Langen Foundation

The Langen Foundation is a private art foundation founded in 2002. It is dedicated to the art collection of Marianne and Viktor Langen. The Foundation maintains a building designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando Exhibition building on the site of the former NATO missile station in Neuss. In addition to changing exhibitions from the collection held here Contemporary art exhibitions are shown.

History

Victor Langen (1910-1990) and Marianne Langen (1911-2004) are among the most well-known collectors and founders of Art in the Rhineland. The couple began collecting art soon after the end of World War II. They took advantage of the stimulating cultural environment of the Rhineland, but also traveled to the U.S., where they visited museums and private collections in Paris informed about current trends or acquired in Basel works of classic modernism. In parallel, their interest was always the art of strangers, otherness. Thus, the Rhenish collector couple wore over the years one of the most important collections of Japanese art in Europe.

Viktor and Marianne Langen have been living with their art. Their houses in the bush and sea Ascona were full of paintings and sculptures that were exchanged periodically. In 1979, she taught in Ascona one a private museum, where they brought his collection of Japanese scroll paintings. 2002 called Marianne Langen Foundation Langen Foundation launched to make its collection to the public. Since 2004, the collection is in the specially built Langen Art and Exhibition House of the Langen Foundation on the grounds of the former NATO missile station in Neuss. The exhibition building is located within walking distance of the Museum Hombroich, but operates organisationally and programmatically regardless of this and the Foundation Hombroich. Since 2010, Christiane Maria Schneider artistic director of the Langen Foundation.

Architecture

The building complex of the Langen Foundation was designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando and opened in September 2004. Characteristic of many buildings by Pritzker Prize winner is the visible structure of the built form panels of polished concrete. Tadao Ando's strong preference for concrete and his flair for the specific of the place also determine his design for the Langen Foundation. Built of concrete, glass and steel building is hidden, barely visible from the distance, behind landscaped earth mounds and digs deep in part into the soil.

The exhibition space is composed of two architecturally different and adjoining buildings, and has a total exhibition area of ​​1,300 square meters. In the ground level concrete bar is the so-called Japan Room - an unusually long and narrow gallery that Tadao Ando designed as an area of ​​"silence" for the Japanese part of the collection Langen. Two in the earth lowered, eight-meter high exhibition spaces are provided for the modern part of the collection. When changing exhibitions all rooms are played differently. The building was designed by the founder Marianne Langen without any funding. For them it was "the greatest work of art that I have ever purchased ."

Pictures

Looking through the entrance wall

Entrance wall

Glass exhibition cuboid

View from inside on the access

Interior view from the glass cube

Collection

20th Century Painting

The collection " 20th Century Painting " includes about 300 works by important artists of the last century. With the emphasis on the Classical Modern and Abstract art of the postwar period it covers vast fields of art history of the 20th century. In the field of classical modernity, the Langen Foundation has, among other things Works by George Braque, Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dalí, Robert Delaunay, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, László Moholy -Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso and Kurt Schwitters. In addition to the artists of the Blaue Reiter - Wassily Kandinsky, August Macke and Franz Marc - is the Russian avant-garde with El Lissitzky, Liubov Popova, Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova another focus of the collection. The collection also includes many works of the École de Paris, including works by Jean René Bazaine, Alfred Manessier, Gustave Singier, Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Stael and. In addition, Viktor and Marianne Langen have compiled the most extensive convolute Jean Dubuffet's works in Europe.

Japanese art

With around 500 works, the Japan collection gives a representative overview of the Japanese art of the 12th to 20th centuries. The collection includes not only religious art, but also ceramics of the prehistoric Jomon period and Buddhist statues of the Nara and Heian period. The wide range of the stock of painting ranges from examples of courtly painting of the Kano school, on the work of renowned artists such as Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795) to the genre painting of the 19th century.

Non-European art

To collection of Viktor and Marianne Langen include objects from numerous non-European cultures, including over 100 Buddhist sculptures from India, Cambodia and Thailand, as well as more than 130 objects of pre-Columbian art. There are also smaller groups of Chinese, Korean, African, Oceanic, Egyptian, ancient - Greek and Old Persian art.

