Amsterdam's art collection might hardly have existed without inheritance tax
English · translation
The art collection of Amsterdam is very large and important. This collection consists of many paintings and sculptures. Two men, Carel Joseph Fodor and Adriaan van der Hoop, have been very important for this collection.
They used to live in Amsterdam. They were wealthy collectors. When they died, they gave their artworks to the city of Amsterdam.
This is how the city's art collection began. Because of inheritance tax, the city had to pay something to the government to receive the art. But without these men and their gifts, Amsterdam might now have much less art.