kunsthalle weishaupt

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The entrepreneur Siegfried Weishaupt and his wife Jutta in 40 years have built up a top-class collection of modern and contemporary art, which since November 2007 in the Munich architect of tungsten Wöhr newly established private museum is now open to the public.

On 1280 m² of exhibition space in regularly changing constellations of European and American classics from the second half of the 20th Century to the present the present.

Incunabula of abstract expressionism - including Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning - includes Weishaupt collection as well as works by the American pop artist Andy Warhol , Roy Lichtenstein and Tom Wesselmann . Josef Albers and Max Bill , representing the concrete art and items from ZERO and Op-Art round from that period on the European side. Is the focus of the collection is on painting, so be certain aspects of collection but supplemented by selected items or sculptural installations - artists such as Nam June Paik , Keith Haring , Tony Cragg , Richard Long , Wolfgang Laib , or be mentioned as examples. Current trends reflect the collection of Robert Longo , Jason Martin and Liam Gillick resist.

represented artists

Yaacov Agam      Josef Albers      Arman      John M. Armleder      Jean Arp      Jean-Michel Basquiat      Max Bill      Anthony Caro      John Chamberlain      Tony Cragg      Mark di Suvero      Piero Dorazio      Ulrich Erben      Barry Flanagan      Dan Flavin      Lucio Fontana      Rupprecht Geiger      Karl Gerstner      Liam Gillick      Gotthard Graubner      Peter Halley      Keith Haring      Erich Hauser      Robert Indiana      Donald Judd      Ellsworth Kelly      Jürgen Klauke      Yves Klein      Imi Knoebel      Willem de Kooning      Jannis Kounellis      Wolfgang Laib      Roy Lichtenstein      Richard Paul Lohse      Richard Long      Robert Longo

Morris Louis      Heinz Mack      Robert Mangold      Piero Manzoni      Agnes Martin      Jason Martin      Almir Mavignier      John McCracken      François Morellet      Kenneth Noland      Markus Oehlen      Roman Opalka      Nam June Paik      Otto Piene      Robert Rauschenberg      Ad Reinhardt      Hans Peter Reuter      Bridget Riley      Mark Rothko      Ulrich Rückriem      Kenny Scharf      Richard Serra      Jesús Rafael Soto      Frank Stella      Jean Tinguely      Günther Uecker      Victor Vasarely      Bernar Venet      Friedrich Vordemberge      Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart      Andy Warhol      Tom Wesselmann      Ben Willikens      Beat Zoderer