeght foundation, a legendary modern of Germany’s most noted art collectors. contemporary performing arts in Hong of Milan’s Franco Parenti Theatre in 1989. both her native Japan and abroad, Yoko in 2006 to promote the development art institution set up by the Maeght In 1996, he made his entire collection Kong. Himself a famous practitioner of Since that time, her unremitting energy Ono’s most notable initiative is arguably and appreciation of Western classical family. Drawing on the Foundation’s available to the public by putting it on the theatrical arts, as a patron Mr Chung’s and passion has transformed the theatre her establishment of the ‘Dream Power’ 70 music in China. Widely lauded for its own superb collections and using its permanent display at the Kulturstiftung goal is to ensure his fellow citizens are into one of Italy’s most innovative and Foundation. The income generated at 71 scholarship scheme, funded largely by extraordinary contacts in the art world Phoenix Art, a converted factory in able to enjoy all forms of theatre. His creative resources. Believing in the power the Japan-wide arts event is donated to Liao Chang Yong, talented young singers globally, Yoyo Maeght, in her quest to Hamburg. This gesture, alongside his energy, commitment and passion marks of theatre to influence and enrich human educational projects in Asia and Africa. To can pursue their studies comparatively enhance public exposure to the French support of The Outreach programme of his immeasurable influence on theatre perception, she established the Teatro date, the success of the project, alongside free from financial pressure and enjoy visual arts, has over the years mounted the Kulturstiftung, is not to draw the public in Hong Kong and, by extension, China Franco Parenti education programme: Yoko Ono’s dedication to third world further guidance after graduation. Most many significant exhibitions, which have away from other galleries but to add to itself. As well as being a tireless promoter a creative workshop that mixes cultures development, has been responsible for remarkable is that Liao Chang Yong is no drawn large audiences and served to revive Hamburg’s cultural vibrancy, and to provide of theatre, Mr Chung is a highly talented and languages. This Italian jewel would not financing the building of over 50 schools in retired millionaire: he is at the beginning one of France’s most important artistic facilities for an improved dialogue between theatre director and has directed over be what it is today without the vision of its some of the most impoverished places in of his career with the goodwill to assist institutions. artists, collectors and the public. 80 productions. devoted patron. both continents. others at the beginning of theirs.

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China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan Li Bing Bing / Actor Cedric Morisset / Designer Sunnyi Melles / Actress Alan Mak / Writer and film director Giovanni Gastel / Photographer Tadao Ando / Architect Fang Li Jun / Artist Jean Reno / Actor Thomas Heinze / Actor Wing Shiya / Photographer Alessandro Baricco / Author Shigeaki Saegusa / Composer Kader Attia / Artist Masahiko Shimada / Author Gaius Maecenas Winners 2011

Young-Dal Aurelio Valery Her Majesty HRH Craig Yoon Lopez Rocha Gergiev Queen Sofia of Spain The Prince of Wales Robins Korea Mexico Russia Spain UK USA

Kukak Music The Guadalajara Cultural Promotion Mariinsky Orchestra, Ballet and Opera The Queen Sofia Foundation and Long-term support of arts in Art Basel Miami and Design Miami The Raegum Orchestra Foundation The Mariinsky Company education long-term support of the arts in Spain the United Kingdom The Artists’ Studio Programme department The general funds of the Queen The Prince’s Drawing School Sofia Foundation

Young Dal-Yoon has long supported the Successful businessman and contemporary Valery Gergiev, General Director of Her Majesty, Queen Sofia of Spain set As the Patron or President of more than 20 Property developer and art enthusiast, old artistic traditions of his native country, art dealer, Aurelio Lopez is a native of St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre complex, up The Queen Sofia Foundation in 1997, arts organisations in the United Kingdom, Craig Robins, transformed Miami into Korea. The country’s radical economic and Guadalajara, Mexico, who has worked hard was committed to bringing this cultural keen to promote and develop the physical the contribution of HRH The Prince of one of the art capitals of the world. social change over the years has meant to ensure that his native city and province icon through a turbulent period when and spiritual needs of men and women in Wales to art and culture is unparalleled. He persuaded the organisers of Art 72 interest in traditions, such as ‘Kukak’ are not left behind culturally, shadowed it was deprived of public funding after society, and to encourage and promote Deserving special mention, however, is Basel to establish The Artists’ Studio 73 music, has radically diminished. Concerned by the glamour of Mexico City. He set up the Russian Communist government the fullest access of all citizens to the The Prince’s Drawing School, created in Programme, exhibiting the best in modern that such a precious asset should not slip The Guadalajara Cultural Foundation to was replaced. Determined to keep the cultural life of the country, particularly 2000 and dedicated to teaching drawing, design, and administered the Design into oblivion, Mr Young set up and financed showcase his unique collection to spread Theatre before the international public, through literature, science and the arts. working on the premise that drawing is a show’s relocation to a derelict area of the ‘Rageum Orchestra’, devoted entirely awareness of contemporary art. Valery Gergiev organised an astonishing Today one of Spain’s most important living, evolving language that all artists the city. These progressions, alongside his to the playing of Korean classical music, His extensive dedication has merited international programme of work to raise cultural institutions, Queen Sofia’s endless should know how to speak. The support founding of Design Miami, now personally ensuring that ‘Kukak’ music his home state and city of Guadalajara essential funds. Nowadays, the Theatre is dedication and support of the arts rank her of HRH The Prince of Wales has granted a leading international Design exhibition, remains firmly on the cultural landscape. as a thriving centre for contemporary in the finest financial and artistic health, as an esteemed and memorable patron. young artists the opportunity to develop have rejuvenated downtown Miami and Mexican culture. all thanks to Valery Gergiev. their artistic talent. positioned the city at the centre of the contemporary art world.

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Korea Mexico Russia Spain UK USA Inja Park / Dancer and choreographer Ana de la Reguera / Actress Yury Bashmet / Musician Isabel Coixet / Film director Zandra Rhodes / Designer Catherine Malfitano / Opera singer Hongjune You / Author Ezequiel Farca / Designer Denis Matsuev / Musician Santi Moix / Artist Darcy Bussell / Ballet dancer Anthony Haden-Guest / Author Taekju Lee / Conductor Maria Mironova / Actress Goya Toledo / Actress Anya Hindmarch / Designer Enrique Norten / Architect Gaius Maecenas 2010 Patron of Art 2010

Elizabeth was very much a woman of the written word; she wrote a considerable number of poems and letters with a very distinctive and elaborate signature.

Elizabeth was a dedicated monarch and ruler: she addressed her court with speeches she wrote. ELIZABETH I 76 ‘I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have 77 the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too’.

Windsor Castle was originally built by William the Conqueror in the 11th century. It is still a residence of the Royal Household today. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II spends a lot of time there and often entertains heads of state in the banqueting hall.

The political successes of Queen Elizabeth I not only paved the way for Britain to create an empire that spanned the world, but also transformed her homeland into a genuine nation of culture, in which the English Renaissance flourished.

Elizabeth was a patron of poets, painters and playwrights, the most famous being William Shakespeare. Elizabeth I Elizabeth Patron of Art 2010

The major successes and stories of artists like William Shakespeare made history under Queen Elizabeth I and echo the era-defining story of this unique sovereign herself – the ‘Elizabethan period’ that lasted for over 40 years.

Elizabeth I 07.09.1533 – 24.03.1603

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Limitation 4810 In honour of probably the most famous queen of England, the writing instruments of the Patron of Art Limited Edition Queen Elizabeth I are coated with gleaming lacquer, reminiscent of Elizabeth’s • Cap and barrel of gleaming lacquer robes. Royal insignia worked in filigree and a green, synthetic cabochon on the clip lend the edition • Gold-plated fittings a truly majestic splendour, which climaxes in the elegant engravings on the gold-plated fittings. • Synthetic green cabochon on the clip Crowned by the complex engraving of the royal crown on the Au 750 solid gold nib, this limited edition • Au 750 solid gold nib pays a royal tribute to its namesake. Elizabeth I Elizabeth Winners 2010

Mei Martine Dr rer. pol. Arend Dr William Giulio Mari Bao-jiu Franck Oetker Mong Man Wai Mogol Natsuki China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

Mei Lang Fan Foundation for Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and others Long-term and diverse support of the arts The CET Music School The ‘My Own Time’ and the Peking Opera The operating and exhibitions fund The education department of The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra ‘Impressionism 1’ programme The general funds of the foundation the Deutsche Stiftung

As one of the most illustrious opera Eminent photographer Martine Frank Prosperous businessman, Dr Oetker Throughout his 55 years in business, A towering figure in Italian popular music, Already a famous singer and actress singers in China, Mei Bao-jiu founded founded the Cartier-Bresson Foundation has long been one of Germany’s most Dr William Mong Wan Mai has always Giulio Mogol founded the CET Music in Japan, Mari Natsuki’s work with the Mei Lang Fan Foundation in order towards the end of her eponymous outstanding patrons of the art been clear that it is the duty of every School in 1992. Vehemently rejecting theatre education began in 1994 when to promote and develop the art of husband’s life in 2002, in order to and culture. Driven by a belief in the successful business person to give back any idea that popular music is less she commenced a wide-ranging series 80 classical Peking Opera, one of Chinese preserve his work for future generations. mutual benefit of dialogue between to the community through which one important or less valuable than classical of theatre workshops throughout Japan 81 culture’s greatest glories, amidst fears The foundation showcases the honoured the arts, science and commerce, he sits obtains their prosperity. This principle music, the organisation helps young and European countries such as Poland that modern China was losing interest French photographer’s work and operates on the board of the Deutsche Stiftung has led to him becoming one of the most popular musicians to gain their skills and the United Kingdom. Based on her in the art form, replaced by modern an extensive programme of arts-related Musikleben, one of Germany’s most notable patrons of the arts in Hong Kong, and acquire knowledge of their craft. own performance techniques to which international sources of entertainment. events. The foundation, driven by the important cultural institutions. contributing generously to the Hong This important and dynamic institution she gives the name ‘Impressionism 1’, The foundation’s innovative programmes direction and inspiration of Martine His unwavering support, particularly to Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, permitting exists purely thanks to the vision, passion the workshops are aimed at people of all have set new standards of creativity and Frank, illustrates how the work of a great the institution’s education department, this internationally acclaimed institution and financial support of Giulio Mogol. ages, yet focusing primarily on children outreach in China, rendering him one of master can remain fresh, relevant and has broken down barriers of perception to continue to define and flourish A true patron operating in a much and the young, aiming to improve opera’s greatest defenders and patrons. influential even after their death. and hostility between the sectors, the country’s cultural landscape. neglected area, he stands as a shining their communication skills and resulting in significant cultural change. example to his peers. acting techniques.

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China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan Yue Ming-Jun / Artist Jill Gasparina / Author and curator Stephan Huber / Sculptor Steve Leung / Architect Piero Golia / Artist Shinpei Naito / Artist Tan Yuan-Yuan / Ballet dancer Jean Reno / Actor Sunnyi Melles / Actor Ronald Ng / Composer Valeria Solarino / Actress Tomomi Nishimoto / Conductor Shen Yang / Opera Singer Gérard Uféras / Photographer Thomas Heinze / Actor William Chang / Arts director Yukio Ninagawa / Theatre director Sonja Kirchberger / Actor Elizabeth I Elizabeth Winners 2010

Chang-Jae Patrick Laura Candida Gertler Judith Shin Charpenel Garcia-Lorca de los Rios and Yana Peel Jamison Korea Mexico Spain UK USA

The Daesan Foundation The Charpenel Collection; Museu The Federico Garcia Lorca Foundation Outset Contemporary Art Fund Alvin Ailey Company; Arts in The general funds of the foundation Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo The foundation’s student residency The exhibition budget of the art fund Education Programme The Charpenel Foundation programme The Ailey Company’s outreach programme acquisition funds

Dr Shin established The Daesan Foundation Patrick Charpenel is an art historian Laura García-Lorca De Los Rios has Candida Gertler and Yana Peel founded One of the truly greatest American dancers to foster Korea’s literary culture and and collector, widely regarded as one of transformed the Federico García Lorca The Outset Contemporary Art Fund in 2003 of the 20th century, Judith Jamison has to make Korean authors better known Mexico’s top art patrons. A passionate Foundation into one of Spain’s most as a philanthropic organisation dedicated worked tirelessly to promote the art abroad. Working under Dr Shin’s direction, believer that the duty of a collector is innovative and important cultural to supporting new art. The foundation of contemporary dance worldwide, to 82 The Daesan Foundation nurtures literary to share his collection with those not in institutions. Without losing sight of the focuses on bringing private funding from preserve the legacy of the legendary 83 talent by operating a wide-ranging a position to collect as he does, he has foundation’s principal aim of preserving its supporters and trustees to public choreographer and dancer, Alvin Ailey programme of academic cultural been a long-term lender to exhibitions the work of the eponymous poet and museums, galleries and art projects, and through the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, exchanges and provides study grants to and galleries such as Mexico’s Museo writer, Laura García-Lorca has worked uses its independent platform to give new and to bring the joy and benefits of dance enable Korean writers to travel and work Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo. to secure the foundation as the leading audiences proximity to the visual arts. education to children via projects such as abroad. Due to the energy and vision of Additionally, he co-founded The Charpenel provider of academic information on the The Outset Group is an important player the ‘Alvin Ailey Dance Kids’. It is her drive Chang-Jae Shin, The Daesan Foundation Collection in 2007 with the purpose poet’s life and works. Much, if not all of this on the UK art scene, noted for its energy and personality that is reflected in the is an active force on the contemporary of commissioning and buying art for enlightened and energetic programme is and intelligence, qualities that flow directly widely praised and imitated education and Korean literature scene. installation in public spaces. due to her influence and drive. from its two founders. outreach schemes of the Ailey Company.

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Korea Mexico Spain UK USA Sungyi Choi / Choreographer Michel Rojkind / Architect Jordi Labanda / Designer Antony Gormley / Sculptor Saffron Burrows / Actress Duckhyun Cho / Artist Ana Claudia Talancón / Actress Antonio de Felipe / Artist Andrew Logan / Artist Jorge Pardo / Artist Youngbae Kim / Pianist Guillermo Arriaga / Playwright Benedetta Tagliabue / Actress Alan Gilbert / Conductor Elizabeth I Elizabeth 2009 Patron of Art 2009

The early stages of the gradual excavation of this monumental grave figure at Tell Halaf in 1912.

The new exhibition opened in Berlin’s Pergamon Museum ca 1930 and displayed the 3,000 year-old Tell Halaf finds from Syria.

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Oppenheim hired the best archaeologists of his time; with them, he broke new ground in the way he documented his finds. He often dressed in local, traditional costume whilst he worked.

His boundless passion for exploring led diplomat and archaeologist Max von Oppenheim to discover the remains of a long-lost, advanced civilisation at the ancient settlement of Tell Halaf in northern Syria in 1899 – and go on to become one of the most important archaeologists of the 20th century. MAX VON Max von Oppenheim Max von Patron of Art 2009

Max von Oppenheim’s prehistoric finds include important stone figures and relief panels dating from the 9th century BC, which are still of immeasurable value today to the worlds of science, art and culture.

Max von Oppenheim 15.07.1860 – 15.11.1946

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Ma Wei Gilles Liz Stanley Bob Junko Du de Navacelle Mohn Ho Krieger Koshino China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

The Ga Fu Classical Art Museum The Fondation Coubertin Bertelsmann Foundation Long-term and diverse arts patronage The Circolo Filologico Milanese The Junko Koshino Award Liz Mohn Kultur- und Musik Stiftung The Hong Kong Ballet Company The NPO MA Foundation for Cultural Exchange

Ma Wei Du opened the Ga Fu Chinese Gilles de Navacelle founded the Coubertin Liz Mohn is the face of the Bertelsmann Well renowned in Hong Kong for his One of the greatest fashion photographers In 2005, Junko Koshino set up the Classical Art Museum in 1996 amid Foundation in France to provide an Foundation, an organisation aiming long-term patronage to the arts, the of the last 20 years, Bob Krieger has Junko Koshino Award via The NPO MA concerns that, in its rush to modernise, environment in which art and craft to promote creativity, preserve list of Stanley Ho’s cultural benefactions become one of the great patrons of Foundation for Cultural Exchange in Japan, contemporary China was losing touch could influence each other, aware that cultural diversity and build bridges of is endless, and for many decades his photography in Italy, thanks to his intent on nurturing and developing talent 90 with its historic culture. Funded personally, industrialisation had decayed a previous understanding through cultural exchange contribution to the country’s cultural health many years as both a teacher and within the fashion and design industries. 91 the museum exhibits his private collection allegiance between art and craftsmanship. in Germany. The foundation operates over has been unmatched. Passionate about a provider of encouragement to In the form of an apprenticeship, and offers a highly regarded lecture series Annually, the foundation admits thirty a wide range of social and artistic topics, promoting the art of dance, however, young photographers. Through his work winners enjoy the privilege of working on cultural communication. young artists and craftspeople to work including support of the he has supported the Hong Kong Ballet with the Circolo Filologico Milanese, alongside the great designer herself in Many collectors collect only for their together on a range of practical ‘Neue Stimmen International Singing Company for many years, as well as a not-for-profit organisation dedicated one of her ateliers. Such an opportunity own private satisfaction yet Mr Ma has projects to produce works of use and Competition’, designed for opera’s rising sponsoring numerous dance performances to providing vocational and cultural is, beyond any doubt, of inestimable given his collection to the Chinese people high aesthetic standards. Gilles de stars. As the Foundation’s driving creative and dance seasons in Hong Kong and education, Bob Krieger has passed on value to any talented young person at the to maintain the museum as a common Navacelle’s vision has ensured the value of force, Liz Mohn is an exemplary role Macao, including those of the Hong Kong his knowledge to a whole new generation beginning of his or her career. property of the nation. craftsmanship has been recovered model to business people and arts Arts Festival and Macao Arts Festival. of Italian photographers. and relearned. patrons worldwide.

