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Exhibition building of the Langen Foundation, October 2014

The Langen Foundation is a private art foundation established in 2002 . It is dedicated to the art collection of Marianne and Viktor Langen. The foundation maintains an exhibition building designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando on the site of the former NATO missile station near Neuss. In addition to changing presentations from the collections, exhibitions of contemporary art are shown here.

history

Viktor Langen (1910–1990), Düsseldorf entrepreneur and President of the Chamber of Commerce, grandson of Eugen Langen and Marianne Langen, née Heimann (1911–2004), granddaughter of Farina heir Johann Maria Heimann , are among the well-known collectors and donors of art in the Rhineland. The couple began collecting art soon after the end of World War II. They used the stimulating cultural environment of the Rhineland, but also traveled to the USA, where they visited museums and private collections , found out about current trends in Paris, or acquired works of classical modernism in Basel . At the same time, their interest has always been in the art of the strange, the different, and so the Rhenish collectors have put together one of the most important collections of Japanese art in Europe over the years.

Christian Boros , art collector; Sabine Langen-Crasemann, board member and Christiane Maria Schneider, artistic director of the Langen Foundation at the opening of an exhibition by Ólafur Elíasson on April 18, 2015

Viktor and Marianne Langen lived with their art. Her houses in Meerbusch and Ascona were full of pictures and sculptures that were periodically replaced. In 1979 they set up a private museum in Ascona , in which they housed their collection of Japanese scroll paintings. In 2002 Marianne Langen set up the Langen Foundation to make her collection accessible to the public. Since 2004 the Langen Collection has been located in the specially built art and exhibition house of the Langen Foundation on the site of the former NATO missile station near Neuss. The exhibition building is within walking distance of the Museum Island Hombroich, but is organizationally and programmatically independent of it and the Insel Hombroich Foundation . Christiane Maria Schneider has been the artistic director of the Langen Foundation since 2010, Karla Zerressen, the daughter of Sabine Langen-Crasemann (board member), is the managing director of the "Langen Foundation Event". In April 2014 it became known that the heirs of Viktor and Marianne Langen will sell a number of works that have been exhibited on loan at the foundation. The FAZ art critic Andreas Rossmann saw in the sale the danger that “only second- and third-rate pieces would remain in the collection” and assumed that the heirs would reduce the foundation to a tax-saving model.

architecture

The new building complex was designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando and opened in September 2004. The visible structure of the formwork panels on the walls made of smoothed concrete is characteristic of many of the buildings by the Pritzker Prize winner . Tadao Ando's pronounced predilection for concrete and his feeling for the specifics of the location also determine his design for the Langen Foundation: The building made of concrete, glass and steel is hidden behind green earthen walls, some of it is buried deep into the ground.

The exhibition house consists of two architecturally different and interconnected building wings and has a total exhibition area of ​​1,300 square meters. The so-called Japan room is located in the ground-level concrete block - an unusually long and narrow gallery that Tadao Ando designed as a “room of silence” especially for the Japanese part of the Langen collection. Two eight-meter-high exhibition rooms sunk into the ground are planned for the modern part of the collection. In the case of temporary exhibitions, all rooms are used differently. The building was realized by the founder Marianne Langen without any funding, for her it was "the greatest work of art that I have ever bought".

photos

  • View through the entrance wall

  • Entrance wall

  • View from the inside of the access path

  • Interior view from the glass cuboid

collection

20th century painting

The "Painting of the 20th Century" collection includes around 300 works by artists from the past century. With a focus on classical modernism and abstract art of the post-war period, it covers wide areas of art history of the 20th century. From the area of ​​classical modernism, the Langen Foundation u. a. 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 Blue Rider - Wassily Kandinsky, August Macke and Franz Marc - the Russian avant-garde with El Lissitzky, Lyubow Popowa, Alexander Rodtschenko and Varvara Stepanowa is another focus of the collection. The collection also includes numerous works from the École de Paris , including works by Jean René Bazaine, Alfred Manessier, Gustave Singier, Pierre Soulages and Nicolas de Stael. In addition, Viktor and Marianne Langen have compiled the largest collection of works by Jean Dubuffer in Europe.

Japanese art

With around 500 works, the Japan collection gives a representative overview of Japanese art from the 12th to the 20th century. The collection includes not only religious art, but also ceramics from the prehistoric Jōmon period and Buddhist statues from the Nara and Heian periods . The broad spectrum of the painting portfolio ranges from examples of court painting from the Kanō school , through works by renowned artists such as Maruyama Ōkyo (1733–1795) to 19th century genre painting.

Non-European art

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

Exhibitions

2004:

  • Images of silence . The Tradition of Japan and Western Modernism, September 12, 2004 - June 19, 2005

2005:

  • Perfect Painting - 40 years of Galerie Hans Mayer . Works from public and private collections, July 10 - October 3, 2005
  • Representations of animals in traditional Japanese art. Works from the Viktor and Marianne Langen Collection, October 16, 2005 - October 22, 2006
  • Make a mark . Günther Uecker and Inoue Yūichi , October 16, 2005 - February 5, 2006

2006:

  • Graphic works by 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 Viktor and Marianne Langen Collection, March 4 - June 17, 2007
  • Gaps . Leiko Ikemura and Günther Förg . June 24th - November 11th 2007
  • The image of God in East Asia. October 7, 2007 - end of December 2008

2008:

  • Tradition and modernity in dialogue , Viktor and Marianne Langen Collection. May 18, 2008 - January 18, 2009
  • Karl Lagerfeld , Concretely abstract, November 18, 2007 - May 12, 2008

2009:

  • Jean Dubuffet , A life at a run , February 1 - May 24, 2009
  • Japan's deities and their representation, March 14 - 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 of Asian deities, November 22, 2009 - May 16, 2010

2010:

  • Xiaobai Su, The Dynasty of Color , January 17, 2010 - May 24, 2010
  • To 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:

  • Classic modern painting from the Viktor and Marianne Langen Collection, February 13 - July 3, 2011
  • Systems Analysis - New York Artist. February 13 - July 3, 2011
  • Japanese depictions of nature from the Viktor and Marianne Langen collection, May 22, 2010 - May 8, 2011
  • Japanese screens from the Edo period , May 15 - August 28, 2011
  • Takehito Koganezawa, Particle Tickle , July 17 - November 6, 2011
  • Visual Stories - Telling Japan's Pictures : Scrolls - Manga - Anime, July 17 - November 6, 2011
  • Classic modern painting from the Viktor and Marianne Langen collection, September 4 - November 6, 2011

2012:

  • Jan Albers , parcOurs mOrtale , April 15 - June 24, 2012
  • Sofia Hultén, Statik Elastik , 7 July - 28 October 2012
  • Homage 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
  • v. Chr. / BC Works from the Viktor and Marianne Langen Collection, May 5 - August 18, 2013
  • Manfred Kuttner , retrospective , July 19 - October 6, 2013
  • Jorinde Voigt , Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata 1-32 , September 1, 2013 - February 2, 2014
  • Does surrealism still mean anything to you today? , November 10, 2013 - March 23, 2014
  • Bernard Réquichot (1929–1961), paper collages and painting, November 10, 2013 - March 23, 2014
In 2015 the Langen Foundation showed works by the artist Ólafur Elíasson from the Boros Collection.

2014:

  • J. Parker Valentine, Topo , February 14-June 29, 2014
  • Otto Piene , Light and Air , April 5 - September 7, 2014; Sky Event on August 9, 2014
  • Corin Sworn, Vibrant Matter , September 28, 2014 - February 22, 2015
  • Japanese art from the Langen Collection, September 28, 2014 - March 29, 2015

2015:

2016:

  • Helen Feifel, Rainbows are Trending in Fashion , April 10 - August 14, 2016
  • Richard Deacon , On The Other Side , September 4, 2016 - March 5, 2017

2017:

  • Fort., Limbo , September 8, 2017 - March 4, 2018
  • Japanese painting , works from the Viktor and Marianne Langen collection, September 8, 2017 - March 4, 2018

2018:

  • POLYPHON , Artistic Positions from the Viehof Collection, April 15 - August 19, 2018
  • How to See [What Isn`t There] , a group exhibition with works from the Burger Collection Hong Kong, September 9, 2018 - March 17, 2019

2019:

  • Anne Pöhlmann, Japan room , April 7 - September 5, 2019
  • An Exquisite World , Japanese Art from the Viktor and Marianne Langen Collection, April 7 - September 5, 2019
  • Minjung Kim , Park Seo-Bo, September 29, 2019 - March 29, 2020

