27. January to 14. April 2013
In 2010, the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts received 126 paintings and 33 sculptures as permanent loans from the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation. The works are excellently suited to complement the museum's own inventory of art in the GDR. The works have been publicly exhibited since 2010, primarily in dialogic presentations: Hartwig Ebersbach and Volker Stelzmann, Hubertus Giebe and Wolfgang Peuker, also Wolfram Ebersbach and Sighard Gille. In 'Ludwig in Leipzig IV', we distilled an entire decade and exhibited strikingly individual artistic thumbprints from the nineteen-eighties. The current presentation now shows works by Bernhard Heisig from the Ludwig Foundation and also the museum's own inventory. Heisig's partner in dialogue is Wolfgang Petrick, whose critical realism, interwoven … read more
7. February to 21. April 2013
The exhibition presents work on paper from the Deutsche Bank Collection, featuring 32 contemporary artists with biographical links to Saxony. While the spectrums of topics that the artists cover – among them Gerhard Richter, Imi Knoebel, Blinky Palermo, Georg Baselitz or Neo Rauch - do vary, they also reveal correspondence: the critical appraisal of German identity and history, visions of … read more
30. September to 13. January 2013
The exhibition revolves around pop and rock culture, a formative force for the post-war generation in particular. 177 photographs from the collection owned by the Folkwang Museum Essen are on show, conveying a unique and true to life insight into iconoclastic figures of pop such as Elvis Presley, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles or Queen. Musicians from the independent scene of … read more
30. September to 13. January 2013
Western, young, hedonistic and at times provocative – that’s what pop is. Overstepping the mark and breaking with tradition, pop mirrors the attitudes to life in the post-war generation. Featuring artwork from the Heinz Beck Collection in the Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen, the exhibition provides a glimpse into this age of artistic and social upheaval. Graphic art especially lends emphasis to the departure … read more