Gérard J. Corboud (18 May 1925 – 5 March 2017) was a Swiss entrepreneur, art collector and philanthropist.
From the late-1970s onwards, Corboud and his wife Marisol acquired works by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, and later the Neo-Impressionists. In 2001, they made a "permanent loan" of their collection of over 170 works to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, Germany, which was renamed the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud.[1]
Their collection includes works by Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh,[1] and is the largest Impressionist collection in Germany.[2]
Corboud died on 5 March 2017.[3]
References edit
- ^ a b "Fondation Corboud: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum". Wallraf.museum. 5 March 2017. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
- ^ "Masters of Impressionism | Classical Modern Art | Hatje Cantz". Hatjecantz.de. 14 January 1945. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
- ^ Martin Oehlen (20 January 2017). "Kunstsammler: Gérard Corboud mit 91 Jahren gestorben | Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger". Ksta.de (in German). Retrieved 14 March 2017.