75/65
The Collector, the Company and Its Collection
Museum Würth, Künzelsau - 25 April 2010 until 9 January 2011
Two anniversaries at Würth! Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG is looking back on 65 years of trading, and the entrepreneur and collector Reinhold Würth is celebrating his 75th birthday. To honor these two important occasions, we take great pleasure in hosting an exhibition at Museum Würth in Künzelsau-Gaisbach. We have chosen a very select 75 works from 75 years from the Würth Collection, which has come to encompass 12,500 works of art. Tracing Reinhold Würth’s biography, the exhibition presents exemplary works from 1935 until today.
The corporate collection, the foundation of which the collector Reinhold Würth laid in the late 1960s, documents his very own view of art, while its multi-layered diversity also presents an opportunity to pass in review the development of art in the course of the past 75 years. Consequently, the exhibition encompasses familiar works of art, but also a number of new discoveries.
It may be a coincidence that the first image in the Würth Collection, Emil Nolde’s watercolor painting Cloud Reflection in the Marsh, was created in the year the collector was born. However, it is these very coincidences that make collecting so special, often leading to the most wonderful discoveries. Highly renowned artists from Hans Arp to Andy Warhol reflect all facets of 20th century art, while works by Daniele Buetti, Markus Redl or Donna Stolz represent more recent acquisitions.
In parallel, especially designed stations in the exhibition chronicle the company’s history. They document the company's evolution from a two-man business into the globally active Würth Group in a fascinating manner, placing it in the context of both personal experiences and important events in world history.
The exhibition presents works by the following artists:
Yaacov Agam, Josef Albers, Horst Antes, Hans Arp, Stephan Balkenhol, Hans Baschang, Georg Baselitz, Victor Bauer, Max Beckmann, Max Bill, Fernando Botero, Daniele Buetti, Anthony Caro, Marc Chagall, Eduardo Chillida, Christo, Tony Cragg, Alan Davie, Nicolas de Staël, Richard Deacon, Sonia Delaunay, Jean Dewasne, Jim Dine, Max Ernst, Jean Fautrier, Lyonel Feininger, Rainer Fetting, Barry Flanagan, Lucio Fontana, Günter Fruhtrunk, Katsura Funakoshi, Antony Gormley, HAP Grieshaber, José de Guimarães, Rudolf Hausner, Xenia Hausner, Anne Hausner, Barbara Hepworth, Auguste Herbin, David Hockney, Karl Hofer, Rudolf Hoflehner, Alfred Hrdlicka, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Jörg Immendorff, Robert Jacobsen, Asger Jorn, Alex Katz, Anselm Kiefer, Herbert Kitzel, Yves Klein, Fernand Léger, Roy Lichtenstein, Bernhard Luginbühl, Markus Lüpertz, Alberto Magnelli, René Magritte, André Masson, Josef Mikl, Henry Moore, François Morellet, Richard Mortensen, Aurélie Nemours, Emil Nolde, Mimmo Paladino, A. R. Penck, Pablo Picasso, Serge Poliakoff, David Rabinowitch, Franz Radziwill, Arnulf Rainer, Markus Redl, Gerhard Richter, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jesús Rafael Soto, Walter Stöhrer, Donna Stolz, Klaus-Martin Treder, Hann Trier, Lun Tuchnowski, Günther Uecker, Andy Warhol, Ben Willikens, Lambert Maria Wintersberger
A catalog on the exhibition is published by Swiridoff Publishers, Künzelsau.