Special

2004:

  • Pictures of silence. The Japanese tradition and Western modernity, September 12, 2004 - June 19, 2005

2005:

  • Perfect Painting - 40 years Galerie Hans Mayer. Works from public and private collections, July 10 - October 3, 2005
  • Animal representations in traditional Japanese art. Works from the Viktor and Marianne Langen Collection, October 16, 2005 - October 22, 2006
  • Set characters. Günther Uecker and Inoue Yu -ichi, October 16, 2005 - February 5, 2006

2006:

  • Graphic works of the avant-garde 1918-1934 from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, February 12 - August 22, 2006
  • Alex Katz in European Collections, September 3, 2006 - January 28, 2007

2007:

  • Need art. Insights into the collection Viktor and Marianne Langen, March 4 - June 17, 2007
  • Spaces. Leiko Ikemura and Förg. 24 June to 11 November 2007
  • The Image of God in East Asia. October 7, 2007 - end of December 2008

2008:

  • Tradition and modernity in the dialog. Collection Viktor and Marianne Langen. May 18, 2008 - January 18, 2009
  • Karl Lagerfeld, Concrete abstract seen. November 18, 2007 - May 12, 2008

2009:

  • Jean Dubuffet, A life on the run, February 1 - May 24, 2009
  • Japan's deities and their representation 14 March - May 24, 2009
  • Selected works from the Viktor and Marianne Langen Collection, May 30, 2009 - January 5, 2010
  • Frauke Eigen, photography, May 30, 2009 - November 15, 2009
  • Sculptures Asian deities, November 22, 2009 - May 16, 2010

2010:

  • Xiaobai Su, The dynasty of colors, January 17, 2010 - May 24, 2010
  • On the Nature, May 30, 2010 - September 5, 2010
  • Works of Japanese art, September 11, 2010 - January 16, 2011
  • Jef Verheyen and Friends, September 11, 2010 - January 16, 2011

2011:

  • Painting of classical modernism from the Viktor and Marianne Langen Collection, February 13 - July 3, 2011
  • Systems Analysis - New York artist. February 13 to July 3 2011
  • Japanese nature scenes from the Viktor and Marianne Langen Collection, May 22, 2010 - May 8, 2011
  • Japanese screens of the Edo period, May 15 - August 28, 2011
  • Takehito Koganezawa Particle Tickle, July 17 - November 6, 2011
  • Visual Stories - tell Japan's images: video rolling - Manga - Anime, July 17 - November 6, 2011
  • Painting of classical modernism from the Viktor and Marianne Langen Collection, September 4 - November 6, 2011

2012:

  • Sofia Hultén, static elastic July 7 - October 28, 2012
  • Tribute to Marianne Langen. Works from the Collection, November 20, 2011 - February 17, 2013
  • The life of Japanese images. Works from the Viktor and Marianne Langen Collection, November 9, 2012 - April 28, 2013

2013:

  • Pae White, In Love with Tomorrow, March 10 - July 7, 2013
  • BC / B.C. Works from the Viktor and Marianne Langen Collection, May 5 - August 18, 2013
  • Manfred Kuttner, Showcase, July 19 - October 6, 2013
  • Jorinda Voigt, Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata 1-32, September 1, 2013 - February 2, 2014
  • ? Has surrealism still a meaning for you, November 10, 2013 - March 23, 2014
  • Réquichot Bernard (1929-1961), paper collages and painting, November 10, 2013 - March 23, 2014

2014:

  • J. Parker Valentine, Topo, February 14 - June 29, 2014

Publications

  • Autumn wind in the pines, ed. by Murase Miyeko, with contributions by Marianne Langen, Kawai Masamoto, Murase Miyeko and Ariga, Yoshitaka, Munich / London / New York 1998, ISBN 3-7913-2011-4
  • Pictures of silence. The Japanese tradition and Western modernity, with contributions from Adele Schlombs and Siegfried Gohr, Neuss 2004
  • Snapshots - a photo book on the Langen Foundation by Joachim Crasemann, Neuss 2004
  • Make a real difference - Günther Uecker and Inoue Yû -Ichi, with contributions by Heinz- Norbert Jocks and Peter- Cornell Richter, Neuss 2005
  • Buddhists, Jains, Hindus. Looking after the image of God, with contributions from Chrysanthi Kotrouzinis, Klaus Schneider and Ulrich Wiesner, catalog Rautenstrauch- Jost- Museum, Cologne 2005; Langen Foundation, Neuss 2007, new edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-940661-00-5
  • Graphic works of the avant-garde 1918-1934 from the collection of Merrill C. Berman, contributed by Lutz Becker and Richard Hollis, Neuss 2006
  • Alex Katz in European collections, with contributions by Edward Lucie- Smith, ed. Langen Foundation and shear Inga Museum of Realist Art, Neuss / Spanbroek 2006
  • Karl Lagerfeld - Concrete, Abstract, Seen, with contributions from Chrysanthi Kotrouzinis and Marcel Krenz, Göttingen, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86521-528-4
  • Xiaobai Su - The dynasty of color, ed. Nicole Beyer, with contributions from Markus Schaechter, Sabine Long - Crasemann, Klaus Gallwitz, Nicole Beyer and Gao Minghu, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-940661-01-2
  • Jean Dubuffet. A life on the run, ed. of Chrysanthi Kotrouzinis and Christiane Lange, with contributions by Pia Dornach, Jean Dubuffet, Andreas Franzke, Siegfried Gohr, Hélène Hiblot, Chrysanthi Kotrouzinis, Christiane Lange, Zé do Rock and Sophie Webel, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7774-8015 - 2
  • Jef Verheyen. Le peintre flamant, with contributions by Tiziana Caianiello, Beate kemfert, Johann Pas, Dirk Pörschmann, Francesca Pola, Jenny Trautwein and Tijs Visser / catalog ZERO foundation, Dusseldorf 2010; Langen Foundation, Neuss 2010, and Axel Vervoordt Foundation, Wijnegem 2010; Brussels 2010, ISBN 978-94-6117-007-1
  • System Analysis / Systems Analysis, ed. by Christiane Maria Schneider, with contributions by Liz Deschenes, Wade Guyton, Eileen Quinlan, Blake Rayne, Reena Spaulings and Cheyney Thompson, Wuppertal 2011, German / English. , ISBN 978-3-9814271-0-3
  • Takehito Koganezawa - YAMA / artist book, ed. by Christiane Maria Schneider, Langen Foundation, Neuss 2011
  • Visual Stories. Tell Japan Pictures: Scrolls - Manga - Anime, ed. by Christiane Maria Schneider, with contributions by Jaqueline Berndt, Christiane Maria Schneider and Anton Schweizer, Neuss 2011, German / English. , ISBN 978-3-9814271-1-0
  • Tribute to Marianne Langen. Memories and photographs of the collector and founder of the Langen Foundation, ed. by Sabine Long - Crasemann and Christiane Maria Schneider, Neuss 2011
  • January Albers, ed. Christiane Maria Schneider, Langen Foundation. With a foreword by Christiane Maria Schneider and essays by Kay Heymer, Brigitte Koelle, Stefanie Kreuzer and Vanessa Joan Müller. 192 pp. with 140 fig, Hardcover, Ger. / Eng. , ISBN 978-3942405799
  • Manfred Kuttner. Retrospective, catalog Villa Merkel, Esslingen / Langen Foundation, Neuss, ed. & Foreword by Andreas Baur, Christiane Schneider & Marcus Weber, with contributions by Birgit Hein, Tobias Kuttner, Christine Mehring, Thomas Scheibitz, Sabine Sense, Franz Erhard Walther & Marcus Weber Cologne 2013, dt & Engl, ISBN 978-3. - 86335-402-2
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