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China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan Zhang Zi-Kang / Gallerist Guillaume Gallienne / Actor Thomas Heinze / Actor Dr Yip Wai-hong / Conductor Luisa Ranieri / Actress Katsuhiko Hibino / Artist Zhao Ru-Heng / Dancer and choreographer Patrick Frey / Textile designer Mojca Erdmann / Opera singer Hiroyuki Masuyama / Artist Lu Kun / Fashion designer Floriane de Lasseé / Photographer Christoph Eschenbach / Conductor Max von Oppenheim Max von Winners 2009

Woon-Hyung Andrés Liliana Anthony Lee Blaisten Godia d’Offay Korea Mexico Spain UK

Long-term and diverse arts patronage Andres Blaisten Foundation The Francisco Godia Foundation The Artists’ Rooms at Tate Britain/Anthony Yewool Music Stage and Korean The Fondo Diaz de Leon d’Offay Collection National Opera The Tate Gallery

Throughout his career Woon-Hyung Lee From the beginning of his career as a Liliana Godia set up The Francisco Godia British Art dealer Anthony d’Offay began has devoted himself to the promotion of collector of classical and contemporary Foundation in memory of her Father in art dealing in the late 1960s and rapidly art and culture in Korea. His generosity is Mexican art, Andrés Blaisten intended 1999, in order to publicise his magnificent became one of London’s pre-eminent exemplified by his annual donations to the for his collection to be freely available art collection. Additionally, the institution modern art dealers. In 2009, he donated 92 National Opera Company of Korea and the for public enjoyment. Dissatisfied by runs an active programme of seminars, almost his entire collection to the British 93 Yewool Music Stage to fund the operating the limited public reach in galleries, he travelling exhibitions and conferences. nation for public enjoyment and cultural costs of many productions. Opera is launched the Andrés Blaisten Museum It would have been easy to keep Godia’s enrichment. Exhibited in the Artist Rooms flourishing in Korea today with Korean and Fond Díaz de León, a virtual online pictures private or to simply hang them in at London’s Tate gallery, comprising 50 singers and opera producers beginning gallery, in 2002. The museum rapidly a gallery yet, thanks to Liliana Godia, the rooms of contemporary art by 25 artists, to make their mark in the wider world. became recognised as a valuable academic Spanish city of Barcelona, possesses an Anthony d’Offay’s donation has been Without the patronage and passion of research tool, as well as source of pleasure outstanding arts institution, which is both praised as one of the most generous Woon-Hyung Lee, none of this would to art lovers, setting the standard for beautiful and productive. contributions ever to grace the British have been possible. similar sites that followed after. art scene.

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Korea Mexico Spain UK USA Chonghyun Ha / Painter José León Cerillo / Artist Stefano Palatchi / Opera singer Salman Rushdie / Author Savion Glover / Dancer, choreographer Youngmok Kim / Violinist Enrique Norten / Architect Lydia Delgado / Fashion designer Hugh Grant / Actor and actress Eunhee Park / Pianist Vicente Amigo / Composer and flamenco guitarist Max von Oppenheim Max von 2008 Patron of Art 2008

A gold testoon depicting King François I during his reign as King of France (1515 – 1547).

The beautiful castle is located in the Loir-et-Cher department. A prodigal patron of the arts, François I initiated the French Renaissance by attracting many Italian artists to work on the Château de Chambord, including Leonardo da Vinci, who brought the Mona Lisa with him; François I acquired it. The magnificence of the architectural features took ten years to complete. Regrettably the castle fell into disrepair after the ruler’s death.

FRANÇOIS I Desmond Seward – historian. 96 ‘He has no cult like Henry IV or Louis XIV yet his achievement is staggering.’ 97

Jean Clouet: François I, Portrait from 1527, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

François I was the first Renaissance king and also a passionate patron of the fine arts. He acquired

A palace dedicated to the glory of François I works by Italian masters including Michelangelo, Titian and Raphael and laid the foundations for the Work began in September 1519 with the demolition of the old château. However, the construction was royal art collection in the Louvre palace in Paris. temporarily halted after François I’s military defeat at the Battle of Pavia by his rival Charles V. Then, in 1526, work recommenced. François I made alterations to the earlier design: he chose to construct a wing to each side of the original keep, one of these welcomed the king’s own private apartments. François I François Patron of Art 2008

During his reign, François I added to the royal library, made French the official language and founded the Collège Royal in 1530, which still exists today under the name of Collège de France and is famous throughout the world as a higher education and research establishment. His Renaissance châteaux at Chambord and Fontainebleau are a memorial to this legendary king and powerful patron of art and culture.

François I 12.09.1494 – 01.03.1547

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Limitation 4810 The Patron of Art Limited Edition François I combines golden-brown shimmering tiger’s eye with black precious resin, lending this writing instrument a truly regal aura. Renaissance patterns adorn the clip • Cap and cone made of black precious resin and the gold-plated rings. The nib is decorated with an engraving of the fleur-de-lis, the emblem of the with gold-plated rings French royal house. • Barrel made of tiger’s eye • Au 750 solid gold nib François I François Winners 2008

Zhang Bao Guillame Marius Thomas Alessandro Eiicjhiro Quan Houze Müller-Westernhagen Lee Baricco Fukase China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

The Today Art Museum The Antidote Project 5,000 x Zukunft for Aktion Mensch Tom Lee Music Foundation The Holden Writing School General patronage of the visual arts The funds of two exhibitions at the The art purchase fund of the project The general funds of the Foundation in Japan museum to be held in 2008 Fukase Memorial Visual Art Preservation Plan

Forever keen to develop and promote Guillame Houze, a leading collector of German pop star Marius With the mission of ‘making music One of Italy’s most talented writers and Eiichiro Fukase, a renowned patron of the contemporary Chinese art, property contemporary French art, set up the Müller-Westernhagen is widely known accessible and developing the skills and a firm believer in the powerful impact of visual arts in Japan, founded the Fukase developer Zhang Bao Quan financially ‘Antidote Project’ in 2005 to provide for his involvement in numerous arts appreciation for it’, Thomas Lee founded literature on society, Alessandro Baricco Memorial Visual Art Preservation Plan supported the building of the largest financial support and public recognition patronage projects but perhaps most the Tom Lee Music Foundation in 1977. opened the Holden Writing School in Turin to bring recognition to contemporary 100 and the most influential private Chinese for emerging artists. The ‘Antidote Project’ notably for his support and development To this day, the foundation plays a key in 1994 to offer training and support to Japanese artists, who struggled to 101 art gallery, the ‘Today Art Museum’. comprises exhibitions in alternative venues of the project ‘5000 x Zukunft’ for the role in the musical arena of Hong Kong talented writers. The existence of the compete against the market appetite for Furthermore, he funded two exhibitions such as at the department store Galeries ‘Aktion Mensch’ programme, an arts-based to nurture the love and joy of music, School and the unique form of teaching solely modern Western art or traditional at the museum in 2008. The museum Lafayette in Paris, thus granting exposure initiative aimed at children and teenagers providing a wide range of music courses, offered is entirely due to the energy of Japanese art. The foundation runs many focuses on the discovery and fostering of to the very best of French contemporary in difficult circumstances. learning opportunities, concerts and Alessandro Baricco, who in the midst of highly important exhibitions which are young artists whilst also aiming to reflect, art in a setting visited by thousands of Müller-Westernhagen believes involvement competitions for children, adults and his own successful career, has worked now part of the established Japanese record and offer a perspective on both people who otherwise would never have in the arts encourages young people to young musicians, none of which would meticulously to ensure literature continues contemporary art scene, granting Eiichiro the development and history of Chinese set foot inside a contemporary art show. express themselves peacefully and in a be possible without the dedication and to be one of the glories of Italian culture. Fukase an almost cult-like status amongst contemporary art. way that builds rather than destroys support of Thomas Lee himself. young artists and curators. their self-confidence.

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China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan Ye Ming-Zi / Fashion designer Hélène Grimaud / Pianist Iris Berben / Actress Eleanor Wong / Musician Luca Zingaretti / Actor Kazu Ando / Architect Han Sang-Ping / Film-maker Sunnyi Melles / Actress Alan Chan / Graphic artist Mai Miyake / Artist Ma Yan-Song / Architect Sonja Kirchberger / Actress Peter Kam / Musician Yuko Ando / Artist Shimpei Asai / Artist François I François Winners 2008

Seung Eugenio Jose Manuel Louise T. Susan Lee Lopez Lara Blouin Sarandon Korea Mexico Spain UK USA

The Shin Il Foundation The Jumex Collection The José Manuel Lara Foundation Louise T. Blouin Institute The Creative Coalition The Korea Ballet Association The art purchase fund of the collection Casa Cultural de Mairena de Alcor The general funds of the foundation

Passionate about classical ballet and One of the most important collectors of Set up in 1992, the Jose Manuel Lara The Louise T. Blouin Institute’s eponymous American actress Susan Sarandon utilising his position as the chairman of the Latin American art in the world, Mexican Foundation is dedicated to maintaining the founder started the charitable group in co-founded The Creative Coalition: board of Shin IL Education Foundation in Eugenio Lopez’s art collection is estimated cultural traditions of Spain’s Andalusian London in 2006 with the ambition of Los Angeles in 1989, to utilise the arts

Korea, Dr Seung Lee has donated generous to be worth $ 80 million (USD). Keen to region whilst also promoting a vibrant making the world a better place through and the creative industries in mobilising 102 amounts of money for many years to share his collection with the public, he contemporary cultural life for the province. art by promoting culture and creativity the industries and public opinion on issues 103 The Korean Ballet Association to provide opened two galleries in Mexico City. Founder Jose Manuel Lara’s continued and highlighting their role in making of public importance. In particular, training and support for ballet’s rising stars. Subsequently, he donated vast monetary donations and involvement enables the societies stronger. The foundation the coalition operates vigorously in His generosity has not only launched sums to the Jumex Foundation, enabling foundation to organise an extensive sponsors think tanks, research papers, the areas of arts advocacy, free speech the careers of many talented Korean the art-based foundation to offer direct series of annual conferences, exhibitions, an awards programme and collaborative and public education. Her powerful ballerinas, but has also set a good financial help to artists and build low-cost publications and book fairs, serving to multi-ethnic art projects. Without a doubt, combination of professional and personal example for those who give back to society studios, enhancing the awareness and secure Andalusia as a cultural asset that Louise Blouin has become a global figure commitment to free expression and civic as well as to the world of art and culture. appreciation of contemporary any nation or region, no matter what its in arts, politics and patronage. activism renders her a true patron to Latin American art abroad. size, must envy. creative and artistic expression.

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Korea Mexico Spain UK USA Youngbae Kim / Pianist Alondra de la Parra / Musician Fernando Schwartz / Writer David Linley / Designer Andie McDowell / Actress Juila H. Moon / Dancer Javier Marín / Sculptor Lorenzo Quinn / Sculptor Lucy Liu / Actress Beungouk Oh / Artist Daniel Giménez Cacho / Writer Cristina Hoyos / Dancer Eva Green / Actress François I François 2007 Patron of Art 2007

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. From the 10th to the 16th century, this Polynesian society built shrines and erected enormous stone figures known as moai.

Humboldt was a seeker of knowledge. If you want to understand the world, you have to travel around and measure it. That’s the approach that Alexander von Humboldt followed very meticulously. ALEXANDER 106 VON HUMBOLDT 107 ‘There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.’

A drawing of the Rio Grande de la Magdalena from one of Humboldt’s nine American diaries.

To the present day, Alexander von Humboldt is regarded as the most prominent German naturalist and explorer and an influential patron of the arts and culture.

Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland – a fellow explorer and botanist – portrayed at the foot of the Chimborazo volcano; a painting by Georg Weitsch (1810). The Chimborazo volcano is considered to be the furthest point on the surface of the earth from the earth’s centre. Alexander von Humboldt von Alexander Patron of Art 2007

Alexander von Humboldt embarked on many years of travel, exploring the countries and cultures of South and Central America before returning to his homeland, where he made his name as a philanthropist: he wrote letters of recommendation on behalf of contemporary artists such as Berlioz and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, which were instrumental in promoting their careers, and in 1842, he established the ‘Civilian’ or ‘Peace Class’ of the ‘Pour le Mérite’ military order, which is still awarded for special services in science and the fine arts, even today.

Alexander v. Humboldt 14.09.1769 – 06.05.1859

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Yang Agnès Ingvild Liza Franca Mansaku Lan B. Goetz Wang Sozzani Nomura China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

Sunshine Foundation Programme The Galerie du Jour Sammlung Ingvild Goetz Chinese Opera The ‘Who’s On Next’ Project The Setagaya Project A joint workshop with Central Ballet for The purchase of paintings by Julian Goethe The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra The ‘Who’s On Next’ Foundation The workshop programme of the underprivileged teenagers for the Ingvild Goetz Gallery Mansaku-no-Kai Foundation

A prominent Chinese TV producer and A much celebrated dignitary in the fashion Throughout her years as a private art Already a well-known pop star and actress, After becoming editor-in-chief of Italian Mansaku Nomura, one of Japan’s finest personality, Yang Lan founded the business, Agnès B. opened the Galerie collector, Ingvild Goetz had always Ms Wang established her own Cantonese Vogue in 1988, Franca Sozzani initiated actors, is a widely recognised and Sunshine Foundation Programme to du Jour in Paris in 1984 for the showing proclaimed that her chief aim was to make opera company in 1983, followed by a the ‘Who’s On Next’ project, aimed at respected national treasure thanks to provide China’s poorest children with of photographic exhibitions. Since its the contemporary visual arts available as training school in 1992, driven by her promoting young Italy-based fashion his pioneering of the Kyogen tradition, 110 access to arts and cultural education. opening, the gallery has hosted exhibitions widely as possible and to break down the ambition to revitalise the image of the designers whose careers have already the art form in which he specialises. 111 The foundation’s projects include foreign of work by most of the great names of apparent barriers between artists and the waning art form, improve performance begun but who would benefit from more Through the Setagaya Public Theatre cultural exchange programmes and a 20th and 21st century photography, as well general public. Staying true to her beliefs, standards and, most importantly, promote exposure and a degree of mentoring. of which he has been artistic director, he joint workshop with Central Ballet for as providing an excellent high-profile venue she founded the Museum Sammlung interest and in it amongst young people The scheme has helped launch the careers has given performances to international underprivileged teenagers. Ms Lan’s for exhibiting the work of the stars of Goetz in Germany in 1992 and made her in Hong Kong and elsewhere. She has of a myriad of significant fashion stars, audiences, as well as orchestrating unwavering support has ensured young tomorrow. To this day, the Galerie du Jour collection freely available to the public, contributed lavishly to these projects from and by her complete integrity in supporting education programmes and workshops people have been given the chance to remains one of the most innovative and rendering her a veritable patron of the her own money, time and talent; intent on only the very best, Franca Sozzani is directed at Japanese schools and providing enjoy the pleasure and opportunities popular public exhibition spaces in France. arts and setting an excellent example to ensuring opera remains an ever popular indubitably one of the most significant Kyogen training for young actors. for personal growth that involvement collectors worldwide. and celebrated art form. patrons of the current times. with culture can offer.

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China France Germany Jong Kong Italy Japan Fan Di’an / Gallerist Andrée Putman / Designer and architect Sunnyi Melles / Actress Yuri Ng / Choreographer Giorgio Faletti / Writer Masahiko Shimada / Novelist Lang Lang / Pianist Ito Morabito / Designer Thomas Heinze / Actor Nancy Loo / Musician Michiko Fujiwara / Artist Thomas Shao / Writer Christoph Schlingensief / Director Yoko Yamamoto / Printmaker Hardy Krüger Jr / Actor Alexander von Humboldt von Alexander Winners 2007

Young Ho Pilar Donatella Wynton Kim Belzunce Flick Marsalis Korea Spain UK USA

The Ilshin Foundation The Eduardo Chillida Foundation The Donatella Flick Conducting Prize Jazz education project, Lincoln Center and The education fund of The general funds of the prize other projects in the USA the Ilshin Foundation A variety of music education projects in New York City

A recognised long-term patron of the arts Pilar Belzunce set up the Eduardo Chillida A lifelong music lover, Donatella Flick Wynton Marsalis was the first jazz artist in Korea, Mr Kim’s main vehicle for his Foundation with her husband in 1982, founded the biannual ‘Donatella Flick to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize in music for patronage activities is his Ilshin Foundation. with the aim of improving the quality Conducting Competition’ in 1991, aware his work on Blood on the Fields, a series

A noted supporter of classical music and of arts education and art awareness that despite being the very foundation of sung dialogues about slavery. 112 keen to foster cultural relations between throughout Spain. The foundation of an orchestra, no such sponsorship Intent on promoting musical education, 113 Korea and countries abroad, through promotes both Chillida’s work and schemes existed for conductors. he later co-founded a jazz programme the foundation, he has offered financial contemporary sculpture through an Winners of the competition receive a at the Lincoln Centre in New York. support to rising Korean musicians, elaborate programme of exhibitions and monetary prize and the opportunity to Under his leadership, it has grown from enabling them to undertake foreign educational events for all ages. To this become assistant conductor with the three concerts to an international agenda concert tours. When chairman of the day, Belzunce continues to promote and London Symphony Orchestra for a year. with up to 400 events annually in Korean Council for the Arts, he secured encourage the work of the foundation, All but unique, the competition owes its 15 countries. Marsalis has since been integral arts funding from the wider Korean whilst expanding and enriching the work existence and status to the energy and named as one of ‘America’s 25 Most business community. that it undertakes. generosity of its founder and guiding light. Influential People’ by Time magazine.

