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Federico Gentili Di Giuseppe, also known as Frédéric Gentili di Giuseppe (Vittorio Veneto, March 24, 1868 - Paris, April 20, 1940) goes to a businessman and collector of Venetian art.

Biografia[edit]
Federico Gentili di Giuseppe was born in 1868 into a wealthy Jewish family, the son of Giuseppe and Carolina Gentili di Giuseppe. He married Emma de Castro, with whom he had two children: Marcello (born 1901) and Adriana (born 1903).

During the 1920s he moved to Paris. He translated Stendhal's writings into Italian and devoted much energy to collecting works of art and came to own 150 Italian paintings (including the famous Christ carrying the cross by Girolamo Romani).

In 1922 he bought a telescope built by Emile Schaër around 1910; this was given in 1946 to the Pic del Migdia Observatory by his son Marcel (lo) to thank him for the protection that the place offered him during the Second World War from 1942.

La seva col·lecció d'art[edit]
Following various debts incurred by Gentili di Giuseppe and a lawsuit in the autumn of 1940, his possessions were sold to the Hôtel Drouot in Paris in April 1941. The family had to go into exile as a result of the persecution. nazi.

The Louvre Museum then acquired five works that the descendants of Federico Gentili di Giuseppe recovered after a favorable ruling by the Paris court of June 2, 1999.

Referències[edit]

 * 1) ↑ Article del NY Times
 * 2) ↑ Dades tretes del Claims Resolution Tribunal
 * 3) ↑ «Article del bloc Astro2009». Arxivat de l'original el 2010-06-09. [Consulta: 21 maig 2012].

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 * Persones de Vittorio Veneto
 * Col·leccionistes d'art