The last four years spent with Bruno Stefanini in his apartment in the historic centre of Winterthur. Including, at the headquarters of his real estate company Terresta, has managed his real estate Empire, consisting of several Thousand apartments. However, Stefanini is likely to have nothing more noticed. Similarly, little of the mud battles and court decisions, which revolved around his Foundation for art, culture and history (SKKG).
Stefanini, the self-made millionaire, the geek and manic collector of art and art-like, it was demented and bedridden.
The last public appearance dated from the 6. March 2014. At that time, the Kunstmuseum Bern as the collection of Stefanini, with an exhibition of 140 works by Swiss artists, among them, Hodler and Giacometti. Stefanini accepted the applause in a wheelchair.
Whether it is the late fame was, don’t know you. The son of a from Italy immigrant craftsman had a nose for worthwhile real estate deals, but the houses he devoted to the purchase of so little attention, such as the own Voice. Dressed casually, in his old buildings Spartan alive, he was stamped to the guy. In business matters he trusted only himself, and later his assistant and Familiar Dora Bösiger. Work meant to him to be seven days a week on a business trip, the need for a vacation was foreign to him.
Guisan, Sisi, Kennedy
no less uncompromising, Stefanini showed up at his second passion: the Collecting of art and historical objects. He stepped in and foreign auctions and bought hundreds of paintings by Swiss artists. In 1980, he founded the Foundation for art, culture and history (SKKG), and bequeathed to her his sprawling collection. In addition to the valuable paintings, a huge crossbow-collection, Goethe’s diaries, and John F. Kennedy’s Desk, the death-bed of Napoleon, the coat of General Guisan and the Empress Sisi’s riding costume. Four locks were in the course of time. The most famous is the castle of Grandson. “He wasn’t interested in buying experience, the hunting. There was no creative or artistic approach” – quoted by the historian Miguel Garcia, a curator in his 2016 published Stefanini-biography. Stefanini filled the basement of his locks, and the roof-poles of his houses with his collection. Adequate care but there were not often.
in 2007, intervened in the Swiss Federal Foundation supervision. From your dedicated expert had reported about maladministration. There is no inventory lists, air-conditioning and anti-theft devices. Some collective goods have been damaged already. Stefanini dedicated an art historian, which started together with his son Vital with inventory.
In March, received his the rights of the child, the old guard of the Foundation had to go.
The houses and art collectors of the threads he had pulled up to then, alone, slipping away gradually. His Familiar Dora Bösiger, who had received power in the Board of Trustees sat, and of him in 2007, a General power of attorney, made in 2013 with the husband of her God-daughter a new President by the name of Umit root headed the Foundation. Master was a completely blank slate. Together with Markus Brunner, the by Stefanini used-in-chief of the property management Terresta and also a Board member, tried to Bösiger and strain to change in January 2014, the deed of Foundation.
Henceforth, the Board of Trustees and not Stefaninis should meet to determine the composition of the Supervisory Board. The family should be boot – allegedly with the blessing of the father. Bettina and Vital, the two children of Bruno Stefanini, would have been excluded after the death of the father from access to the paternal wealth, because the properties owned should pass into the possession of the Foundation.
Federal court handle a
It has been a long legal dispute followed. It was also a question of whether Bruno Stefanini at the outbreak of the conflict health had been still capable of action. The power struggle is one of the most important art foundations in Switzerland forced the Foundation’s supervision in Bern for re-Intervention. By the end of 2014, a Bernese lawyer, has been tasked with the leadership of the Stefanini Foundation.
last March, the Federal court ruled in favour of the children of Bruno Stefanini. The Federal Supervisory Board ended the mandate of the lawyers. Since then, Bettina Stefanini is Chairman of the Board of Trustees, the old guard had to go.
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Created: 14.12.2018, 19:49 Uhr
