Word: rotterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...richest hoards of Western art still in private hands is the collection amassed by Dutch Businessman (coal) Daniel George van Beuningen. In the years of avid collecting before his death three years ago. the man all Rotterdam knew as "D.G." gathered together so many works that he was forced to hang Rembrandt drawings inside cupboard doors. Other artists in the collection included Rubens, Dürer. Michelangelo, Van Ruysdael. Goya. Titian, Van Gogh and Rodin; among the best works were Jan van Eyck's The Three Marias, Bruegel's Tower of Babel. Experts put the value at more...
Last week the destination of D.G.'s collection, long the most tempting prize for art dealers the world over, was settled. For a mere $4,737,000, Rotterdam's municipal government bought the whole collection from the Van Beuningen heirs, will house it in the city's Boymans Museum, where old D.G., who called it. "my museum," kept his largest canvases. In return for the bargain price, the Van Beuningen heirs set a few conditions: the collection must not be resold, it must be on permanent view, it must be clearly labeled as coming from...
...Chicago will be linked to Calcutta, Duluth to Antwerp, Toronto to Brisbane. Detroit's Chrysler Corp. will be able to ship a Plymouth sedan to Oslo for $45 less than the cost of the rail-ocean haul through New York. Wheat will move from Fort William, Ont. to Rotterdam at a saving...
...from Steerage. In the spring of 1897, Bernard, then 7½, landed with his mother from the old Rotterdam's steer age to take up residence in the tenement slums of East Boston. Bright little Bernie skipped every other grade at Lyman Grammar School, put in a year at Mechanic Arts High School before a brother's death made him pick up a bread winner's load in his close, protective Jewish family. To get his first job at the age of 14, he started one morning in the center of Boston's business district...
...Americans spent four days in Belgrade having interviews with government officials before catching a boat home again from Rotterdam...