Würth Collection

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Schwäbisch Hall, Kunsthalle Würth, sculpture by Niki de Saint Phalle

The Würth Collection , created by the entrepreneur Reinhold Würth , is one of the largest and most important private collections of 20th and 21st century art in Germany. It encompasses over 18,000 works, especially classical modern art , but also the renaissance .

The holdings range from old German paintings via Carl Spitzweg to Roy Lichtenstein , Georg Baselitz , Jörg Immendorff , Antonius Höckelmann and Gerhard Richter . One focus is on expressionism with works a. a. by Edvard Munch , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Gabriele Münter , Emil Nolde and Max Beckmann .

It also includes the old German paintings of the 15th and 16th centuries acquired from the Princely Fürstenberg collections of Heinrich zu Fürstenberg . Century, which are shown in the Johanniterkirche in Schwäbisch Hall . The pictures are shown in the Museum Würth in Künzelsau , in the Kulturforum Würth Chur as well as in the Kunsthalle Würth and in the Johanniterkirche. On January 27, 2008 the Musée Würth France Erstein was opened in the industrial area of Erstein . It shows a selection of artistic and sculptural works from the Würth Collection on two floors. Erstein is an exhibition space for the experimental .

In addition, the collection contains the so-called Kunstkammer Würth with small sculptures from the 17th and 18th centuries ( exhibited in the Bodemuseum in Berlin from 2006–2009, in the Domquartier in Salzburg in 2018 ), a Christmas crib collection and a collection of historic car mechanic tools and vehicles -Spare Parts.

literature

  • Karin von Maur : From Spitzweg to Baselitz. Forays into the Würth Collection . Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2005, ISBN 3-89929-046-1
  • Werner Spies : love at first sight. Hundreds of new acquisitions from the Würth Collection . Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2007, ISBN 978-3-89929-111-7
  • Beate Elsen-Schwedler, Michael Eissenhauer, C. Sylvia Weber (eds.): From Hockney to Holbein . The Würth Collection in Berlin, Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2015 (catalog for the exhibition in the Martin-Gropius-Bau ).

Web links

Commons : Collection Würth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Würth Collection. Retrieved July 17, 2011 .
  2. ↑ MIRACLE ART. Selected items from the Würth Art Chamber . In: DomQuartier Salzburg . March 24, 2017 ( domquartier.at [accessed October 6, 2018]).