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The Yannick & Ben Jakober Foundation
Yannick y Ben Jakober
Yannick and her husband Ben Jakober are British artists living in
Malta and Mallorca.
Marie-Claire Yannick Vu coming from a family of painters, sculptors,
pianists, and further back surgeons and merchants, a Vietnamese
father and a French mother and her first marriage to the Italian
artist Domenico Gnoli (Rome 1933 – New Yorck 1970) gave her
a fertile background to develop her own style.
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Yannick y Ben Jakober
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Benedikt B. P. Jakober on the other
hand stems from a bourgeois family of Hungarian origin who collected
impressionist art. He was born in Vienna and brought up in England,
then worked many years in Paris in matters unrelated to art but was
always surrounded by artists among them Gnoli. Encouraged by Yannick
Vu he finally made the decision when he was nearly 45 years old to
leave everything and become an artist.
After pursuing their careers independently they started to work and
sign together when invited to participate in the 1993 Venice Biennale
by Achille Bonito Oliva.
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The Yannick & Ben
Jakober Foundation created in 1993 is a private cultural foundation.
Its objective is principally the conservation and restoration of Spanish
Heritage and also the promotion of the arts in general and painting
and sculpture in particular, through the exhibition of the pictures
and works in its collection, and the exchange of cultural and artistic
ideas and material.
The Foundation owns an important collection of Old Master and contemporary
art, especially centred on portraits of children dating from the XVI
– XIX centuries and contemporary photographs of royal children.
A good part of these Old master portraits are exhibited in the Foundation’s
building outside Alcudia/ Mallorca.
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