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Korea Spain UK USA Woon Sung Han / Painter Rafael Amargo / Flamenco dancer Katherine Jenkins / Singer Rosanne Cash / Singer-songwriter Choong Mo Kang / Pianist Xavier Corbreró / Sculptor Val Kilmer / Actor In Ja Park / Choreographer Antonio Miró / Designer Lee Louis Daniels / Film director and producer Alexander von Humboldt von Alexander 2006 Patron of Art 2006

At Tate’s suggestion, the new institution was officially named the National Gallery of British Art, but to his dismay everyone always called it the Tate Gallery! The new gallery building was paid for by Tate and designed by his favourite architect, Sydney R.J. Smith.

A bust of Henry Tate in front of the Tate library in Brixton, London. SIR HENRY TATE 116

Tate modestly declined a knighthood but was told, 117 ‘The Royal family will be offended if you refuse again.’

The idea of a national collection of British painting and sculpture had begun with the will of Sir Francis Chantrey, who in 1840 left money to create one, but nothing was done until Tate took matters in hand and resolved to fund a public gallery of British art with his own collection of pictures. With the opening of several other ‘Tate’ galleries, the original is now known simply as the ‘Tate Britain’.

Sugar magnate Sir Henry Tate was one of the most important industrialists in the Victorian era of

In 1875, Tate bought the licence to produce sugar Great Britain and perhaps the greatest art lover and patron of his time. cubes. Until then, sugar was only available in so-called loaves, which had to be chopped into pieces. The sugar cube became a real source of wealth that turned him into a millionaire. Sir Henry Tate Patron of Art 2006

During his life Tate shared the works of art he owned with the general public. The Tate Gallery in London with paintings from his unique private collection opened in 1897 and formed the basis for a network of five world-famous galleries which keep the cultural legacy of Sir Henry Tate alive to the present day.

Sir Henry Tate 11.03.1819 – 05.12.1899

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Li Jing Gerard Peter Dr Lee Ermanno Oriza Han Garouste Maffay Shau Kee Olmi Hirata China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

Courtyard Galleries in Beijing and Shanghai ‘La Source’ Foundation The Peter Maffay Foundation A lifelong commitment to arts patronage Ipotesi Cinema Gekidan Seinendan ‘The Legation Quarter Limited’ Charity The riral arts and outreach programme The general funds of the foundation Chung Ying Theatre Company The general funds of the project A theatre workshop programme for rural for education of the Fondation Japanese schools

Over the last twenty years, Li Jing Han has A graduate of the École des Beaux Arts, Through the Maffay Foundation, founder Hong Kong is blessed with many A major figure in Italian cinema himself, Oriza Hirata, founder of Japan’s Gekidan sought to secure contemporary art as an Gerard Garouste’s ambition to bring the Peter Maffay has used the arts to help generous patrons of the arts but Dr Lee Ermanno Olmi, winner of the Palme d’Or Seinendan theatre and Komaba Agora established and respected part of China’s arts to disadvantaged young people led severely damaged and traumatised is without doubt the country’s greatest at Cannes in 1977, set up Ipotesi Cinema theatre, has promoted drama and drama cultural make-up. He is the founder of the him to set up the ‘La Source’ Foundation children heal and recover from their philanthropist. A celebrated patron of in 1982 to offer training to talented young education since 1983, even influencing the 120 Courtyard Gallery in Beijing and Three on in France in 1991. Annually, over 5,000 experiences, passionately believing in the many cultural institutions and keen to people in all areas of film production. Japanese education system to issue new 121 the Bund gallery in Shanghai, both cultural young people take part in art workshops power of the arts to heal. To help support support any Chinese cultural project in Based in Bologna, Ipotesi Cinema offers a educational guidelines, stressing hubs of their respective cities. Thanks to and education projects, including painting, the Maffay Foundation, Mr Maffay, one of need of assistance, he is recognised for first-class education to young film-makers the importance of drama education his efforts and imaginative approaches, sculpture, music and dance. Germany’s biggest rock stars, has endowed his unstinting generosity to the arts over from all over the world. As Ipotesi Cinema for all students. Oriza Hirata, a committed Li Jing has made China’s contemporary Mr Garouste’s energy and passion, as the foundation with a fixed royalty from his a period of many years. Notable projects is unique, so too is Ermanno Olmi, promoter of the arts to people of all ages, arts scene a matter of national pride, and well as endorsements from the French music sales. In addition, he works tirelessly include donations to the Chung Ying a towering figure in world cinema, who, is also a prolific playwright and the author has begun to teach the international arts arts and political worlds, has contributed to raise funds from the public at large. Theatre Company and the Art Reach for 30 years, has spent valuable time of ‘Modern Colloquial Theory’, a widely world that China has much to offer. to changing the lives of young people in programme which brought fine arts into giving direct and practical encouragement influential theory of acting and France through the arts. communities and schools in Hong Kong. to the young. drama education.

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China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan Lu Chuan / Film director Marie Desplechin / Writer Hardy Krüger Jr / Actor Edo de Waart / Conductor Camilla Baresani / Writer Ira Ishida / Writer Xu Jing-Lei / Actress Florence Darel / Actress Thomas Heinze / Actor Kay-Yin Lo / Designer Oliviero Toscani / Photographer Shimpei Asai / Photographer Hung Huang / Writer Shintaro Ishihara / Writer Sir Henry Tate Winners 2006

Javier Godo Zandra Rebecca Muntanola Rhodes Neuwirth Spain UK USA

Fundacion ‘Conde de Barcelona’ The London Fashion and Textiles Museum High 5 Tickets To The Arts The literary programmes organised The general funds of the museum The general funds of the project by the foundation

Set up by Javier Godo in 1987, the Conde When the London Museum of Fashion Rebecca Neuwirth is the brainchild behind de Barcelona Foundation is now one and Textiles opened in 2003, it was the High 5, a New York-based not-for-profit of the major sources of private arts culmination of ten years of dedication and organisation, dedicated to making the arts funding in Spain. Under the patronage a lifetime dream come true for fashion available to young people in education 122 of King Juan Carlos, the foundation designer Zandra Rhodes. The museum by selling tickets to all the major arts 123 runs a series of literary programmes runs a series of temporary exhibitions, an institutions in New York for $ 5 (USD). including postgraduate awards to selected educational and outreach programme, and Remarkably, Rebecca Neuwirth was still candidates operating in a number of houses a substantial archive of clothes, a high school student when High 5 was fields including science, economics textiles, designs and patterns. Her passion, set up in 1993. Since its inception, High and journalism. Under the direction and energy, integrity and creativity for 5 has significantly enhanced the cultural influence of Javier Godo, the foundation which she is so well known, is reflected opportunities available to young people has, since its inception, become a major in the museum, one of the liveliest in New York, thanks to Rebecca’s tenacity part of the cultural scene in Spain. creative centres of its kind. and determination.

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Spain UK USA Maria de la Pau Janer / Writer Gillian Wearing / Writer Susan Sarandon / Actress André Ricard / Author Jamie Cullum / Artist Tama Janowitz / Author Sir Henry Tate 2005 Patron of Art 2005

The statue of Laocoön and His Sons, also called the Laocoön Group, is one of the most famous, ancient sculptures: since its excavation in Rome in 1506, it is on public display in the Vatican.

The lavish interior dome of St Peter’s Basilica was designed and painted by Michelangelo: ‘Without destroying the centralising features of Bramante’s first plan, Michelangelo, with a few strokes of the pen converted its snowflake complexity into massive, cohesive unity’. POPE JULIUS II 126 ‘Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, Pope Julius II’s most wondrous achievement is the 127 reconstruction of St Peter’s itself. It is one of the most self-possession is manly, but to the truly great imposing structures and a clear, timeless legacy of this and inspiring soul, they are poor and tame courageous patron of the arts. compared with self-abuse.’

Pope Julius II entered the Vatican in 1503 as the new Pontifex Maximus and during his ten-year papacy worked successfully to safeguard the state of the Church and the unity of Italy.

Julius II was known as the Pope who rebuilt Rome. He commissioned artists such as Raphael, Michelangelo, fresco painter Pinturicchio and architects Jacopo Sansovino or Bramante to plan and design magnificent structures. Pope Julius II Pope Patron of Art 2005

During his pontificate, the greatest patron in the history of the Church made Rome the centre of the Italian High Renaissance. Pope Julius II not only initiated Bramante’s plans for the reconstruction of St. Peter’s Cathedral but also provided the financial support for Michelangelo’s world-famous ceiling fresco in the Sistine Chapel.

Pope Julius II 05.12.1443 – 21.02.1513

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Yang Antoine Diane Annie Renato Kei Li-Ping de Galbert Duchess of Württemberg Wu Zero Ogura China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

Yunnan Minority Cultural Le Maison Rouge The Diane von Württemberg Foundation The Chinese History and Culture Monopoli Arugo: The Musical Preservation Centre The general funds of Le Maison Rouge The Württemberg Foundation for artists Education Foundation The young performers training programme The general funds of the project The general funds of the centre The foundation’s educational programmes of the Monopoli project

Yang Li-Ping founded the Yunnan Cultural Antoine de Galbert founded La Maison Since its inception in 1979, The Diane von Annie Wu established the History and Renato Zero, one of Italy’s most loved Kei Ogura founded Arugo Musical in 1987 Preservation and Transmission Centre to Rouge, a visual arts exhibition space Württemberg Foundation has actively Culture Education Foundation for Chinese singers, has devoted much of his time and since that time it has brought musical maintain both the existence and cultural in Paris, France, to increase public supported the arts throughout Germany. Youth in 1998, with the aim of sending and personal fortune to Fonopoli, an arts education and experiences to people who position of minority cultures in China. The exposure to art. The foundation promotes Financed by the Duchess herself or through 10,000 Hong Kong youngsters to visit the institution he founded in 1993. Fonopoli might otherwise have missed out. 130 centre works extensively with all traditional contemporary creativity through, amongst private donations, the foundation operates mainland annually to learn about Chinese aims to create a place for talented people An annual event throughout Japan, over 131 arts and crafts of all minority races in other activities, a series of exhibitions in three main areas: youth education, history and culture. Firmly believing that and the ‘forgotten arts’; its mission is 500 performances having taken place to Yunnan and provides a comprehensive organised by independent curators, as well general support for the arts and the traditional culture plays a significant to provide young performers with the date. A noted composer of popular music, programme of popular education and as an innovative education programme in restoration and preservation of the historic role in shaping young people’s values training, advice and support to help them Mr Ogura organises the Arugo Musical training. Regarded today as an institution conjunction with the University of Paris monuments of Württemberg. A talented and their sense of Chinese identity, she develop and refine their skills. As an artist each year. By his continued support of of regional and national importance, Yang at Nanterre. All of the activities of artist herself, Diane von Württemberg has organised many cultural exchange himself, with roots deep in popular culture, the Arugo Musicals, Kei Ogura is making Li-Ping continues to donate her money and Le Maison Rouge are solely due to the passionately believes it is her duty to use activities through the foundation’s he sees the preservation of the arts culture an almost incalculable contribution to time to support the work of the centre. energy, vision and financial commitment her social position and wealth to help educational programmes, helping to as a mission, a duty and a pleasure. the continuing health of his native land. of Antoine de Galbert. encourage the arts. preserve Hong Kong’s Chinese heritage.

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China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan Kong Xiang-Dong / Pianist Bettina Rheims / Photographer Iris Berben / Actress Takako Nishizaki / Violinist Alessandro Bergonzoni / Writer Anna Ogino / Author Xu Pei-Dong / Composer Marc Levy / Writer Thomas Heinze / Actor Alan Mak / Film director Carlo Fontana / Opera producer Mariko Hayashi / Novelist Yung Ho Chang / Writer Pope Julius II Pope Winners 2005

Young-Ju German S. Lord and Lady Rita Park Ruiperez Sainsbury Simo Korea Spain UK USA

The Eagon Foundation The Germán Ruipérez Foundation The Linbury Trust and others The People’s Music School The Eagon Children’s Art Prize The International Centre for Children’s The dance scholarship programme The general funds of the school and Young People’s Literature Run of the trust by the foundation

Park Young-Ju, chairman and chief Founded in 1981, the German Ruiperez Through the Linbury Trust, John and Anya Dr Rita Simo set up the People’s Music executive of Eagon Industrial and Eagon Foundation is committed to the promotion Sainsbury have given generously to the School in 1976. The only school of its kind Windows, has long been recognised as of cultural and arts educational activities arts in the United Kingdom and abroad in the United States, free tuition is provided one of Korea’s most distinguished arts throughout Spain. For over 30 years, for over 20 years. The Trust’s projects to anyone wishing to learn about music. 132 patrons. Through the Eagon Foundation, German Ruiperez has demonstrated include donations to the Tate Modern Students are accepted regardless of their 133 he established The Eagon Children’s Art praiseworthy dedication to stimulating and the National Gallery, as well as a age, class or ethnic background. Prize to encourage and promote creative widespread cultural awareness, refurbishment of London’s Royal Dr Simo continues to devote her energies talent amongst Korean children. transforming cultural attitudes, and Opera House. Driven by a sense of and expertise to the People’s School, His long-standing dedication to sponsoring generally creating an attitude within personal responsibility to use their which stands as an eloquent testimony to the arts via generous annual donations led society in which the arts as a whole can affluence to support the arts and aspiring her lifelong devotion to bringing music and to his appointment as the chairman of the flourish; his work has effected considerable artists, they are a shining example of what culture to the lives of those who Korean Business Council for the Arts. nationwide cultural change, rendering him intelligence, passion and commitment to would not otherwise have had an arts patron like no other. good causes can achieve. the chance to participate.

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Korea Spain UK USA Inchon You / Actor and playwright Ygor Yebra / Dancer Antony Gormley / Sculptor Zac Posen / Fashion designer Dooshik Lee / Painter Ferran Adrià / Chef Chris Ofili / Painter Mira Nair / Film director Wonbok Rhie / Painter José Carreras / Opera singer Viscount David Linley / Designer Carolina Herrera / Fashion designer Pope Julius II Pope 2004 Patron of Art 2004

The Morgan Library gave a home to J. Pierpont Morgan’s private growing collection of illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts and early printed books. His son gave his fathers’ extraordinary library to the public in 1924 transforming it into a public institution.

At the later end of his life, J.P. Morgan had so much power that the federal government asked him to mastermind the Federal Reserve Act.

J. PIERPONT ‘A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the 136 MORGAN real reason.’ 137

In the last years of his life, J.P. Morgan used the West Room of the Morgan Library/Museum as his private study. He liked to be amongst some of his prized art pieces and books. There, he often read, met with art dealers and fellow financiers.

John Pierpont Morgan was not only one of the most influential financial magnates during America’s

As CEO of International Mercantile Marine Company ‘Golden Age’, but also an enthusiastic lover and patron of the arts. (IMMC) whose subsidiary, The White Star Line owned the ill-fated RMS Titanic, Morgan had planned to be on the maiden voyage. A sickness prevented him from travelling. J. Pierpont Morgan Patron of Art 2004

John Pierpont Morgan’s legacy has its most impressive manifestation in the Morgan Library which he founded in New York: in one of the world’s largest collections of significant works from art, literature, music and history, masterpieces from the Middle Ages can be found next to classics of the Modern Age.

John Pierpont Morgan 17.04.1837 – 31.03.1913

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Zhang Lotus Klaus Friedrich Alice Beatrice Hiroshi Xin Mahé Naumann King Trussardi Yanai China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

‘Commune By The Wall’ and The Musee Cernuschi, Paris East Asian Museum, Berlin The Shanghai International Fondazione Nicola Trussardi The Pia Film Festival the SOHO Art Collection, Beijing The general funds of the museum Sculpture Symposium The educational funds of the foundation The SOHO Art Collection acquisitions fund

Zhang Xin is a notable force in endorsing The dynamic and generous patronage of Klaus Friedrich Naumann is one of the Alice King is a leading patron of the President of the Nicola Trussardi Hiroshi Yanai, one of Japanese cinema’s China as an artistic front runner on the Lotus Mahé has transformed the Musée world’s leading authorities of Asian art. visual arts in Hong Kong. Her work has Foundation, Beatrice Trussardi avidly most important patrons, founded the world platform. Two projects in particular Cernuschi, the Parisian city museum for Throughout a career spanning more than seen her facilitate cultural exchanges believes in the power of the arts to unique Pia Film Festival in 1977. highlight her commitment to cultivating Asian art, into one of the best museums 40 years, he did whatever he could to between artists based in Hong Kong and inspire and liberate. Unhappy with the Eagerly awaited and much discussed is 140 Chinese art and design: Ms Zhang’s of its kind in France. Having always been repair the losses to the collections of the China and the rest of the world, as well limited public reach of the foundation’s The PFF Award competition: 141 ‘Commune by the Great Wall’ project overshadowed by the national museum at East Asian Museum in his native city Berlin, as her establishment of the Shanghai exhibitions, she pioneered the dispersing the grand prize is presented annually to involved twelve prominent Asian architects the Musee Guimet, the financial support of Germany, which had suffered years of International Sculpture Symposium, of contemporary art directly into the an exceptionally promising film director, building a museum of contemporary Ms Mahé, alongside her tireless dedication damage and neglect after the where the greatest Chinese sculptors community to bring art to people in a who is granted the opportunity to develop architecture close to the Great Wall. to prolific public and private fundraising, Second World War. By making many teach their Western counterparts. highly creative and site-specific way. and film a full-length film, funded by In addition, her support for the SOHO has ensured the Musée Cernuschi is now generous financial donations, alongside In recognition of her work in fostering This imaginative and agile thinking of Mr Yanai’s company. Hiroshi Yanai’s energy Art Collection acquisitions fund in Beijing a sparkling jewel and asset in its own right his addition of important notable Asian international cultural exchange, she is Beatrice Trussardi has transformed the and ambition has ensured the festival funded the exhibitions of groundbreaking to the Parisian art scene. artefacts, he has restored the museum to both a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, foundation into a leading force in the attracts the highest degree of press and shows by contemporary Chinese painters its rightful place as one of the world’s great and a Chevalier of the Legion d’honneur. cultural life of Milan and Italy. media interest on the Japanese film scene. and sculptors. cultural resources.

