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Michael Mendelsohn formed The Briddge Group to create specialized family philanthropic opportunities to help fellow collectors become aware of their ability to keep collections intact, and become an advocate to collectors and their advisors to develop more tax efficient art distributions to heirs and art-related institutions. He is an art collector, philanthropist, lecturer and author on inheritance planning and preservation of assets.
Mr. Mendelsohn's innovative inheritance planning strategies for art and antique assets have been featured in Trusts and Estates, Art of the Times, Art & Antiques, Fine Art & Antiques, and Wealth Management Business magazines. He has been quoted in articles in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Business Week, The NY Post, Forbes and Worth.
He is the author of “Life is Short, Art is Long – Maximizing Estate Planning Strategies for Collectors of Art, Antiques and Collectibles” (2nd Edition), which recently received the prestigious Axiom Business Book Award for personal finance. He is also a frequent continuing education presenter on lifetime and postmortem planning strategies, with a background in accounting, taxation and philanthropic studies.
As philanthropists, Mr. Mendelsohn and his wife, Gael, have gifted key pieces to the Museum of American Folk Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Milwaukee Museum, the Smithsonian Institution and the High Museum of Art. Their collection is chronicled in “The Intuitive Eye,” a book prepared in conjunction with the 2000 New York exhibition “Masterpieces from the Mendelsohn Collection." The successful application of Mr. Mendelsohn's strategies to his own private collection is a key reason why Michael and Gael were recognized by Art & Antiques as one of America's Top 100 Collectors.
Michael Mendelsohn, Briddge Group
http://www.briddgeartstrategies.com/contact.html
michael@briddgegroup.com
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