Wilhelm Heyer

collector of old instruments collector

Biography

Wilhelm Heyer of Cologne purchased Paul de Wit's second collection of antique instruments, numbering nearly 1,200 pieces, and erected a special building in Cologne to house it. Dolge calls the resulting Heyer collection the most complete of its kind in existence, ranking it above notable holdings at the South Kensington Museum in London, the Germanische Museum at Nuremberg, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Wilhelm Heyer of Cologne is named by Dolge as the owner of one of several notable collections of old instruments in which specimens of the old Italian and Flemish school, some decorated with paintings by master artists, can be found. No further detail about him is given in this passage.

Highlights

Owned a notable collection of old instruments in Cologne, including specimens of the old Italian and Flemish school
Purchased Paul de Wit's second instrument collection (nearly 1,200 pieces) and built a special building in Cologne to house it
Dolge calls his resulting collection the most complete in existence

Source

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911), p. 429.

Public domain.

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