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Museum Ludwig, located in Cologne, Germany, houses a collection of modern art. It includes works from Pop Art, Abstract and Surrealism, and has one of the largest Picasso collections in Europe. It holds many works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

Museum Ludwig
Established1976
LocationCologne, Germany
Collection sizeSammlung Haubrich
Sammlung Ludwig
DirectorYilmaz Dziewior [de][1]
Public transit access5 16 18 Köln Hbf
Websitemuseum-ludwig.de
Museum Ludwig
Museum Ludwig
Museum Ludwig and Cologne cathedral at night
Museum Ludwig and Cologne cathedral at night

History


The museum emerged in 1976 as an independent institution from the Wallraf-Richartz Museum. That year the chocolate magnate Peter Ludwig agreed to endow 350 modern artworks—then valued at $45 million [2]—and in return the City of Cologne committed itself to build a dedicated "Museum Ludwig" for works made after the year 1900. The recent building, which was designed by architects Peter Busmann and Godfrid Haberer opened in 1986 near the Cologne Cathedral.[3] The new building first became home to both the Wallraf Richartz Museum as well as Museum Ludwig. In 1994, it was decided to separate the two institutions and to place the building on Bischofsgartenstrasse at the sole disposal of Museum Ludwig. In 1999 Steve Keene painted in the museum.

The building is also home to the Kölner Philharmonie. The Heinrich-Böll-Platz, a public square designed by Dani Karavan, is above the concert hall at the north-east of the building. During concerts people are not permitted to walk on the square, as it creates acoustic disturbances for the concert-goers below.[4]

In 2016 the museum joined forces with the Bell Art Center to organize an unofficial retrospective of Anselm Kiefer, which opened at Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts. The last stop on the tour in China was to be the new Jupiter Museum of Art in Shenzhen, but a delayed museum opening caused the works to be put into storage. At this point the museum lost track of the pieces and began to search for them. In January 2020 they finally located the pieces in a warehouse in Shenzhen and attempted to retrieve the piece. They were stopped, however, by Chinese authorities. Diplomatic action has been undertaken by the German Government, the City of Koblenz, and Kiefer himself, to secure the return of the pieces, which include the monumental work Pasiphae.[5]


Collection


The museum essentially incorporates the Sammlung Haubrich, a collection by lawyer Josef Haubrich of art from the years 1914 to 1939 donated to the city of Cologne on 2 May 1946. Directly after World War II, in May 1946, Haubrich presented the city with his Expressionism collection (Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Otto Mueller) and works by other representatives of Classical Modernism (Marc Chagall, Otto Dix). The second integral part of the museum is the Sammlung Ludwig, a collection of art by Picasso, Russian avant-garde and American Pop-art artists. With around 900 works by Picasso, the museum today has the third largest collection of this artist worldwide, after Barcelona and Paris. In addition, Peter Ludwig and his wife Irene later put their collection of the Russian avant-garde on permanent loan to the museum, including 600 works from the period 1905 to 1935 by artists such as Kasimir Malevich, Ljubov Popova, Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, and Alexander Rodchenko. Today the museum houses the most comprehensive collection of early Russian avant-garde artworks outside Russia.[6][7]


Works



Selected works of the collection



Wolfgang Hahn Prize


Since 1994 the Friends of the Museum Ludwig have honoured each year an international artist with the ‘Wolfgang Hahn Prize’, presented during the city's art fair Art Cologne. Both the annual highlight of the Friends' activities and one of the cultural features of Cologne and the Rhineland, this purchase prize is dedicated to the memory of Wolfgang Hahn (1924–1987), chief conservator and painting restorer at Wallraf Richartz Museum / Museum Ludwig and one of Cologne's most far-sighted collectors. The budget for the prize amounts to a maximum of 100,000 euros per annum. The museum also acquires a work from each prizewinner.[8]

An international jury chooses from the nominations submitted by the members. The Wolfgang Hahn Prize has been awarded to the following artists:


Directors



Nazi looted art


In 1999 the museum returned the painting Zwei weibliche Halbakte (Two Female Nudes ) (1919) by Otto Mueller to the heirs of Dr. Ismar Littmann.[11] In February 2000 the museum returned La Grappe de Raisins (1920) by Louis Marcoussis (1883–1941) to the family of El Lissitzky and Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers.[11] In 2013 the city of Cologne agreed that the Ludwig Museum should restitute six valuable drawings looted by the Nazis from the Jewish art collector Alfred Flechtheim to his heirs. The drawings are by Karl Hofer, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Ernst Barlach, Aristide Maillol and Wilhelm Morgner.[12] The Ludwig Museum also agreed to restitute five drawings by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel and Georges Kars to the heirs of Curt Glaser.[12]


