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Who We Are
Michael Mendelsohn is Founder and President of Briddge Art Strategies Ltd., the premier art succession planning firm in the country. He is an art collector, philanthropist, lecturer, and writer on inheritance planning and preservation of assets. Michael's innovative inheritance planning strategies for art and antiques assets have been featured in Trusts and Estates, Registered Rep, Wealth Management Business, Art & Antiques, and Antiques & Fine Art magazines. Michael has been quoted in articles in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, BusinessWeek, The NY Post, Forbes, and Worth magazines. He is the author of Life is Short, Art is Long - Maximizing Estate Planning Strategies for Collectors of Art, Antiques, and Collectibles 2nd Edition (Acanthus Publishing, 2008). He is a frequent continuing education presenter on lifetime and postmortem planning strategies with a background in accounting, taxation, and philanthropic studies.
As philanthropists, Michael and his wife Gael have gifted select 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. Michael is a highly regarded speaker on the artistic, tax-planning, and philanthropic needs of collectors and has given presentations at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art, Bank of America, U.S. Trust, Museum Trustee Association, Estate Planning Council of Philadelphia, New York State Society of CPAs, the AAA-CPA, and various family office symposiums.
Michael formed Briddge Art Strategies Ltd. to create innovative family philanthropic opportunities, help fellow collectors become aware of their ability to keep collections intact, and advocate with collectors and their advisors to develop more tax efficient art distributions to heirs and art-related institutions. The successful application of this strategy to their own private collection is a key reason why Michael and Gael were recognized by Art & Antiques as among America's Top 100 Collectors. Their collection is chronicled in The Intuitive Eye, a book prepared in conjunction with the 2000 New York exhibition Masterpieces from the Mendelsohn Collection.
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