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Swiss collectors. Hermann Rupf (b Berne, 20 Dec 1880; d Berne, 27 Nov 1962) went to Paris in 1902 to train as a banking correspondent, and during his three-year stay he came into contact with contemporary painting. In 1905 he entered his father’s business in Berne but maintained contact with the Paris art scene. In 1907 at the Salon des Indépendants he started buying works by the Fauves, especially Othon Friesz and Derain. On a visit to Picasso’s studio in 1908 he discovered Cubism, and he began to buy paintings by Picasso, Braque and others, generally purchasing them in the same year that they were painted. In 1910 Rupf married Margrit Wirz (d 1961), and in 1913 the couple first bought works by Gris and Léger, as well as acquiring one of Picasso’s most important Cubist works, Violin Hanging on the Wall (1913). They also began to buy drawings by ...