Sammlung Peter C. Ruppert – Konkrete Kunst in Europa nach 1945
In the organizer's words:
One of the largest collections of Concrete Art in Europe
The collection shows the presence of Concrete Art in 23 European countries and the various renewals and forms it has undergone since 1945.
The image of Europe in the "Peter C. Ruppert Collection - Concrete Art in Europe after 1945" is becoming increasingly diverse. This is because the collection has been further expanded in recent years by the collector Peter C. Ruppert. The countries of Eastern Europe in particular have seen considerable growth in the collection with works by several artists, including Tamas Henczse, Tamas Konok, István Nadler, János Megyik, András Mengyán (Hungary), Wieslaw Luczay, Jan Pamula (Poland) and Milan Dobeš, Marián Drugda, Viktor Hulik (Slovakia).
Under the motto "Rendezvous of Countries", the focus is on the different varieties of Concrete Art in individual countries: art from 23 European nations! Concrete art in Germany is one of the focal points of the collection. Concrete art from the former GDR is also represented here with convincing examples.
Other focal points are France, Switzerland and Great Britain.
In the course of the new presentation, there was a "family reunion" in the Swiss section : Max, Jakob and David Bill, i.e. grandfather, father and son, each represent Concrete Art in different ways and now present their works side by side.
The Peter C. Ruppert Collection is probably unique internationally in terms of its vibrancy, quality and European aspirations. Unconcerned with the spirit of the times, it offers a platform for an art that, after its precursors in Bauhaus and Constructivism, continued to develop in a variety of ways in Europe, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, and has lost none of its fascination to this day.
Since its beginnings, Concrete Art has had a special affinity with mathematics, without illustrating this science. Both younger and older representatives of Concrete Art are concerned with the creation of an autonomous pictorial world. They pursue questions of dynamism and calm, balance and tension, chance and order, thereby touching on fundamental questions of life. The model of nature plays no role here. With their strong contrasts, intense colors and often suggestive use of light, they achieve surprising visual effects despite their logical construction.
The collection contains 418 works by 254 European artists. Since 2002, the opening year of the Museum im Kulturspeicher, the compelling cultural and European message has been documented in the honorary patronage of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, currently Thorbjørn Jagland.
On February 11, 2019, Peter C. Ruppert passed away in Berlin after a serious illness. The Museum im Kulturspeicher loses its art-loving collector and the city of Würzburg its honorary citizen.
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