Barbara piasecka biography
Barbara piasecka biography
Barbara piasecka johnson.
Barbara Piasecka Johnson
Humanitarian, Art Connoisseur and Collector, Business Investor...
...and a woman of courage.
The motive common to all the seemingly diverse interests of Mrs.
Barbara Piasecka Johnson is the desire to give of her fortune and of herself to others. Just as an artist embraces spectators with his or her creation, true philanthropy extends oneself to those in greater need, and successful business dealings encompass and benefit many.
Mrs. Johnson, a historian of art, and her late husband, Mr. J. Seward Johnson, Sr., one of the founders of Johnson & Johnson, gathered an extraordinary art collection renowned worldwide, comprising among others, 19th Century and Old Master paintings and 18th Century French Furniture.
During its development, only individual pieces were put on public display. The first ever presentation of a significant portion of the Collection, under the name Opus Sacrum, was staged in Poland, Mrs. Johnson's native land, to coincide with its r