Kunstmuseum Bonn presents a Homage to Gallerist Erhard Klein

Tuesday, 02 December 2008 20:59

 

BONN.- On Erhard Klein’s 70th birthday, the Kunstmuseum Bonn is organizing a small homage that brings together the major pieces that the Kunstmuseum have acquired from the gallerist in Bonn’s Südstadt (from 1970) and in Bad Münstereifel-Mutscheid (to 2006). On show will be artworks by Beuys, Polke, Knoebel, Palermo, Droese and other internationally known artists. For the occasion, Martin Noël is working on a new work that will be incorporated in the presentation. In addition, the photographer Franz Fischer – who was present at the many openings and events at Galerie Klein – will lend us his black-and-white photos for a documentation. On exhibition through 11 January, 2009.

The Kunstmuseum Bonn concentrates on focal points that have evolved over the years and were already laid down in Bonn's cultural politics of the 50s and 60s, namely German art and its international ties. This German art is centered on few names. Whole blocks were collected, work groups assembled, whether from Baselitz, Beuys, Darboven, Kiefer, Knoebel, Laib, Palermo, Penck, Polke, Richter, etc. There is no other place in the world where post-'45 German art can be studied so choicely, so particularly and so concisely as in Bonn. This objective will remain the same in the future. However, it has for many years been complemented by an internationally active Graphic Collection, whose serial works on paper include those of Beuys (as well as his multiples), Max Ernst's illustrated books and graphic works (Bolliger Collection), etc., as well as the video collection (Oppenheim Collection). For the past two and a half years, these focal points have been expanded to include the art of photography. In just this way our art museum has also grown to become a meeting place for discussions, lectures and entertainment in other media like video, film, music, theater.

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