Gérard Corboud

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Gérard Jacques Corboud (born May 18, 1925 in Friborg ; † March 5, 2017 there ) was a Swiss collector, art patron and philanthropist .

Life

Born in Friborg, Switzerland, the entrepreneur Gérard Corboud lived for a long time with his wife Marisol (* in Cologne as Marliese Eiserfey) in the cathedral city on the Rhine. The later founder began his commitment to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne at an early stage, which at that time housed a comprehensive collection of medieval art and paintings from the Renaissance to the early 20th century, as well as the Ludwig collection.

Since the mid-1980s, with the help of the museum director at the time, Rainer Budde, a collection of French Impressionist , Late Impressionist and Pointillist paintings has been created which, according to the hosting museum, is “unparalleled in the world”. It is one of the largest collections of this era outside of France and has found a permanent home in Cologne. In 2012, the collector threatened to withdraw his perpetual loan because the expansion of the museum had not yet taken place. Construction is scheduled to start in 2022.

Corboud belonged to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud eV and was a founding member of the Kuratorium und Förderergesellschaft Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und Museum Ludwig eV .

collection

As part of the Museum Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud , the couple presented more than 170 paintings to the City of Cologne in March 2001 as a "permanent loan" to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum. These include works by Vincent van Gogh , Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir as well as often misunderstood companions of the better-known painters (including Armand Guillaumin and Maximilien Luce ). In thanks to Gérard and Marisol Corboud, the internationally renowned Wallraf-Richartz-Museum has since had the addition of the Fondation Corboud in its name.

  • Gustave Courbet:
    Chillon Castle

  • Edouard Manet:
    fishing boat on the beach at Berck

  • Berthe Morisot:
    Child between hollyhocks

  • Alfred Sisley:
    Surroundings of Louveciennes

  • Armand Guillaumin:
    Landscape from Louveciennes

  • Paul Gauguin:
    The Seine at the Pont de Grenelle

  • Claude Emile Schuffenecker:
    Notre Dame de Paris

  • Paul Signac:
    Samois, Study No. 8

Awards and honors

  • Holder of the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

The city of Cologne honored him in December 2006 with an entry in the Golden Book of the city of Cologne.

On August 24, 2012, Corboud received the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for "his great services to the culture of the state".

In December 2012 he was awarded the Jabach Medal by the City of Cologne for his "extraordinary service to the Cologne museums".

literature

  • Ingrid Mössinger: Couleur et lumière. French painting from 1870 to 1918 . Verlag Keller, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-938025-05-0 (catalog for the exhibition of the same name by the Chemnitz Art Collections , December 5, 2004 to February 27, 2005).
  • Rainer Budde, Barbara Schaefer (eds.): Miracle de la couleur . Edition Locher, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-930054-45-0 (catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, September 8 to December 9, 2001).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Inge Schürmann: Art patron Gérard J. Corboud died. Office for Press and Public Relations of the City of Cologne, March 6, 2017, archived from the original on March 7, 2017 ; accessed on March 6, 2017 .
  2. ^ The Museum: History. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, accessed on March 22, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Schedule: This is how the expansion of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne works. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, November 21, 2019, accessed on November 27, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Award of the State Order of Merit on August 24, 2012. State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, August 24, 2012, archived from the original on August 12, 2016 ; accessed on March 8, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Stefan Palm: City of Cologne awards Jabach medal to Corboud and von Rautenstrauch. Office for Press and Public Relations of the City of Cologne, December 10, 2012, archived from the original on December 12, 2012 ; accessed on March 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Corboud, Gérard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corboud, Gérard J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss collector, patron and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Friborg
DATE OF DEATH 5th March 2017
Place of death Switzerland