The Bayer Collection – Part II

ONLINE CATALOGUE
(can be seen from 28 May 2025)

28 May – 9 June 2025
The first lot expires at 6 pm.

This summer, the majority of the artworks from the collection of Bayer AG in Leverkusen will be offered for sale at Van Ham in Cologne. The Evening Sale will kick off at the beginning of June with the 95 highlights of the collection. The other works of art from the Bayer Collection will be offered via our ONLINE ONLY. With the Bayer Collection, Van Ham has once again been awarded the contract for an important corporate collection and confirms its position as the leading German house for large private and corporate collections. 

In recent years, the way in which and where people work together in companies has changed significantly. This has also had an impact on how art is displayed in the workplace. Bayer is therefore parting with classical and representative works from its extensive art collection from various Group sites. The company’s modern office landscapes will continue to offer space for young art. To this end, the works of artists sponsored by Bayer in recent years will remain in the company. The company’s historical collection will also remain in the possession of the traditional Leverkusen-based group. 

The Bayer Collection focuses on German Expressionism, works of classical modernism and post-war art as well as works from the École de Paris, German Art Informel and American Abstract Expressionism. Various German positions from the 1970s, abstraction and new figuration from the 1980s and 1990s as well as young contemporary art complete the wide-ranging spectrum. 

Discover 200 interesting items from a first-class collection and bid for your favourite work!
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In the price range from € 50 – 10,000
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Josef Albers | Otmar Alt | Giovanni Anselmo | Karel Appel | Shusaku Arakawa | Fernandez Arman | Stephan Balkenhol | Joachim Bandau | Ernst Barlach | Georg Baselitz | Willi Baumeister | Thomas Baumgärtel | Thomas Bayrle | Bernd und Hilla Becher | Max Beckmann | Hubert Berke | Andre Beullens | Joseph Beuys | Josef Beuys / Michael Buthe | Albert Bitran | Ross Bleckner | Georges Braque | Jürgen Brodwolf | Marc Chagall | Eduardo Chillida | Jean Cocteau | Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret) | Roberto Cordone | Guillaume Corneille | Salvador Dalí | Jim Dine | Otto Dix | Otto Eglau | Joseph Fassbender | Lyonel Feininger | Ralph Fleck | Sam Francis | Werner Franzen | Rupprecht Geiger | Karl Otto Götz | Gotthard Graubner | HAP Grieshaber | Peter Großbach | Otto Herbert Hajek | Hans Hal (Leistikow) | Philipp Harth | Hans Hartung | Erich Hauser | Rudolf Hausner | Robert Häusser | Werner Haypeter | Erich Heckel | Bernhard Heiliger | Hannah Höch | Candida Höfer | Karl Hofer | Willhelm Robert Huth | Wilhelm Imkamp | Hans Jaenisch | Peter Janssen (der Jüngere) | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | Oskar Kokoschka | Ludwig Peter Kowalski | Henri Laurens | Roland Lefranc | Fernand Léger | Carl Liner | Adolf Luther | Anna Mahler | Gerhard Marcks | Ewald Mataré | Georges Mathieu | Georg Meistermann | Joan Miró | Marg Moll | Oskar Moll | Ernst Mollenhauer | Henry Moore | Ernst Wilhelm Nay | Martin Noël | Nam June Paik | Antonius van der Pas | Victor Pasmore | Wlodzimierz Pawlak | Pablo Picasso | Pablo Picasso (nach) | Otto Piene | Robert Rauschenberg | Christian Rohlfs | Ludwig E. Ronig | Peter Royen | Sam Samore | Tomas Schmit | Werner Scholz | Bernard Schultze | Emil Schumacher | Claude Schurr | Maria Helena Vieira da Silva | Renée Sintenis | Pierre Soulages | Klaus Stamm | Frank Stella | Fred Thieler | Antoni Tàpies | Peter Tomschiczek | Heinz Trökes | Cy Twombly | Willi Ulfig | Victor Vasarely | Jacques Villon | Hannsjörg Voth | Corinne Wasmuht | Fritz Winter | Michele Zalopany

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