Walther Lauffs

Walther Lauffs was a German industrialist, and together with his wife Helga, a leading collector of post-war art.

Lauffs lived in Bad Honnef, Germany.

Walther and Helga Lauffs collected art from the late 1960s onwards, with the help of the curator and art historian Paul Wember, who was director of Krefeld's Kaiser Wilhelm Museum from 1947 and 1975. They focused on art created in the 1960s and 1970s, including Pop Art, Arte Povera, Minimalism, Post-Minimalism, and Conceptual Art.