The Museum Ludwig is one of the most important museums in Cologne, Germany. It has a large collection of twentieth century art, including PopArt, Abstract and Surrealism. It also has one of the largest Picasso collections in Europe. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1500x1000, 1018 KB) Museum Ludwig at night Germany. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1500x1000, 1018 KB) Museum Ludwig at night Germany. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1500x1000, 1226 KB) Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1500x1000, 1226 KB) Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. ... Cologne (German: â¶ [kÅln]; Kölsch: Kölle) is with its one million residents Germanys fourth largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. ... Pop art was an artistic movement that emerged in the late 1950s in England and the United States. ... This article is about the concept of abstraction in general. ... Surrealism is a cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement oriented toward the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative faculties of the unconscious mind and the attainment of a state different from, more than, and ultimately truer than everyday reality: the sur-real, i. ... Young Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Full name) (October 25, 1881 in Málaga, Spain â April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter and one of the recognized figures in 20th century art, probably most famous as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of cubism. ...
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http://www.museenkoeln.de/museum-ludwig/ (in German)
The LudwigMuseum in the Russian Museum was opened on March, 10 1995 and is a vivid transportation of the idea of the general context in which the present-day art process develops.
Initiators of the project - Peter and Irene Ludwig and the State Russian Museum - intended to demonstrate the interrelations between Russian and Western art in the context of developments of the 20-th century.
Peter and Irene Ludwig made their first purchases of artworks in the early 1950-ies and succeeded in amassing the most important collection of the second half of the 20-th century.