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

ail NE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1979 arcommentfcd 12c Iv Air Ptlco ht,a million man ~ho's "Just looking" The Buron said: "I am Just looking in Australia al the moment. I will bring sonic of my lop executives here next year and they will follow up what I sec.·• The Buron said he was a Swiss citizen. •Statements that he had previously been a German were incorrect. . "I was u Hungarian and my title was Hungarian," he said. "As I now am a Swiss citizen ii docs not apply. I like 10 joke about my name nnd often say that the Borncmiszn part means I was born a miser. "But most people ighorc that part of my name, and many call me Baron because it's easy. My friends call me Hcini." His son, 29, also Heini, also is quick with a quip. Where did he live'! "In a jct plane." What wus his posilion in his father's company'/ - "Any position." · Like his father, he also 1s interested in art. His sister Francesca, 21, said she had just finished b three-year an course in BriLai~. These three, and Andrew Crispo and Byron Caran of the Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, were also welcomed tn South Blackwater by Brisbane's Dr. · Norman Behan, a vicc•president of the Queensland Art Gallery. Mr. Crispo and Mr. Caran orgajjiscd the exhibition of the baron's paintings for Austrnlla. Dr. Behan said: "This $20 millio11 c.,hibition which is coming to Brisbane will span I 00 years of United States :ind European art . It is one of the vcrr great an happenings to come to Australia. "Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Picasso, Gauguin and Dall, just to name a few, will be represented." By DAVID BUSCH A11stralla should drlll for oll on the Barrier Reef and exploit Its raw materials to their maximum potential, multl-mllllonalre Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemlsza said today. The baron, 58, one of the world', leading indu1trloll1t1 ~nd art collector1, wa1 • peaking at a Queensland Art Gallery function, The gnllcry early next Australians Just aren't sheep In New South year will exhibit 106 active enough." Wales, paintings worth $23 mll• He said the high cost ' •Merinos are nice lion from his primte col• ' of petrol Justified large shce11:· he said. "'They lccLlon. spending on exploration win all the prizes." The shy, sortty • spo• for new oil fields. and oil The baron has one ken baron, who built up drilling on the Barrier quarter of his collection his $500 million industrl• Reef. or paintings of the Inst al empire almost from ''It will make you less 100 years on show In scratch has been looking dependent on the Arabs Perth at the start of a at tn1•cstment opportu• and blackmatl policies."' ye a r•l on g Australian nlties In Queensland. he said. tour. He said he wns not In• "Of course, you need to The paintings, from tcrestcd In mining and take the necessary pre- his own collection started w11S more likely t.o Invest cautions but small oil 15 years ago, will be ex- In manulacturlng or high spills can be controlled. hlbltcd here from Febru• technology Industries. ••If there was a SJ>ill ary 12 to March 30 next "Austrnlla Is booming, only the fish would feel year. culturntly and industrial· It no Australians He also owns his fa• Jy - the two go togeth· would feel tl." ther"s col!P.ctlon of old er,'' he said. The baron's only Aus• masters which, with the ;,There ls a tot or po· t r n. I I a n Investment Is rest of his collection, ls tcntlal to develop tn• 1iart-owncrshlp of a me- on view at his villa In dustrles but the problem rlno stud farm of 30,000 Switzerland. Is the populaLlon Is too small." When told Austrnlln h ad z e r o JlOl>Ulatlon growth he snld, "You • Baron Han• Heinrich ThyHon - Bornemlua e11amlnH a Rupert Bunny palntln'I at tl, e Queen•lan Art Gallery today.