See also



References


  1. Ludwig, Museum. "Team". Museum Ludwig, Köln (in German). Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  2. Wilson, William (July 12, 1987). "A Whiff Of Modernism In Cologne". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
  3. Eric Pace (July 23, 1996), Peter Ludwig, 71, German Art Collector, Dies New York Times.
  4. Hendorf, Matthias (30 November 2018). "Musik in der Philharmonie: Ein Wachdienst für Jahrzehnte am Heinrich-Böll-Platz". Kölnische Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  5. Brown, Kate. "A German Museum Director Tracked Down 6 Missing Works by Anselm Kiefer in a Chinese Warehouse. But China Is Blocking Their Return". news.artnet.com. Artnet. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  6. Jeevan Vasagar (26 October 2001), Cologne museum to get 774 Picassos The Guardian.
  7. Hickley, Catherine (2020-09-30). "A Museum Puts Its Fakes on Show". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2021-03-30. COLOGNE, Germany — Museums don’t usually advertise fakes in their collections. But the Museum Ludwig here is exposing them to public scrutiny in a taboo-breaking new exhibition. The paintings on show in “Russian Avant-Garde at the Museum Ludwig: Original and Fake” are all ostensibly by artists from that radical movement of the early 20th century. Yet displayed alongside bona fide works by renowned artists like Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko and Natalia Goncharova are paintings whose previous attributions museum researchers now reject.
  8. Henrik Olesen: Wolfgang Hahn Prize COLOGNE 2012 Archived 2012-05-10 at the Wayback Machine Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
  9. "John Miller Awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize". artdaily.com. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
  10. Palm, Stefan (2011-11-08). "Hauptausschuss fällt wichtige Personalentscheidungen. Abschluss der Verträge für Chefs von Museum Ludwig und Schauspiel beschlossen". Stadt Köln – Amt für Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
  11. "Museum Ludwig, Köln (Ludwig Museum, Cologne)". www.lootedart.com. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  12. "City of Cologne Will Return Nazi-Looted Art to Heir of Jewish Collector". www.lootedart.com. JTA. Retrieved 2021-04-28.

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На других языках

[de] Museum Ludwig

Das Museum Ludwig ist ein Museum der Stadt Köln für die Kunst des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts und zählt heute zu den bedeutendsten Kunstmuseen Europas. Das unmittelbar südöstlich des Kölner Doms und des Hauptbahnhofs auf der Domplatte gelegene Museum beherbergt neben der größten Pop-Art-Sammlung Europas die drittgrößte Picasso-Sammlung der Welt, eine der wichtigsten Sammlungen zum deutschen Expressionismus, Schlüsselwerke der russischen Avantgarde und eine Sammlung zur Geschichte der Fotografie[1] mit ca. 70.000 Werken.[2] Das Museum verfügt über eine Ausstellungsfläche von rund 8.000 m². Im selben Gebäude befinden sich zudem die Kölner Philharmonie, die Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek der Stadt Köln und das Filmforum NRW.[3]
- [en] Museum Ludwig

[es] Museo Ludwig

El Museo Ludwig (en alemán, Museum Ludwig) es un museo de arte de Alemania, uno de los más importantes de la ciudad de Colonia. Contiene una gran variedad de obras del siglo XX y XXI, desde el arte abstracto, el expresionismo alemán y el surrealismo hasta el Pop Art (del cual alberga la mayor colección fuera de Estados Unidos). Posee igualmente una de las más importantes colecciones de Pablo Picasso de Europa, y en concreto, la mayor de Alemania.

[fr] Musée Ludwig

Le musée Ludwig (Museum Ludwig) est l'un des plus importants musées de Cologne, en Allemagne. Il contient une grande variété d'œuvres du XXe siècle, concernant le Pop art, la photographie à l'art abstrait ou au surréalisme. Il possède également l'une des plus importantes collections des tableaux de Pablo Picasso en Europe.

[it] Museo Ludwig

Il Museum Ludwig è un famoso museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Colonia, fondato nel 1976 dal collezionista Peter Ludwig. È situato a ridosso del Duomo e della stazione centrale, in un edificio che fu progettato dagli architetti Peter Busmann e Godfrid Haberer e inaugurato nel 1986.

[ru] Музей Людвига

Музей Людвига (нем. Museum Ludwig) в Кёльне — одно из значительнейших мировых собраний современного искусства. Расположен на площади Генриха Бёлля, непосредственно рядом с Кёльнским собором и Центральным железнодорожным вокзалом.


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