Museum Ludwig

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Museum Ludwig
Museum Ludwig Cologne - South entrance - Schriftzug.jpg
Museum Ludwig (2006)
Data
place Cologne
Art
art
architect Busmann + Haberer
opening 1976
management
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-202211

The Museum Ludwig is a museum of the city of Cologne for the art of the 20th and 21st centuries and is today one of the most important art museums in Europe. The museum, located directly southeast of Cologne Cathedral and the main train station on the Domplatte , houses the largest Pop Art collection in Europe, the third largest Picasso collection in the world, one of the most important collections on German Expressionism , key works of the Russian avant-garde and a collection on the history of the Photography with approx. 70,000 works. The museum has an exhibition area of ​​around 8,000 m². The same building also houses the Cologne Philharmonic , the art and museum library of the city of Cologne and the Filmforum NRW.

history

The starting point for a Cologne museum of contemporary art was the expressionism collection of the Cologne citizen Josef Haubrich . This was integrated into the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and expanded over time to include other works of art from the 20th century. When the collector couple Peter and Irene Ludwig donated around 350 works, mainly Pop Art, to the city of Cologne, the Museum Ludwig was founded in 1976. This remained in the old rooms where the Museum of Applied Arts is now housed. Further donations from the Ludwig couple concerned an extensive collection of works by the Russian avant-garde and finally several hundred works by Pablo Picasso, which were originally made available on permanent loan.

The donors of these museum holdings, the collector couple Ludwig, had a lasting influence on the further development of "their" museum. Thanks to their commitment, a new building was built for the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, the Ludwig Museum and the photographic collection, the Agfa-Photo-Historama, which should also include a new concert hall.

The new building designed by the Cologne architects Busmann + Haberer was opened on September 6, 1986 after the lighting and materials had previously been developed and tested in a specially constructed test building, the so-called simultaneous hall . The Simultanhalle has been an exhibition space for contemporary art since 1983. Since then, the Simultanhalle has developed into an important institution in the cultural life of the city of Cologne.

In view of the promised donation of Irene Ludwig's extensive Picasso collection, 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. Little was changed in the architecture of the building. Only the entrance areas and the foyer were redesigned in 2004/2005.

The 25th summit of the heads of government of the Group of Eight (G8 summit) took place in the Ludwig Museum from June 18-20, 1999 . In the same year, Steve Keene painted publicly in the museum.

In December 2008 the museum received the gift of the Cologne collector Ulrich Reininghaus with all editions from Sigmar Polke . The museum thus has the largest collection of editions in Europe. In 2010, with the help of the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia , the museum was able to acquire the painting Brown Figures in the Café by the Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (created in 1928/1929). This thus complements the Kirchner collection from the painter's Berlin and early Davos times (such as Five Women on the Street , 1913, or An Artist Community , 1925 to 1926).

At the beginning of 2018, Yilmaz Dziewior announced a scientific reassessment of the American holdings of the Museum Ludwig, which has "mainly art by white, heterosexual, male Americans". The aim is to reassess the content and history of the collection with regard to aspects of postcolonial , gender and queer studies . Dziewior said: “It's not about a new story, but a parallel narrative.” The art-historical canon of values ​​should also be questioned in order to reveal the hierarchies between cultures. There are also plans to update the history of the collection with a view to art from South America, Africa and Asia and to strengthen female positions.

management

Yilmaz Dziewior, who holds a doctorate in art history, has headed the Museum Ludwig since February 2015 , after being appointed new director in May 2014. Since September 2016, Yilmaz Dziewior's deputy has been the art historian Rita Kersting , formerly Head of Contemporary Art at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

From November 2012 to February 2014 Philipp Kaiser was director of the Museum Ludwig. On December 4, 2013, Kaiser announced that he would give up his position in February 2014 due to his private family situation. Subsequently, from March 2014, the then deputy director of the museum, Katia Baudin, took over provisional management.

From 2002 to 2012, Kasper König headed the Museum Ludwig, who previously headed the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main as rector and initiated important exhibitions such as Western art and the sculpture projects in Münster .

Further directors of the Museum Ludwig were: Jochen Poetter (1997–2000), Marc Scheps (1991–1997), Siegfried Gohr (1984–1991) and Karl Ruhrberg (1978–1984).

Collections

The collection of the Museum Ludwig comprises a high-level cross-section from classical modernism to current art production . The focus is on the most extensive collection of American Pop Art in Europe (including key works by Robert Indiana , Jasper Johns , Andy Warhol , Roy Lichtenstein , Claes Oldenburg , Robert Rauschenberg and James Rosenquist ), one of the world's most extensive collections of works by the Russian avant-garde from 1905–1935 , the painting of German Expressionism and New Objectivity (the "Haubrich Collection") as well as the world's third largest collection with works by Pablo Picasso from all creative phases.

In addition to these focal points, the Museum Ludwig collection offers an overview of the most important art movements and media of the 20th century. It includes works of abstract expressionism by Mark Rothko , Frank Stella and Jackson Pollock , works by minimal and conceptual artists such as Carl Andre , Eva Hesse , Donald Judd , and European tendencies of the 1950s and 1960s such as Jean Dubuffet , Lucio Fontana , Hans Hartung , Pierre Soulages , Wols as well as film and video art, installations and performative works from the last decades. The art history of the Rhineland is also represented with major works by Joseph Beuys , Martin Kippenberger , Gerhard Richter , Sigmar Polke and Rosemarie Trockel . In addition, with artists such as Max Beckmann , Salvador Dalí , Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst , numerous works from the art movements Dada and Surrealism are part of the collection.

With around 70,000 works, the Ludwig Museum houses an extensive collection of photography from its beginnings to the present day. These include early daguerreotypes , important artistic photographs from the 19th to the 21st century, albums and portfolios, but also extensive materials on the cultural history of the medium.

Less known, but still important for the profile of the Museum Ludwig, are the works of artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America such as Georges Adéagbo , Xu Bing , Teresa Burga , Cai Guo-Qiang , Kcho , Bodys Isek Kingelez and Haegue Yang . According to the Museum Ludwig, this global orientation of the collection will become even more important in the future.

The field of contemporary art extends to the present day and was recently expanded to include works by Trisha Donnelly , Anne Imhof , Avery Singer, Heimo Zobernig . Despite the low purchase budget (as of 2017), the museum regularly acquires contemporary works of art. Several times a year, exhibitions with supraregional resonance on important art-historical topics and artists (especially the present) are organized.

Special exhibitions (from 6/2009)

