Russian museums: The updated permanent exposition “Museum of Ludwig in the State Russian Museum”

May 20, 2015 in the halls of the Marble Palace (the State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg) was opened the updated permanent exposition “The Museum of Ludwig in the State Russian Museum”.

In 1994, the famous German collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig donated to the State Russian Museum a collection of works by artists of the second half of the XX century. This gift has formed a special section of the permanent exhibition "Museum of Ludwig in the State Russian Museum", which was opened to the public on March 10, 1995 in the halls of the Marble Palace. The composition was determined by collectors together with representatives of the State Russian Museum. Representative body of personalities, including the most significant figures such as Pablo Picasso, Joseph Beuys, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, George Segal, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Anselm Kiefer, Jörg Immendorf, Jonathan Borofski, Jeff Koons, Ilya Kabakov and others.   

"The Museum of Ludwig in the State Russian Museum" captures the main preference of Ludwig collector. Here most fully are represented two powerful "host" of his collecting activities. First of all, this is an American pop art, the scale of which Ludwig realized earlier and better than others. With Pop Art, the most radical at the time of artistic direction, in fact, has begun his collection of contemporary art. From preferences Ludwig is the second most important German neo-expressionism, back in the 1980s, the relevance of painting as well as acutely controversial phenomenon of the "German" in German art.