Gérard Corboud, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swiss art collector and philanthropist (1925-2017)
Date of Birth: 18-May-1925
Place of Birth: Fribourg, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
Date of Death: 05-Mar-2017
Profession: art collector, philanthropist
Nationality: Switzerland
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Gérard Corboud
- 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.Their collection includes works by Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, and is the largest Impressionist collection in Germany.Corboud died on 5 March 2017.
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