Abstract

Fritz Felbermayer Blecha, an Austrian man who lived in Chile, was a great philanthropist and benefactor of the Rapanui people. In his travels to Easter Island, he collected more than two thousand objects of the Rapanui culture, which are currently in the collection of the Fonck Museum in Viña del Mar, Chile. His memory and his work are preserved through the exhibition of these objects in the museum and through the support he provided for young people from the island who came to the continent to study, becoming professionals.