随着龙美术馆西岸馆的开幕,私人收藏、私人美术馆再次成为公众讨论的热点话题。有人称赞私人藏家及其美术馆对艺术发展和保留的贡献,也有人感叹这是一次公开的炫富行为,用资本操纵艺术的格局。无论哪一种说法,私人收藏和私人美术馆都已经经历了几百年的历史,很多知名家族的收藏在欧洲也经历了几代传承人,是公益还是商业游戏,需要时间来检验。欧洲知名收藏家族提森·博内米萨(Thysser-Bornemisza)便是这方面一个最好的案例。德国钢铁巨头奥古斯特·提森先生是一个成功的企业家,但其钟爱艺术,大约在第一次世界大战前后正式开始系统收藏欧洲艺术作品,其藏品囊括了欧洲文艺复兴早期到印象派早期的大部分重要艺术家的作品,法国著名艺术家罗丹的很多中小型雕塑订单都是来自于奥古斯特先生。奥古斯特之子海因里希·提森娶了具有欧洲皇室血统的匈牙利妻子,随即继承了女方家族的爵位,因而在姓氏上加入了妻子家族名一博内米萨。海因里希·提森·博内米萨在继承父亲的钢铁事业后,决定继承父亲的收藏,他购回了父亲分配给家族成员的部分藏品,自己也在父亲的收藏体系上,不断按照艺术史脉络系统地收藏艺术品。 With the opening of the Dragon Gallery West Bank Pavilion and private collections, the private art museum has once again become a hot topic of public discussion. Some people praise the contribution of private collectors and their art galleries to the development and preservation of the arts. Some people also lament that this is an open show of wealth-taking and the manipulation of art by capital. Either way, private collections and private art galleries have lived through centuries of history. Many well-known family collections have gone through several generations of heirs in Europe as well. It is a public-benefit or commercial game that takes time to test. Thysser-Bornemisza, a well-known collection in Europe, is one of the best examples in this regard. The German steel giant Augustus Tyson was a successful entrepreneur, but his beloved art, which began around the beginning of World War I, formally began collecting systematic collections of European works of art that covered the period from the early Renaissance of Europe to the early Impressionists Most of the major artists’ works, many small and medium sized sculpture orders by the famous French artist Rodin come from Mr. August. Heinrich Thyssen, the son of August, married a Hungarian wife of European royal origin and immediately inherited the title of the woman’s family, thus joining his wife’s family name, Boneasamessa, on his surname. After inheriting his father’s steel business, Heinrich Tyson Bonemis decided to inherit his father’s collection. He bought back some of the collections his father had assigned to his family members, and he himself was on his father’s collection system and kept following History of art history systematically collect works of art.