Sammlung Arnd und Erika Siegel

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The first image, the couple bought in 1972 Siegel, a small, expressive oil painting by the Uruguayan artist Solari, they had discovered in Montevideo. Passion for the collection, however, was only a decade later.

Could be guided solely by their preferences of the collectors, without a defined system to follow. Arnd and Erika Siegel, always accompanied by the art historian Roland I. Pramor bought the pictures to live with them. You chose for the daily meeting for the dialogue.

Go back to the roots, it ends up where the collection of Arnd and Erika Siegel - with more than 80 works of great artists of classical modern ism - is now seen in public for the first time: in Stade. Here was the cradle of Arnd Siegel, the son of a culture-surgeon, whose family for several generations, the piano factory operated seal.
The 'Old Island Bridge'

But above all, shows the first image in the constant presence of the young seal Ärztepaar lived, the "Old Island Bridge" in Stade. The pastel around 1910, an heirloom from the family is the only picture of the collection by an unknown artist.

Emil Nolde , Edvard Munch und Pablo Picasso über Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Max Pechstein bis hin zu Willi Baumeister und Horst Janssen ." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Big names were added in the last 30 years: from Emil Nolde , Edvard Munch and Pablo Picasso , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Max Pechstein , to Willi Baumeister and Horst Janssen .

People First - that was true of Arnd and Erika Siegel not only in their careers as doctors, but it is also a credo of their understanding of art. In this context vary motifs and themes of the lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, drawings, watercolors and oil paintings.

Among them are children's portraits and portraits, bathers and dancers, pictures of people at work, in the café or in vaudeville, in the jungle of cities or in harmony with nature. (Source: Hilmar Schulz - Kunsthaus Stade )