In addition to Gu Kaizhi's paintings, this art museum also collects Guo Xi's "Autumn Thunderbolt of Streams and Mountains" in the Song Dynasty, and famous painters such as Qian Xuan, Zhao Mengfu, and Wu Zhen in the Yuan Dynasty. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Therefore, if you want to talk about the quality of the famous paintings in this art museum, it is really not comparable to those other art museums in the United States.

Not to mention the number of bronzes in this art museum, which alone is staggering, accounting for more than one-fifth of all museums in the United States in the collection of Chinese bronzes, and the quality is just as staggering.

The reason why there is such a high-quality collection is, of course, because of Charles. Friel's shamelessness, this guy had been to East Asia once in 1895 to look for antiquities dealers who could help him smuggle antiques from China.

Later, after he retired, he came to China, Japan, Korea and other places three times, specifically to find a suitable agent to help him steal Chinese antiques.

This guy has found many people, including Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans, but at the beginning he cooperated with the Japanese, because Japan had a great influence in Chinese mainland, and he had a close relationship with the upper echelons of Japan.

During the Russo-Japanese War, he was a staunch supporter of the Japanese, and later the United States sold steel to Japan, many of which were the tracks of the demolished secondary railroad, and this grandson did a lot of help to the Japanese.

And the reason why he did this was partly because he liked Japanese art, and partly because the Japanese respected him a lot.

However, because the Japanese themselves were also frantically plundering from China, they often embezzled some good things, which caused him to be dissatisfied, so he turned around and began to look for other agents, and later found the Chinese antique thief Lu Qinzhai, and later he also trained an American businessman, Fordanson, to help him collect good things in China.

Later, after he donated most of his private collection to the Smithsonian Institution and built the Fourell Art Museum, he also made corresponding regulations and requirements for this art museum.

The first requirement is that not all the works of art in this art museum are donated to the state, and some of them are inherited by his descendants, and the U.S. government, in the case of such a big bargain, also turns a blind eye to this condition, after all, they have obtained hundreds of millions of dollars worth of antique donations for no reason, although people have left a part, these are of course excusable.

Another requirement is that he later donated a sum of money, and then the requirement for this art museum is that he can only enter but not leave, and the treasures in his Forrell Art Museum are absolutely not allowed to be borrowed, and they are also not allowed to be auctioned.

Because the nature of this museum is a public-private partnership, most of the exhibits he donated to the state, and a small part of them were left by him to his descendants, so the state's shares in this museum account for the majority, so in order to maintain the environment of the museum, the state will have a state grant every year to maintain and maintain the normal operation of the museum.

This is different from other private museums, where most of the exhibits belong to some big families and business predators, who have collected these good things, on the one hand, in the hope that these exhibits can preserve their value, appreciate their value, and spread the risk of their wealth.

On the other hand, it is necessary to ensure the normal operation of the museum, after all, the people who want to be supported in the museum cannot but pay salaries, so in order to ensure the normal operation of these private museums, they will often borrow some exhibits, or exchange exhibits with other museums, and use them to earn tickets for exhibitions.

And often after a year or two, they will hold a special auction, knocking out a batch of exhibits and replacing them with new ones, so as to attract tourists to pay for tickets to come in and watch.

But there is no need to worry about such a problem at the Forrell Art Museum, because the art museum is the majority of the country, so every year the government will allocate funds to maintain the museum's exhibits, and there is no need to worry about the operation.

Therefore, after Furrell donated to build this art museum, he set such a rule, that is, the exhibits in this art museum are only in and out, and they will never be auctioned, and they will never be loaned, which has become the most distinctive thing about this art museum.

Later, after Friel's death, the rules of this art museum were also carried forward by the museum's management.

The American antiques dealer he trained, Fordenson, also poured a lot of good things into the museum, and even after Forrell's death, he maintained his long-term cooperation with the museum.

