LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen
In the neoclassical pink castle, whose history likely dates back to a knight's estate from the 12th or 13th century, one can easily forget that one is in Oberhausen, the "cradle of the Ruhr industry"—the city with the first ironworks in the Ruhr region. Here, one now finds the LUDWIGGALERIE, a cultural venue showcasing art of the highest caliber, picturesquely situated on an old branch of the Emscher River.
UNIQUE IN GERMANY
The exhibition hall was founded in 1947 as the Oberhausen Municipal Gallery. The Aachen art patrons Peter and Irene LudwigThe Ludwig family, after whom the Museum Ludwig in Cologne is also named, had been involved in Oberhausen since the 1980s. From 1983, the castle complex housed the Ludwig Institute for Art of the GDR, founded by the collector couple. Here, for the first time in the West, works by East German artists were exhibited and studied. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the redesign of the building as an exhibition venue, this focus was discontinued.
In 1998, the LUDWIGGALERIE was established in its current form within the museum's premises, and since then it has presented an exceptional program as well as new perspectives on the seemingly familiar. A plaque at the entrance enshrines the hope of collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig: "We hope that one day it will be possible to see the art of all the world's great cultures together, to recognize what separates them, and to experience what unites them."
MASTERPIECES, COMICS, PHOTOGRAPHY
In the form of smaller, in-depth exhibitions, masterpieces from the eponymous collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig – from antiquity to the present day – are presented again and again, including a candlestick woman from the 16th century or a memento mori made of ivory and ebony from around 1520.
In the Popular Gallery, comics, cartoons, and caricatures take center stage. The first retrospectives of the work of artists such as... Ralf König or Walter Moers were shown here. Large retrospectives were also dedicated to the world of Mordillo or Ralf Kauka's Fix & Foxi.
In addition, the LUDWIGGALERIE has been a renowned address and a real tip for many years, especially in the field of photography. With the Landmarkengalerie, the house also accompanies the structural change artistically.
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