Asher Edelman
| Asher B. Edelman | |
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Asher Edelman, 1993, by Erling Mandelmann.
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| Born |
November 26, 1939 New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Bard College |
| Occupation | Investor, art collector |
| Spouse(s) | four |
Asher Barry Edelman (born November 26, 1939) is an American financier.
The son of a New York real estate investor, Edelman graduated from Bard College. In 1961, he worked for Sanford I. Weill at Carter Berlind Potoma & Weill where he focused on purchasing and turning around distressed companies. He founded Mack, Bushnell & Edelman in 1969, and served as CEO. Edelman’s Wall Street businesses included investment banking, money management, and derivatives trading. In 1988, he taught a course called "Corporate Raiding – The Art of War" at Columbia Business School, using as his textbook Sun Tzu's The Art of War. The character of Gordon Gekko in Wall Street was based in part on Edelman.
In 1988, he moved to Switzerland and founded a contemporary art museum in Pully, near Lausanne. The FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain launched the first European retrospective exhibitions of Robert Mapplethorpe, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, and Peter Halley. It also was the first venue for “Post Human” an exhibition co-curated by Chantal Prod’hom of the FAE and Jeffrey Deitch.
In 2002, he created the company Edelman Arts Inc, a dealer in Impressionism through Post War art, which also represents contemporary artists including Doug Argue, Yasmine Chatila, Cathy McClure and Christopher Winter.
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