The Peter C. Ruppert Collection of European concrete art is housed at the Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg in Würzburg since 2002.
The collection was initially assembled by Peter C. Ruppert (1935-2019)[1][2] and later together with his wife Rosemarie. It includes around 418 works by 254 European Concrete Art artists from the end of World War II onwards from almost all parts of Europe, including Hans Arp, Max Bill, Anthony Caro, Günter Fruhtrunk, Auguste Herbin, Richard Paul Lohse, François Morellet, Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely.[3][4] One focus of the collection is Concrete Art in Germany after 1945, including works by artists of the former GDR.[4]
Other special features within the collection are the group of works by concrete artists from Great Britain (including Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson) and the section of concrete photography (with works by for example, Kilian Breier, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Heinrich Heidersberger, Gottfried Jäger, Peter Keetman, and Otto Steinert). About 250 artists from 23 European countries[3] are included with exemplary works.
It is characteristic of Concrete art that these works do not depict the real world, but are based on the pictorial means of color, form, line, chiaroscuro, light and movement. In many cases, the artists make use of geometry or other mathematical methods in order to juxtapose the seen reality with their own, artistically autonomous one.
Since the museum was founded in 2002, the collection has been under the patronage of the respective Secretary General of the Council of Europe, since 2019 this is Marija Pejčinović Burić.[5] The collection is continuously being expanded. Current artistic trends as well as still missing artistic positions after 1945 are added.[4]
See also
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edit- ^ "Traueranzeige Peter C. Ruppert" [Orbituary Peter C. Ruppert]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 2019-02-16. Retrieved 2023-04-16.
- ^ Firsching, Ulrich Raphael. "Sammler Peter C. Ruppert gestorben" [Collector Peter C. Ruppert died]. kunstmarkt.com (in German). Retrieved 2023-04-07.
- ^ a b "Künstler der Sammlung Peter C. Ruppert - Aufteilung nach Ländern" [Artists of the Peter C. Ruppert Collection - By Countries]. www.kulturspeicher.de. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
- ^ a b c "Sammlung Peter C. Ruppert – Konkrete Kunst in Europa nach 1945: Eine der größten Sammlungen Konkreter Kunst in Europa" [Peter C. Ruppert Collection - Concrete Art in Europe after 1945: One of the largest collections of Concrete Art in Europe]. www.kulturspeicher.de. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
- ^ "Marija Pejčinović Burić zur Generalsekretärin des Europarates gewählt" [Marija Pejčinović Burić elected Secretary General of the Council of Europe]. www.coe.int. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
Further reading
edit- Heese, Luisa for the museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg; Riese, Hans-Peter; Kunze, Franziska (2022). Konkrete Kunst in Europa nach 1945. Die Sammlung Peter C. Ruppert: Katalog für das Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg [Concrete Art in Europe after 1945. The Peter C. Ruppert Collection: Catalog for the Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg] (in German and English). Cologne: Wienand. ISBN 978-3868326086.