Hugo Jung (art collector)

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Hugo Jung (born March 6, 1928 ; † January 4, 2017 in Aachen ) was a German doctor ( gynecologist ) and art collector.

Hugo Jung as a gynecologist

Hugo Jung studied medicine in Mainz and Freiburg . In Freiburg he received his doctorate in 1954 and his habilitation in 1963. In 1967 he became the founding director of the gynecology and obstetrics department at the Aachen University Hospital . For a decade he was the construction officer of the medical faculty and during this time he was also involved in the planning and implementation of the new building for the university clinic. In 1993 he retired, but continued to practice gynecology for a few years.

Hugo Jung as an art collector

Together with his wife Ingrid Jung (1927–2012) he devoted himself to collecting modern art at an early age and in 1971 was one of the founders of the Association of Friends of the Ludwig Forum for International Art e. V. (then still the Neue Galerie - Ludwig Collection), of which he was chairman from 1974 to 1977.

Due to their collecting and curator activities, the Jung couple were counted among the 200 most important collectors worldwide by Art news magazine from 2009 to 2011 . The Jung collection is now in the Galerie der Gegenwart at the Hamburger Kunsthalle .

Hugo Jung found his final resting place in the hot mountain cemetery in Burtscheid / Aachen .

The Jung Collection has been exhibited several times, for example

  • 1981: Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum , Aachen: Trends in modern art . Ingrid and Hugo Jung collection.
  • 1983: Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen: Young expressive art in Italy and Germany . Ingrid and Hugo Jung collection
  • 1986: Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen: Signs, symbols, graffiti in contemporary art: Jung II collection
  • 1988: Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp : Imi Knoebel  : werken uit de verzameling Ingrid en Hugo Jung
  • 1992/93: Ludwig Forum for International Art: The numinous in contemporary art: Jung Collection
  • 1996: Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen: image - sculptures - image: newer aspects of plastic art in the Jung collection, Aachen

Publications (selection)

  • About changes in the blood count in trained and untrained people during maximum physical exertion . Dissertation Freiburg 1954.
  • For hormonal control of uterine motility . Habilitation thesis Freiburg 1963
  • On the physiology and clinic of hormonal uterine regulation (= progress in obstetrics and gynecology, vol. 22). Karger, Basel 1965.
  • (Ed.): Methods of pharmacological birth relief and uterine relaxation. International Symposium, Bad Aachen, June 1970 . 1972.
  • (Ed.): Additional and follow-up treatment of breast cancer. Symposium of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics , Aachen, from June 3 to 4, 1978. 1979.
  • (Ed.): Doppler techniques in obstetrics. International workshop, Aachen, 1984 . Thieme, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-13-689401-4 .
  • with M. Hermer (Ed.): Tokolyse und Betamimetika . Steinkopff, Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 3-7985-0836-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary Ingrid Jung on aachen-Gedenken-de from February 4, 2012.
  2. ↑ artnews.com .
personal data
SURNAME Young, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1928
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2017
Place of death Aachen