François Pinault

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François Pinault (born August 21, 1936 in Les Champs-Géraux , Côtes-d'Armor ) is a French entrepreneur and art collector . In 2007, the art magazine ArtReview named him first on the list of the hundred most influential figures in contemporary art .

Life

His Kering group of companies, originally founded in 1962 as Etablissements Pinault (under this name since 2013: before that, Pinault-Printemps-Redoute from 1994 ; shortened to PPR in 2005), which has its roots in the wood and furniture trade and since 2005 by François Pinault's son François-Henri has been active in the luxury goods and fashion trade since the 1990s. Since the late 1990s, this group has included the fashion brands Gucci , Yves Saint Laurent and Bottega Veneta and, since 2007, the sporting goods manufacturer Puma . Former subsidiaries were the Printemps department store chain until 2006, the Conforama furniture group until 2011, the Redcats group with the La Redoute department stores until 2013 and the Fnac bookstore and electronics store chain until 2013 .

In 1992, Pinault founded the holding company Artémis , to which as of 2014 40.9% of the shares (55.52% of the voting rights) in Kering also 100% the auction house Christie's (since 1998), 94.19% the Château Latour winery in Pauillac near Bordeaux (since 1993), 100% Le Point magazine (since 1997) and other publications, the US insurer Northern Capital Life & Health and the British insurer Tawa PLC (since 2002), 100% the football club Stade Rennes , 100% of the Parisian theater Théâtre Marigny (since 2000) and 80% of Palazzo Grassi in Venice (since 2006) and other investments. From 1992 to 2002 Artémis also held a stake in Samsonite . Artémis was directed from 2003 to 2005 by François-Henri Pinault, succeeding his father; since then Patricia Barbizet has acted as CEO . The Artémis Group's consolidated sales in the 2010 financial year amounted to around 15.584 billion euros.

Pinault competes with the head of the other French luxury goods group LVMH , Bernard Arnault . Arnault has opened a large museum in Paris with the Fondation Louis Vuitton ; Pinault would like (as of October 2016) to open his house at the end of 2018. One speaks of a new art mile between the Louvre , Pinault Collection and Center Pompidou .

After the Notre-Dame fire in Paris in 2019 , Pinault and his son, François-Henri, announced that the family holding company would provide 100 million euros to rebuild the cathedral.

Art collector

Palazzo Grassi on Venice's Grand Canal

Pinault also has one of the largest collections of modern and contemporary art with works by Andy Warhol , Mark Rothko , Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, among others . Pinault finally abandoned the plan to build a museum for this collection on the former Renault factory site in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris due to extremely lengthy negotiations and high requirements on the part of the French authorities. Pinault had the Palazzo Grassi , acquired in 2006, converted into a museum by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando . The opening took place on April 30, 2006. Further works from Pinault's collection have been on display since June 6, 2009 in the Punta della Dogana , the former seat of the Venetian customs authorities. He asked Ando to do the planning. Parts of his collection can be seen in Germany for the first time in 2016/17.

capital

Francois Pinault is a multi-billionaire. According to the Forbes 2015 list , his net worth was approximately $ 14.9 billion. Francois Pinault ranks 65th on Forbes' list of the richest people in the world.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ArtReview : The ArtReview Power 100 ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-review.com
  2. ^ Bunter Hund am Canal Grande , spiegel.de, April 24, 2006
  3. ↑ Groupe Artemis> Organization ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , groupeartemis.com, Retrieved April 27, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.groupeartemis.com
  4. ↑ Groupe Artemis> Key Figures ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , groupeartemis.com, Retrieved April 27, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.groupeartemis.com
  5. ↑ a b A billionaire shows his art treasure. In: Rheinische Post October 11, 2016, p. B5 ( online )
  6. ↑ Marcel Romahn: After the fire disaster in Paris: Luxury entrepreneur promises 100 million euros for Notre-Dame. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
  7. ^ Entry in Forbes list
personal data
SURNAME Pinault, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French entrepreneur and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Champs-Géraux , Côtes-d'Armor