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China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan Liu Sola / Composer and singer Nicolas d’Estienne d’Orves / Author Sir Simon Rattle / Orchestral conductor Flora Cheong Leen / Designer Matteo Thun / Architect Shigeaki Saegusa / Composer Lu Si-Qing / Violinist Nathalie Decoster / Sculptor Thomas Heinze / Actor Ann Hui / Film-maker Maximiliano Guerra / Ballet dancer Kansai Yamamoto / Designer Gu Chang-Wei / Film-maker Jean Reno / Actor Thomas Ruff / Photographer and artist Warren Mok / Opera singer Nicoletta Mantovani / Event organizer J. Pierpont Morgan Winners 2004

Seongyoung Antonio Sally Caroline Park Vila Casas Greene Baron Korea Spain UK USA

The Kumho Art Foundation Fundacion Vila Casas The Old Vic Theatre, London FilmAid International The Fundacion Vila Casas general funds The schools outreach programme of the theatre

Set up by Seongyoung Park in 1977, A noted art collector and patron, Sally Greene’s patronage saved London’s Caroline Baron founded FilmAid The Kumho Art Foundation has helped Antonio Vila Casas set up the Vila Casas Old Vic Theatre, a landmark building and International, a programme which brings many talented Koreans working in a Foundation in 1998 to promote art and cultural icon, from closure. An experienced American and international cinema to variety of disciplines yet Dr Park’s primary culture throughout Spain, with particular theatre producer, she donated from her refugee camps and war-torn cities, in 1999 142 concern was always music. Through the attention to the visual arts and the own resources and worked endlessly to during the Balkan crisis when she realised 143 foundation, he has provided educational restoration of the country’s architectural persuade a group of prominent arts and that the spirits and lives of refugees scholarships, study grants, gifts of musical heritage. Comprising four museums business leaders to set up and finance could be lifted and enriched through film. instruments, and founded The Kumho in total, the foundation is particularly a charitable trust to raise the finances Strongly encouraging refugees to make String Quartet to boost the country’s interested in contemporary painting, necessary to save the theatre. Now run by films of their own, she has developed a interest in chamber music. sculpture and photography, yet Antonio the Old Vic Trust, chaired by Ms Greene, Participant Video Project, which trains Dr Park’s encouragement and support Vila Casas extends his generous patronage the theatre continues to function as one them to use video film-making equipment. has turned The Kumho String Quartet into to most of the major art forms including of the most influential theatrical venues in The project is funded by donations and an internationally known and highly music, theatre and literature. Britain today. 99 per cent of the workers are volunteers. esteemed ensemble.

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Korea Spain UK USA Min Kim / Violinist Custo Dalmau / Designer Anthony Minghella / Film director Alan Cumming / Actor Daljae Huh / Artist Rafael Cidoncha / Artist Phoebe Philo / Designer Hilary Swank / Actress Chanwook Park / Film director Ángel Corella / Ballet dancer Anish Kapoor / Sculptor Nicholas Hytner / Theatre and film director J. Pierpont Morgan 2003 Patron of Art 2003

Globus – tellurium is an instrument that accurately portrays the angle of the earth in relation to the sun through the different seasons.

One of Poland’s most famous sons, Copernicus’ bronze statue (designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1822) is positioned in Warsaw in front of the Polish Academy of Science. The astronomer is depicted holding a compass and an armillary sphere.

‘To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.’ 146

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Astronomy was Nicolaus Copernicus’ only love. He followed the orbits of the heavenly bodies with his

naked eye, and created the basis for today’s view of the universe – the heliocentric system. Copernicus put forward a theory: the sun, contrary to previous thinking, remains stationary at the centre of the universe, and Today, the medieval city of Torun, birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus, is the the earth, spinning on its axis, revolves annually around the sun seat of the provincial assembly. But in Copernicus’s day it was the Royal once day. This is known as the heliocentric, or later, the Kingdom of Poland under Prussian rule. Copernican system. NICOLAUS NICOLAUS Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Patron of Art 2003

Considering all his achievements based on his teachings that still hold today – including the reform of the Prussian coin system and the calendar – Nicolaus Copernicus is one of the greatest cultural figures in the history of mankind.

Nicolaus Copernicus 19.02.1473 – 24.05.1543

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Xiao Gilles Günther Andy Patrizia Sadao Xiang-Yu Fuchs Jauch Lau Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Watanabe China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

The Shanxi ‘Hope’ Art School Association for the Diffusion of French Art Fortunaportal Potsdam The Andy Lau Foundation The Sandretto Re Rebaudengo ‘Rhythm Classes’ and ‘Kirin; The Club’ The scholarship fund of the Hope School (ADIAF) The restoration fund of the Marmorpalais The general funds of the foundation for the Art Foundation The general funds of ‘Rhythm Classes’ The general funds of ADIAF devoted to in Potsdam provision of technical and artistic education The special exhibitions fund of promoting a love of jazz amongst young increasing awareness of contemporary of young Hong Kong film-makers the foundation Japanese French visual arts abroad

Leading Chinese opera star, Xiao Xiangyun Gilles Fuchs created the Association for Prominent German television personality, Intent on preserving Hong Kong’s status A distinguished private collector of The legendary Sadao Watanabe is one founded the Shanxi ‘Hope’ Art School the Diffusion of French Art (ADIAF) in Günther Jauch is widely lauded for his as both the cultural leader and largest mid-20th-century art, Patrizia Sandretto of the world’s great saxophone players. in 1995 to provide a broad arts-based 1994 in order to increase the exposure of unwavering dedication to overseeing the producer of Chinese language films in Re Rebaudengo inaugurated The Sandretto Keen to halt and reverse a worrisome education for talented children, seeing it contemporary French visual arts abroad, repairs of the damaged and neglected the world, The Andy Lau Foundation was Re Rebaudengo Art Foundation in 1995 to decline in the popularity and status of 150 as her duty to pass on her own skills to aware that French artists were poorly monuments of his Second World War-torn set up by its eponymous founder in 1994 seek out and actively promote emerging his beloved jazz in the 1990s, he began 151 the next generation. Her financial and represented outside of France. home town, Potsdam. Campaigning to provide technical and artistic education artists to a wider audience. Since that to teach his ‘Rhythm Classes’ in schools personal commitment to the school and Operations of The ADIAF include tirelessly for government donations, for emerging Hong Kong film-makers. time, she has funded over 20 exhibitions all over Japan. His workshops have its scholarship fund has never wavered. a programme of exhibitions abroad, alongside public fundraising and his own By funding and supporting the projects through the foundation, including an encouraged a love of jazz amongst She has provided an excellent education financing of catalogues, conferences and generous personal donations, Mr Jauch of film’s talented rising stars, epoch-making show of the ‘YBA’s’ (Young the younger Japanese generations. to young performers who might otherwise seminars, and online exhibitions of the best has ensured edifices such as the early Mr Lau has helped many to make their British Artists). Her unremitting influence Furthermore, he set up the never have had the opportunity, and she young French contemporary artists’ work. 18th-century Fortuna Portal will stand mark on the international film platform, on Italy’s contemporary art scene certainly ‘Kirin-the-Club’, a series of high-profile has presented Chinese educators with Gilles Fuchs has indubitably shown the proud once again, restoring the town’s whilst maintaining Hong Kong’s chief renders her one of her country’s finest concerts to showcase the talent of a new model of how arts education world that the French art scene still has former glory and heritage. cinematic influence. arts patrons. emerging young musicians at the start should be conducted. much to offer international audiences. of their professional careers.

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China France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan Yu Long / Orchestral conductor Jean-Marc Bustamante / Artist Stephan Huber / Painter Ko Tin-lung / Playwright Philippe Daverio / Author Kazu Ando / Writer Chen Yi-Fei / Painter and film director Audrey Tautou / Actress Veronica Ferres / Actress Mabel Cheung / Film director Gerry Scotti / Author Yasushi Akimoto / Songwriter Chen Kai-Ge / Film director Jean-Michel Wilmotte / Architect Hadi Teherani / Architect Jue Yao-Lu / Violinist Yoko Kirishima / Writer Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Winners 2003

Tuan Syed Mohamad Jesús Lord Russell Albukhary de Polanco Rothschild Simmons Malaysia Spain UK USA

The Islamic Art Museum Santillana Foundation The restoration of Spencer House, The Rush Foundation The purchase fund of the museum The general funds of the foundation London, and the excavations at the lost The music education fund city of Butrint in Albania of the foundation The Butrint Excavation Fund

Tuan Syed Mohamad Albukhary founded Established by Jesús de Polanco in 1979, A long-standing private patron of the arts, Widely recognised today as one of The Islamic Art Museum in Kuala Lumpur, The Santillana Foundation aims to foster Jacob Rothschild is recognised for his America’s leading black entrepreneurs, Malaysia, to improve global understanding culture and promote cultural education. particular dedication to the preservation Russell Simmons set up the Rush of the arts and cultures that have been The foundation’s initiatives extend as of the world’s architectural heritage. Philanthropic Arts Foundation in 1995 152 touched and developed by Islam, with far as Spanish-speaking Latin America, His patronage includes the restoration to provide support and exposure for 153 the museum’s education programme where it is a particularly significant player. of Spencer House, the last surviving under-represented artists of any artistic occupying a central part in its activities. It is perhaps best known for its cultural 18th-century town palace in London, field, and also to implement active The museum has become a considerable exhibitions and internationally respected and his financing of the Butrint Excavation programmes to bring the arts to young cultural force in South East Asia. programme of educational seminars and Fund to recover and preserve the remains people in the most disadvantaged areas The ambition and financial dedication conferences. The wise guidance of its of the lost city of Butrint in Albania. of America’s cities. Since its beginnings, of Tuan Syed Mohamad Albukhary has President, Jesús de Polanco, has seen the Neither venture would have been possible in addition to its own work, the foundation contributed substantially to the significant institution become one of Spain’s most without the allegiance and generosity has made grants of upwards of $ 1 million duty of illuminating Islamic culture to important private cultural foundations. of Lord Rothschild. (USD) to a variety arts-related causes in the wider world. the USA.

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Malaysia Spain UK USA Jo Kukhathas / Theatre director Sara Baras / Dancer Gary Hume / Artist Judith Jamison / Dancer Lunzen / Artist Miguel Bosé / Actor Julian Lloyd Webber / Cellist and choreographer Datuk Ooi Chean See / Orchestral Valérie Maltaverne / Author Jools Holland / Musician Joe Pantoliano / Actor conductor Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus 2002 Patron of Art 2002

In 1895 Louise Carnegie commented, ‘I am the unknown wife of a somewhat well-known businessman.’ Andrew Carnegie would say of Louise: ‘She is my most trusted confident. I can’t imagine myself without Lou’s guardianship.’ Lou had a quiet manner, was actively involved and oversaw the philanthropic activities for the Carnegie Empire.

In 1960, Andrew Carnegie was honoured (in memorium) on a four-cent postage US mail stamp. ANDREW CARNEGIE 156 ‘A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. 157 It is a never-failing spring in the desert.‘

In 2006, Jeffersonville celebrated what they termed the ‘rebirth of this most famous of libraries’, originally sponsored by the industrialist Andrew Carnegie. There are over 2,500 libraries worldwide that have benefitted from Carnegie funding.

Andrew Carnegie is still considered one of the greatest patrons of culture in the modern world. The steel tycoon who emigrated from Scotland to the USA was firmly convinced that wealthy people were morally obliged to dedicate themselves to charitable works. Carnegie Hall has seen performances from some of the world’s greatest musicians and performers from Tchaikovsky to The Beatles. In 1960, it was almost replaced by a skyscraper but fortunately saved by public opinion and star musicians. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962. Andrew Carnegie Andrew Patron of Art 2002

Andrew Carnegie spent more than 350 million dollars – almost his whole fortune – on cultural foundations, public libraries and cultural programmes, and on fostering talented art nouveau artists, the most fashionable artists of the day.

Andrew Carnegie 25.11.1835 – 11.08.1919

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The barrel and cap of Edition 888 are made of mother-of-pearl lacquer and covered with Au 750 white-gold weave. The Montblanc emblem in this edition is made of fine mother-of-pearl. A delicately engraved lily – a popular art nouveau motif – decorates the rhodium-plated Au 750 solid gold nib. Andrew Carnegie Andrew Winners 2002

Bluma Corinne Irene Michelle Franca Yutaka Appel Ricard Schulte-Hillen Yeoh Coin Sado Canada France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

The Bluma Appel Awards, Fondation Ricard and the Espace Ricard Deutscher Musikinstrumenten-fonds & Mythical Films Creative Development Fund The Venice International Foundation The Young People’s Concerts, Tokyo Opera Atelier and other projects The general funds of the Fondation Ricard Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben The general fund of the MFCDF The educational programme attached Opera Atelier Deutscher Instrumentenfonds to the Young People’s Concerts

Revered as one of Canada’s ‘angels of The French industrialist Paul Ricard set A trained classical singer, Michelle Yeoh is one of Hong Kong’s Venice would not be Venice without its For Yutaka Sado, the path to becoming one the arts’, Bluma Appel made generous up the Fondation Ricard in the 1930s to Irene Schulte-Hillen is known for her best-known actresses, famous for her wonderful galleries and museums. of Japan’s best-known classical conductors contributions to organisations such as the support artists like Marcel Pagnol in film involvement with the Deutsche Stiftung roles in films like Crouching Tiger, And yet, in a city short of cash, struggling included studies with his idol, Leonard

Royal Ontario Museum, The Shakespeare and Salvador Dali in painting. When his Musikleben, an association that helps Hidden Dragon. In 2000, seeking to to prevent itself from sinking, little money Bernstein, and a stint as an assistant to 160 Globe Centre of Canada and the Canadian daughter-in-law Corinne took over in 1975, young classical musicians in Germany. encourage young people who aspire to has been available for conservation work in Seiji Ozawa. Feeling that it was his duty 161 Centre for Advanced Film Studies, among she expanded the foundation’s scope to As its chairman, Schulte-Hillen has a career in cinema, she launched the its museums. In response, Franca Coin, to help the next generation, Sado began many others. As a former actress and literature, dance, theatre and design. expanded its range of support, developing Mythical Films Creative Development Fund. a member of the family behind Italy’s teaching aspiring conductors. Then, to director, her favourite cause was The many projects she has sponsored a programme of national and international As part of a ‘five-year plan’, it set out Coin department stores, created the Venice reach a maximum of youngsters from all Opera Atelier, a Toronto-based company include the revitalisation of the Theâtre tours, festivals and concerts. In 1993, she to discover emerging talent throughout International Foundation. Besides helping backgrounds, he launched a nationwide famous for its performances of 17th- and de la Criée in Marseilles, the creation of also founded the Deutscher China in all cinematic disciplines – Venetian museums improve their facilities concert series. His Young People’s Concerts 18th-century opera, ballet and drama. a platform for young musicians called Musikinstrumentenfonds (DM), a fund acting, directing, screenwriting, etc. and services, the VIF has financed projects and its educational programme are now an She also funded the annual Bluma Appel Ricard Music Live and the opening of the that lends top-quality instruments to The beneficiaries were given the like the restoration of Ca’ Rezzonico and established part of the Japanese musical Awards, providing financial support to Espace Paul Ricard in Paris as a venue for young musicians, including 18th-century opportunity to develop their skills through the preservation of Tiepolo’s famous scene, giving many children their first 26 winners in theatre and music each year. exhibitions and performances. violins and cellos by Guarneri and Storioni. projects financed by the fund and in fresco The New World. taste of classical music. commercial productions.

