Ingrid and Willi Kemp collection

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The Ingrid and Willi Kemp collection is a bundle of around 1,200 objects of contemporary art that the Düsseldorf art collector Willi Kemp and his wife Ingrid have been collecting since the 1960s.

These include works by Carl Buchheister , Karl Otto Götz , Bernard Schultze , Gerhard Hoehme , Winfred Gaul , Konrad Klapheck , Joseph Beuys , Rupprecht Geiger and Gotthard Graubner . The focus of the collection is on works from the Art Forms Informel and ZERO ( Heinz Mack , Otto Piene and Günther Uecker ) as well as collectibles by renowned international artists such as Lucio Fontana , Arnulf Rainer , Antoni Tàpies , Jean Tinguely , Ellsworth Kelly and Cy Twombly .

A representative selection of the collection was shown in 2001 at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf . In 2011, Willi Kemp donated his collection to the Düsseldorf Museum Kunstpalast , which presented the exhibition New Colors - A Selection from the Kemp Collection from March 26 to August 7, 2011 . Since the donation, the Museum Kunstpalast has been exhibiting selected groups of works from the collection, most recently works by Gotthard Graubner and works by Karl Otto Götz, Winfred Gaul, Bernard Schultze, David Rabinowitch and Carl Buchheister. The Museum Kunstpalast is showing “Masterpieces from the Kemp Collection” from April 2 to August 2019. On the occasion of this exhibition, an extensive two-volume work was published - In Dialogue with Art - with letters, conversations and memories of Willi Kemp with the artists in his collection.

Literature (selection)

  • The Ingrid and Willi Kemp collection . Exhibition catalog. museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-00-007371-X .
  • The Kemp Collection. Part II. Exhibition catalog. Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-86206-084-9 .
  • Meeting with artists. Photos by Willi Kemp from 1960 to 2009. Exhibition catalog. Kettler, Bönen 2009, ISBN 978-3-941100-94-7 .
  • Carl Buchheister 1890-1964. Constructive painting and painterly abstraction. Ingrid and Willi Kemp collection. Exhibition catalog. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-86530-074-X .
  • Impulse - Informel and Zero in the Ingrid and Willi Kemp collection. Exhibition catalog. Museum der Stadt Ratingen, 2006, ISBN 3-926538-60-0 .
  • Gotthard Graubner. Painting on paper. From the Ingrid and Willi Kemp collection. Exhibition catalog. Kettler Kunst, Bönen 2007, ISBN 978-3-939825-21-0 .
  • More than just paper. Exclusive insights into the Willi Kemp collection. Brochure for the exhibition in the Düsseldorf Head Office of the Deutsche Bundesbank, 2011. Ed .: Deutsche Bundesbank, Head Office Düsseldorf (without ISBN).
  • Prints from the Kemp Collection. Exhibition catalog. Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf 2013 (without ISBN).
  • Homage to Karl Otto Götz. Works from the Kemp Collection on the occasion of the artist's 100th birthday. Exhibition catalog. Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf 2014. Ed .: Willi Kemp. (without ISBN).
  • Winfred Gaul. Paintings, prints and illustrated books from the Kemp collection. Exhibition catalog. Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf 2014. Ed .: Willi Kemp (without ISBN).
  • Highlights! Prints from the Kemp Collection. Brochure for the exhibition in the Düsseldorf Head Office of the Deutsche Bundesbank, 2014. Ed .: Deutsche Bundesbank, Head Office Düsseldorf (without ISBN).
  • Bernard Schultze. Paintings, Migofs, drawings, collages, prints and illustrated books from the Kemp Collection, exhibition catalog. Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf 2015. Ed .: Willi Kemp (without ISBN).
  • David Rabinowitch : Church Drawings. Drawings of Romanesque Churches 1973-1978 from Wookbooks. Exhibition catalog. Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf 2015. Ed .: Willi Kemp (without ISBN).
  • In dialogue with art - conversations with artists. Notes on art. Correspondence . Volumes I and II. Kettler printing works, Böhnen / Westphalia 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Ingrid and Willi Kemp Collection . Exhibition catalog. museum kunst palast , Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-00-007371-X .
       The Kemp Collection. Part II. Exhibition catalog. Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-86206-084-9 .
       Prints from the Kemp Collection. Exhibition catalog. Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf 2013 (without ISBN).
  2. ↑ Lush love 'booty'. 200 selected works from the Kemp Collection in the Kunsthalle. In: Neue Rhein / Ruhr Zeitung. February 3, 2001.
  3. ↑ He donated his life's work to the museum. In: Rheinische Post . January 24, 2013, p. C3.
  4. ^ Willi Kemp: In Dialogue with Art - Conversations with Artists. Notes on art. Correspondence . Volumes I and II. Kettler printing works, Böhnen / Westphalia 2019.