PETER LUDWIG, PATRON OF ARTS.(News)(Obituary)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: July 23, 1996 | Copyright information

Byline: Associated Press

Peter Ludwig, who used his German chocolate factory fortune to become one of the world's foremost art collectors, died Monday. He was 71.

Ludwig died from a ruptured colon, his company Ludwig Schokolade said in Aachen, where he had been hospitalized for several weeks.

A voracious collector and generous patron of the arts in a number of countries, Ludwig bought works by Picasso, Russian avant-garde painters and pop art, as w...

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