Robert Simon Collection

The Robert Simon Collection , created by the museum's founder and gallery owner Robert Simon , is a private collection of art from the 20th and 21st centuries.

It includes painting , graphics , sculptures and object art from the 1960s to the present day. This includes an extensive collection of multiples and unique pieces by Joseph Beuys and Timm Ulrichs . Other focal points of the collection are the painters Dieter Krieg and Ben Willikens as well as the object artist Peter Basseler.

There are also two special areas of the collection: the New Objectivity in Hanover in the 1920s with works by Erich Wegner , Grethe Jürgens and their teacher Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld, as well as international light art with works by Klaus Geldmacher , Christian Herdeg, Brigitte Kowanz , Mischa Kuball, among others , Vollrad Kutscher, Francesco Mariotti , Jan van Munster , Molitor & Kuzmin , Leonardo Mosso, Otto Piene , Regine Schumann and Timm Ulrichs .

The collection is largely owned by the Robert Simon Art Foundation and is shown in the Celle Art Museum with the Robert Simon Collection .

literature

• Lothar Romain: Insights into the Robert Simon Collection in the Bomann Museum. Celle 1997, ISBN 3-925902-25-2 .
• Susanne McDowell, Julia Otto, Robert Simon (eds.): The first 24-hour art museum AT NIGHT. Light art from the Robert Simon collection. Celle 2010, ISBN 978-3-925902-69-7 .