Henri van Abbe

Henri Jacob van Abbe (Dutch pronunciation: [ɦɑ̃ːˈri ˈjaːkɔp fɑn ˈɑbə];[1] 8 January 1880 – 18 November 1940) was a Dutch tobacco industrialist and art collector. He is the founder of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.

Portrait of Henri van Abbe by Pieter van der Hem (1929)
Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven

Life

Henri Jacob van Abbe was born on 8 January 1880 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

He was a cigar manufacturer in Eindhoven, and in 1900 he started a small cigar factory in Amsterdam which grew into a prosperous business. An avid art collector and lover of art, he founded the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven in 1936, which he gave a major donation to.[2][3]

With Tinus van Bakel, a colleague in tobacco and art, he regularly traveled to Belgium in the 1930s to buy art. One of the places they visited (in 1936) was the artists' colony of Sint-Martens-Latem.[4]

Van Abbe died on 18 November 1940 in Eindhoven.

References
  1. In isolation, van is pronounced [vɑn].
  2. Bevolo, Marco (9 October 2009). The Golden Crossroads: Multidisciplinary Findings for Business Success from the Worlds of Fine Arts, Design and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-230-25069-7.
  3. Lorente, Jesús Pedro (2011). The Museums of Contemporary Art: Notion and Development. Ashgate. p. 100. ISBN 9781409405863.
  4. Boyens, Piet (1998). Sint-Martens-Latem. Lannoo. p. 147. ISBN 9789020934977.


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