Christian Ringnes
| Christian Ringnes | |
|---|---|
 Christian Ringnes (2014) | |
| Born |
March 3, 1954 Oslo |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Occupation | Businessman, investor |
Christian Ringnes (born 3 March 1954) is well known as a flamboyant businessman and art collector from Norway whose family started the country’s largest brewery more than a hundred years ago. In his hometown of Oslo, Ringnes owns restaurants, hotels and museums, and recently donated more than $70 million for the creation of a large sculpture and cultural park, which opened in 2013. Over decades he has built one of the largest private collections of art in the world.[1]
At the age of seven, Ringnes developed a hobby after he received an unusual gift from his father: a half-empty Gordon Gin miniature liquor bottle. It was this afterthought of a gift that led him on a path towards amassing what is recognized today as the largest mini-bottle collection in the world with over 52,000 miniature liquor bottles commissioned to a three-story museum in Oslo.[2]
References
- ↑ "Sculpture in a Norwegian Wood". New York Times (in English).
- ↑ Stavrum, Gunnar. "Christian Ringnes". Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 13 July 2012.