Jury voting for all countries

Canada France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan Isabel Bayrakdarian / Opera singer Mark Minkowski / Musician and conductor Joachim Bessing / Novelist and playwright Peter Chan Ho Sun / Theatre director Catherine Spaak / Actress Junko Ouchi / Actress Glenn Pushelberg / Designer Jean-Luc Monterosso / Photographer Suzanne von Borsody / Actress Stephen Jefferies / Ballet director Emanuele Pirella / Writer Tatsuya Ishii / Singer Virginie Ledoyen / Actress Prof. Doris Dörrie / Film director and choreographer Luca Barbareschi / Author Eriko Kusuta / Actress and author Fredric Mao Chun-fai / Theatre director and commentator Andrew Carnegie Andrew Winners 2002

Tan Carlos Zurita Delgado Griff Rhys Rosie Siah Kwee Duke of Soria Jones O’Donnell Singapore Spain UK USA

The Chinese Calligraphic Society The Friends of the Prado Museum The Hackney Empire Restoration Project The ‘For All The Kids’ Foundation and of Singapore The acquisition fund of the Prado Museum The general funds of the restoration project support for theatre on Broadway The educational programme The general funds of ‘For All The Kids’ of the Calligraphic Society

In 1968, Tan Siah Kwee, only 20 years old A highly successful physician, the Duke At the height of his career as an actor and The actress Rosie O’Donnell has played but already an accomplished calligrapher, of Soria received a Montblanc Award comedian, Griff Rhys Jones was asked to a leading role in reviving the traditions co-founded the Chinese Calligraphy in recognition of his lifetime dedication head a campaign to save the Hackney of Broadway, New York City’s legendary

Society of Singapore. Passionately to the world-famous Prado Museum Empire theatre in London. An architectural ‘theater street.’ In addition to promoting 162 devoted to preserving what was then a in Madrid. Over the years, he has been an gem, it is one of very few auditoriums the experience of live theatre for millions of 163 dying art form in his native country, he outstanding advocate for the arts in Spain to have survived from the golden age of people, she is also passionately committed built the society into an internationally through his generous, energetic service British music hall. Chronically underfunded, to enriching the lives of underprivileged admired organisation, with an extensive as chairman of The Friends of the Prado. the theatre needed $ 7 million (USD) for children through the arts. Her Rosie’s For programme of publications, educational A unique private institution founded in its restoration, which Rhys Jones set out All Kids Foundation has raised more than seminars and exhibitions. Thanks to Tan’s 1980, it helps the museum in a variety to raise with zeal and imagination, $ 60 million (USD) to support the cultural, ceaseless efforts, a cultural treasure that of ways, including cash grants for major taking the appeal campaign to an intellectual and social development of was in danger of being lost is once again projects, the acquisition of artworks ever-wider audience. Typical of his disadvantaged children throughout flourishing, and reaching new audiences. and support for the Prado’s educational enthusiasm, he began devoting half of the United States. activities throughout Spain. his time to fundraising for the Empire.

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Singapore Spain UK USA Tanya Chua / Singer and composer Cristóbal Halffter / Composer Sebastian Faulks / Author Marcia Gay Harden / Actress Goh Boon Teck / Theatre director Xavier Corbrero / Artist Bruce Oldfield / Designer Sam Waterston / Actor Tammy L. Wong / Dancer Luis Carandell / Author Sheridan Morley / Author, journalist Ainhoa Arteta / Opera singer and broadcaster Andrew Carnegie Andrew 2001 2001 Patron of Art 2016

Marquise de Pompadour was very much an aficionado of the risqué language of the fan. Whether at a ball, a reception or the theatre, a flick of the fan to the left, to the right or a touch to the lips could say so much …

Little remains of this rather small château since it was demolished in 1823. The home of Madame de Pompadour, Château de Bellevue was built in 1750 on an estate given to Madame de Pompadour by Louis XV, constructed on a broad plateau in Meudon, above a slope overlooking the Seine to the east (hence its name, Bellevue).

Madame de Pompadour excelled at an art which the majority of human beings thoroughly despise because it is unprofitable and ephemeral: MARQUISE the art of living. 166 DE POMPADOUR 167

The Marquise de Pompadour was considered as King Louis XV’s favourite and his patroness of the arts. Always diplomatic in her approach, she was a valued aide and advisor: she commissioned works of art and secured royal patronage for writers and painters.

The Marquise de Pompadour – the charming mistress of King Louis XV – was not only one of the most charismatic figures at the court of Versailles, but also a passionate and committed art lover. King Louis XV was very much beguiled by the Marquise de Pompadour (whom he made ‘Marquise’ in 1745): within months, the king had the Petit Trianon palace built for her, close to the Château de Versailles. Presumably, there is a discreet passageway linking the two bedchambers. Marquise de Pompadour Marquise Patron of Art 2001

The Marquise de Pompadour supported, among others, promising writers such as Voltaire and musicians such as the young Mozart. The ‘rococo muse’ also played a crucial role in founding the French porcelain factory in Sèvres, and gave creative suggestions for the design of many famous building projects in Paris, such as the Place de la Concorde.

The Patron of Art Limited Edition Marquise de Pompadour honours a captivating personality and an outstanding historical figure. The splendid gold-plated barrel and mountings of Edition 4810 represent the luxury of court life at Versailles. The cap, made of fine Meissen porcelain and decorated with a hand-painted, sepia-coloured rose finished in gold, recalls the Marquise’s love of porcelain. As a tribute to the age in which she lived, the Marquise de Pompadour Au 750 solid gold nib is decorated with a delicate engraving typical of the rococo style. 29.12.1721 – 15.04.1764

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Phyllis Jacques Prof. Hark Pak Giuseppe Hirao Lambert Garcia Bohm Suet Sin Panza di Biumo Masaaki Canada France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

The Canadian Centre for Architecture The Chateau de Champ de Bataille The Hamburg Filmwerkstatt The Yam-Pak Foundation The Panza Collection of Modern Art The Hirao Masaaki Music School The restoration of the gardens at The Film Institute of the Free University The Foundation for Educational Research; Champ de Bataille of Hamburg University of Hong Kong

In 1973 Phyllis Lambert returned to her One of France’s most renowned interior Hark Bohm has devoted his whole life to Until her retirement, Pak Suet Sin was Count Panza began collecting modern Hirao Masaaki has been a major figure in native city of Montreal after many years designers, Jacques Garcia owes his nurturing the art of film. Seeking to revive the leading exponent of female roles in art when he took over his father’s Japanese popular music since the 1960s. abroad. During that time she had become vocation to a childhood visit to the the creativity of early 20th-century Cantonese Opera. Seeking to preserve manufacturing firm in the 1950s, In the 1970s, at the peak of his career, a champion of new architecture, with a Château du Champ de Bataille in German cinema, with its high-quality this ancient musical and dramatic tradition starting with works by Oldenburg he felt that it was time to invest in the next 170 passion for conserving historic structures Normandy. Built by Louis XIV’s architect scripts and close cooperation between in the age of TV and movies, in 1990 she and Rauschenberg. By the 1970s he had generation. Suspecting that a great deal of 171 as well. Eager to preserve the cityscape Le Vau in the 17th century, the castle directors and screenwriters, he founded founded the Yam Pak Charitable acquired more than 600 paintings and young talent was going to waste due to a of her home town, she founded the underwent many alterations over the the Hamburg Filmwerkstatt, which offers Foundation. The YPF takes action in sculptures, and began lending them to lack of proper training and opportunities, in Heritage Montreal Foundation and years. Determined to recapture its former practical and financial help to students two areas, sponsoring performances museums on both sides of the Atlantic. 1974 he founded the Hirao Masaaki Music began assembling a massive collection of glory, Garcia bought the property in 1992 at the Hamburg University Film School, and contributing to higher education. In To give his collection a permanent home, School in Tokyo. It was a huge success, material relating to architectural theory, and set to work restoring its interiors, founded by Bohm in 1992. He was also 1999 it donated $ 2 million (USD) to the in 2001 he donated the Panza family seat, gradually expanding to ten regional centers practice and history. To share this archive, furnishing it with priceless antiques and the driving force behind the Film Institute Foundation of Educational Development Villa Biumo in Lombardy, and most of his throughout the country and even a branch in 1979 she opened the Canadian Centre recreating a classical French garden. He of the Hamburg Free Academy, an and Research at the University of Hong artworks to the Italian people. in Shanghai. The school has produced for Architecture, which now houses more has funded a foundation to preserve organisation set up to provide a direct Kong, allowing the school to expand its Including pieces by all of the great many well-known performers, including than 150,000 objects, plans and drawings Champ de Bataille as a centre for the study interface between artists and the public. traditional Chinese arts programme. names of the late 20th century, the Panza Japan’s ‘Eternal Idol’, the pop singer valued at $ 75 million (USD). of French architectural traditions. Collection offers an extraordinary overview Seiko Matsuda. of recent European and American art. Jury voting for all countries

Canada France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan Marie-Claire Blais / Author Anne Poirier / Artist Katja Flint / Actress Yip Wing Sie / Orchestral conductor Alessandro Baricco / Writer Hiroshi Kurogane / Author Raymond Moriyama / Architect Patrick Poirier / Artist Sabine Mayer / Violinist Tao Ho / Architect and broadcaster Yuki Torii / Fashion designer Stéphane Lissner / Musician Alexandra Kamp / Actress Phillip Tse / Writer and calligrapher Monica Bellucci / Actress Takuro Tatsumi / Actor and author Paolo Roversi / Photographer Marquise de Pompadour Marquise Winners 2001

Ng Carmen Vivien John Eng Teng Thyssen-Bornemisza Duffield Sykes Singapore Spain UK USA

The Ng Eng Teng Gallery: University of The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Madrid The Clore Gallery; the Eureka! Children’s VH1-Save The Music Foundation Singapore and Barcelona Museum and The Royal Opera House The general funds of Save The Music The Eureka! Children’s Museum

As well as being Singapore’s best-known Baroness Thyssen will be remembered Perhaps the best known of Vivien Duffield’s As a co-founder of MTV and president of sculptor, Ng Eng Teng enjoys a worldwide as one of Spain’s greatest patrons of many acts of patronage was the the VH1 cable network, John Sykes has reputation as a painter. However, when he the arts. Her first achievement was finding endowment of the Clore Gallery at the enjoyed a highly successful career in the began his career in the 1950s, there was a permanent home for the extensive Tate Britain in London. Approached by music industry. In 1996, after visiting a 172 no contemporary Singaporean art worthy collection of old masters and Impressionist the museum’s director, she agreed to public school in New York, he was alarmed 173 of the name. Along with like-minded works owned by her husband, Hans finance the construction of a gallery to to learn that music education had been artists, academics and patrons, Ng was Thyssen-Bornemisza. After overcoming a house the Turner Bequest, a magnificent cut from school budgets all over America. instrumental in changing this situation, host of financial and technical difficulties, collection of paintings by the great English Aware of music’s tremendously positive turning Singapore into one of the art hubs she reached her goal in 1989, when the landscapist J. W. Turner. Ms Duffield is also effect on child development, the following of Southeast Asia. In 1997 he donated Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection went on the benefactor of an innovative children’s year he founded the VH1 Save the Music more than 700 sculptures, paintings and view at the Pedralbes Palace in Barcelona interactive space in Halifax called the Foundation to restore music to school works on paper to the National University and the Villahermosa Palace in Madrid. Her Eureka! Children’s’ Project, and has been curricula. To date, the foundation has of Singapore, a magnificent collection now own collection, including superb 19th- and a major donor to the Royal Opera House, donated more than $ 45 million (USD) on view at the Ng Eng Teng Gallery. 20th-century French works, is housed at Covent Garden. worth of musical instruments to schools the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Málaga. across the nation.

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Singapore Spain UK USA Russel Wong / Photographer Inés Sastre / Actress Tristan Webber / Fashion designer Tom Sachs / Artist Jacintha Abisheganaden / Singer and actor Carmen Posadas / Author Tracey Emin / Artist Ismail Merchant / Film producer Glen Goei / Actor and theatre director Antonio Lopez / Painter Terry O’Neill / Photographer and director Bruce Weber / Photographer Marquise de Pompadour Marquise 2000 Patron of Art 2000

During Charlemagne’s coronation as king of the Franks in St Peter’s, Pope Leo III declared himself Roman Emperor; a move that gave the Pope much political power.

Charlemagne was an extremely good communicator; he spoke all the different languages of his kingdom. Even his name had many variations but Charles le Magne (Charles the Great) became the most widely used. KARL DER GROSSE 176 ‘To have another language is to possess a second soul.’ 177

Erected around 790, the throne is also in Aachen Cathedral; it continued, over the centuries, to be the throne for all German kings. It is very plain, yet symbolic in comparison to the heavily decorated cathedral.

More than 1,000 years ago, as the founder of the Carolingian Renaissance – the fusion of classical ideals with the intellectual heritage of the Germanic world – Charlemagne created the basis for Western culture and a European identity. Inside the Palace of Aachen, the octagon in the centre of the cathedral was erected as Charlemagne’s Palatine chapel (796 – 805). Karl der Grosse (Charlemange) did much patronage for the cathedral and commissioned many of the craftsmen needed to construct this complex octagonal structure. Karl der Grosse, Hommage à Charlemagne der Grosse, Karl Patron of Art 2000

Charlemagne was in constant and close contact with the great scholars and artists of his time, and established at his palaces the court schools in which, among other things, the Carolingian minuscule – the precursor of all later Western families of writing – evolved.

Karl der Grosse 02.04.747 – 28.01.814

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Gerald Véronique and Lothar Jackie Francesco Sugako McGavin Louis-Antoine Prat Schirmer Chan Micheli Hashida Canada France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

The Vancouver Arts Stabilisation Donation of the Prat Collection The Schirmer Collection The Jackie Chan Foundation The Milan International Piano Competition The Hashida Cultural Foundation Programme to the Louvre The libraries of the Bildenden Kunste The education fund of the Jackie Chan The general fund of the Fondazione Expanding the work of the foundation in The Vancouver Arts Stabilisation Fund An additional drawing for the Prat Academy, Munich and the Kunstakademie Foundation Umberto Micheli developing ‘broadcast culture’ in Japan Collection at the Louvre Düsseldorf

Gerald McGavin’s commitment to cultural The collection of drawings A co-founder of the publishing house Jackie Chan is world famous as the star In 1992 the Milanese entrepreneur and Active in the film industry since philanthropy has helped make his home compiled by Veronique Prat and her Schirmer/Mosel Verlag, Lothar Schirmer of numerous action films, but in his native music lover Francesco Micheli was asked the 1940s, Sugako Hashida is one of town of Vancouver one of North America’s husband Louis-Antoine played a key is also one of Germany’s leading patrons Hong Kong he is equally well-known as by three of Italy’s greatest living musicians, Japan’s most respected screenwriters. most diverse artistic hubs. After serving role in increasing the appreciation of of the visual arts. Eager to share the a philanthropist. In 1987 he created the Maurizio Pollini, Bruno Canino and Taking a non-traditional approach to 180 as president of the city’s art gallery and pre-Impressionist French art. Containing Schirmer Collection, which includes works Jackie Chan Foundation, dedicated to Luciano Berio, to sponsor a piano arts patronage, in 1992 she set up the 181 symphony society, in 1997 he became the works by all of the French masters up to by prominent artists like Cy Twombly and developing education and training in competition devoted to 20th-century Hashida Cultural Foundation to promote director of the Vancouver Arts Stabilisation the mid-19th century (Poussin, Le Brun, Josef Beuys, with as large a public as the performing arts. Students are repertoire. To finance the Milan and develop ‘broadcast culture’ – in Programme, which provides capital and Fragonard, Ingres …), the Prat Collection possible, he has published numerous art supported in a wide range of disciplines, International Piano Competition, he other words, to raise the intellectual and consulting for cultural organisations. became known as the finest of its kind in books, ranging from scholarly editions including acting and dance as well as created the Fondazione Umberto Micheli, technical standards of the electronic That same year, McGavin donated $ 1.3 France and anywhere in the world. to inexpensive handbooks. With his technical fields like lighting design named after his father, a music teacher. media that play an ever-increasing role in million (USD) to allow VAST to reach its In 1995 the Prats donated most of their Montblanc Award, Schirmer funded and film editing. The foundation also Through his patronage, Micheli has had modern life. The foundation gives awards fundraising goal, the largest private gift 400 drawings to the Louvre, generously the libraries of the Akademie supports youth projects in Hong Kong a strong influence on the musical life of to creative people in film and television ever made to an arts organisation in parting with their most cherished der Bildenden Künste in Munich and the and Japan, and provides financial help Milan and the music world in general, and hosts a series of conferences to Vancouver. possessions for the benefit of art Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. for disabled performers. increasing awareness of an address social issues in the media. lovers everywhere. often-neglected repertoire.

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Canada France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan Timothy Findley / Author Brigitte Fossey / Actress Hans Hollein / Architect Louis Cha / Writer Riccardo Chailly / Conductor Nobuhiko Obayashi / Film director Brent Carver / Actor Jean Marie Rouart / Writer Jim Rakete / Photographer Chow Yun-Fat / Actor Giampaolo Fabris / Writer Maako Kido / Actress Christian Clavier / Theatre director Marius Müller-Westernhagen / Singer Judy Mann / Designer Junko Koshino / Designer Mathilde Monnier / Dancer and choreographer Karl der Grosse, Hommage à Charlemagne der Grosse, Karl Winners 2000

Leow Javier Benjumea Chen Brian Abby Siak Fah Puigcerver Ching-huan Eno Rosin Singapore Spain Taiwan UK USA

The Singapore Lyric Theatre The Fundacion Fondo de Cultura The Hsin-Kang Foundation for Culture War Child The ‘Groove With Me’ dance project The general funds of the theatre de Sevilla (FOCUS) and Education The X Foundation brings art education The general funds of FOCUS to prisoners

Leow Siak Feh’s interest in the arts dates The Spanish businessman Javier Benjumea When Dr Cheng began working in Known for his pioneering work in ambient In her experience working with deprived back to the early 1960s when, as a young created the Fundación Fondo de Cultura Hsin-Kang, Taiwan, in the early 1980s, music, the British composer Brian Eno is children, Abby Rosin became concerned lawyer, he became a founding member de Sevilla (FOCUS) in 1982 to promote the he noticed that most of the town’s also the founder of War Child, a charity about the plight of young women in the of Kuala Lumpur’s prestigious Liberal culture of Seville. FOCUS sponsors projects citizens were physically comfortable, that helps children in war zones. Its cultural poorest areas of New York. Knowing that 182 Arts Society. After relocating to Singapore, in architectural restoration, music, art but that their other aspirations were actions – music education in Bosnia and young people who have a constructive 183 he began to raise funds to launch the and publishing, and runs a library. largely unmet. In response, in 1987 he South Africa, dance projects in Ethiopia, recreational activity are less likely to country’s first permanent opera company, Most notably, it funded the restoration of set up the Hsin-Kang Foundation to visual arts training in the Caucasus – have end up in trouble, in 1996 she launched the Singapore Lyric Theatre, which opened the Hospital de los Venerables Sacerdotes, improve local cultural opportunities. brought a sense of stability and hope the Groove With Me dance project, in 1990. Drawing audiences from a wide a 17th-century baroque edifice famous In addition to hosting performances to thousands of children. Most patrons a self-financing programme that offers range of backgrounds and singers from for its paintings by Murillo and which now and exhibitions, the foundation has help the arts; with projects like War Child free dance classes to underprivileged girls. around the world, the Singapore Lyric serves as the foundation’s headquarters. funded a library and educational and the X Foundation, which offers art Rosin is a different kind of patron: instead Theatre also strives to develop local talent Its wide-ranging activities have made programmes in the arts. Its influence education in prisons, Brian Eno uses the of providing support for the arts, she uses from Singapore and other South East Asian FOCUS one of Spain’s most important has spread throughout the country, arts to help others. the art of dance to enrich lives that are countries. cultural organisations. demonstrating the impact of private otherwise impoverished. patronage at the local level.

