Museum für Konkrete Kunst

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The Museum for Concrete Art Concrete Art devoted exclusively to what is unique in its specialization in Germany. The core of the collection was the purchase of the private art collection of Eugene Gomringer, which is one of the key representatives of concrete poetry. He worked as a secretary by Max Bill at the Ulm School of Design and maintained also close personal contacts with the main concrete artists. In 1980 he decided to sell his extensive collection of constructive and concrete art closed. The contact came about to Ingolstadt on the teaching of Herbert Geier, who ran that time in Ingolstadt an internationally renowned screen printing workshop, where among other things, Josef Albers , Anton Stankowski and Victor Vasarely print works were.

At the time, Ingolstadt had the Bavarian Army Museum, City Museum and the German Medical History Museum already several major museums. The city recognized the unique opportunity by building a collection, to a certain kind of art of the 20th Century focused to put another accent and a special place in the German museum world take. The purchase was made possible by the generous support of industry and trade as well as numerous donations from the Ingolstadt citizenship. In 1992, the Museum of Concrete Art in its current premises in a former barracks building from the 18th Century opened. The architectural design of the Munich architect Claus and Forster in 1993 awarded the prize of the Association of German Architects.

During the efforts to acquire the collection and to build a separate museum was a special closeness to design an important, oft-repeated argument that the establishment of a museum specifically does art in an industrial and automobile city like Ingolstadt seem particularly useful. This close relationship of concrete art and design is also reflected in the program of the house, the lights next to the concrete art, aspects of applied art in regular exhibitions.

represented artists

Josef Albers      Jean Arp      Frank Badur      Willi Baumeister      Max Bill      Hartmut Böhm      Erich Buchholz      Antonio Calderara      Max Cole      Gianni Colombo      Carlos Cruz-Diez      Gene Davis      Herman de Vries      Ad Dekkers      Walter Dexel      Inge Dick      Piero Dorazio      Leo Erb      Ulrich Erben      Bruno Erdmann      Günter Fruhtrunk      Heinz Gappmayr      Rupprecht Geiger      Ernst Geitlinger      Raimund Girke      Roland Goeschl      Kuno Gonschior      Camille Graeser      Alan Green      Jon Groom      Edgar Gutbub      Erwin Heerich

Heinrich Heidersberger      Ewerdt Hilgemann      Oskar Holweck      Gottfried Honegger      Raimer Jochims      Attila Kovács      Camill Leberer      Walter Leblanc      Richard Paul Lohse      Adolf Luther      Joseph Marioni      Lienhard von Monkiewitsch      Marcello Morandini      François Morellet      Jan van Munster      Heinz-Günter Prager      Bridget Riley      Ulrich Rückriem      Alf Schuler      Heinrich Siepmann      Jesús Rafael Soto      Anton Stankowski      Zdenek Sýkora      Günther Uecker      Victor Vasarely      Peter Vogel      Peter Weber      Ludwig Wilding      Marcel Wyss      Beat Zoderer