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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
Ausstellungsplakat mit This Way Up Restricted with Melinda Napurrurla Wilson, Polly Anne Napangardi Dixon, Kirsten Nangala Egan and Delena Napaljarri Turner Support
December 8, 2023 — April 7, 2024

REVISIONS made by the Warlpiri of Central Australia and Patrick Warehouse - Exhibition at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne
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Ludwig Collection: A Selection

Sargis Muradyan, My Daughters, 1969, © Sargis Muradyan

Sargis Muradyan

My Daughters, 1969

Neue Nationalgalerie

Sargis Muradyan

My Daughters
1969



Collection Ludwig, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen, loan of the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation

© Sargis Muradyan

Natalia LL, Consumer Art, 1975, © ZW Foundation / Natalia LL Archive

Natalia LL

Consumer Art, 1975

Ludwig Múzeum of Contemporary Art Budapest

Natalia LL

Consumer Art
1975



Permanent Loan

© ZW Foundation / Natalia LL Archive

Anna Oppermann, Gurken und Tomaten (Frau Sein), 1968, © Anna Oppermann. Courtesy: Estate Anna Oppermann and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, www.bthumm.de

Anna Oppermann

Gurken und Tomaten (Frau Sein), 1968

Ludwig Forum for International Art

Anna Oppermann

Gurken und Tomaten (Frau Sein)
1968



Permanent Loan

© Anna Oppermann. Courtesy: Estate Anna Oppermann and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, www.bthumm.de

Valentin Starčev, Prometheus, 1984, © Valentin Starčev

Valentin Starčev

Prometheus, 1984

Graphic Museum Schreiner Foundation

Valentin Starčev

Prometheus
1984



Permanent Loan

© Valentin Starčev

Pablo Picasso, Mousquetaire à l'oiseau, 1971, © Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023

Pablo Picasso

Mousquetaire à l'oiseau, 1971

Ludwig Museum for International Art in the Chinese National Museum (NAMOC)

Pablo Picasso

Mousquetaire à l'oiseau
1971



Donation

© Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023

Boris Nemenskij, On the Nameless High, 1961, © Boris Nemenskij. Foto: Carl Brunn

Boris Nemenskij

On the Nameless High, 1961

Neue Nationalgalerie

Boris Nemenskij

On the Nameless High
1961



Collection Ludwig, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen, loan of the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation

© Boris Nemenskij. Foto: Carl Brunn

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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