Henri van Abbe
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Henri Jacob van Abbe (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɛnri ˈjaːkɔp fɑn ˈɑbə];[a] 8 January 1880 – 18 November 1940) was a Dutch tobacco industrialist and art collector. He is the founder of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
Henri Jacob van Abbe was born on 8 January 1880 in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.
Van Abbe was a cigar manufacturer in Eindhoven. In 1900, he founded a cigar factory in Amsterdam, which later expanded. A committed art collector, he founded the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven in 1936 and made a major donation to it.[1][2]
In the 1930s, he regularly travelled to Belgium with Tinus van Bakel, a colleague in the tobacco trade and an art collector, to acquire works of art. In 1936, one of the places they visited was the artists' colony of Sint-Martens-Latem.[3]
Van Abbe died on 18 November 1940 in Eindhoven.
