01.06.2008

Graphical work of Sergey Belov "The Ark" was purchased for the collection of Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell. Since 1978 Count is the eighth generation in his family to lead the Faber-Castell company. The history of Faber-Castell company stared in 1761. At the beginning there was the pencil. In Stein near Nuremberg, the cabinet-maker Kaspar Faber commences production of his first pencils, the "Bleyweißsteffte".

Contemporary art collecting is among the hobbies of Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell. Count is the honorary senator of the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg.