Museum Ludwig
The Ludwig Museum is the museum of the city of Cologne for the art of the twentieth and twenty-first century. The immediately southeast of the Cologne Cathedral and the main railway station, this museum houses next to his collection of modern and contemporary art and the Agfa Photo Historama ( a collection of historical photography). The museum has an exhibition area of around 8,000 m². It is one of the most important museums in Europe for contemporary art.
Since 11 October 2013, the new presentation of own collections under the motto Not Yet Titled is shown ( to 26 January 2014). The title of the exhibition seeks to highlight " the procedural and temporary nature of this subjective examination ." The upper floor is devoted to the " study of the reality on the media image and appropriation, as in the works of Andy Warhol, John Baldessari, Cindy Sherman and Sherrie Levine is visible. The basement shows " the turn to literalness and thus to process, work, site-specificity and to the political, from the minimalist sculptures of Carl Andre on Hans Haacke's Condensation Wall to the newly purchased photo series by Allan Sekula, the workers shows when leaving the factory ." The first floor of works by Pablo Picasso, Lucio Fontana to Joseph Beuys is considered " as a hinge between European modernity, American late modernism and minimalism ."
In the same building is the Cologne Philharmonic Hall and the Art Museum and Library of the City of Cologne.
History
Starting point for Cologne Museum of Contemporary Art was the Expressionist collection of Cologne Josef Haubrich citizen. This was integrated into the Wallraf- Richartz Museum, and expanded over time to other works of 20th century art. When the collector - couple Peter and Irene Ludwig of Cologne gave around 350 works predominantly of pop art, it came in 1976 to the founding of Museum Ludwig. This remained in the old rooms where the Museum of Applied Arts is housed. More gifts the couple Ludwig concerned an extensive collection of works of Russian avant-garde, and eventually hundreds of works by Pablo Picasso, which were originally made as a permanent loan.
The founder of this museum collections, the collector - Ludwigs, took a lasting influence on the further development of "their" museum. Among other things, through their commitment, a new building for the Wallraf- Richartz Museum, the Museum Ludwig and the photographic collection, the Agfa Photo- Historama was built, which should also include a new concert hall.
1986, designed by the Cologne architect Busmann Haberer new building was opened after previously had been the lighting and materials in the Simultanhalle, a purpose built Testbau, developed and tested. The Simultanhalle since 1983 self- exhibition space for contemporary art. Since then, the Simultanhalle has become an important institution in the cultural life of the city of Cologne.
In view of the contemplated donation of extensive Picasso collection of Irene Ludwig the city decided to dedicate the museum building exclusively to the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The new building for the Wallraf- Richartz- Museum was completed in 2001, so that it now has its own house. On the architecture of the building has changed very little. Only the entrance areas and the lobby were remodeled in 2004/2005.
From 18 to 20 June 1999, the 25th summit of leaders of the Group of Eight ( G8 Summit ) was held at the Museum Ludwig. That same year, Steve Keene painting publicly in the museum.
In December 2008, the museum received the donation of Cologne collector Ulrich Reininghausstraße with all editions of Sigmar Polke. Thus, the museum has the largest collection of editions throughout Europe. In 2010, the museum with the help of the Cultural Foundation of the countries and the Prime Minister of North Rhine -Westphalia, the painting brown figures in the café of expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ( created 1928/1929 ) purchase. This complements the Kirchner collection from the Berlin and early Davos time of the painter ( about five women on the street, 1913, or a community of artists, 1925-1926 ).
Line
From 2000 to 2012, the Museum of Kasper König was passed, the professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts - Städel School in Frankfurt am Main and brought important exhibitions such as Western art, and the Skulptur.Projekte in Münster on the way. With the approval of the Council of the City of Cologne Main Committee from November 7, 2011 Philipp Kaiser is November 1, 2012 New Direktor.Am December 4, 2013 he announced that he took office due to his private family situation aufgibt.Anschließend in February 2014 from 1 March 2014, the deputy director of the museum, the French Katia Baudin, acting head.
Collections
The collection of the Museum Ludwig comprises a high-level cross-section of classical modernism to contemporary art production. Priorities are the most extensive collection of American Pop Art outside the United States (among key works by Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana and Roy Lichtenstein ), one of the world's most extensive collections of works of Russian avant-garde of the 1920s, the painting of German Expressionism (the " Haubrich Collection " ), Max Ernst with the work of Dada and Surrealism, as well as the largest German collection of works by Pablo Picasso. Despite the small acquisitions budgets (as of 2005 ), the Museum acquires regular contemporary art. Periodically, exhibitions with national resonance to major art historical themes and artists (particularly the present) aligned.
Expressionism
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Five Women on the Street (1913 )
August Macke, Lady in a green jacket (1913 )
Franz Marc, Wild boar (1913 )
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, A community of artists (1926 )
Russian avant-garde
Kasimir Malevich, Red square on black (1922 )
Mikhail Larionov, Rayonism Red and Blue ( 1911)
Bauhaus and De Stijl
Photographic collections
Its important photo collection can present to the public longer since July 2009 the museum. In order to protect the sensitive plants from UV rays, the windows were coated in the roof with a newly developed film. Thus, the harmful rays are filtered out of the daylight. Thus, images can be shown as before only three months in the future instead of six months. Curator of the Photographic Collection is the successor of Bodo von Dewitz since August 1, 2013 Miriam Halwani.
Special
- Russian avant-garde ( project pipeline) 26 June, 2009 to 20th February 2011: Part 1 ( May 2009-December 2009 ) A slap in the face to the public taste. The Cubo-Futurism and the Emergence of Modernism in Russia
- Part 2 ( February 5, 2010 until February 20, 2011) Kasimir Malevich and Suprematism in the Ludwig Collection
Funding, Board of Trustees and Wolfgang Hahn Prize
The renowned art museum is supported by the Friends Society of Modern Art, the the Wolfgang Hahn Prize for visual artists lends / inside annually among others. The prize of € 100,000 prize is one of the most important purchase prices in Europe. The jury will be composed of the Board of the Company with Gabriele Bierbaum, Kasper König, Robert Mueller Grünow, Sabine DuMont Schütte and Enno Scholma (CEO ) and a guest judge. All award winners: See Wolfgang Hahn Prize.
Friends is the common of the Museum Ludwig and the Wallraf -Richartz Museum. He puts on an extensive program of events and promotes, among others publications of both museums.
The Association Board of Trustees Wallraf -Richartz Museum and Ludwig Museum, founded in 1959 as the Wallraf- Richartz- trustees and sponsors Gesellschaft eV, forms the common patrons for both art museums, the art-interested citizens from home and abroad are represented and exclusively and charitable purposes pursued. Among the most important tasks include the purchase of important exhibits to complete the collections and the development of museums. In the last 50 years (until 2012) were 46 major works for both museums are purchased, including works by Alexej von Jawlensky, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Sigmar Polke, René Magritte, Fernand Léger, Barnett Newman or Man Ray.
Awards
- 2009: Radio Drama Award of the War Blind / price for radio art of the Association of War Blind Germany eV and the Film Foundation North Rhine -Westphalia for the radio quiet one of Berlin's writer and director Paul Plamper, which was co-produced by WDR and the Museum Ludwig.