Especially in the thirties of the twentieth century, his cooperation with this museum reached its peak, when it happened to be the most powerful time of Japan's invasion of China, and this Fordanson used various means to forcibly seize and seize in China, and specially bought and sold them from the rich people who fled or fled the war, and got a lot of good things.

The aforementioned bronze of the Zi Cha Lang Bird Zun was later donated to this art museum, and the reason why he donated this Zi Cha Lane Bird Zun to the art museum was also because he had no foundation, and he got such a treasure, of course, he also knew that the husband was not guilty, and he was guilty, plus there was Charles in front. A life coach like Forrell is a role model for him, so of course he knows what to do.

In order to let his descendants live unharmed, he finally donated a lot of looted Chinese antiques to the Fore Art Museum.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the theft and smuggling of cultural relics from China was even more hasty, and the hosts of the museum at that time were Bob and Ike, who even went shirtless to loot antiques from China.

Through the relationship of the US government, the two of them went in and out of the Chinese mainland many times as military officers, and made contact with many high-level people in KMT at that time.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the two of them went in and out of China many times, and Nanjing, Wuhan, and Chongqing did not know how many times they had been there.

And the purpose of each visit was very simple, that is, to collect Chinese antiques from the hands of those Chinese dignitaries and dignitaries at that time, these two guys smuggled antiques out at that time, it was simply to the point of madness, the most exaggerated one, even through the US military, got several planes, those antiques they collected from China, transported to the United States.

It is precisely because of such a frenzied search that the Forerill Art Museum not only did not decline in the competition of the growth of other American art museums, but became stronger and stronger.

Of course, the support of the national background is also a major reason why this museum is getting stronger and stronger.

Now this museum with a national background, needless to mention its influence in the United States, is still very scary, and it seems that the descendants of this Forrell are not as straw as their predecessors in previous generations, especially this Chris. Forrell actually got mixed up with the title of senior advisor of the National Museum.

This shows that the current Furrier family still has a certain degree of control over this museum, although this art museum is surnamed Guozi, but in fact, secretly, the Frill family still has considerable influence on this art museum.

"I wonder what your plans are for visiting our small shop this time, Mr. Forrell?"

Now that he knows the details of this guy, Jin Muchen doesn't plan to continue to go around in circles with him, anyway, he doesn't look down on this Friel family, especially his ancestor Charles. Furiel.

As the saying goes, my honey, his poison, this Charles. Forerell is now being publicized by the American media, and has become an American hero, a business tycoon of the time, a brilliant figure, and a typical representative of the American dream.

Back then, he was just a slum worker, and in the end he became a business tycoon with his bare hands, and he was not the kind of black-hearted capitalist who only knew how to make money in his pocket.

People are still a philanthropist who knows how to give back to the society, you see, after they become famous, they will retreat bravely, and then start to collect with one mind.

In the end, not only did he collect so many good things, but he also donated all those good things to the country and gave back to the society.

Isn't this simply the benchmark of the American moral model? If this is put aside until now, such a philanthropic business tycoon, despite his terminal illness, still insists on collecting, and finally donates all the collection to the country free of charge, such a person can definitely win the title of a hero who moved the United States.

If Americans hold the Spring Festival Gala, this guy's experience will definitely deceive the American people into hundreds of liters of tears.

It's a pity that this hero in the hearts of Americans, in Jin Muchen's opinion, is a garbage with corrupt moral character, he has bayberry sores, and he definitely deserves it, which is the retribution for those immoral things he did during his lifetime.

Let's just say that he started from scratch, that's true, but didn't he use black means to defeat many competitors and become a tycoon in the industry?

And after that, this kid frequently went in and out of China for his hobby, and finally contacted several antique dealers to pour antiques for him to the United States, is this especially because he has an internationalist spirit?

, isn't it to satisfy his own selfishness?

God finally opened his eyes and let him die early, otherwise, if this guy can live a long life, maybe he will do what kind of disaster China will become? (To be continued.) )