Stoffel Collection

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The Stoffel collection is a collection of contemporary art by the couple Eleonore and Michael Stoffel. It is considered to be one of the most important private art collections in Germany.

The collection has been compiled by Eleonore and Michael Stoffel, an art historian and a lawyer, since the late 1960s and 1970s, respectively. With her objects she shows important developments in German and American art in particular from the 1960s to 1990s. Works by Marlene Dumas , Caroll Dunham , Günther Förg , Leiko Ikemura , Jörg Immendorff , Mike Kelley , Martin Kippenberger , Per Kirkeby , Markus Lüpertz , AR Penck , Ulrich Rückriem , David Salle , Rosemarie Trockel , Nicola Tyson and Terry Winters as well as a few are represented Works by Georg Baselitz , David Hockney , Hermann Nitsch , Serge Poliakoff and Antoni Tàpies .

Engagement in Cologne

Abstract metal sculpture "Attila" by Paul Suter on Barbarossaplatz, Cologne
“Attila” by Paul Suter, Barbarossaplatz, Cologne

As early as 1977, the Stoffels donated the sculpture “Attila” by the Swiss sculptor Paul Suter to the city of Cologne ; this was set up at Barbarossaplatz. They acquired an abstract painting by Gerhard Richter (work number 599) in 1986 and loaned it to the Museum Ludwig until 1999, before auctioning it again. With part of the collection they initiated the Cologne Sculpture Park in 1996 on a wasteland in the Neustadt-Nord district of Cologne , combined with the establishment of the Society of Friends of the Cologne Sculpture Park. Since 1997, outdoor sculptures from the collection, supplemented by loans, have been presented here on a regular basis, and the respective exhibition is accompanied by a catalog.

Michael & Eleonore Stoffel Foundation

In 1992 Eleonore and Michael Stoffel established a non-profit foundation, which owned the collection and which they managed themselves. Michael Stoffel died on June 9, 2005, Eleonore Stoffel on April 16, 2007; the foundation should continue collecting activities in the interests of both of them. Some of the outdoor sculptures were donated to the sculpture park as “permanent” loans.

Foundation to the Munich Pinakotheken

In February 2006 Eleonore Stoffel gave a larger volume of the collection as a permanent loan to the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen ( Pinakothek der Moderne ). In the media, this donation was generally presented as a loss for Cologne due to a lack of commitment by local cultural policy. The Ludwig Museum , for example, was only interested in part of the collection under the then Kasper König , and the city's cultural department was in the decision-making phase without management for over a year.

The Munich Pinakothek der Moderne received the permanent loan without any conditions; the collection was to be incorporated into the existing holdings of the museum “for the benefit of the public”. The first major exhibition of the collection in Munich did not take place until 2008, after the death of the donor Eleonore Stoffel.

“Although thematically and stylistically very different, connecting elements can still be found within the Stoffel Collection: On the one hand, it is about the examination of painting and its radical questioning under changed historical conditions, on the other hand, it is about the expansion of formal means in installation processes and image creation. The particular sensitivity for socio-political issues is also striking. "

- Carla Schulz-Hoffmann :

Exhibitions

literature

  • Iris Benner: "You go to a place that is completely different from the one you left" . (Iris Benner in conversation with Eleonore and Michael Stoffel on July 16, 2003 in Cologne). In: Heinz Althöfer (Ed.): Die Plastik - Gestus und Raum . Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund 2003, p. 274-279 .
  • Siegfried Gohr : Passionate, provocative. The Stoffel Collection . (Catalog for the exhibition). Ed .: Modern Art Collection / Pinakothek der Moderne. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2350-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jolanda Drexler: Passionate Provocative. The Stoffel Collection. Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 11/20/08 - 03/01/09 . In: Paolo Bianchi (Ed.): Kunstforum Hot Spot Tropen . tape 195 . Verlag Kunstforum, 2009, p. 363 ( online with registration [accessed December 14, 2019]).
  2. ↑ tie: memories of an elegant appearance. In: rundschau-online.de. April 18, 2007, accessed on December 14, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Uta Baier: Collector Eleonore Stoffel has died . In: THE WORLD . No. 91 . Axel Springer Verlag, April 19, 2007, p. 30 .
  4. ↑ a b Christiane Hoffmans: Glücklose Kölner Kulturpolitik . In: Welt am Sonntag . No. 7 . Axel Springer Verlag, February 12, 2006.
  5. ↑ The artists. In: mescollection.de. Michael & Eleonore Stoffel Foundation, accessed on December 14, 2019 .
  6. ^ A b Susanne Boecker: Green Cube in the City. A conversation with Renate Goldmann, director and artistic director of the Sculpture Park Cologne . In: Kunstforum Dressed! Art en Vogue . No. 197 . Kunstforum International, 2009 ( online with registration [accessed December 14, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Michael Kohler: 41 million euros: auction record for paintings by Gerhard Richter. In: ksta.de. February 11, 2015, accessed on December 14, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ Museum-Aktuell: Das Museums-Portal, European Museums, Verlag Dr. Chr. Müller-Straten. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  9. ↑ a b Michael & Eleonore Stoffel - The Foundation. In: mescollection.de. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  10. ^ A b Carla Schulz-Hoffmann: Collection Michael and Eleonore Stoffel . In: Bavarian State Painting Collections. Annual report 2003-2006 . Munich 2012, p. 23-25 .
  11. ^ Georg Imdahl: Stoffel collection leaves Cologne. In: ksta.de. February 7, 2006, accessed December 14, 2019 (German).
  12. ^ Tk: Cologne loses the Stoffel collection . In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn), Feuilleton . February 8, 2006, p. 1 .