When Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl and his brothers were growing up, their parents often took them to art galleries and museums to teach them about art. On one trip, when the brothers were aged around 10 to 12 years old, their parents told them they could each pick whatever piece they wanted for their bedrooms.
“So my older brother picked a great watercolor from Audubon,” Haukohl recalls. “I picked three heads by Otto Dix and my little brother picked an Old Master painting.” And so the young boys became part of their family’s tradition of collecting original works by major artists, a tradition that began with Haukohl’s great-grandfather, who came to the U.S. from Germany in 1836, and has now been upheld for six generations
