Benjamin Altman

Benjamin Altman
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	New York, 12 ga Yuli, 1840
ƙasa	Tarayyar Amurka
Mutuwa	New York, 7 Oktoba 1913
Makwanci	Salem Fields Cemetery (en)
Karatu
Harsuna	Turanci
Sana'a
Sana'a	Entrepreneur da art collector (en)
Wurin aiki	New York
Muhimman ayyuka	B. Altman and Company (en)
Imani
Addini	Yahudanci

Benjamin Altman (12 ga Yuli, 1840 - 7 ga Oktoba, 1913) wani mai shagon sayar da kayayyaki ne na birnin New York kuma mai tattara kayan fasaha wanda aka fi sani a yau saboda tarin kayan fasahansa, wanda ya bayar da gudummawa ga Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Metropolitan .

Rayuwa da aiki

An haifi Benjamin Altman a ranar 12 ga Yuli, 1840, ɗan Yahudawan Bavaria waɗanda suka yi ƙaura zuwa Amurka a 1835 suka buɗe ƙaramin shago a Titin Attorney a birnin New York. Bayan ya yi aiki a shagon kayan busassun na mahaifinsa, Altman ya tafi shi kaɗai. A 1865, Altman ya kafa B. Altman and Company, wani shagon kayan busassun nama da ke kan titin Third Avenue da titin 10 a birnin New York. Tsawon shekaru, shagon ya girma cikin wadata kuma ya faɗaɗa zuwa wasu wurare da dama. A 1877, wani babban shago ya buɗe a Titin Sixth; an yi masa lakabi da "Fadar Kasuwanci" saboda kyawawan gine-ginensa, shagon Altman yana ɗaya daga cikin na farko da ya nuna tufafi na shekaru daban-daban a yankuna daban-daban. A 1906, an buɗe ginin B. Altman da Kamfanin a Fifth Avenue.

Altman ya yi amfani da dukiyarsa wajen daukar nauyin wasu shirye-shirye a garinsu na asali. Jim kaɗan kafin rasuwarsa a ranar 7 ga Oktoba, 1913, ya kafa Gidauniyar Altman, wata ƙungiyar agaji don tallafawa cibiyoyin ilimi a birnin New York.

Tarin zane-zane da hotuna

Benjamin Altman kwararren mai tattara zane-zanen Rembrandt ne da faranti na Gabas, wanda ya samu da yawa daga cikinsu ta hanyar abokinsa, dillalin zane-zane Henry J. Duveen . Max Friedlander ya shawarce shi sau da yawa a cikin siyan zanensa. Bayan mutuwarsa, ya ba da gudummawar tarin ga Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Metropolitan . Tarin zane-zanen kawai ya shahara saboda haɗa Vermeer na farko na gidan tarihi da Rembrandts 20, kodayake kaɗan daga cikinsu an sadaukar da su kuma an sake ba su suna. Tarin ya kuma ƙunshi manyan hotunan 'yan kasuwa na Flemish da Jamus daga Renaissance.