  • Russian avant-garde (project series), June 26, 2009 - February 20, 2011:
    • Part 1 (May 2009 - December 2009) A slap in the face of the public taste. Cubofuturism and the dawn of modernity in Russia .
    • Part 2 (February 5, 2010 - February 20, 2011) Kasimir Malewitsch and Suprematism in the Ludwig Collection .
  • Maria Lassnig : In the possibilities mirror. Watercolors and drawings from 1947 to today , summer 2009.
  • Lucy McKenzie , Summer 2009.
  • Erik van Lieshout : On the net , summer 2009 (as part of the "Edition Moving Pictures"; a cooperation with the Rheingold Collection).
  • Jonathan Horowitz : Apocalypto Now , summer 2009 (as part of the "Edition Moving Pictures"; a cooperation with the Rheingold Collection).
  • Christopher Wool : Porto-Cologne , April - July 2009.
  • Sigmar Polke : The Editions , July - September 2009.
  • Isa Genzken : Sesame, open up! Open, sesame! , August - November 2009.
  • Kutluğ Ataman : Video group portraits Küba (2004) and Paradise (2007), September 2009 - January 17, 2010.
  • Angelika Hoerle : Comet of the Cologne avant-garde , September 2009 - January 17, 2010.
  • Leni Hoffmann : leni Hoffmann. RGB , September 2009 - March 28, 2010.
  • Harun Farocki , October 2009 - March 7, 2010.
  • Political images. The Daniela Mrázkowá Collection. Soviet photographs 1918–1941 , October 23, 2009 - January 31, 2010.
  • Franz West , December 12, 2009 - March 14, 2010 (first retrospective of the artist in Europe).
  • Gesehen & Loved exhibition series , April 20 - November 7, 2010: # 1: Far-reaching friendships: East 9th Street, Manhattan, 1982–1985 Curtis Anderson , Ricky Clifton , Kurt Hoffman presented by Rosemarie Trockel , June 20 to May 16, 2010 ; # 2 Pots & Paper (Cologne private collection), June 1 - 30, 2010; # 4 Live better with ... From young collections, August 31 to September 26, 2010; # 5 Kasper König's private collection , October 11 to November 7, 2010.
  • Wade Guyton , April 23 - August 22, 2010.
  • Jochen Lempert , April 23 - June 13, 2010.
  • Pictures in motion. Artist & Video / Film , May 29 - October 31, 2010.
  • 19th century photographs from Japan and China. Masterpieces from the photographic collection. The new gallery for photography , June 11th 2010 - January 9th 2011.
  • Roy Lichtenstein . Art as a motif , July 2 - October 3, 2010 (from January to May 2010 in Milan at the Triennale di Milano under the title Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art ).
  • AR Penck : Past-Present-Future , August 17, 2010 - March 20, 2011.
  • Remembering forward , November 20, 2010 - March 20, 2011.
  • Art Spiegelman . Co-mix. A retrospective of comics , drawings and other doodles , September 22, 2012 - January 6, 2013.
  • David Hockney . A Bigger Picture , October 27, 2012 - February 3, 2013.
  • Andreas Fischer. Machinery. Your Time Is My Rolex , December 1, 2012 - March 17, 2013.
  • Saul Steinberg : The Americans , March 23 - June 23, 2013.
  • Phil Collins , April 18 - July 21, 2013.
  • Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2013: Andrea Fraser , April 21 - July 21, 2013.
  • Kathryn Andrews . Special Meat Occasional Drink , May 25 - August 25, 2013.
  • Jo Baer , May 25 - August 25, 2013.
  • Louise Lawler . Adjusted October 11, 2013 - January 26, 2014.
  • Not yet titled. New and forever at Museum Ludwig , October 11, 2013 - January 26, 2014.
  • Oscar Tuazon . Alone in an empty room , February 15 - July 13, 2014 (curators Philipp Kaiser and Anna Brohm).
  • Pierre Huyghe , April 11 - July 13, 2014 (curator Katia Baudin).
  • Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2014: Kerry James Marshall .
  • Unbending and unrestrained. Documentary photography around 1979, June 28 - October 5, 2014 (curator Barbara Engelbach).
  • The Museum of Photography: A Revision , June 28 - November 16, 2014 (curator Miriam Halwani).
  • Andrea Buettner . September 2 , 2014 - March 15, 2015 (curator Julia Friedrich).
  • LUDWIG GOES POP , October 2, 2014 - January 11, 2015 (curators Stephan Diederich and Luise Pilz).
  • Ken Okiishi . Screen Presence , October 21, 2014 - February 1, 2015 (curator Stephanie Seidel).
  • Alibis: Sigmar Polke. Retrospective , March 14 - July 5, 2015 (curator Barbara Engelbach).
  • Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2015: Michael Krebber and RH Quaytman , April 15 - August 30, 2015
  • Bernard Schultze . On the 100th birthday , May 30th - November 22nd, 2015 (curator Stephan Diederich).
  • Danh Võ Ydob eht ni mraw si ti , August 1 - October 25, 2015 (curator Yilmaz Dziewior).
  • Joan Mitchell . Retrospective. Her Life and Paintings , November 14, 2015 - February 21, 2016 (curator Yilmaz Dziewior).
  • Within the exhibition series HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig : Heimo Zobernig , February 20 to May 22, 2016 (curator Yilmaz Dziewior).
  • Fernand Leger . Painting in space , April 9 to July 3, 2016 (curator Katia Baudin).
  • Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2016: Huang Yong Ping , April 13 to August 28, 2016.
  • We call it Ludwig. The museum turns 40! , August 27, 2016 - January 8, 2017 (curators: Yilmaz Dziewior, Barbara Engelbach, Stephan Diederich, Miriam Halwani, Julia Friedrich, Leonie Radine, Anna Czerlitzki).
  • Master of Beauty. Karl Schenker's sophisticated imagery , September 10, 2016 - January 8, 2017 (curator Miriam Halwani).
  • HERE AND NOW at the Museum Ludwig: House visit, November 5th - 27th, 2016 (curator Leonie Radine).
  • Gerhard Richter . New pictures, February 9 - May 2, 2017 (curator Rita Kersting ).
  • Otto Freundlich . Cosmic Communism , February 18 - May 14, 2017 (curator Julia Friedrich).
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson and Heinz Held . People with Pictures , March 24 - August 20, 2017 (curator Miriam Halwani).
  • Trisha Donnelly : Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2017 , April 25 - July 30, 2017.
  • HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig (3): Reena Spaulings. HER AND NO , June 3 - August 27, 2017 (curator Anna Czerlitzki).
  • Art into life! The collector Wolfgang Hahn and the 60s , June 24th - September 24th 2017 (curator Barbara Engelbach).
  • The humane camera. Heinrich Böll and Photography , September 1, 2017 - January 7, 2018 (curator Miriam Halwani).
  • Werner Mantz . Architectures and People , October 14, 2017 - January 21, 2018 (curator Miriam Halwani), in cooperation with the Nederlands Fotomuseum , Rotterdam.
  • James Rosenquist . Painting as Immersion , November 18, 2017 - March 4, 2018 (curators Stephan Diederich and Yilmaz Dziewior).
  • Here and now: Günter Peter Straschek . Emigration - Film - Politics , March 3 - July 1, 2018 (curator Julia Friedrich).
  • Haegue Yang . ETA 1994-2018. Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2018 , April 18 - August 12, 2018.
  • Doing the Document. Photographs from Diane Arbus to Piet Zwart . The Bartenbach donation , August 31, 2018 - January 6, 2019.
  • Gabriele Münter . Painting without further ado , September 15, 2018 - January 13, 2019 (with the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich and the Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation, Munich in cooperation with the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebæk)
  • Alexander von Humboldt . Photography and its legacy, October 13, 2018 - January 27, 2019 (curator Miriam Halwani).
  • Hockney / Hamilton . Expanded Graphics. New acquisitions and works from the collection, with two films by James Scott, January 19, 2019 - April 14, 2019 (curator Julia Friedrich).
  • Nile Yalter. Exile Is a Hard Job, March 9 - June 2, 2019, curator Rita Kersting
  • Jac Leirner . Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2019, April 10 - July 21, 2019.
  • as part of the Artist Meets Archive series : Fiona Tan . GAAF , May 4 - August 11, 2019.
  • in the photo room: Benjamin Katz . Berlin Havelhöhe, 1960/61, June 7 - September 22, 2019.
  • Family ties. The Schröder donation , July 13 - September 29, 2019, curator Barbara Engelbach.
  • Lucia Moholy . Writing Photo History, October 12, 2019 - February 2, 2020, curator Miriam Szwast.
  • within the project series Here and Now : Transcorporealities , September 21, 2019 - January 19, 2020, curator Leonie Radine.
  • within the series Schultze Projects # 2 : Avery Singer , since October 11, 2019.
  • Wade Guyton. Two decades of MCMXCIX – MMXIX , November 16, 2019 - March 1, 2020, curator Yilmaz Dziewior .
  • Blinky Palermo . The entire editions. Donation Ulrich Reininghaus , January 18 - May 3, 2020, curator Julia Friedrich
  • in the photo room: silent ruins. FA Oppenheim photographs antiquity , February 15 - June 14, 2020, curator Miriam Szwast

Support associations, board of trustees of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and the Museum Ludwig and Wolfgang Hahn Prize

The renowned art museum is supported by two sponsoring associations: the Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig Köln eV and the Friends of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Museum Ludwig eV

The associations support the museum in a variety of ways: with the realization and design of exhibitions and their supporting program, with the funding of publications, with the purchase of new works of art for the Museum Ludwig and with the union of art lovers and the museum. In 2013 the board of trustees of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and the Museum Ludwig merged with the Friends of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Museum Ludwig eV Since then, projects such as acquisitions and exhibition financing have also been part of the program.

Wolfgang Hahn Prize

The Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig has awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize annually  to exceptional contemporary artists since 1994 . The prize, endowed with up to € 100,000, is one of the most important purchase prices in Europe. The prize money goes towards the acquisition of a work or a group of works by the award-winning artist for the benefit of the Museum Ludwig collection. The winners will also be honored with an exhibition in the museum as well as an accompanying publication. Previous winners include a. Trisha Donnelly (2017), Michael Krebber and RH Quaytman (2015), Andrea Fraser (2013), Mike Kelley (2006), Cindy Sherman (1997) and James Lee Byars (1994). 

The jury for the Wolfgang Hahn Prize is made up of Yilmaz Dziewior , the company's board of directors (Mayen Beckmann, Gabriele Bierbaum, Jörg Engels, Robert Müller-Grünow, Sabine DuMont Schütte) and a guest juror.

Schultze Projects

The Ludwig Museum houses a large part of the artistic estate of Ursula and Bernard Schultze . In September 2017, the Museum Ludwig launched the Schultze Projects series . In memory of the artist couple, who have lived and worked in Cologne since 1968, an artist is to be invited every two years to create a work for the striking front wall in the museum's stairwell. The large-scale work format as a central aspect in the mature work of Bernard Schultze represents a substantial point of reference to the planned artistic positions of the Schultze Projects . The first artist in the project series is Wade Guyton .

Awards

Movies

literature

  • Doing the Document: Bartenbach Donation. Catalog Museum Ludwig Cologne, ed. by Barbara Engelbach & Miriam Halwani. Cologne 2018/19. Text in German and English, with contributions by Ursula & Kurt Bartenbach, Yilmaz Dziewior , Barbara Engelbach, Anne Gantführer-Trier & Miriam Halwani . Bookstore Walther König, Cologne 2018.
  • Anna Brohm, Valeska Schneider (Ed.): One wish always remains. 12 years Museum Ludwig. A selection. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86335-248-6 (published on the occasion of Kasper König's farewell as director of the Museum Ludwig)
  • Stephan Diederich and Luise Pilz (eds.): LUDWIG GOES POP (exhibition catalog German / English 2014/15 KÖLN, MUSEUM LUDWIG / WIEN, MUSEUM MODERNER KUNST STIFTUNG LUDWIG), bookstore Walther König, Cologne 2014.
  • Birgit Kilp: Josef Haubrich. A lawyer for the arts , Wienand, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-86832-223-1 .
  • Martin Oehlen: Museums in Cologne . DuMont Cologne, 2004, ISBN 3-8321-7412-5

Web links

Commons : Museum Ludwig  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Ludwig: Museum Ludwig press release. (PDF) Museum Ludwig, July 1, 2017, accessed on July 31, 2017 .
  2. ^ Museum Ludwig: Collection of photography - Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Retrieved July 31, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Filmforum NRW. Retrieved September 9, 2019 .
  4. ^ Ministry of Foreign Affairs , Japan Summit Meetings in the Past.
  5. ^ A b Catrin Lorch: Museums in Germany: Agents of a New Era. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. February 5, 2018, accessed June 16, 2018 .
  6. ↑ City of Cologne press release of May 13, 2014: Museum Ludwig looks forward to exciting further development , by Stefan Palm , accessed on May 13, 2014
  7. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (KStA) Kultur from May 13, 2014: Yilmaz Dziewor from Bonn: This is the new one for Museum Ludwig , by Michael Kohler , accessed on May 14, 2014
  8. ↑ WDR Kulturnachrichten from August 17, 2016: Deputy Director at Museum Ludwig Cologne appointed ( Memento from August 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Stefan Palm: Main committee makes important personnel decisions. Signing of contracts for heads of Museum Ludwig and Schauspiel decided. City of Cologne - Office for Press and Public Relations, November 8, 2011, accessed on November 8, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Kultur from December 4, 2013: Director Kaiser leaves Museum Ludwig (ksta) , accessed on December 4, 2013
  11. ↑ Focus online Regional Cologne Art from February 5, 2014: Katia Baudin acting director of the Museum Ludwig , accessed on February 5, 2014
  12. ↑ Die Welt from June 10, 2007: Christine Litz, Carina Plath and Brigitte Franzen manage the Sculpture Projects Münster with Kasper König
  13. ^ Museum Ludwig: Museum Ludwig: Press release on the collection. (PDF) http://www.museum-ludwig.de/fileadmin/content/07_Presse/ML_PM_Allgemein_2017.pdf , July 1, 2017, accessed on August 1, 2017 .
  14. ^ Museum Ludwig: Museum Ludwig: Press release on the collection. (PDF) Museum Ludwig, July 1, 2017, accessed on August 1, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Everything except the East in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung of November 2, 2014, page 36
  16. ^ Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig Cologne eV: Wolfgang Hahn Prize. Retrieved August 24, 2017 .
  17. ^ Museum Ludwig: Schultze Projects. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 23, 2017 ; accessed on September 18, 2017 (German, English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-ludwig.de
  18. ↑ art The art magazine from December 2, 2014: Marta Herford is Museum of the Year (dpa) ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 4, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
  19. ↑ Welt Nordrhein-Westfalen from December 15, 2018: Critics' survey: Best exhibition 2018 in Bundeskunsthalle , accessed on December 17, 2018

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 27 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 37 ″  E