Hermann Alexander Beyeler

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Hermann Alexander Beyeler (born November 14, 1952 in Lucerne ; resident in Schwarzenburg BE ) is a Swiss entrepreneur , patron of culture , writer and honorary consul of Belarus .

Live and act

Beyeler grew up in Lucerne, where he also went to school. After completing his apprenticeship as a car painter , he founded his own bodywork workshop in Lucerne in 1974, which he sold in 1984 for health reasons. After training at a business school and the Lucerne School of Business and Information Technology, he became head of department in the financial administration of the Canton of Lucerne in 1990 .

From 1992 he invested in real estate , first with Rhyn Consulting in Hergiswil NW , and from 1994 onwards he realized various new buildings in the cantons of Lucerne, Ticino and north-west Switzerland. In 2001 he took over a large industrial site in Pratteln , which he built with commercial and residential properties and partly sold on - 135 apartments to two foundations and the 82-meter-high Ceres Tower to Credit Suisse .

In 2015, Beyeler took over the adjacent former Wasa area in Pratteln, which is to be developed with a mixed use of (retirement) apartments, a hotel, trade and shops.

Cultural engagement

Beyeler is also involved as an art collector , gallery owner and patron . In 2007 he founded the Foundation Art and Culture Center Littau , which he relocated to Pratteln in 2015 and which was then renamed the Foundation Art and Culture Region Basel . In 2012 he opened a gallery for visual arts combined with music events in Pratteln on an area of ​​1100 m 2 . In addition to buying and selling works of art, Beyeler maintains its own picture collection, the “Beyeler Collection”.

Beyeler maintains close cultural ties with the Vatican, for which he financially supports various cultural projects.

Publications

As a co-author with Gerd J. Schneeweiss, Beyeler published the first part of an art-historical thriller series planned as a trilogy in 2014 under the title “ Bozzetto ”, followed in 2018 by the second volume “GARS”. In between, in 2016, “Little Ben, an unbelievable police car”, a children's book, was published.

Honors / memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Reporter" The Tsar from Reussbühl - A fairy tale from other worlds - TV. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Rico Bandle: At the salad buffet with the Pope. Weltwoche.ch., June 6, 2018, accessed on September 28, 2019 .
  3. ^ Pratteln: New district for 2,500 residents. In: REAL ESTATE Business. June 6, 2019, accessed September 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Kath.ch: Professional Exhibition Swiss Guard, Portrait Hermann Alexander Beyeler. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b Basler Zeitung, Tamedia Espace AG: Hermann Alexander Beyeler's vision for Pratteln . ISSN  1420-3006 ( bazonline.ch [accessed September 28, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Art patron Beyeler moves the foundation to Basel. February 11, 2016, accessed September 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Members | European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Beyeler, Hermann Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur, patron of culture, writer and honorary consul of Belarus
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne