Scharpff Collection
The Scharpff Collection is a collection of contemporary art that was built up by the couple Rudolf († 2019) and Ute Scharpff from the 1960s.
Initially, the focus was on the Nouveaux Réalistes , American graffiti painting and socially critical American art. Later, the focus of the collection was placed on painting . Today the collection includes groups of works by internationally renowned artists from Germany ( Albert Oehlen , André Butzer , Neo Rauch and others), America ( Christopher Wool , Julian Schnabel and others) and England ( Bridget Riley , Glenn Brown , Rebecca Warren ).
Carolin Scharpff-Striebich has been the second generation to manage it since 2004 . Through her participation, the so-called 'open depot' was created, in which the works of the collection are integrated. This enables five German museums - Hamburger Kunsthalle , Kunstmuseum Stuttgart , Kunstmuseum Bonn , Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Kunsthalle Mannheim - to work with the holdings of the collection according to their own ideas and wishes on the basis of a cooperation agreement.
Exhibition overview
- 1985: Les Nouveaux Réalistes / Nouveau Réalisme , Kunsthalle Mannheim , then Kunstmuseum Winterthur (group exhibition with works from the Scharpff Collection)
- 1987: New York graffiti . Scharpff Collection, Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen am Rhein
- 1993: leaps in time. Artistic positions of the 80s . Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen am Rhein
- 1997: Family Values . American art of the 1980s and 1990s. The Scharpff Collection in the Contemporary Gallery, Hamburger Kunsthalle , Hamburg
- 2003: hot and cold . Current painting from the Scharpff Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle , Hamburg
- 2004: hot and cold . Current painting from the Scharpff Collection, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
- 2005: styles and styles . Current painting from the Scharpff Collection, Goethe-Institut Sofia
- 2011: New York Graffiti from the Scharpff Collection, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
- 2014: Cool Place. Scharpff Collection, Stuttgart Art Museum
literature
- Current catalog: Collection in transition. The Rudolf and Ute Scharpff Collection. , Holzwarth Publ., Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-935567-76-3 . ( online )