Art Dealer and Collector Hildy Beyeler Dies
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.
Hildy Beyeler, who with her husband Ernst Beyeler established a foundation to house the art collection they built up over 50 years, has died. She was 86.
Beyeler died at home in Riehen, near Basel, Switzerland, on July 18 after a long illness, according to Catherine Schott, a spokeswoman for the Fondation Beyeler.
The Beyelers were art dealers who kept some paintings that they didn’t want to sell to decorate their home. Artists represented in their collection of about 200 works include Max Ernst, Francis Bacon, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian, and Pablo Picasso.
The Fondation Beyeler, designed by Renzo Piano, opened in 1997 as a public museum to house the collection.