Zane-zane a cikin gadon Benjamin Altman, 1913

image	title	painter	date	accession number	The Met url
	Man with a Steel Gorget	Style of Rembrandt	1648	14.40.601	MET
	Yonker Ramp and his sweetheart	Frans Hals	1623	14.40.602	MET
	Old Woman in an Armchair	Jacob Adriaensz Backer	1640	14.40.603	MET
	The Fingernail Test	Frans Hals Judith Leyster	1626	14.40.604	MET
	Shrovetide Revellers	Frans Hals	1616	14.40.605	MET
	Saint Justina of Padua	Bartolomeo Montagna		14.40.606	MET
	Self-Portrait	Gerrit Dou	1665	14.40.607	MET
	Rembrandt's Son Titus	Style of Rembrandt	1680s	14.40.608	MET
	Old Woman Cutting Her Nails	Style of Rembrandt	1650s	14.40.609	MET
	Pilate Washing His Hands	Style of Rembrandt	1660s	14.40.610	MET
	A Girl Asleep	Johannes Vermeer	1657	14.40.611	MET
	Young Woman Peeling Apples	Nicolaes Maes	1655	14.40.612	MET
	Interior with a Young Couple	Pieter de Hooch	1662	14.40.613	MET
	Entrance to a Village	Meindert Hobbema	1690s	14.40.614	MET
	Portrait of a Woman, Called the Marchesa Durazzo	Anthony van Dyck		14.40.615	MET
	Young Herdsmen with Cows	Aelbert Cuyp		14.40.616	MET
	A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier	Gerard ter Borch		14.40.617	MET
	Self portrait	Rembrandt	1660	14.40.618	MET
	Lucas van Uffel (died 1637)	Anthony van Dyck	1624s	14.40.619	MET
	Portrait of a man with gloves in hand	Rembrandt	1648	14.40.620	MET
	Man with a Magnifying Glass	Rembrandt	1660s	14.40.621	MET
	Woman with a Pink Carnation	Rembrandt	1660s	14.40.622	MET
	Wheat Fields	Jacob van Ruisdael	1670	14.40.623	MET
	Portrait of a Man ("The Auctioneer")	Follower of Rembrandt	1658	14.40.624	MET
	Portrait of a Woman	Rembrandt	1633	14.40.625	MET
	Portrait of Maria Portinari	Hans Memling	1470	14.40.626–27	MET
	The Crucifixion	Fra Angelico		14.40.628	MET
	Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace	after Willem Drost; bequeathed as a Rembrandt in 1913	1654	14.40.629	MET
	Ulrich Fugger (1490–1525)	Hans Maler zu Schwaz	1525	14.40.630	MET
	The Supper at Emmaus	Diego Velázquez		14.40.631	MET
	Virgin and Child with Angels	Bernard van Orley		14.40.632	MET
	Virgin and Child with Saint Anne	Albrecht Dürer	1519	14.40.633	MET
	Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine	Hans Memling	1479	14.40.634	MET
	Madonna and Child with Angels	Workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio	1500s	14.40.635	MET
	Christ Taking Leave of His Mother	Gerard David		14.40.636	MET
	Lady Lee (Margaret Wyatt, born about 1509)	Workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger	1540s	14.40.637	MET
	Federigo Gonzaga (1500–1540)	Francesco Francia	1510	14.40.638	MET
	Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain	Diego Velázquez		14.40.639	MET
	Portrait of a Man	Titian	1512	14.40.640	MET
	Madonna and Child with Saint Joseph and an Angel	Raffaellino del Garbo		14.40.641	MET
	The Last Communion of Saint Jerome	Sandro Botticelli	1495	14.40.642	MET
	The Holy Family with Saint Mary Magdalen	Andrea Mantegna	1495	14.40.643	MET
	Portrait of a Man	Dieric Bouts	1470	14.40.644	MET
	Portrait of a Young Man	Antonello da Messina		14.40.645	MET
	Lady Rich (Elizabeth Jenks, died 1558)	Workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger	1540	14.40.646	MET
	Madonna and Child	Workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio	1470	14.40.647	MET
	Portrait of an old man	Hans Memling	1475	14.40.648	MET
	Portrait of a Young Man	Cosimo Tura		14.40.649	MET
	Portrait of Cardinal Filippo Archinto	Titian		14.40.650	MET
	Bathsheba at her Toilette	Rembrandt	1643	14.40.651	MET
	Changing Pasture	Anton Mauve		14.40.810	MET
	The Ferryman	Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot	1865s	14.40.811	MET
	Twilight	Anton Mauve		14.40.812	MET
	A Pond in Picardy	Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot		14.40.813	MET
	A Path among the Rocks	Théodore Rousseau		14.40.814	MET
	The Banks of the Oise	Charles-François Daubigny	1863	14.40.815	MET
	The Return to the Fold	Anton Mauve		14.40.816	MET
	A Lane through the Trees	Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot		14.40.817	MET
	A River Landscape with Storks	Charles-François Daubigny	1864	14.40.818	MET
	The Edge of the Woods	Narcisse Virgilio Díaz	1872	14.40.819	MET

Akwai hoton Altman a cikin Gidan Tarihi na Jihar New York da ke Albany; ɗan ƙasar Switzerland mai zane-zane Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947) ne ya zana shi, kuma abokin kasuwancin Altman Michael Friedsam ya ba shi kyautar ga Ƙungiyar Kasuwanci ta New York. Müller-Ury ya san Altman da kansa a matsayin abokin cinikin dillalin fasaha Henry Duveen . An tilasta masa yin zane daga hoto bayan mutuwar Altman. Ya fara kammala hoton Altman mai girman inci 50 x 40 (inci) wanda ke zaune a cikin gallery ɗinsa tare da Rembrandt a bayansa da kuma gilashin fure na China a kan tebur kusa da shi, amma Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Metropolitan, wanda aka zana masa wannan, ya zaɓi wani hoton Altman na Ellen Emmet Rand wanda aka yi shi da hoto, kuma babban aikin Müller-Ury ya tafi ofisoshin Gidauniyar; tun daga lokacin ya ɓace.