It All Began with a Klee Drawing

Dr h.c. Angela Rosengart, born in Lucerne in 1932, joins her father¿s gallery in 1948 as an `apprentice¿, which is simultaneously her start as a collector with her first acquisition of a work, Little X by Paul Klee. In 1949, a first encounter with Picasso in Paris, numerous contacts with Chagall, Matisse, Braque, Miró, and Marino Marini, among others. In 1957, becomes a partner in the Galerie Rosengart. In 1978, she and her father donate works by Picasso to the City of Lucerne; they are awarded the `Ehrennadel¿ (badge of honour) of the City of Lucerne in 1981. In 1985, death of her father Siegfried Rosengart. In 1992, the establishment of the Rosengart Foundation; in 2000, acquisition of the erstwhile branch building of the Swiss National Bank in Lucerne for the Rosengart Foundation; in 2002, opening of the Museum Rosengart Collection. Is awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Zurich in 2003. Lives in Lucerne.