Frieder Burda

[2] A major art collector, Burda bought his first work, a slashed red painting by Lucio Fontana, at Kassel's Documenta 4 in 1968.

[3] In building his collection, he took advice from art-historian friends, including Werner Spies, Götz Adriani and Jean-Louis Prat.

[4] In 2004, he opened Museum Frieder Burda [de] in Baden-Baden, in a €20 million building designed by architect Richard Meier.

[6] The focus is on German painting, from artists ranging from Max Beckmann, Eugen Schönebeck [de], Georg Baselitz to Corinne Wasmuht.

[8] Only a sampling of the permanent collection can be displayed at one time (many works continue to be lent to special exhibitions and other museums).