Von der Heydt Museum

The Von der Heydt Museum stands in Wuppertal, Germany, and its holdings run from the seventeenth century to the present day, with particular strength in painting from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The building is the former town hall of Elberfeld, which became a municipal museum in 1902. In 1961 the institution took the name of the Von der Heydt family, whose members were its major patrons: the banker August von der Heydt and, above all, his son Eduard von der Heydt (1882–1964). Among the paintings listed on the website, Vincent van Gogh is the most represented, with Still Life with Beer Mug and Fruit, Head of an Old Peasant Woman with White Cap and Potato Planting. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner appears twice, through Portrait of Gerda and Women on the Street. Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet and Camille Pissarro are also present, the last with Peasant woman looking after a cow, Osny and Apple Trees at Éragny, Autumn. The selection also includes works by Paul Cézanne, Franz Marc, Umberto Boccioni, Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Signac. Among the museum's notable works is Carl Spitzweg's The Geologist, dated 1855–1860, alongside pieces by Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin and Otto Dix. In 2023 the museum restituted Max Liebermann's Portrait of Felix Benjamin to its rightful owner, having acquired it in 2002.