Museum Ludwig

The Pho­tog­ra­phy Col­lec­tion

With some 70,000 works, the Mu­se­um Lud­wig has an im­por­tant and ex­ten­sive col­lec­tion of pho­tog­ra­phy from the ear­ly days of the medi­um to the pre­sent, and is one of the first mu­se­ums of mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary art to de­vote a se­parate col­lec­tion to pho­tog­ra­phy in 1977.

The pho­tog­ra­phy col­lec­tion in­cludes ear­ly daguerreo­types, im­por­tant artis­tic pho­to­graphs rang­ing from the nine­teenth to the twen­ty-first cen­turies, al­bums, and port­fo­lios, as well as ex­ten­sive ma­te­rials on the cul­tu­r­al his­to­ry of the medi­um. Here, too, it was pri­vate col­lec­tors who laid the foun­da­tion for the pho­tog­ra­phy col­lec­tion in 1977 with purchas­es and do­na­tions from the col­lec­tion of L. Fritz and Re­nate Gru­ber, who main­tained close con­tacts with pho­to­g­ra­phers in Ger­many and abroad.

The col­lec­tion has been ex­pand­ed in re­cent years with purchas­es of works by VALIE EXPORT, Tarrah Krainak, Senga Nengudi and Carrie Mae Weems, to name just a few.

* The Museum Ludwig extends the invitation to the artist directly; an application to the Open Call for the Museum Ludwig is therefore not possible.

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