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24-595: The museum emerged in 1976 as an independent institution from the Wallraf-Richartz Museum . That year the chocolate magnate Peter Ludwig agreed to endow 350 modern artworks—then valued at $ 45 million —and in return the City of Cologne committed itself to build a dedicated "Museum Ludwig" for works made after 1900. The recent building was designed by architects Peter Busmann  [ de ] and Godfrid Haberer  [ de ] and opened in 1986 near

48-459: A "colorless substance" had been applied to the canvas to make it appear older. The picture was acquired by the museum in 1954. The museum, which will keep the forgery, still has five authentic Monet paintings in its collection. Otto Mueller Otto Müller (16 October 1874 – 24 September 1930) was a German painter and printmaker of the Die Brücke expressionist movement. Mueller

72-411: A harmonious simplification of form, colour and contours. He is known especially for his characteristic paintings of nudes and Romani women; his nickname was "Gypsy Mueller" and his mother was perhaps Romani. Mueller was a huge fan of Egyptian art , and likened his use of simple clean lines to the ancient style. The medium he preferred for his paintings was distemper on coarse canvas, which produced

96-433: A work from each prizewinner. An international jury chooses from the nominations submitted by the members. The Wolfgang Hahn Prize has been awarded to the following artists: In 1999 the museum returned the painting Zwei weibliche Halbakte ( Two Female Nudes ) (1919) by Otto Mueller to the heirs of Dr. Ismar Littmann . In February 2000 the museum returned La Grappe de Raisins (1920) by Louis Marcoussis (1883–1941) to

120-519: Is above the concert hall at the north-east of the building. During concerts people are not permitted to walk on the square, as it creates acoustic disturbances for the concert-goers below. In 2016 the museum joined forces with the Bell Art Center to organize an unofficial retrospective of Anselm Kiefer , which opened at Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts . The last stop on the tour in China

144-699: Is an Arrest of Jesus by the " Master of the Karlsruhe Passion ", the only surviving panel of that painter's influential Passion cycle not kept in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe . The Wallraf-Richartz-Museum houses an altarpiece (1515) from the Great Saint Martin Church in Cologne, one of the few known works by Jacob van Utrecht . Among other early Renaissance works in the collection are

168-403: Is lost due to his own destruction of his early pieces. When he settled to Berlin in 1908, his style became more expressionist. During this time there were meetings with Wilhelm Lehmbruck , Rainer Maria Rilke and Erich Heckel . In 1910, he joined ' Die Brücke ', a Dresden-based group of Expressionist artists. He was member of the group until it disbanded in 1913 due to artistic differences. At

192-401: Is one of the three major museums in Cologne . The museum dates back to the year 1824, when the comprehensive collection of medieval art from Ferdinand Franz Wallraf came to the city of Cologne by inheritance. The first building was donated by Johann Heinrich Richartz , and the museum was opened in 1861, just after his death. The collection was regularly expanded by donations, especially

216-854: The Adoration of the Child by an unknown artist; previously thought to have been painted by Hieronymus Bosch , and a panel of the Jabach Altarpiece by Albrecht Dürer . Among the artists in the collection from the Baroque through Rococo period are works by Rubens ( Juno and Argus , 1610); Rembrandt (self-portrait); Jordaens ; Frans Snyders ; van Dyck ; Frans Hals ; Gerard van Honthorst ; Pieter de Hooch ; Gerard de Lairesse ; François Boucher ; Nicolas de Largillierre ; Jean-Honoré Fragonard ; Marguerite Gérard , and Giambattista Pittoni . The Wallraf-Richartz collection includes works by

240-642: The Cologne Cathedral . The new building was home to both the Wallraf Richartz Museum as well as Museum Ludwig. In 1994, it was decided to separate the two institutions and to place the building on Bischofsgartenstrasse at the sole disposal of Museum Ludwig. In 1999, Steve Keene painted in the museum. The building is home to the Kölner Philharmonie . The Heinrich-Böll -Platz, a public square designed by Dani Karavan ,

264-793: The Impressionists Monet , Pissarro , Sisley , Gustave Caillebotte , and Berthe Morisot , whose Child among staked roses or "Kind zwischen Stockrosen", was painted in 1881. On 14 February 2008, the Wallraf–Richartz Museum announced that On the Banks of the Seine by Port Villez , attributed to Claude Monet , was a forgery. The discovery was made when the painting was examined by restorers prior to an upcoming Impressionism exhibition. X-ray and infrared testing revealed that

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288-605: The Nazis seized 357 of his works from German museums as " degenerate art ". They also looted Mueller' artworks from Jewish collectors like the Littmanns. Other Muellers were lost or stolen during the war Several artworks by Mueller turned up in the Gurlitt hoard . Mueller was one of the most lyrical of German expressionist painters. The main topic of Mueller's works is the unity of humans and nature; his paintings emphasize

