Dr. Ax Foundation

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Dr. Ax Foundation
Legal form: Foundation under private law
Purpose: Promotion of victim and elderly aid, hospitals, animal welfare, art and culture
Chair: Wolfgang Onderka, Theo Kade, Harald Weber
Consist: since 1997
Founder: Hans Günther Ax
Seat: Bonn , Adenauerallee 133
Website: axe-stiftung.de

The Dr. Ax Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Bonn , which was founded in 1997 by the Bonn insurance broker Hans Günther Ax (1920–2008).

Foundation purposes

Its task is to support victims of violent crimes , to promote elderly care , art and culture, and animal welfare . The Dr. Ax Foundation grants financial aid to hospitals for the purchase of new instruments or equipment or medical facilities and equipment. It also promotes science , for example by granting grants for the acquisition of items that serve research or teaching at German universities, as well as by awarding doctoral scholarships and the organization and financing of colloquia for the purposes pursued by the foundation. Their promotion of art and culture relates on the one hand to the maintenance of an art cabinet on the Hasenberghof, a reconstructed three-sided courtyard in Kronenburg in the Eifel , which is also intended for the rearing of domestic animal breeds threatened with extinction and as a sanctuary for animals. In particular, there are pictures on display that the founder himself had collected. In addition, the foundation acquires paintings from the Düsseldorf School of Painting and publishes them in scientifically developed exhibition catalogs.

literature

  • Ekkehard Mai : View of the collection: Düsseldorf painting school in the Dr. Ax Foundation . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-919-1 .
  • Ekkehard Mai: Man and Sea: Düsseldorf School of Painting in the Dr. Ax Foundation . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-73190-075-7 .

Web links

Commons : Dr. Ax Foundation  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Bernd Kehren: Picture gallery and sanctuary for animals . Article from October 27, 2011 in the portal volksfreund.de ( Trierischer Volksfreund ), accessed on June 26, 2019