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Singapore Spain Taiwan UK USA Thomas Yeo / Painter Nacho Duato / Dancer Felix Chiu-sen Chen / Conductor Stella McCartney / Fashion designer Richard Meier / Architect Goh Soo Kim / Ballerina Montserrat Martí / Opera singer Hong Chien Ching-Hui / Writer Kate Winslet / Actress Jessye Norman / Opera singer Catherine Lim / Author Lin Hwai-min / Dancer and choreographer Richard Rogers / Architect Karl der Grosse, Hommage à Charlemagne der Grosse, Karl 1999 Patron of Art 1999

Friedrich II the Great, King of Prussia is the patron behind the magnificent summer palace of Sanssouci in Potsdam near Berlin. Often considered as the German ‘Versailles’, it was designed by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, who travelled to Paris and Italy to study. Friedrich wanted somewhere he could relax, away from the Berlin court: ‘Sans souci’ translates from French as ‘without concerns’.

The town of Potsdam, with its palaces, was a favourite place of residence for the German imperial family until the fall of the Hohenzollern dynasty in 1918.

‘The greatest and noblest FRIEDRICH II pleasure which men can have in this world is to 186 discover new truths; and the next 187 THE GREAT is to shake off old prejudices.’

Voltaire was a frequent visitor to Sanssouci. In 1750, he even moved to Potsdam; then, Friedrich II the Great gave him a salary of 20,000 francs a year and for two years Voltaire stayed within the palace.

Friedrich II the Great was anything but an ordinary king. He is a celebrated historical figure, not only because he saw himself as the ‘first servant of the people’, and because of his Prussian discipline, but also because under his rule art and culture underwent a revival. Friedrich surrounded himself with the ‘intelligentsia’ of the day, like Voltaire or even Casanova. Intellectuals came for a night of round-table discussions, as illustrated above by Adolph von Menzel in his painting Die Tafelrunde. Friedrich II the Great Friedrich Patron of Art 1999

Sanssouci Palace became a centre of attraction for intellectuals, artists and writers from all over Europe. Friedrich II the Great himself wrote numerous philosophical works with his friend Voltaire, including the famous ‘Antimachiavelli’.

Friedrich II the Great 24.01.1712 – 17.08.1786

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Margaret Anne Dina Irene Jean M. Fernanda Tatsuya Fountain Vierny Moessinger Wong Giulini Nakadai Canada France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

Symphony Nova Scotia and The Neptune The Fondation Dina Vierny-Musee Maillol The Tempodrom Berlin The Jean Wong School of Ballet The Villa Medici Masterclasses The Mumeijuki Theatre Guild Theatre Halifax The general funds of the fondation The general funds of the Tempodrom The general funds of the school The outreach programme The fund helps finance the work of the The education fund of the of the Villa Medici guild in rural areas of Japan Nova Scotia Symphony

Margaret Anna Fountain and her husband, Dina Vierny founded the Dina Vierny Irene Moessinger’s love of the circus Jean Wong has been one of the leading In the mid-1990s, Fernanda Giulini began In 1975, Tatsuya Nakadai founded the David, have completely transformed the Foundation in Paris to promote Maillol led to her purchase of Berlin’s famous influences on the growth in popularity a series of piano and opera music Mumeijuku Actors Guild as a school cultural scene of Halifax, Canada, entirely as one of the foremost sculptors of the Tempodrom tent. The much-loved of Western ballet in Hong Kong. masterclasses at her house, the Villa offering the best training to the finest to the benefit of local arts organisations. 20th century. When his reputation suffered German arts venue hosts everything Strongly believing in dance as an Medici, outside Milan. Deeply passionate young acting talent in Japan. Intent on 190 Their fundraising efforts yielded the largest a decline in the 1960s, she dedicated from classical concerts, to mainstream educational tool, she has raised an entire about the importance of musical reaching as many people as possible, the 191 donations ever made in Nova Scotia. 30 years of her life to restoring the theatre and contemporary dance troupes. generation of classically trained dancers. education, she wished to pass on her guild goes on an annual tour of Japan to Their dedication to raising millions of sculptor’s reputation to the glory and Often faced with funding issues, In 1960, she set up her own school in a expertise to the next generation of bring theatre to deprived areas. dollars from private, corporate and state prominence he had previously enjoyed on the energy and support of Irene small apartment with nine or so pupils. young musicians. She ensured her classes Each year, Mumeijuku begins its national sources enabled both The Neptune Theatre the French art scene. Dina Vierny poured Moessinger has always ensured the Today, The Jean Wong School of Ballet now were accessible to everyone by completely tour in Nakajima, a beautiful but relatively and Symphony Nova Scotia to become two out her time, money and energy to achieve necessary funds are raised to keep has branches all over Hong Kong and many funding the school’s outreach programme. impoverished rural Japanese town. Today it of the finest arts institutions in Canada. her dream: the renovated Musée Maillol the attraction in operation. Today, the young Hong Kong Chinese and expatriates The Italian music scene would certainly be is a major event in the cultural life of Japan confirms his status as a great artist of the Tempodrom is widely regarded as Berlin’s have had their first taste of Western poorer without the vision and generosity and one which brings theatre lovers from 20th century. most exciting venue and attracts over classical dance from Mrs Wong. of Mrs Giulini and her masterclasses. all over Japan. 200,000 visitors a year.

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Canada France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan Frank Gehry / Architect Ludmila Mikaël / Actress Helmut Jahn / Architect William Tang / Fashion designer Bernardo Bertolucci / Film director Ikuma Dan / Composer David Foster / Composer Mari-Claude Pietragalla / Dancer Dr Dieter Wedel / TV director Henry Shek / Conductor Dacia Maraini / Author Junko Koshino / Fashion designer Jane Urquhart / Author Françoise Chandernagor / Novelist Sönke Wortmann / Actor Michelle Yeoh / Actress Ornella Vanoni / Singer Tamiyo Kusakari / Dancer and actress Warren Mok / Opera singer Tsurutaro Kataoka / Actor Friedrich II the Great Friedrich Winners 1999

Michael José Sir Torquil David Hwang Ferrer Sala Norman Robinson Singapore Spain UK USA

The Singapore Dance Theatre The Liceu Opera House Barcelona The London Roundhouse The Carver Center, San Antonio Texas The general funds of the Fondacion Sala The building fund of the Roundhouse The general funds of the Carver Center restoration project

Michael Hwang has long been the driving As one of Spain’s most active patrons Sir Torquil Norman set up The Norman David Robinson, one of the USA’s leading force behind the Singapore Dance Theatre’s of arts and culture, José Ferrer Sala is Trust in the late 1980s as a focus for his basketball players, has long been rise to international prominence and lauded for his artistic patronage to concern for the social and cultural devoted to giving back to the community, increase in popularity within Singapore. The Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona. education of underprivileged young exemplified by a multimillion dollar 192 Determined to prove that classical When it was all but destroyed by a people. Focusing its efforts on the British financial donation to the Carver Centre 193 ballet was intrinsic to the country’s disastrous fire, Mr Sala led the fundraising arts venue The London Roundhouse, the in Texas. Mr Robinson’s donation cultural identity, he instituted a range of campaign to restore the theatre, and was trust funded the complete restoration of contributed vastly to the extension and programmes to enable the company to equally a generous donor in his own right. the building, improved its performance modernisation of its facilities, enabling diversify its core audience profile at home. His commitment and passion ensured the facilities and developed a creative centre the centre to continue to fulfil its role as Michael Hwang’s tireless support and theatre was restored to its former glory. for young people. Thanks to Sir Torquil an influential educational institution patronage of the company has certainly It is this dedication that has positioned it Norman, today the London Roundhouse is of great community significance that helped secure the position of the theatre once again as one of the world’s greatest a leading performance venue and a centre promotes and uses the arts as a means amongst the world’s best. opera houses. for young Londoners for both creative and for personal development. social purposes.

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Singapore Spain UK USA Michael Chiang / Playwright Montserrat Caballé / Opera singer Cornelia Parker / Sculptor Diane Keaton / Actress Ng Eng Teng / Sculptor Camilo José Cela / Author Deborah Bull / Dancer Aretha Franklin / Soul and gospel singer Chua Mia Tee / Painter José Luis Garci / Film director Amanda Roocroft / Opera singer Friedrich II the Great Friedrich 1998 Patron of Art 1998

A great warrior and learned man, Alexander the Great was. His father, King Philip II of Macedon, put his young son in the tutelage of none other than Aristotle who himself was educated in Plato’s academy in Athens. Alexander learned philosophy and art, as well as how to conquer and govern.

The armies of Alexander the Great conquered much of the known world. But with it came considerable patronage of art and architecture. ‘Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?’ ALEXANDER 196 THE GREAT 197

The Battle of the Granicus River (334 BC) was the first of three major battles between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire. These became the subject of great works of art. In fact, the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC traditionally marks the beginning of the Hellenistic period, a period during which art, culture, music and architecture thrived.

Few people have been able to shape the cultural course of the world so decisively as This statue of Alexander the Great shows him riding his horse Bucephalus and carrying a winged statue of the Alexander the Great. goddess Nike. Bucephalus was Alexander’s favourite horse; after he died in a battle, Alexander named the city beside the battlefield (believed to be in Northern India) Bucephala in his horse’s honour. Alexander the Great Alexander Patron of Art 1998

Through the influence of his teacher Aristotle, the young king of Macedonia sowed the seeds of Greek architecture, philosophy and art in large parts of the Orient during his conquests. The cities founded by Alexander the Great – particularly Alexandria in Egypt – soon became centres of culture, science and research in the dawning age of Hellenism.

Alexander the Great 356 BC – 323 BC

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In Edition 888 not only these veins, but also the cap and clip are made of Au 750 solid gold. The clip is finished off with an approximately 0.14 ct drop-shaped diamond. The Au 750 solid gold nib is delicately engraved with the stylised head of a ram, the symbol of the god Amon – a reference to Alexander the Great, who was once declared by an oracle to be the son of Amon on earth. Alexander the Great Alexander Winners 1998

David Hélèn Prof. Dr h.c. mult. Reinhold Dr J. S. Nanni Midori Mirvish David-Weill Würth Lee Moretti Goto Canada France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto Union des Arts Decoratifs, Paris The Würth Collection Institute of Chinese Studies and Nuovo Sacher Cinema and Film Festival ‘Midori and Friends’ Foundation The educational outreach programme of The restoration fund of the ‘Period Rooms’ The general funds of the Würth Foundation Art Museum The general funds of the festival The general fund of the foundation The Royal Canadian Conservatory of Music at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs for Contemporary Art The purchase fund of the institute

David Mirvish, owner of Toronto’s Royal Hélène David-Weill’s involvement with A notable patron of the visual arts in As a reflection of Dr Jung-Sen Lee’s deep One of Italy’s most successful film-makers, Midori Goto, one of Japan’s top classical Alexandra Theatre, is considered one the Union des Arts Decoratifs began Germany, Rheinhold Würth’s strong belief and abiding attachment to Chinese Nanni Moretti has long been dedicated violinists, set up the Midori Education of Canada’s most influential theatre in 1981. Appointed vice president in 1992 in making art as accessible as possible led culture, his cultural patronage activity led to raising the level of cultural awareness Foundation in 1991 to improve and impresarios, and is widely praised for his and then president in 1994, she supervised to his founding of The Würth Foundation to his support of the Chinese University of about Italian cinema. In 1996, he develop standards of musical education 200 major contributions to Toronto’s booming the lengthy process of the restoration and for Contemporary Art. Employees of the Hong Kong’s institute of Chinese Studies inaugurated the Sacher Festival, funded around the world. Largely self-funded by 201 theatre industry. In 1995, he was made an rearrangement of the union’s collection. Würth Group may even borrow artworks and the Art Museum. Dr Lee’s involvement by his production company Nuovo Sacher. Midori, the foundation operates through a Honorary Fellow of The Royal Conservatory Responsible for the restoration fund of from the collection and use them to in the foundation was instrumental in the The film festival exemplifies his support programme of interactive and educational of Music in Toronto for his support of the ‘Period Rooms’ at the Musée des Arts decorate their workspace or home. positioning of both the Institute and the of new talent: it is devoted entirely to the concerts performed by Midori. Her unique the institution’s educational outreach Decoratifs amongst other projects, Additionally, the foundation pursues art museum as acknowledged by centres work of young up-and-coming directors. techniques ensure young audiences are programme. This prestigious accolade is her commitment and fundraising work an active policy of financial support for for the research and study of Chinese To this day, the festival attracts an led more deeply into the music than is an acknowledgement of his significant has exercised a great and beneficial science and the arts by way of scholarships archaeology and art, which attracts immense amount of media attention possible in a straightforward performance, contributions to arts and culture in Canada influence on the health of the decorative and the sponsorship of specific events and scholars from all over the world. and plays an important role in Italy’s rendering her an unmatchable benefactor and around the world. arts in France. research projects. cultural scene. of the musical arts.

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Canada France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan Eberhard H. Zeidler / Architect Fernando Botero / Artist Armin Mueller-Stahl / Actor Alice King / Gallerist Milena Canonero / Film designer Koji Ishizaka / Actor Atom Egoyan / Film director Gidon Kremer / Violinist Wolf Wondratschek / Author Oscar Ho / Painter Vittorio Gregotti / Architect Norio Ohga / Conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste / Conductor Jacques Weber / Designer Prof. Jürgen Flimm / Theatre director Basil Pao / Photographer Cecilia Bartoli / Opera singer Yoko Morishita / Dancer Alexander the Great Alexander Winners 1998

Brother Joseph Carmen Janice Richard McNally Arias y Díaz de Rabago Blackburn Riordan Singapore Spain UK USA

The SIA-La Salle Arts School Fundacion Barrie de la Maza The Blackburn Lectures The Riordan Foundation The purchase and conservation of a set The general funds of the foundation The National Opera Studio and the The Children’s programme of the of contemporary Indian paintings for the Education Department of the Bowes Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles school’s collection Museum, Co. Durham

Brother Joseph McNally has dedicated his Carmen Arias y Díaz de Rabago Passionate about increasing public access Upon his appointment as Mayor of life to the arts in Singapore. As the main co-founded The Pedro Barrie de la Maza to the arts, Janice Blackburn inaugurated Los Angeles, Richard Riordan vowed to force behind the LASALLE College of the Foundation to promote education and the Blackburn Lectures to present the ‘revive the heart and soul’ of the city.

Arts (formerly LASALLE-SIA College of culture amongst Galician people. latest thinking on the arts, offering free Loyal to his promise, he pioneered plans 202 the Arts), he funded the purchase and The dedication and devotion of Señora tickets and priority to art students and to save the Los Angeles Concert Hall, 203 conservation of a set of contemporary Arias to the cause of culture in a relatively art teachers. Other patronage activities intent on bringing music to all the diverse Indian paintings for the school’s collection. wealth deprived area of Spain has seen include her financing of education Los Angeles communities. In addition, In recognition of his role in supporting the foundation greatly expand the range programmes at prominent British Arts Riordan has founded and is chairman of and nurturing budding artists, Brother of its activities to include cultural seminars institutions, the Royal Opera House The Riordan Foundation, which is devoted McNally’s patronage to LASALLE has and education programmes. Her work and Bowes Museum. Janice Blackburn’s to ensuring that all children in the Southern certainly contributed to its identification as has dramatically raised the foundation’s generosity and dedication validates her as California region of the United States one of the leading institutions of the arts international profile and has been lauded an influential force and asset to the British of America become successful readers movement in Singapore. by both the Spanish government and the arts scene. and writers. Spanish Royal Family.

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Singapore Spain UK USA Prof. Edwin Thumboo / Academic Joaquín Cortés / Dancer Thelma Holt / Theatre producer Todd Oldham / Designer Bernard Tan / Painter Pedro Almodóvar / Film director Josephine Hart / Author Jasper Johns / Painter Dr Earl Lu / Museum administrator Darcey Bussell / Dancer Alexander the Great Alexander 1997 Patron of Art 1997

The Winter Palace has ornate gates, yet the gilded emblems of Imperial Russia were torn down during the 1917 uprisings. The latter were restored recently.

