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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

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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

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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

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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

David Hockney

Contrejour in the French Style - Against the Day dans le style francais, 1974

Ludwig Múzeum of Contemporary Art Budapest

David Hockney

Contrejour in the French Style - Against the Day dans le style francais
1974

Permanent Loan

© David Hockney

Vladimir Yankilevsky

Triptych No. 14, Self-Portrait (in Memory of my Father), 1987

Ludwig Museum at the State Russian Museum

Vladimir Yankilevsky

Triptych No. 14, Self-Portrait (in Memory of my Father)
1987

Donation

© Vladimir Yankilevsky. Courtesy: Ludwig Museum at the State Russian Museum, 2023.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Portrait of a Young Man, 1632

Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Portrait of a Young Man
1632

Permanent Loan

Photo: Anne Gold, Aachen

Jurij Konstantinovič Korolev

Kosmonauten, 1982

Neue Nationalgalerie

Jurij Konstantinovič Korolev

Kosmonauten
1982

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

© Jurij Korolev

Wolfgang Smy

Blaues Rad, 1987

Museum der bildenden Künste

Wolfgang Smy

Blaues Rad
1987

Gottlieb Kirchner & Johann Gregorius Höroldt, Meißen

Table Fountaine, 1732

Ludwig Collection in the Old Town Hall - Museum Bamberg

Gottlieb Kirchner & Johann Gregorius Höroldt, Meißen

Table Fountaine
1732

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