Wilhelm Hack Museum

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The founding of the Wilhelm Hack Museum was made possible by a generous donation by the Cologne businessman Wilhelm Hack (1899-1985), who gave his important art collection to the city of Ludwigshafen in 1971.
Since 1979, this collection has been shown together with the municipal art collections in a museum that was newly built at the former Ludwigshafen marketplace, now Klüber Platz.

Over a period of almost fifty years, Wilhelm Hack had placed emphasis on different fields in his collection. These are the three major components:

• The "Gondorfer Fund" derives from an excavation of tombs from the Migration Period in Gondorf at the river Mosel and includes Celtic, Roman, and Franconian grave furnishings from the 5th century BC to the 8th century AD. 
• The medieval religious art comprises metal and ivory works, book and glass painting, and, above all, sculptures and panel painting of an extraordinary quality. 
• The museum's supra-regional importance is, however, due to the third group of artworks from the 20th century: the collection of modern ism documents the development of non-representational art from its beginnings around 1910 to the present.

represented artists

Richard Anuszkiewicz      Karel Appel      Ernst Barlach      Max Beckmann      Max Bill      Hartmut Böhm      Max Burchartz      John Cage      Heinrich Campendonk      Ilya Grigorevich Chashnik      Carlos Cruz-Diez      Christoph Dahlhausen      Salvador Dalí      Giorgio de Chirico      Niki de Saint Phalle      Robert Delaunay      Madeleine Dietz      Braco Dimitrijevic      Otto Dix      Cesar Domela      Jean Dubuffet      Max Ernst      Alexandra Exter      Lyonel Feininger      Sam Francis      Rupprecht Geiger      Camille Graeser      Richard Hamilton      Erich Heckel      Ernst Hermanns      Karl Hofer      Adolf Hölzel      Rudolf Jahns      Alexej von Jawlensky      Allen Jones      Asger Jorn

Wassily Kandinsky      Ernst Ludwig Kirchner      Paul Klee      Käthe Kollwitz      Bart van der Leck      Roy Lichtenstein      El Lissitzky      Richard Paul Lohse      August Macke      Kazimir Malevich      Franz Marc      Manolo Millares      Piet Mondrian      Marcello Morandini      François Morellet      Otto Mueller      Edvard Munch      Emil Nolde      Claes Oldenburg      Pablo Picasso      Jackson Pollock      Ljubov Popova      Bridget Riley      Christian Rohlfs      Nelly Rudin      Karl Schmidt-Rottluff      Kurt Schwitters      Richard Serra      Günther Uecker      Timm Ulrichs      Theo van Doesburg      Victor Vasarely      Ben Vautier