Collection Maximilian and Agathe Weishaupt
The Maximilian and Agathe Weishaupt collection is a private collection of non-representational modern art by the Munich architect couple Maximilian and Agathe Weishaupt.
history
Max Weishaupt († 1982), the father of Maximilian Weishaupt († 2018) and Siegfried Weishaupt , was in contact with the Swiss architect, artist and designer Max Bill , as artists from the Ulm School of Design designed products for his company , and he has collected art himself. One of the first works he acquired was a small painting by Wassily Kandinsky . The family liked it so much that the sons began collecting art.
Collection content
The collection of Maximilian and Agathe Weishaupt follows - apart from the aforementioned framework of modern, non-objective ( abstract and concrete ) art from 1950 - no theoretical concept, but rather the private preferences of the collector couple. Works by Günter Fruhtrunk form the basis and most of the collection . Some of the artists represented in the collection are partly represented in larger blocks and with examples that are significant in terms of the history of the work. There is also a place for works by younger and less well-known artists. Represented are, for example, Josef Albers , Max Bill , Anthony Caro , Marco Casentini , Rupprecht Geiger , Ernst Geitlinger , Alan Green , Jon Groom , Imi Knoebel , Camill Leberer , Markus Linnenbrink , Morris Louis , François Morellet , Ben Muthofer , Hans Peter Reuter , Heiner Thiel , Regine Schumann and Peter Weber .
presentation
The pieces from the collection were only shown to the public occasionally until 2004. Some works from it have been given to museums for temporary exhibitions or as permanent loans . A larger part of the collection was first shown from November 21, 2004 to January 2, 2005 in the exhibition “Living with Art - Paths to Art. Maximilian and Agathe Weishaupt Collection ”at the Museum for Concrete Art (MKK) in Ingolstadt . The MKK was completely cleared for this. In January 2009, the Weishaupts and the MKK, which is moving to a new location, signed a contract according to which the museum will have unrestricted access to the collection for its future special and permanent exhibitions, which will otherwise remain in the architect couple's depot in Munich. This loan agreement is initially valid for ten years, with the option to extend it for a further five years. Future art acquisitions by the Weishaupts and the Art Museum are to be coordinated with one another and based on the requirements and conditions of the Ingolstadt museum.
The collection should not be confused with the collection of Maximilian Weishaupt's brother Siegfried Weishaupt in his own Kunsthalle Weishaupt in Ulm , which opened at the end of 2007, and the collection of East Asian porcelain from Georg Weishaupt in Berlin .
literature
- Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt (ed.): Living with Art, Paths to Art: Maximilian and Agathe Weishaupt Collection (exhibition catalog). Ingolstadt 2004.
- Annika Berndtsen, Anna Wondrak (ed.): Black on white. Highlights from the Maximilian and Agathe Weishaupt collection and the Foundation for Concrete Art and Design . Reading book, Garching 2015, ISBN 978-3-86316-999-2 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the architecture office
- ↑ Press release on the exhibition , kunstaspekte.de
- ↑ Karin Derstroff: Without conditions , Donaukurier , January 16, 2009