Людвиг Хохлвайн, 1926. Плакат для шоколада Sprengel. И история шоколатье. Bernhard Sprengel (17 April 1899 – 22 January 1985) was a German chocolate manufacturer and modern art collector.Bernhard Sprengel had developed a passion for 20th-century art and he had begun a private collection of paintings and sculpture, including works by Picasso, Chagall, Macke, Beckmann, Marc, Klee and Feininger. Some of these works were Nazi plunder, sourced via art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt.Bernhard Sprengel and the renowned expressionist artist Emil Nolde had a close, long-standing friendship that formed the basis of one of the most important collections of German modernism in the world.The history of their relationship includes the following key aspects:Saving "Degenerate Art": In 1937, after visiting the Nazi exhibition "Degenerate Art" (Entartete Kunst), where Nolde's works were publicly humiliated, German chocolate magnate Bernhard Sprengel made a conscious decision to collect modernist works.