Through a number of successful wars, Peter I the Great expanded the Tsardom into a much larger empire, turning it into a major European power. The tsar led a cultural revolution that replaced some of the medieval, social and political systems with ones that were modern, scientific, westernised, and based on Enlightenment. PETER I THE GREAT 206 ‘I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.’ 207

The Grand Cascade is modelled on one commissioned by Louis XIV for the Château de Marly. The fountains are located below the grotto, and placed in the central pool lies the large Samson Fountain. It depicts the moment when Samson tears open the jaws of a lion, representing Russia’s victory over Sweden in the Great Northern War (1700 – 21).

Moved by the spirit of the Enlightenment, Tsar Peter I the Great led the Russian Empire out of its cultural isolation into the centre of the great nations of Europe. The Russian Empire had an intricate golden coat of arms on which a black two-headed eagle wears imperial crowns. The flying ribbon indicates the Order of Saint Andrew, important to the Orthodox Church, while the eagle’s chest is shielded with an image of Saint George, mounted on a horse, defeating the dragon. Peter I the Great Peter Patron of Art 1997

Peter I the Great started the first Russian newspaper, founded the first state museum of Russia with a public library and the Russian Academy of Science. This was built in the city named after this great star – St Petersburg.

Peter I the Great 09.06.1672 – 08.02.1725

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Yekaterina Alexeyevna or Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great, was the longest-ruling female leader of Russia; she reigned from 1762 until her death in 1796 at the age of 67.

After the death of the Empress Elizabeth on 5 January 1762, Peter succeeded to the throne as Emperor Peter III, and Catherine became empress consort. The imperial couple moved into the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. Catherine’s patronage of the architects Starov and Quarenghi saw the palace enlarged and transformed. CATHERINE II 210

‘You philosophers are lucky men. 211 You write on paper and paper is THE GREAT patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.’

Catherine was also responsible for introducing the lasting affection for all things French to the Russian court. Hence, French became the language of the court; Russian was relegated for use only when speaking to servants and inferiors. The Russian aristocracy was encouraged to embrace the philosophies of Molière, Racine and Corneille.

Tsarina Catherine’s ambition was to continue the work of Peter the Great. Indeed, her commitment to the arts was impressive: she corresponded with Voltaire, Diderot and d’Alembert, among others. The period of Catherine the Great’s rule, the Catherinian Era, is often considered as the Golden Age of the Russian Empire. As a patron of the arts, she presided over the age of the Russian Enlightenment and established the Smolny Institute, the first state-financed higher education institution for women in Europe. Catherine II the Great Patron of Art 1997

Catherine II the Great is responsible for having the Hermitage – the famous Winter Palace – erected in St Petersburg, and it is thanks to her love of painting that the royal art collection grew from a few dozen paintings to more than 4,000.

Catherine II the Great 02.05.1729 – 17.11.1796

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Joey Florence Dr Erich Anna Claudio Tamasaburo Tanenbaum Guerlain Marx Sohmen de Polo Saibanti Bando Canada France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

Art Gallery of Ontario Fondation d’Art Contemporain Museum für Gegenwart Berlin HK Academy of the Performing Arts Fratelli Alinari Museum of the History Tokyo Conservatory for the Performing Arts The Kulturhaus Bethanien The Scholarship Fund of the Academy of Photography The general funds of the conservatory The exhibition ‘Sign Moments’ dealing with the history of the written word

Prolific art collector Joey Tanenbaum Florence Guerlain and her husband Daniel, For many years Erich Marx has been one Anna Sohmen ranks as one of Hong Kong’s Claudio de Polo Saibanti founded the In 1990, Tamasaburo Bandro founded is recognised as one of Canada’s most set up the Fondation d’Art Contemporain of the most active patrons in the German most generous arts patrons. Concentrating Fratelli Alinari Museum of the History of the Tokyo Conservatory for the Performing generous arts patrons. In 1997, passionate to provide an environment for artists, contemporary art market. In 1995, keen to her considerable energies on the Hong Photography in 1985. The unique Italian Arts with the unique aim of providing about making the arts as publicly writers and the public audience to flourish. contribute to Berlin’s cultural regeneration, Kong Academy for Performing Arts, she museum possesses an extensive library complete training for young actors 214 accessible as possible, he donated 16 Offering exhibitions, seminars, concerts, he donated his entire art collection to the worked tirelessly to improve standards specialising in the history of photography. wishing to work within the Japanese 215 Old Master paintings, worth $ 10 million courses and conferences, the foundation Museum für Gegenwart Berlin. The scope at the academy and launched a range of Under Mr de Polo Saibanti’s presidency, the and Western traditions of theatre, dance (CAD), to the Art Gallery of Ontario. This also awards scholarships to selected artists. and generosity of his donation can be put schemes and scholarships whereby entry museum has mounted many significant and music. Receiving no government gift, alongside his additional donation of By bridging the gap between the artists into perspective when it is understood to the academy would be freely available exhibitions including ‘Sign Moments’ support, its existence is purely due $ 15 million (CAD) towards funding the and their audience, the Guerlain that this gift formed the greater part of to the truly talented. Her outstanding about the history of the written word. to the tireless commitment of Bando gallery, is recognised as the most generous Foundation stands out as a prominent the gallery’s painting collection and, as a contributions and support of the academy By making the unparalleled archives of Tamasaburo. His extraordinary personal art donation in Canada’s history, and force in France, and it is these values that result, fortified the gallery’s position as renders her one of the people most Fratelli Alinari more publicly available, dedication both in terms of finance and has firmly placed the Gallery of Ontario set it apart from similar organisations one of the best in Germany. responsible for the elevated level of the Claudio De Polo Saibanti has made a of his precious time is the secret of the amongst the first rank of world museums. around the world. performing arts in Hong Kong. munificent gift to Italy and the world. conservatory’s major success.

Jury voting for all countries

Canada France Germany Hong Kong Italy Singapore Christopher Plummer / Actor César / Sculptor Prof. Dr Josef-Paul Kleihues / Architect Dr Ng Kau/ Head HK Arts Festival Fernanda Pivano / Author Dr Ho Kah Leong / Painter Evelyn Hart / Ballerina Françoise Xenakis / Novelist Michael Krüger / Author Lo King-man / Director HK Academy for Giorgio Pressburger / Theatre director Robert Lau / Arts Minister, Singapore Patrick Dupond / Dancer Alfred Brendel / Pianist the Performing Arts and producer Choo Hoey / Conductor Johnson Chang/ Gallerist Mariuccia Mandelli / Designer Catherine II the Great and Peter I the Great and Peter Catherine II the Great Winners 1997

Dr Earl Jordi Sir George Agnes Lu Clos i Llombart Christie Gund Singapore Spain UK USA

Singapore Art Museum The Jordi Clos Llombart Foundation Glyndebourne Opera Festival The Metropolitan Museum of art The SIA–La Salle College of Art The archaeological exploration funds The London Philharmonic Orchestra The ‘Studio In School’ programme and of the foundation MOMA, New York

As chairman of the Singapore Art Museum, The Jordi Clos Llombart Foundation was As chairman of Glyndebourne Productions, Agnes Gund is a guiding force of two major Dr Earl Lu was the leading force behind set up in 1992 by its eponymous founder, Sir George Christie overcame the dilemma American institutions. At The Museum the museum’s creation. Keen to preserve for the diffusion of knowledge of, and of overcrowding at the world-famous of Modern Art in New York (MOMA), she and develop Singapore’s cultural and social the encouragement of interest in ancient opera festival’s auditorium by proposing was a prime mover in making the museum 216 traditions without the influences of Europe, cultures. The only organisation of its kind to build the first purpose-built opera house accessible to more diverse sections of 217 China and Japan, he donated his entire in Spain, the Jordi Clos Foundation is also a in the United Kingdom in well over the potential audience. Her self-funded collection of South East Asian works to major source of finance for archaeological 50 years. He raised the entire sum needed Studio In School programme delivers fine the museum. Dr Lu’s gift comprised digs at sites within the boundaries of for rebuilding from private and corporate art education for children at schools in many works of great beauty and the ancient Egyptian kingdom. Out of sources. By 1994, thanks to Sir George’s the greater New York area. In an era of historical significance, and meant that a personal passion and using his own superhuman driving force, the new opera constantly trimmed budgets, Agnes Gund the museum’s collection was, from the finances, Jordi Clos Llombart has created house was complete to universal acclaim became all but entirely responsible for the onset, one of both prime regional and an internationally significant from musicians, architectural critics exposure of New York’s schoolchildren to international significance. academic institution. and audiences. the world of art.

Jury voting for all countries

Spain UK USA Jaume Aragall / Opera singer David Puttnam / Film director and Robert Wilson / Theatre director Carmen Rico Godoy / Writer producer and producer Sir Alan Ayckbourn / Playwright William Wegman / Photographer Anthony Dowell / Dancer James Levine / Conductor Catherine II the Great and Peter I the Great and Peter Catherine II the Great 1996 Patron of Art 1996

Semiramis was a consort of Ninus (Nimrod), builder of the infamous Tower of Babel. The story of Babel says that the Hebrew god confounded the occupants’ speech so that they could no longer understand each other.

Myth and legend surround Semiramis: she was purported to be the legendary wife of King Ninus (Nimrod), and to succeed him to the throne of Assyria. It is also claimed that Semiramis was an actual person in ancient Mesopotamia who invented polytheism and, with it, goddess worship. She appears in writings by Voltaire and Dante.

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we read that she succeeded Ninus, and was his spouse; 221 she held the land which now the Sultan rules.’

Hislop, a Christian writer, believed Semiramis had a child with the Akkadian deity Tammuz, a God of vegetation.

The legendary queen Semiramis ruled around 800 BC in the Assyro-Babylonian empire and was regarded as the patroness of Nabu, the tutelary deity of the scribes.

The evidence strongly suggests that both the eyewitness writers, Ctesias and Clitarchus, originally attributed the Hanging Gardens to Semiramis. More evidence points to Semiramis who could have been Sammuramat (Nimrod’s earthly wife); together they built Babylon and created ‘The Hanging Gardens’. Semiramis Patron of Art 1996

Queen Semiramis adored the fine arts, which were mainly found in the ancient city of Babylon, as well as the magnificent buildings of King Nebuchadnezzar II, including the Ishtar Gate and the Hanging Gardens. According to legend, it was Semiramis that gave these gardens their name, although this remains scientifically unconfirmed to this day.

Semiramis ~ 800 BC

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Joan Annie Francesca Joseph Giulia Maria So Chalmers Fratellini von Habsburg Hotung Mozzoni Crespi Kuramoto Canada France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan

The Chalmers Awards Western Circus School The ARCH Foundation The Hotung Gallery Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI) Furano-juku Project The Tarragon Theatre and the Canadian The general funds of the Western Circus The funds of the foundation dedicated to The Hong Kong ‘Arts with The Disabled’ fund The restoration fund of FAI earmarked The general funds of the project dedicated Music Center, both in Toronto school repairing war damage to the artistic for the Castello Masino project to training scriptwriters and actors heritage of the former Yugoslavia

From a family of noted Canadian The great French circus artist Annie Convinced that ‘protecting the world’s Born in Shanghai and educated in China, Recognising that the government of A highly successful playwright, So philanthropists, Joan Chalmers is known Fratellini, who died in 1997, received a cultural heritage is vital to humanity’s the US and the UK, Joseph Hotung her native Italy cannot do everything to Kuramoto is most famous in Japan for a as a generous patron of every form of art. Montblanc Award for her groundbreaking spiritual and social integrity’, Francesca von achieved success as a property developer preserve the country’s phenomenal popular, long-running TV drama series.

The most public face of her generosity work in establishing Western Europe’s first Habsburg created the ARCH Foundation in Hong Kong in the 1960s. Starting a architectural and natural riches, Called From the North Country, it is set 224 has been the Chalmers Awards for circus school. Concerned for the future of in Austria in 1991. Its first focus was decade later, he became actively involved Giulia Maria Mozzoni Crespi founded on the northern island of Hokkaido, in the 225 Excellence and Creativity in the Arts, this age-old performing art, in 1975 she repairing damage to historical and cultural in the arts, collecting Chinese jade and the Fondo Ambiente Italiano in 1975. region around Furano. Seeking to give initiated in 1979 to honour outstanding and her husband Pierre Etaix founded the heritage sites in the aftermath of the wars sponsoring exhibitions around the world. Thanks to her years of hard work, the FAI something back to his source of inspiration, cultural contributions by Canadian artists. École Nationale du Cirque in Paris, with that accompanied the break-up of the Thanks to his support, the British Museum is now a major, much-respected cultural Kuramoto chose the city as the site of his In all, the programme has distributed the aim of bringing new blood to the circus former Yugoslavia. Over the years, ARCH opened the Joseph E. Hotung Gallery of heritage institution. Its conservation Furano-juku Project. Comprising a theatre some $ 7 million (CAD) to recipients and providing top-level training in all of has branched out to architectural rescue Oriental Antiquities in 1992. He is also a projects range in scale from an art nouveau and a school for actors and scriptwriters, in every discipline. Ms Chalmers has its disciplines. The school continues to projects worldwide, for example, in key backer of the Arts with the Disabled news stand to a charming 19th-century Furano-juku enjoys a stellar international made numerous additional donations flourish today as the Académie Fratellini, China and Central Asia, operating with the Association Hong Kong, which gives barbershop to the restoration of Castello reputation, and the entire community over the years, offering vital support to a fitting memorial to a beloved performer help and involvement of local communities. people with disabilities the opportunity Masino, an 11th-century castle north benefits both culturally and financially organisations like the Tarragon Theatre and patron. to enjoy and participate in the arts. of Turin. from Kuramoto’s initiative. and the Canadian Music Center in Toronto.

Jury voting for all countries

Canada France Germany Hong Kong Italy Japan Arthur Erikson / Architect Andrée Putman / Designer Prof. Gabriele Henkel / Artist Christine Loh / Vice-chair HK Arts Mimmo Rotella / Painter Yoko Morishita / Ballerina Carol Shields / Novelist Francis Huster / Actor Prof. Justus Frantz / Pianist and conductor Development Council Alessandro Mendini / Architect Koji Ishizaka / Actor Karl Lagerfeld / Fashion designer Benny Chia / HK Fringe Festival Hiroko Nakamura / Pianist Semiramis Winners 1996

Paloma Sir Ernest Tony O’Shea Hall Randall Spain UK USA

Isaac Albéniz Foundation The Dean Clough Arts Centre National Actors Theatre The study funds of two named students The Halifax Chamber Music Festival The general funds of the studying music at the Reina Sofia School National Actors Theatre in Madrid

A devoted and intelligent patron of The Dean Clough Mills in Halifax, UK, Tony Randall was one of America’s most classical music in Spain, Paloma O’Shea are a complex of 19th-century textile mills, popular character actors, famous for his founded the Isaac Albéniz Foundation outstanding for their spectacular scale comic performances on screen and stage. in 1972. The non-profit organisation takes and architectural quality. When the site Feeling that the theatre scene in the US 226 action through four main outlets: was threatened with demolition after lacked an actor-driven venue that could 227 the Reina Sofia Conservatory in Madrid, production ceased in 1983, Ernest Hall, take risks and stage daring new works, where it has funded two scholarships; a successful developer and keen amateur he founded the National Actors Theatre the Isaac Albéniz Library, whose archives musician, initiated a plan to refurbish it in 1991. Randall poured his passion and include the papers of Albéniz himself for mixed artistic-industrial use. wisdom into the project, working tirelessly and the pianist Artur Rubinstein; Alongside commercial tenants, to secure financing and assemble a the world-class Paloma O’Shea Piano he installed the Dean Clough Arts Centre, top-quality company. Until his death in Competition, held every three years in accommodating a range of cultural 2004, the NAT mounted many important Santander; and the Yehudi Menhuin Prize, activities. Further enriching the local productions featuring legendary actors like given annually to a figure who has made arts scene, Hall has also sponsored Al Pacino, George C. Scott, Lynn Redgrave a unique contribution to the art of an annual chamber music festival for and Julie Harris. classical music. young musicians. Jury voting for all countries

Spain UK USA Adolfo Marsillach / Director Steven Berkoff / Playwright and director Rita Moreno / Actress Mario Vargas Llosa / Author Nigel Coates / Architect Robert Wilson / Theatre director and producer Semiramis 1995 Patron of Art 1995

The Prince Regent was highly criticised for his lifestyle but he was nonetheless a dedicated patron of the arts. Part of his legacy, paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Rembrandt, Jean-Baptiste Martin, Gainsborough and George Stubbs are part of the Royal Collection today.

When George III died in 1820, the Prince Regent, then aged 57, ascended the throne as George IV. George’s coronation was in line with his lifestyle: a magnificent and expensive affair. The painting depicts a view looking down the nave of Westminster Abbey: George IV sat on Edward I’s throne and was crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury. THE PRINCE REGENT 230 ‘The highest of distinctions is the service to others.’ 231

The Royal Pavilion – also known as the Brighton Pavilion – is a former royal residence. It was built in the Indo-Saracenic style with domes and minarets reminiscent of India. The interiors, however, come in a French neoclassical style with decorative paintings by Biagio Rebecca.

Despite various periods of turmoil during his reign, King George IV of Britain, with his appreciation for the fine arts, managed to shape British culture to his taste.

A coastal town, Brighton became popular with sea bathing. The early Royal Pavilion, designed by architect John Nash, was the Prince Regent’s retreat. The Prince Regent The Prince Patron of Art 1995

The influence of King George IV of Britain is still visible today. Because of the monarch’s penchant for culture, art forms from the period of his reign are known as those of the ‘Regency Period’.

