Collection Heide and Wolfgang Voelter

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Color woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada in the Voelter Collection
Pre-Columbian figures from the Voelter collection. Left: seated man, Mexico, 300 BC. - 300 AD Middle: Pensador, funeral figure from the Jalisco area in Mexico. Right: sitting figure.

The Heide and Wolfgang Voelter Collection was bequeathed in 2011 by Heide Voelter and her husband Wolfgang Voelter to the Graphic Collection at the Art History Institute of the University of Tübingen.

The private collection includes around 150 prints from the 20th century, mainly with figurative representations from the 1970s and 1980s. The original focus was on German Expressionism with works by Max Beckmann , Erich Heckel and Max Pechstein . Further works are by A. Paul Weber , Peter Nagel , Lambert Maria Wintersberger , Rudolf Hausner and Horst Janssen . A series of graphics by Friedrich Meckseper on the subject of Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Literature, Medicine, Economics and Peace is a highlight in the university environment. The internationally active collectors, who temporarily lived in Pakistan and the United States , also acquired two Japanese ones Woodcuts by the master Utagawa Toyokuni from the 19th century as well as three pre-Columbian figurines from western Mexico before the colonization by the Spaniards.

Benefactor

Heide Voelter is a veterinarian and has been the editor of the journal for nature research for many years . She met her future husband on the Orient Express on the way to Istanbul when he traveled to Israel, where, to the best of his knowledge, he was the first German exchange student. During his travels he developed his enthusiasm for art.

Wolfgang Voelter is a biochemist and professor emeritus at the University of Tübingen , who mainly dealt with the chemistry of natural products and their processing into medicinal products. In 1976, he set up one of the world's leading research institutes for natural product chemistry in Pakistan. In 1997 he received the Federal Cross of Merit for his life's work .

Exhibition in the Museum of the University of Tübingen (MUT) in Hohentübingen Castle

Almost forty selected works from the Heide and Wolfgang Voelter collection were exhibited in the Museum of the University of Tübingen (MUT) in Hohentübingen Castle until February 15, 2015.

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  1. ↑ “Scientists Live with Art. The Voelter Graphics Collection ”- Exhibition in the Hohentübingen Castle Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT.
  2. ↑ a b c Scientific life with art. Prints from the Heide and Wolfgang Voelter Collection - New exhibition in the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT at Hohentübingen Castle.
  3. ↑ Dorothee Hermann: Beyond the abstraction, prints from the Voelter collection in the Tübingen University Museum. Schwäbisches Tagblatt dated November 7, 2014.
  4. ↑ Not intended for the basement. With collector Wolfgang Voelter in the graphic exhibition of the university in Tübingen Castle. Schwäbisches Tagblatt dated December 23, 2014.