Which famous people have you outlived?

Helene Kröller-Müller

German art collector

Died when: 70 years 306 days (850 months)
Star Sign: Aquarius

 

Helene Kröller-Müller

Helene Kröller-Müller (11 February 1869 – 14 December 1939) was a German art collector.She was one of the first European women to put together a major art collection.

She is credited with being one of the first collectors to recognise the genius of Vincent van Gogh.She donated her entire collection to the Dutch people, along with her and her husband, Anton Kröller's, large forested country estate.

Today it is the Kröller-Müller Museum and sculpture garden and Hoge Veluwe National Park, the largest national park in the Netherlands.


Related People

Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wagener
German art collector
Sigismund Streit
German art collector
Frederick Layton
Art collector
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License