The Bayer Collection – Part II

ONLINE CATALOGUE
(can be seen from 28 May 2025)

28 May – 12 June 2025
The sale closes from 5pm.

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 | Max Balkenhol | Joachim Bandau | Ernst Barlach | Willi Baumeister | Thomas Baumgärtel | Thomas Bayrle | Bernd und Hilla Becher | Max Beckmann | Hubert Berke | André Beullens | Joseph Beuys | Max Bill | Albert Bitran | Ross Bleckner | Georges Braque | Jürgen Brodwolf | Lynn Chadwick | Marc Chagall | Eduardo Chillida | Christo | Jean Cocteau | Roberto Cordone | Corneille  | Jim Dine | Otto Eglau | Joseph Fassbender | Lyonel Feininger | Sam Francis | Werner Franzen | Rupprecht Geiger | Werner Gilles | Karl Otto Götz | HAP Grieshaber | Peter Großbach | Otto Herbert Hajek | Janusz Haka | Hans Hal | Hans Hartung | Erich Hauser | Rudolf Hausner | Robert Häusser | Werner Haypeter | Erich Heckel | Bernhard Heiliger | Karl Hofer | Candida Höfer | Willy Robert Huth | Wilhelm Imkamp | Hans Jaenisch | Peter Janssen | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | Oskar Kokoschka | Ludwig Peter Kowalski | Henri Laurens | Fernand Léger | Carl Walter Liner | Richard Paul Lohse | Adolf Luther | Anna Mahler | Gerhard Marcks | Ewald Mataré | Georges Mathieu | Georg Meistermann | Joan Miró | Margarete Moll | Oskar Moll | Ernst Mollenhauer | Ernst Wilhelm Nay | Martin Noel | Nam June Paik | Antonius Pas | Victor Pasmore | Wlodzimierz Pawlak | Georg Karl Pfahler | Pablo Picasso | 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 | Antoni Tàpies | Fred Thieler | Peter Tomschiczek | Heinz Trökes | Cy Twombly | Willi Ulfig | Jacques Villon | Hannsjörg Voth | Corinne Wasmuht | Neil Welliver | Fritz Winter | Michele Zalopany | Bernd Zimmer

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