Museum Ludwig

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What`s on in Cologne with pictures or without pictures

Roy Lichtenstein 's M-Maybe, Andy Warhol 's Brillo Box es and George Segal 's Restaurant Window, all icons of American Pop Art, had all just been completed when in 1969 they arrived as a loan at Wallraf-Richartz-Museum . The works came from Peter and Irene Ludwig, who had put together the largest Pop Art Collection outside of the USA. 

The donation of 350 modern artworks by Mr and Mrs Ludwig marked the founding of Museum Ludwig in 1976. It was to be the first museum to exhibit contemporary art in Cologne. Apart from Pop Art, the Ludwigs also made a permanent loan to the new museum of their Russian Avant-Garde Collection from 1906 to 1930, as well as several hundred Works by Pablo Picasso . The Picassos were entrusted to the museum in two generous donations in 1994 and 2001 and are now owned by Museum Ludwig. The Modern Art Department of the Wallraf Richartz Museum with the Expressionism Collection amassed by the Cologne lawyer Joseph Haubrich, formed the basis of the contemporary art collection and was also integrated into Museum Ludwig. 

The museum has made it a policy to continue collecting contemporary art - the latest work is always just a few months old. In this way German art from the 1970s and 80s made its way into Museum Ludwig, along with the latest international developments and installations by the younger avant-garde.

Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday:
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Every first Thursday of the month 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

represented artists

Pierre Alechinsky      Pawel Althamer      Karel Appel      Jean Arp      Richard Artschwager      Stephan Balkenhol      Ernst Barlach      Georg Baselitz      Willi Baumeister      Max Beckmann      Matthias Beckmann      Joseph Beuys      Georges Braque      Erik Bulatov      Alexander Calder      Marc Chagall      Christo & Jeanne-Claude      James Coleman      Salvador Dalí      Jan Dibbets      Otto Dix      Jean Dubuffet      Max Ernst      Alexandra Exter      Fischli & Weiss      Lucio Fontana      Otto Freundlich      Katharina Fritsch      Isa Genzken      Alberto Giacometti      Gilbert & George      Natalia Goncharova      Douglas Gordon      George Grosz      Andreas Gursky      Hans Hartung      Erich Heckel      Jörg Herold      David Hockney      Heinrich Hoerle      Karl Hofer      Jörg Immendorff      Alexej von Jawlensky      Jasper Johns      Wassily Kandinsky      On Kawara      Anselm Kiefer      Ernst Ludwig Kirchner      Per Kirkeby      R. B. Kitaj      Jürgen Klauke      Paul Klee      Yves Klein      Oskar Kokoschka      Willem de Kooning      Mikhail Larionov      Fernand Léger

Wilhelm Lehmbruck      Roy Lichtenstein      El Lissitzky      Markus Lüpertz      August Macke      Kazimir Malevich      Robert Mapplethorpe      Franz Marc      Henri Matisse      Mario Merz      Paula Modersohn-Becker      Otto Mueller      Bruce Nauman      Ernst Wilhelm Nay      Barnett Newman      Hermann Nitsch      Emil Nolde      Marcel Odenbach      Claes Oldenburg      Nam June Paik      Max Pechstein      A.R. Penck      Raymond Pettibon      Francis Picabia      Pablo Picasso      Otto Piene      Sigmar Polke      Jackson Pollock      Ljubov Popova      Neo Rauch      Robert Rauschenberg      Man Ray      Klaus Rinke      Alexander Rodtschenko      Ulrike Rosenbach      James Rosenquist      Mark Rothko      Ulrich Rückriem      Karl Schmidt-Rottluff      Julian Schnabel      Kurt Schwitters      George Segal      Richard Serra      Keith Sonnier      Frank Stella      Antoni Tàpies      Wolfgang Tillmans      Rosemarie Trockel      Cy Twombly      Günther Uecker      Stephan von Huene      Wolf Vostell      Jeff Wall      Andy Warhol      Tom Wesselmann