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March 22, 2024 — August 12, 2024

Roni Horn - Give Me Paradox or Give Me Death
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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

Unidentified artist, Large faience vase with hexagonal decoration, 1260, Photo: Hans-Dietrich Beyer

Unidentified artist

Large faience vase with hexagonal decoration, 1260

Museum for Islamic Art

Unidentified artist

Large faience vase with hexagonal decoration
1260



Permanent Loan

Photo: Hans-Dietrich Beyer

Vera Nedkova, Interieur, 1973, © Vera Nedkova

Vera Nedkova

Interieur, 1973

Graphic Museum Schreiner Foundation

Vera Nedkova

Interieur
1973



Permanent Loan

© Vera Nedkova

Manfred Kastner, Melancholia, 1980, © Estate Manfred Kastner

Manfred Kastner

Melancholia, 1980

Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Manfred Kastner

Melancholia
1980



Permanent Loan

© Estate Manfred Kastner

Andy Warhol, Saturday's Popeye, 1960, © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Andy Warhol

Saturday's Popeye, 1960

Ludwig Forum for International Art

Andy Warhol

Saturday's Popeye
1960



Permanent Loan

© 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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

Paul Hannong (Straßburg), Turrine in the Shape of a Duck with Matching Base Plate, 1754, Courtesy: Museums of the City of Bamberg, Bamberg Historical Museum. Photo: Jürgen Musolf, Nuremberg

Paul Hannong (Straßburg)

Turrine in the Shape of a Duck with Matching Base Plate, 1754–1745

Ludwig Collection in the Old Town Hall - Museum Bamberg

Paul Hannong (Straßburg)

Turrine in the Shape of a Duck with Matching Base Plate
1754–1745



Permanent Loan

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

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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