Gérard Corboud

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Gérard J. Corboud (18 May 1925 – 5 March 2017) was a Swiss entrepreneur, art collector and philanthropist. From the late 1970s, he and his wife Marisol bought Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and later Neo-Impressionist works. In 2001 they permanently loaned more than 170 pieces to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, Germany, which became the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud. The collection includes works by Renoir, Monet, Sisley, Cézanne, Gauguin and van Gogh and is the largest Impressionist collection in Germany. Corboud died on 5 March 2017.