Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 8 : Pressclippings, 1977-1981

Telephone 52 6011 BRISBANE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1979 Meet the Baron... a $500 million man wh· SOUTH BLACKWATER. 811ron U1ms Heinrich Thysse11- Bornemisz11 - the S!:!tl million nrnn - jelled into Central Queensl1111d yesterday with n_ews for in~estors, art lovers and gossips. Between clambering through an underground coal mine in Welling• ton boots and striding around an open-cul export mine in his own brown suede slip-o ns, he made these points: • He will bring a g1oup of his top From JACK LUNN 5200,000 ·a year excc111ivcs Ill Austral ia ncxl year tu look al invesling in half a doicn industric:\. • The QuccnslanJ Arl Gallery will · show an exhibition of $20 million wonh of his pai111ings from February 12 as parl nf what is rcgnrdcd as one of Aus1 ralia·s ~real "an. happenings", • The four-times m:micd Baron is not a "playboy", his family's ncl worth is "about $500 million", and he has :1 W[ST .t.USTR.ALIAN WK>NN>rA'f OCTOllf1' ) ,. lf7f $300, 00O_gift from tlie ba,·on to WA B, JILL CROMMELIN Biron n. R . 'nly~n-8utnrml<ri7.1 )'1~lrrday ran a l308.000 palntlnir lo the new WA Arl t.1ll<"r)'-mly • bout 13 nllnul'"" arttt tht t'rrmler, Sir L"harlMi t.:ourt. had dttlarl"d lht' 11Ut>ry ortldaJIJ Ope11i11g l~ull~·ht Kltrhnl'r In 1"'1 hla t111h"t an,t Sit 1~11. Ch11rl11 and IAdy l -,~f..'~;· ~1,r;r~~:?: ~·:;;:~u:~ 0 , 1 it°~::!- 1 :!,J (l/An•;;•r\;'" ,! 1 tl,~~"',!,.,;.; I•.~;;:.~:~:;,;,.., ur~ I ,.'t~ P l!,.!••I' ' •lllltl lotw In r11,., fr) lhl' Th~'llV"n r.ll I tl:.'.J... ~~l~~::1•;~.~1~'.i1"t:.~!\~~ ~!:; 'lllf'rr "a~ • ri11111#. 111 rtu, rh1,tr1• i,f a 1,1c1ure. r ,.:1•11,•nwn1 lr"m 1hfo i:_.~ 1 ;"·~·.llf~:lll~hf' "ri:~ r~~ .. 1 : 11 ~ •- II 11 ,'ii:1~~: -~,'.:i ~:~~: •~~~,.~~1!i'n~; : :~~:c~h~~ : ~~~~r':f. w1111ld ~hr ,,,,,. 111 t'1r ,11111 !hi' h11r11n. llr MHI \08 t1"n111,i~• lrnt for ho "'''ul!1 m!.. it J,ut th~ ll~••rlll\-.i t•.\h1t•1llun, 11,r ~aml', Thi' baron had ju11 ")h r:i.itwr ho•u11n hll ....II ,,........nr"1 Wllh 11n n,nd,•m N ll....'tlOn • ·llh ,•1o•h1ni,: of !h(' flr,I r.,. r m In •"lll'l"t.'NIOn• ,•ha re m ..1,. or Cork 1,u;." 1-;rnl J1~1n1 burn S-,und~ 11 a:Ut t,f appr;,•1 ,1wn tr•mt lh• 81ata \~\umm-•nt lfp m aft.• .- •lit'f't"h of 1t11111kJI 111,1 ulth'd 1h11 hi• " ould l!'I\ I' 11110• ,,f ttHt pt,·1un.. to lht Pf"tJllle ,1r WA. \Vhrfl I itlk•"'1 lhP N , r,,n \Ool\hh I ••·•ur,• h•• h1ul .-11,1" '"• h•• 111,lll '-''l1h a t:l'm !hat hr ,...,.uld 1t•1w thfl ,-fl,.kf' up .,, hl,; ,.,,n 11,ilnrnh, Wht1 !• kr,,,wn al ll••Lnl Ant! 1i1t·h•I •hd the pro– J•~1 1 r t· h 11.- r- t, Mr C'1111rl1'S :O-l••rnkn14,kl 1hm• 100\Jt lhP rN~P– tltln ,,f hll J:lilf'ry d,p. l ll{n?' Thr _'!J , 1•111 ..111 llt>inl ---- Boron ~• H n,.v,,e,1 B.-rn~m h ta , ,anck l>lt\ n.lt' the l')(llntmg Wun"On tn o Hen'' wh tw g~,. I.' ~ n~ Art G,on._,,...., of WA \C'IU•rdJ Tno pointing, "" ,eh t\ voh.,.d Cl S1 0 000, IS f,nm lht: ,nian ('lllllt! \tO'llllr 1C x1I 01"1\I ""'°' p,o1n lcd hv e',n1't Lu,,!"''1 ,C1,,.,.,,tlr In 10 ) J An 1i-.er ,cn..r-r t-v ,c,rc.t1r1N-"The Plcdr)e ' i.Jo,,... ,n IQ -•I P'11nred n the t.-ock of !he flt\l p,cturc e i,,,. oh, P_1'.c.-___ _ __, privulc collection of l000 pa intings by 111:i~tcrs. The Baron arriwd in a chartered Lear jc1 wi1h the sun of hi, lirs1 "ife, 1hc daughter nf his 1hird wife and dircclors of a New Y,irk arl gallery. Mc was 111c1 by Sir Leslie Thicss, chairman of Thie,, Iloldings. Sir Leslie had been asked 10 acl as hosl 10 lhe Baron who controls shipbuilding, s1cvedoring. gas distribution, machiucrv distribution and container manufacturi'ng industries in a dozen nations. The llaron s,1id: " I am jus1 lookin~ in Ausiralia :11 the mumcnl. I will bring ,ornc or my 1op cxecu1ivcs here next year and they will follow up what Isec." The Baron said he was a Swiss ci1izcn. S1a1c111ents that he hud previously been a German were incorrccl. "I was a Hungarian and my 1i1le was Hungarian," he said. "i\s I now am a Swiss citizen it docs nol apply. I like 10 juke about my m1111c and oflcn say 1hat the Borncmisza pan means I was born a miser. "But mosl people ignore that part of my name. und because it's ea,, Hcini." His son, 29, al with it ~uip. Wlu· plane.'' What w father's compu ll\ Like his father, art. His sister I· had just finishc in Bri1ain. These three, a Byron Caran r Gallery, New Yur