By Thomas Adam
In 19th-century Leipzig, Toronto, manhattan, and Boston, a newly emergent staff of industrialists and marketers entered into pageant with older validated elite teams for social reputation in addition to cultural and political management. the contest was once performed out at the box of philanthropy, with the North American group collecting rules from Europe in regards to the institution of cultural and public associations. for instance, to safe financing for his or her new museum, the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of artwork equipped its club and fundraising at the version of German paintings museums. the method of cultural borrowing and intercultural move formed city landscapes with the development of latest libraries, museums, and social housing tasks. an immense contribution to the quite new box of transnational heritage, this booklet establishes philanthropy as a chief instance of the conversion of monetary assets into social and cultural capital.
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Leipzig Art Museum. Photograph by Hermann Walter, ca. 1890. Courtesy of the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig. support from wealthy citizens. At the initial meeting in November 1869, a provisional committee of fifty prominent New York citizens was formed. Among its members were William H. Aspinwell, William T. 38 Within this committee a subcommittee of thirteen men under Putnam’s leadership was appointed to prepare a constitution. In May 1870, this association was incorporated and its constitution was published.
1895. Courtesy of the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig. niscent of Leipzig’s art association, which differed from other art associations in the social/occupational profile of its membership. While the Dresden art association had a large number of artists among its members, the Leipzig art association was nearly exclusively an organization of wealthy citizens who were interested in the promotion and funding of art. Less than 7 percent of the members of Leipzig’s art association had been artists.
98 It was the Boston Public Library’s policy on book circulation and not the financing scheme that made this institution the starting point of the public library movement in the United States. As the example of the Astor Library shows, early American libraries were mostly reference libraries with restricted access for members of the lower classes. 99 The library was thus seen as an institution for the betterment of the lower classes and their integration into society. 101 During his stay, Nörrenberg collected material on the public library movement.