Van Gogh’s The Cypresses

The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine, in writing about “the Department Store King,” referred to Schocken’s multifaceted artistic interests. He collected Rembrandts, Albrecht Dürer, as well as works by Oskar Kokoschka, Wassily Kandinsky, Gauguin, and Vincent van Gogh.  Important works in the collection include Paul Cézanne’s “Jas de Bouffan” and Käthe Kollwitz’s “Selbstbildnis en face.”  

Van Gogh’s “The Cypresses,” which Schocken bought in 1932, hangs today in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.