Erich Marx, Noted German Collector Whose Holdings Form the Cornerstone of Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof, Is Dead at 99

Erich Marx, a well-known art collector and patron whose decision in the 1990s to donate the bulk of his esteemed collection of contemporary art to the German state transformed the public display of contemporary art in the country, died on Wednesday, September 9, at age 99. The news was announced by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which runs Berlin’s art museums, and was first reported by the Art Newspaper.
Marx, who was named on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list each year betw