Peter C. Ruppert Collection

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The Peter C. Ruppert Collection - Concrete Art in Europe after 1945 has been in the museum in the Kulturspeicher in Würzburg since 2002 .

The collection was first put together by Peter C. Ruppert (1935–2019) and later together with his wife Rosemarie. It comprises around 400 works by artists of the Constructive / Concrete Art from the end of the Second World War from almost all parts of Europe, including Hans Arp , Max Bill , Anthony Caro , Günter Fruhtrunk , Auguste Herbin , Richard Paul Lohse , François Morellet , Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely . The focus of the collection is on Switzerland after 1945 and on the "Abstraction Géométrique" in Paris.

Other special features within the collection include the group of works by concrete artists from Great Britain (including Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson ) and the concrete photography department (with works by Kilian Breier , Heinz Hajek-Halke , Heinrich Heidersberger , Gottfried Jäger, for example , Peter Keetman and Otto Steinert ). Around 250 artists from 23 European countries are included with exemplary works. None of these works are based on the image of reality. The works of art are based on the artistic means of color, form, line, chiaroscuro, light and movement. In many cases, the artists use geometry or other mathematical processes in order to contrast the reality seen with their own, artistically autonomous one.

Since the museum was founded in 2002, the collection has been under the patronage of the respective Secretary General of the Council of Europe , currently Thorbjørn Jagland . The collection is not complete. Current trends as well as missing artistic positions after 1945 are added.

literature

  • Concrete art in Europe after 1945. Collection Peter C. Ruppert Museum in the Kulturspeicher. Edited by Marlene Lauter and with the collaboration of Beate Reese , Städtische Galerie Würzburg. With contributions by: Marlene Lauter, Beate Reese, Dietmar Guderian, Serge Lemoine, Hella Nocke-Schrepper, Margit Weinberg Staber. Published by Hatje Cantz, D-Ostfildern-Ruit. Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-7757-1191-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Torsten Schleicher: "Concrete Art: Collector Peter C. Ruppert died" , Mainpost , February 12, 2019