The Prince Regent 12.08.1762 – 26.06.1830

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In Edition 888 the crown is decorated by seven rubies and three diamonds. The nib, made of Au 750 solid gold, is decorated with a fine engraving of this insignia of the British monarchy in the Regency period. The Prince Regent The Prince Winners 1995

Jane Ikuo Gian Carlo Alexander Hirayama Menotti USA Japan Italy

North American Award Far Eastern Award European Award National Endowment for the Arts Tokyo National University of The Spoleto Festival ‘The WritersCorp’ which nurtures emerging Fine Arts and Music The Theatre school. Yester, Scotland young writing talent The Red Cross Fund dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of the ancient ‘Silk Road’ A distinguished actress, Jane Alexander In addition to serving as president of the The Italian-born opera composer Gian was named director of the US National National University of Fine Arts and Music Carlo Menotti strove throughout his life

Endowment for the Arts in 1993 under in Tokyo, the Japanese artist Ikuo Hirayama to make art available to as large and 234 President Clinton. In 1994, Republican was a major supporter of international diverse an audience as possible. In 1958 235 congressmen mounted an attack on cultural conservation projects. He took a he founded the Festival of Two Worlds in the NEA, calling for its elimination as a special interest in the regions of Central Spoleto, Italy, and in 1977 its companion wasteful government programme. Thanks Asia along the ancient Silk Road, and was festival in Charleston, South Carolina, to Alexander’s energetic defense of public heavily involved in an effort to preserve offering a rich mix of art exhibitions and funding for the arts, the NEA survived. the 1,300-year-old Buddhas of Bamiyan, music of many genres. His Montblanc That same year she and AmeriCorps the last relics of Buddhism in its former Award helped fund the opening on director Eli Siegel founded WritersCorps, an heartland. Hirayama was the founder Menotti’s estate in Scotland of the independent programme to bring creative of the ‘Cultural Heritage Red Cross’, Yester Theatre School, a training centre writing into the lives of disadvantaged a consortium for the restoration of for talented young performers from Spain youth and nurture emerging literary talent. cultural assets in Asia. around the world. Fernando Savater / Author

Switzerland Jury Japan Mario Botta / Architect voting for all countries France Hong Kong Nagisa Oshima / Film director USA Catherine Deneuve / Actress Benny Chia / General manager Koji Ishizaka / Actor UK Robert Wilson / Theatre director Andrée Putman / Designer HK Fringe Festival Tetsuko Koroyanagi / Actress Anthony Caro / Sculptor Gregor von Rezzori / Author Masaki Nakano / Professor Jean Muir / Fashion designer John Guare / Playwright Canada Germany Italy Dame Diana Rigg / Actress Ismail Merchant / Film director Norman Jewison / Film director Wolf Wondratschek / Author Gae Aulenti / Architect Singapore Tom Stoppard / Playwright James Ivory / Film director Michael Snow / Painter and sculptor Brigitte Blobel / Novelist Carla Fracci / Ballerina Dick Lee / Entertainer Robert Carsen / Theatre director Dr Maya Angelou / Author The Prince Regent The Prince 1994 Patron of Art 1994

Louis XIV longest-ruling European monarch in history: he reigned as King of France for 72 years. Louis XIV generously supported the royal court: he brought the Académie Française under his patronage and became its ‘Protector’, thus allowing Classical French literature – Molière, Racine and La Fontaine – to flourish.

Louis XIV was known as ‘The Sun King’ (Le Roi Soleil), a solar emblem that decorates the many gates of Versailles.

LE ROI SOLEIL

LOUIS XIV ‘I am the source of light of this nation.’ 238

239 Louis XIV converted a hunting lodge (built by Louis XIII) into the spectacular Palace of Versailles. Versailles became a dazzling, awe-inspiring setting for state affairs and the reception of foreign dignitaries. At Versailles, the king alone commanded attention.

Louis XIV: the ‘dieudonné’, or ‘gift from God’. The Sun King. He is a historically controversial figure, but he is also universally recognised for his appreciation of the fine arts.

Louis XIV liked to be portrayed in a grand manner: he used court ritual and the arts to impose his power over France. Over his lifetime, Louis XIV commissioned numerous works of art to portray himself and his family, an expert way of diffusing royal propaganda to the population at large. Louis XIV Louis Patron of Art 1994

Louis XIV founded numerous leading European cultural academies, took a personal interest in promising, talented artists and created an edifice that will always be associated with his name: the Palace of Versailles.

Louis XIV – The Sun King 05.09.1638 – 01.09.1715

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Susan Keizo Sir Alan Sontag Saji Ayckbourn USA Japan UK

North American Award Far Eastern Award European Award Youth Theatre of Sarajevo The Angkor Wat Temple Complex The Scarborough Theatres Trust The international restoration fund devoted to restoring and protecting the Angkor Wat complex

The American writer Susan Sontag was Chairman of the Suntory Distilling Although he is one of the world’s most one of the most influential intellectuals Company in Osaka, Keizo Saji was a renowned playwrights, Alan Ayckbourn of the late 20th century, inspiring a dedicated supporter of the arts with a received this award for his backing of 242 generation with the passion and grace breadth of vision that extended beyond the arts in his adopted home town of 243 that she brought to the life of the mind. his native country. In addition to Scarborough, England. For many years he During the four-year siege of Sarajevo, sponsoring the construction of Osaka’s insisted that all of his plays be premiered which claimed some 10,000 lives, she Suntory Hall, one of the finest concert at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, drawing spent months in the city working with its venues in Japan, he played a key role major cultural figures to the seaside renowned Youth Theatre on a production in the effort to save Angkor Wat. resort. Thanks to his energetic support, of Beckett’s absurdist masterpiece Waiting When years of neglect had left the in particular through the Scarborough for Godot. The project became a symbol of extraordinary Cambodian temple complex Theatre Trust, the town enjoys excellent hope, a sign that mankind’s better aspects in urgent need of preservation, Saji cultural facilities, and what was once a could survive even the carnage of war. became one of the most active patrons provincial playhouse is now one of the best of the international rescue programme. theatres of its size in the UK. USA Singapore Judith Jamison / Dancer Liu Kang / Artist Terrence McNally / Playwright Jury Louis Malle / Film director voting for all countries Hong Kong Japan Switzerland Neil Simon / Playwright Willy Tsao / Choreographer Hanae Mori / Designer Luigi Snozzi / Architect Mark Morris / Dancer and choreographer Canada Germany Ken Takakura / Actor Stockard Channing / Actor Brent Carver / Actor Prof. Justus Frantz / Pianist and conductor Italy Tadanori Yokoo / Actor UK David Henry Hwang / Playwright Oscar Petersen / Jazz pianist Prof. Dr John Neumeier / Ballet director Mirella Freni / Opera singer Richard Eyre / Theatre director Darci Kistler / Dancer Prof. August Everding / Theatre director Alberto Sordi / Actor Spain Sir Peter Ustinov / Actor Peter Martins / Dancer France Christoph Albrecht / Opera director Michele Placido / Actor Xavier Mariscal / Designer Lord Yehudi Menuhin / Violinist Xavier Koller / Actor and director Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie / Historian Dr Ulla Hahn / Author Carla Fracci / Ballerina Mario Vargas Llosa / Author Vladimir Ashkenazy / Pianist Robert Wilson / Theatre producer Catherine Deneuve / Actress Matthias Bamert / Conductor Adolfo Marsillach / Actor and director and conductor and director Louis XIV Louis 1993 Patron of Art 1993

Augustus was born Gaius Octavian into an old plebeian family. His maternal great-uncle was Julius Caesar.

Augustus of Prima Porta is a 2.03-metre-high marble statue of Augustus Caesar, which was discovered on 20 April 1863 in the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, near Rome. Augustus Caesar’s wife Livia Drusilla, now known as Julia Augusta, retired to the villa after his death. The sculpture is now displayed in the Braccio Nuovo, Vatican Museums. GAIUS OCTAVIAN 246 ‘I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.’ 247

IMPERĀTOR CAESAR DĪVĪ FĪLIVS AVGVSTUS For centuries, the Forum Romanum was the centre of Roman public life: the site of triumphal processions, elections and the venue for public speeches. The second imperial forums, built by Gaius Octavia, was the Forum of Augustus and its Temple of Mars (the Avenger): he vowed to have it built on the eve of the Battle of Philippi (42 BC), so he could avenge the assassination of Caesar.

Gaius Octavian, honoured by the Roman Senate with the name Augustus, was the driving force behind the cultural revival of the epoch that followed numerous years of war.

The mausoleum is one of the first projects initiated by Augustus in the City of Rome following his victory at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. It held the remains of the imperial family, such as Nero, Caligula and Claudius. Octavian Patron of Art 1993

By means of cunning tactical moves, strategic liaisons with powerful Romans and deliberate promotion of the arts, Octavian created an elaborate network of culture. Because of his support for the construction of splendid public buildings, which made Rome a city of marble and a powerhouse of artistic and intellectual endeavour, his name is forever connected with the heyday of the Roman Empire.

Gaius Octavius 63 BC – 14 AD

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Limitation 4810 The fascinating spiderweb design of the Patron of Art Limited Edition Octavian is adapted from a design typical of the 1920s and also recalls the emperor’s elaborately woven network of power. In the • Black precious resin middle of this web of delicate Ag 925 sterling silver threads, which covers the gleaming black barrel • Ag 925 sterling silver fretwork and the precious resin cap, sits an artistically shaped, stylised spider. The handcrafted rhodium-plated • Rhodium-plated Au 750 solid gold nib Au 750 solid gold nib also bears a delicately engraved spider. Octavian Winners 1993

Walter The Lila Acheson Sir Run Run Sir Simon Lincoln Carsen Wallace-Readers’ Shaw Rattle Kirstein Canada Digest Fund Hong Kong UK USA USA The Philanthropic Statement Award The Foundation Commitment Award The Public Assertion Award The Private Vision Award The Private Vision Award The National Ballet of Canada A wide range of projects including the The Shaw Foundation The City of Birmingham Symphony New York City Ballet Promotion of Franco-American cultural Metropolitan Museum New York The Alliance Française de Hong Kong Orchestra Divided between the New York City Ballet exchange The ‘Association Comparisons’, Paris. promoting French culture in Hong Kong The education and outreach fund of The and The School of American Ballet The association brings art to all communities City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra especially on the margins of society.

Walter Carsen received this award in DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace lived Over many decades, Run Run Shaw In 1993, when he shared this award, The co-winner, the American-born recognition of his many contributions lives of service, giving freely of their time donated hundreds of millions of dollars Simon Rattle was just at the end of the Lincoln Kirstein, was from an earlier 250 to the arts in Canada. In particular, his and the wealth they had amassed as to countless cultural, educational and first phase of his meteoric rise as an era and a different background, but like 251 generous support for the National Ballet the publishers of Reader’s Digest. charitable projects around the world. orchestral conductor. In a dozen years, he Rattle sought to share his passion for the provided the company with its first single Their foundations, the DeWitt In 1957 he and his brother Runme founded had transformed the formerly obscure City arts as widely as possible. In 1934, he home, built in Toronto in 1995 and later Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund and the the Shaw Foundation, based on the of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra into and George Balanchine established the named the Walter Carsen Centre. Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, have philosophy that wealth derived from one of the leading classical ensembles in School of American Ballet, the country’s Also noted for his art collection, including provided nearly $ 2 billion (USD) to support society should be returned to society the UK and Europe, with a repertoire and pre-eminent ballet academy, and in 1946 works by Picasso, Chagall, Miró and a variety of cultural projects, including the in generous measure. A Hong Kong activities seen by many as a template founded the society that would become Warhol, he donated more than 100 pieces Metropolitan Museum in New York and the foundation, set up in 1973, has distributed for excellence. His innovations included the New York City Ballet. With Balanchine to the Art Gallery of Ontario, and was a Association Comparisons, a Paris-based some $ 390 million (USD) to beneficiaries a revolutionary outreach and education as choreographer and Kirstein as general major benefactor of the Shaw Festival, organisation devoted to bringing art to including more than 50 Asian universities, programme, taking the CBSO out into director, the NYCB became a beacon for a summer theatre programme in all communities, especially on the margins as well as the Alliance Française, schools, community centres and public ballet companies worldwide. Niagara-on-the-Lake. of society. promoting French culture in Hong Kong. spaces. Jury voting for all countries

Canada Michael Ondaatje / Author Germany Italy Spain Switzerland France Kurt Masur / Orchestral conductor Carla Fracci / Dancer Placido Domingo / Opera singer Dimitri / Clown Alain Decaux / Author USA Michèle Cotta / Journalist Hong Kong Japan Singapore UK Arthur Miller / Playwright Karl Lagerfeld / Fashion designer Jean M. Wong / Dancer and choreographer Yukio Ninagawa / Theatre director Choo Hooey / Orchestral conductor Richard Eyre / Theatre director Robert Wilson / Theatre director Octavian 1992 Patron of Art 1992

Lorenzo de Medici was a prolific writer. He wrote many poems, and the prose shown here is a handwritten note from him featuring his signature.

In the Chapel of the Magi, in the Medici Palace, ‘The Procession of the Magi’ (ca 1460) is a fresco depicting the ‘Three Kings’ – Casper, Balthasar and Melchior. Benozzo Gozzolli painted the fresco characters as members of the Medici family: here, Lorenzo de Medici is pictured as King Balthasar, ‘the middle king’, the bringer of myrrh. LORENZO DE MEDICI 254 ‘I do not regret (spending so much money on charity, buildings and taxes) for though many 255 would consider it better to have a part of that sum in their purse. I consider it to have been a great honour to our state; Mosaic-covered interior of the octagonal dome, known I think the money was well-expended and I am well-pleased.’ as the Baptistery of Florence or Mosaic Dome.

Known as ‘Lorenzo the Magnificent’ by contemporary Florentines, de Medici was a diplomat, politician and a patron of scholars, artists and poets.

Lorenzo de Medici was also known as ‘Magnificent’ due of his philanthropic patronage of the arts. The portrait above, with Florence in the background, is by Girolamo Macchietti (1535 – 1592). Lorenzo de Medici Lorenzo Patron of Art 1992

Although the last direct descendent of the Medici house died centuries ago, the name of this aristocratic family from Florence is still evocative of a dynasty that lasted over generations and which, with its influence on culture and the fine arts, has a permanent place in the history books.

Lorenzo de Medici 01.01.1449 – 08.04.1492

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Limitation 4810 The Patron of Art Limited Edition Lorenzo de Medici pays tribute to an age in which handcrafts and art were inextricably linked with each other. The eight-sided barrel, made of Ag 925 sterling silver and • Eight-sided Ag 925 sterling silver barrel richly ornamented, is hand-engraved and signed by eight master craftsmen. This elaborately finished • Viennese engravings barrel and the delicately engraved nib with its heart-shaped hole make this edition as much a beautiful • Rhodium-plated Au 750 solid gold nib piece of jewellery as an exquisite writing instrument. with heart-shaped hole Lorenzo de Medici Lorenzo Winners 1992

Claude Dominique The Rockefeller James D. Pompidou de Menil Foundation Wolfensohn France France USA USA

The Public Assertion Award The Philanthropic Statement Award The Foundation Commitment Award The Private Vision Award Promotion of Franco-American Arts patron and co-founder of Private foundation promoting the well- Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts cultural exchange The de Menil Collection being of mankind throughout the world Contribution to the renovation of De Menil Museum Texas Market Theatre Johannesburg Carnegie Hall

Although married to French president The founder Dominique de Menil together The Rockefeller Foundation is a private James Wolfensohn received the Personal Georges Pompidou, Claude Pompidou was with her husband John, owners of one US-based philanthropic organisation Vision Award in 1992 for his work as never just a politician’s wife. A woman of the leading private art collections in established by the Rockefeller family. chairman of New York’s Carnegie Hall, of independence and integrity who the United States, showed a depth of Founded in 1913 ‘to promote the overseeing its renovation and enhancing its 258 recognised the importance of the arts in knowledge, involvement and passion well-being of mankind’, it is one of the position as an American cultural landmark, 259 the well-being of a nation, she worked that set the benchmark for arts patrons world’s most influential NGOs, with and of the John F. Kennedy Center for tirelessly to promote cultural exchange everywhere. Starting in the 1940s, the assets of $ 3.1 billion (USD) in 2008. the Performing Arts in Washington DC, between France and the US. She was a couple amassed more than 17,000 works To date, the foundation has given more the USA’s busiest performing arts facility. prime mover behind the development spanning a range from Cubism to pieces than $ 14 billion (USD) in current dollars A leading banker and businessman, of the iconic Centre Georges Pompidou from ancient and indigenous cultures. This to thousands of grantees worldwide. In who later went on to become chairman in Paris, championing the avant-garde impressive endowment is now housed in the arts it has backed institutions like of the World Bank, Wolfensohn clearly designs of architects Renzo Piano and the Menil Collection museum in Houston, the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in demonstrates that a busy working life Richard Rogers, and striving to keep the Texas, which opened in 1987 in a building Ontario, Canada, Lincoln Center for the need not prevent anyone from contributing centre at the forefront of the art scene designed by Renzo Piano. Performing Arts in New York, and the to the public good. over the years. Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Jury voting for all countries

Canada Japan USA USA Karen Kain / Ballerina Seiji Ozawa / Conductor I. M. Pei / Architect Robert Wilson / Theatre director Isaac Stern / Violinist and producer France UK Al Hirschfeld / Illustrator Catherine Deneuve / Actress Dame Joan Sutherland / Opera singer Helen Frankenthaler / Artist Lorenzo de Medici Lorenzo Imprint Imprint

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