312-736: The City of Koblenz , and Kiefer himself, to secure the return of the pieces, which include the monumental work Pasiphae . The museum essentially incorporates the Sammlung Haubrich , a collection by lawyer Josef Haubrich of art from 1914 to 1939 donated to the city of Cologne in May 1946. Directly after World War II , in May 1946, Haubrich presented the city with his Expressionism collection ( Erich Heckel , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , August Macke , Otto Mueller ) and works by other representatives of Classical Modernism ( Marc Chagall , Otto Dix ). The second integral part of

336-583: The Gothic attention to long flowing lines with brilliant colors and a Flemish influence of realism and attention to detail. This painting is considered typical of his style. It was executed about 1450, and shows the Virgin and Child reposing in a blooming rose arbor that is attended by Lochner's characteristic, child angels . Another outstanding Gothic painting in the Wallraf-Richartz's collection

360-573: The Haubrich collection of contemporary art in 1946. In 1976, on the occasion of the donation of Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig, the collection was split. The new Museum Ludwig took over the exhibition of the 20th century art. The current building from 2001, near the Cologne City Hall , was designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers . Also in 2001, Swiss collector Gérard Corboud gave his impressionist and postimpressionist collection of over 170 works to

384-571: The city's art fair Art Cologne . Both the annual highlight of the Friends' activities and one of the cultural features of Cologne and the Rhineland, this purchase prize is dedicated to the memory of Wolfgang Hahn (1924–1987), chief conservator and painting restorer at Wallraf Richartz Museum / Museum Ludwig and one of Cologne's most far-sighted collectors. The budget for the prize amounts to a maximum of 100,000 euros per annum. The museum also acquires

408-651: The family of El Lissitzky and Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers. In 2013 the city of Cologne agreed that the Ludwig Museum should restitute six valuable drawings looted by the Nazis from the Jewish art collector Alfred Flechtheim to his heirs. The drawings are by Karl Hofer , Paula Modersohn-Becker , Ernst Barlach , Aristide Maillol and Wilhelm Morgner . The Ludwig Museum also agreed to restitute five drawings by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Erich Heckel and Georges Kars to

432-557: The heirs of Curt Glaser . 50°56′27″N 6°57′37″E  /  50.94083°N 6.96028°E  / 50.94083; 6.96028 Wallraf-Richartz Museum The Wallraf–Richartz Museum (full name in German: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud ) is an art museum in Cologne , Germany, with a collection of fine art from the medieval period to the early twentieth century. It

456-517: The museum as a permanent loan. The museum then added "Fondation Corboud" to its name. The Madonna of the Rose Bower is among the Gothic paintings in the collection of the Wallraf–Richartz Museum. It was created by Stefan Lochner , who lived in Germany between 1410 and 1451, mainly working in Cologne. He is considered a late Gothic painter. His work usually has a clean appearance, combining

480-530: The museum is the Sammlung Ludwig , a collection of art by Picasso , Russian avant-garde and American Pop-art artists. With around 900 works by Picasso, the museum today has the third largest collection of this artist worldwide, after Barcelona and Paris . Peter Ludwig and his wife Irene later put their collection of the Russian avant-garde on permanent loan to the museum, including 600 works from

504-471: The period 1905 to 1935 by artists such as Kasimir Malevich , Ljubov Popova , Natalia Goncharova , Mikhail Larionov , and Alexander Rodchenko . Today the museum houses the most comprehensive collection of early Russian avant-garde artworks outside Russia. Since 1994 the Friends of the Museum Ludwig have honoured each year an international artist with the ‘Wolfgang Hahn Prize’, presented during

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528-719: The same time Mueller also had contact with the artists group ' Der Blaue Reiter '. Mueller was known as incredibly antibourgeois and is said to have urinated on the floor of a middle-class household when he was invited for a dinner party. During World War I he fought as a German soldier in France and Russia. After the war he became a professor at the Academy of Arts (Akademie der Bildenden Kunste) in Breslau where he taught until his death on 24 September 1930. Johnny Friedlaender and Isidor Ascheim were among his pupils there. In 1937

552-718: Was born in Liebau (now Lubawka, Kamienna Góra County ), Kreis Landeshut , Silesia . Between 1890 and 1892 he was trained in lithography in Görlitz and Breslau . From 1894 to 1896 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden under Georg Freyer and continued his study in Munich during 1898. He left Munich's academy after Franz von Stuck classified him as untalented. His early works are influenced by impressionism , Jugendstil and Symbolism . However, much of his early work

576-597: Was to be the new Jupiter Museum of Art in Shenzhen , but a delayed museum opening caused the works to be put into storage. At this point the museum lost track of the pieces and began to search for them. In January 2020 they located the pieces in a warehouse in Shenzhen and attempted to retrieve the piece. They were stopped by Chinese authorities. Diplomatic action has been undertaken by the German Government ,

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