John Ringling

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John Nicholas Ringling (portrait, 1900)

John Ringling (born May 31, 1866 in McGregor (Iowa) , † December 2, 1936 ) was an American entrepreneur and art collector. Together with four brothers, he founded the Ringling Brothers Circus in 1884 , from which the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus emerged in 1919 .

Life

Ringling was born as the fifth of eight children of German-born farmer August Ringling (originally Rüngeling) and Marie Salomé Juliar. In 1870 four of his brothers founded the first circus, which was called Ringling Brothers Circus from 1884 . John Ringling got into the circus business. In 1907 Ringling married Mable Burton. In the same year the brothers bought the Barnum & Bailey circus, but initially continued to run both circuses separately. In 1919 the circuses merged to form Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey and from then on referred to themselves as "the greatest show on earth". The new circus made its debut on March 29, 1919 in Madison Square Garden , New York City .

As early as 1909, John and Mable Ringling set up a private winter residence in Sarasota , Florida. There they had a palace designed by Dwight James Baum in the Venetian Gothic style, the Cà d'Zan , which was completed in 1926. Ringling bought numerous properties, oil fields and railways and became one of the richest men in the world. From 1928 the couple built up an extensive art collection with the support of the Munich art dealer Julius Wilhelm Böhler . It became the base of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota.

literature

  • Carole Marsh: The Ringling Brothers: A Circus Family . Gallopade Publishing Group, Peachtree City 2002, ISBN 9780635004178 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ringling.org: History of the Ringling. Retrieved August 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Reconstructing fates. In: Bayerische Staatszeitung. April 30, 2020 ( online , accessed August 4, 2020)
  3. ↑ Tilla Durieux : My first ninety years. Herbig, Munich 1971, p. 320f. Böhler is encoded there as "LB".
personal data
SURNAME Ringling, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH McGregor, Iowa
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1936