2020:

  • Alicja Kwade , causal consequence , April 20 - September 20, 2020

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
  • Images of silence. The tradition of Japan and western modernity, with contributions by Adele Schlombs and Siegfried Gohr, Neuss 2004
  • Snapshots - a photo book about the Langen Foundation by Joachim Crasemann, Neuss 2004
  • Setting standards - Günther Uecker and Inoue Yû-Ichi, with contributions by Heinz-Norbert Jocks and Peter-Cornell Richter, Neuss 2005
  • Buddhists, Jainas, Hindus. In search of the image of God, with contributions by Chrysanthi Kotrouzinis, Klaus Schneider and Ulrich Wiesner, catalog Rautenstrauch-Joest-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 Merrill C. Berman collection, with contributions from Lutz Becker and Richard Hollis, Neuss 2006
  • Alex Katz in European collections, with contributions from Edward Lucie-Smith, ed. Langen Foundation and Scheringa Museum of Realist Art, Neuss / Spanbroek 2006
  • Karl Lagerfeld - Concrete, Abstract, Seen, with contributions by Chrysanthi Kotrouzinis and Marcel Krenz, Göttingen, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86521-528-4
  • Xiaobai Su - The Dynasty of Colors, ed. Nicole Beyer, with contributions by Markus Schächter, Sabine Langen-Crasemann, Klaus Gallwitz, Nicole Beyer and Gao Minghu, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-940661-01-2
  • Jean Dubuffet. A life on the run, ed. by Chrysanthi Kotrouzinis and Christiane Lange, with contributions by Pia Dornacher, 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, Düsseldorf 2010; Langen Foundation, Neuss 2010 and Axel Vervoordt Foundation, Wijnegem 2010; Brussels 2010, ISBN 978-94-6117-007-1
  • Systems 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. Telling Japan's Pictures: Scroll Pictures - 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
  • Homage to Marianne Langen. Memories and photographs of the collector and donor of the Langen Foundation, ed. by Sabine Langen-Crasemann and Christiane Maria Schneider, Neuss 2011
  • Jan Albers, ed. Christiane Maria Schneider, Langen Foundation. With a foreword by Christiane Maria Schneider and essays by Kay Heymer, Brigitte Kölle, Stefanie Kreuzer and Vanessa Joan Müller, German / English, ISBN 978-3942405799
  • Manfred Kuttner. Werkschau, 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, German & English, ISBN 978-3-86335-402-2
  • J. Parker Valentine, Fiction. Artist book for the exhibition Topo , Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-95679-041-6
  • Olafur Eliasson, Boros Collection, ed. Christiane Maria Schneider, Langen Foundation. With an introduction by Christiane Maria Schneider, texts by Christian Boros, Bruno Latour and Joanna Warsza as well as a self-interview by Olafur Eliasson, text German / English, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95476-099-2

literature

  • Langen Foundation - an art and exhibition house by Tadao Ando , with contributions by Tadao Ando, ​​Sabine Langen-Crasemann and Andreas Rossmann, Neuss 2005, German / English.
  • Frank Maier-Solgk, New Museums in Europe: Cult Places for the 21st Century , Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3421036698
  • Philip Jodido, Ando. Complete Works 1975–2012 , Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3836528139

Web links

Commons : Langen Foundation  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Festschrift 175 years IHK Düsseldorf (PDF), p. 41
  2. ↑ Homage to Marianne Langen . Memories and photographs of the collector and donor of the Langen Foundation, ed. by Sabine Langen-Crasemann and Christiane Maria Schneider, Neuss 2011, p. 6
  3. ↑ Langen Foundation - Team , on longfoundation.de
  4. ^ Ms. Karla Zerressen, managing director of the Langen Foundation Veranstaltungs GbR
  5. ↑ Michael Kohler: New start at the rocket station , art Kunstmagazin , April 11, 2011. Helga Bittner: With a penchant for current art , RP Online , January 5, 2011.
  6. ↑ Andreas Rossmann : How you can save taxes , in the FAZ of April 3, 2014, accessed on July 21, 2015
  7. ↑ Homage to Marianne Langen . Memories and photographs of the collector and donor of the Langen Foundation, ed. by Sabine Langen-Crasemann and Christiane Maria Schneider, Neuss 2011, p. 134

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 8.6 ″  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 40.6 ″  E