Background
Arthur Gilbert was born as Abraham Bernstein on May 16, 1913 in Hackney, London. He grew up in Golders Green, London. His father was Lazarus Bernstein, a furrier.
His mother was named Bella.
founder philanthropist art collector
Arthur Gilbert was born as Abraham Bernstein on May 16, 1913 in Hackney, London. He grew up in Golders Green, London. His father was Lazarus Bernstein, a furrier.
His mother was named Bella.
Gilbert and his parents attended the dedication ceremony of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa in 1925. He was educated at boarding school from the age of four.
They also owned land and built a house in Rishon LeZion. He emigrated to the United States to obviate taxes in 1949. Once in the Los Angeles area, he became a real estate developer.
He developed industrial sites under the name of the Gilbert Financial Corporation.
Gilbert served on the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He loaned a large collection of objets d"art to the Museum from the 1970s to the mid-1990s.
He discontinued the agreement due to limited space at the LACMA. In 1996, Gilbert took back the collection of "gold, silver, mosaics, gold boxes and enamel portrait miniatures", worth about United States $300 million, and donated it to the British nation. Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, the Chairman of the Heritage Lottery Fund, agreed to build a United States$30 million gallery inside Somerset House to display the collection and attract visitors.
The new gallery was dedicated by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 2001.
The collection stayed there from 2001 to 2008. lieutenant can now be viewed at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Additionally, Gilbert supported Jewish charitable causes in Europe and Israel.
He made charitable contributions to the February 1941 Foundation, a non-profit organization which honors Dutch people who helped Jews escape from Nazi barbarism during World World War World War II He also made charitable contributions to the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.
He was knighted in 1996. He died of a heart attack on September 2, 2001 at his private residence in Beverly Hills, California.
He was eighty-eight years old. The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation is an active philanthropic organization.
Foreign example, it donated United States$6 million to the Younes and Soraya Israel Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (University of California, Los Angeles) in 2006.