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Artur Walther (born October 9, 1948) is a German-American art collector focused on exhibiting and publishing contemporary photography and video art. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Walther was a General Partner at Goldman Sachs until his retirement in 1994. He began collecting photography in the late 1990s and later established The Walther Collection, which is open to the public at its museum campus in Neu-Ulm, Germany and its Project Space in New York City. == Life and career == Artur Walther was born in 1948 in Ulm, Germany. He graduated from the University of Regensburg in 1975 and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.studio5555.de/2010/10/29/the-walther-collection-von-artur-walther/ )〕 Working in the field of international investment banking, Walther established one of the first groups focused on interest and currency swaps on Wall Street and was a co-founder and co-chairman of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. He became co-head of Goldman Sachs’ worldwide capital markets group in 1983 and was the founding partner of Goldman Sachs’ operations in Germany. Following his retirement in 1994, Walther pursued his interests in architecture, design, and photography. Walther studied at the International Center of Photography and took classes with artists such as Bruce Davidson, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, and Stephen Shore and became acquainted with Bernd and Hilla Becher. Fascinated by the practices of typology, taxonomy, and seriality, he began to collect photography in depth. The works of ''Neue Sachlichkeit'' (New Objectivity) photographers such as August Sander and Karl Blossfeldt, and the industrial photographs of the Bechers, formed the nucleus of his collection. Walther joined the Architecture and Design Committee for the Museum of Modern Art, the Photography Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Photography Committees of Bard and Vassar Colleges, and he became a Board Member of the Storefront for Art and Architecture and the International Center of Photography. As chair of the exhibitions committee at the International Center of Photography, Walther spearheaded the establishment of its Triennial of Photography and Video in 2003. Walther has participated in the Art Basel (Art Salon ) series, contributed to ''Art Basel'' Magazine and to ''Mutations: Perspectives on Photography'', and organized exhibitions at Paris Photo and Les Rencontres d’Arles, where his nominees for the 2011 Discovery Award, Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse, won the grand prize. In December 2011, Walther was named one of ''Art+Auction'' magazine’s “Power 100.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/752474/artauctions-power-100-francois-pinault-dasha-zhukova-larry-gagosian-and-more )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Artur Walther」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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