!!!Essl, Karlheinz senior

b. Hermagor (Carinthia), April 16, 1939, industrialist, father of 
Karlheinz  Essl Jr. and Martin  Essl. Enlarged the Schoemer 
construction company in Klosterneuburg and established  bauMax AG (DIY 
centres) with locations throughout Austria as well as in Central and 
Eastern Europe. 1985 commissioned H.  Tesar to construct a new 
administrative building in Klosterneuburg, where E.'s large collection 
(largest private collection of contemporary art, over 4,000 works, 
which he put together with the help of his wife Agnes E., nee 
Schoemer) of Austrian postwar paintings was housed until 1999. In 1999 
a new museum building, also designed by H. Tesar, was opened for the 
collection at Klosterneuburg. In the same year, E. handed over the 
management of bauMax AG to his son Martin E. and himself took over the 
presidency of the supervisory board.

!Literature
Sammlung bauMax, catalogue 1990; W. Schmied (ed.), Malerei 
in Oesterreich 1945-1995. Die Sammlung Essl, 1995; G. Boesch (ed.), 
Sammlung Essl - The First View, 1999.


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