Our guiding principle is an unconditional love of art and the desire to make art accessible to everyone — internationally and in close cooperation with selected public museums.

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News

Support
April 28, 2024 — June 16, 2024

Sean Scully - Géographies
Support
March 22, 2024 — August 12, 2024

Roni Horn - Give Me Paradox or Give Me Death
Support
March 6, 2024 — June 17, 2024

Tübke and Italy: exhibition at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, 7.3.-16.6.2024
Flügel eines Diptychons mit der Krönung Mariens, Köln, um 1350, Elfenbein, Leihgabe der Peter und Irene Ludwig Stiftung, erworben 2023 für das Museum Schnütgen Support
January 26, 2024 — July 7, 2024

Newly acquired ivory carvings from the time of the Gothic cathedrals
Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, Iris, nach 1800, Hessen Kassel Heritage. Foto: Ute Brunzel Support
December 15, 2023 — March 24, 2024

Old Masters interpreted from a queer Perspective - Exhibition at Schloss Wilhelmshöhe of the Hessen Kessel Heritage
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Ludwig Collection: A Selection

Meister von St. Severin, Bernhard Visiting a Lady, from the Altenberg Bernhard cycle, 1505, Photo: Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation, Aachen

Meister von St. Severin

Bernhard Visiting a Lady, from the Altenberg Bernhard cycle, 1505–1520

Museum Schnütgen

Meister von St. Severin

Bernhard Visiting a Lady, from the Altenberg Bernhard cycle
1505–1520



Donation

Photo: Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation, Aachen

Porzellanmanufaktur Meißen, Service with the coat of arms of Pope Benedict XIV., 1741, Courtesy: Museums of the City of Bamberg, Bamberg Historical Museum. Photo: Jürgen Musolf, Nuremberg

Porzellanmanufaktur Meißen

Service with the coat of arms of Pope Benedict XIV., 1741

Ludwig Collection in the Old Town Hall - Museum Bamberg

Porzellanmanufaktur Meißen

Service with the coat of arms of Pope Benedict XIV.
1741



Permanent Loan

Courtesy: Museums of the City of Bamberg, Bamberg Historical Museum. Photo: Jürgen Musolf, Nuremberg

Joos van Cleve, Cherry Madonna, 1520, Photo: Anne Gold, Aachen

Joos van Cleve

Cherry Madonna, 1520–1525

Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum

Joos van Cleve

Cherry Madonna
1520–1525



Permant Loan

Photo: Anne Gold, Aachen

Manfred Kastner, Melancholia, 1980, © Estate Manfred Kastner

Manfred Kastner

Melancholia, 1980

Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Manfred Kastner

Melancholia
1980



Permanent Loan

© Estate Manfred Kastner

Claes Oldenburg, Stove, 1962, © Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg

Stove, 1962

Kunstmuseum Basel

Claes Oldenburg

Stove
1962



Permanent Loan

© Claes Oldenburg

Pablo Picasso, Mousquetaire et Amour, 1969, © Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Cologne, Britta Schlier, rba_d038676_01

Pablo Picasso

Mousquetaire et Amour, 1969

Museum Ludwig

Pablo Picasso

Mousquetaire et Amour
1969



Donation

© Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Cologne, Britta Schlier, rba_d038676_01

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Peter and Irene Ludwig – Collect Art, Change the World

Collect art, change the world: Beginning in the 1950s, Irene (née Monheim, 1927–2010) and Peter Ludwig (1925–1996) amassed one of the most important art collections of the second half of the twentieth century

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1977: Das Ehepaar an Irene Ludwigs 50. Geburtstag. Statt August Mackes 'Im Garten', 1912, das sich als Dauerleihgabe im Museum Ludwig befindet, ziert dieses Foto die Wand im Salon der Stiftung, zu Ehren der Stifter