Leonard Lauder

Leonard A. Lauder ( born July 3, 1933, the United States ) is a former businessman who was in charge of the company Estée Lauder Companies until 1999. He is patron of the arts and a billionaire.

Life

Leonard Lauder is the son of Joseph and Estée Lauder and the older brother of Ronald Lauder. In 1959 he married Evelyn Hausner. The marriage had two sons, now both work in the company Lauda family. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and graduated after the Graduate School of Business at New York's Columbia University from. In 1958 he joined the company of his parents and left this in 1999 as Chief Executive Officer ( CEO).

A life with art

At the age of six years, Lauder began with the collection of works of art and indeed with postcards in the style of Art Deco. Throughout his life, he built up a large collection of images of cubism. This collection, a total of 78 works by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris and he left in April 2013 at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art there is to be an exhibition of works donated in the fall of 2014.

Since 1971, Lauder is the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan, New York City, as a consultant and supporter, which he donated the amount of U.S. $ 131 million a few years ago. He also financed some of the exhibitions of the museum. Auststellungsräume on the fifth floor of the museum bear the name of Mr. and Mrs. Lauder.

Leonard Lauder's younger brother Ronald Lauder shows since 2001 in his museum with the German name Neue Galerie in Manhattan next exhibitions his own art collection.

Exhibition

• 2010: Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte, Neue Galerie, New York City.