ABOUT THE COLLECTION WÜRTH


Since the 1960s, Reinhold Würth has been building up one of the leading corporate collections of modern and contemporary art. The Würth collection, based in Künzelsau in Germany, now contains nearly 12,000 works: paintings, sculptures and drawings. It represents the enthusiasms of one art lover just as much as the great artistic movements of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century.


The collection covers the neo-impressionist, expressionist and surrealist currents of modern art (Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Paul Baum, Heinrich von Zügel, Max Liebermann, Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gabriele Münter, Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, René Magritte and André Masson), but also provides a cross-section of the development of geometric abstraction and lyrical abstraction, with works by artists such as Serge Poliakoff, Alberto Magnelli, Auguste Herbin, Aurélie Nemours, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Victor Vasarely, Jean Dewasne, Jean Deyrolle, André Heurtaux, František Kupka, Hans Hartung, Max Bill, Josef Albers, Henryk Stazewski and Robert Jacobsen.

 

© ADAGP, Paris 2010 - Photo José Da Cruz

David HARDY

Airline Suisse Marocain, 1999-2001

There is also a fine body of work from the neo-figurative tendency, including numerous works by the artists Markus Lüpertz, Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Bernd Koberling, Rainer Fetting, Jörg Immendorff, Helmut Middendorf and Dieter Hacker.


Although it contains a great many paintings, the collection also gives a prominent position to sculpture. You will find significant works by artists as diverse as Jean Arp, Horst Antes, Anthony Caro, Henry Moore and Eduardo Chillida.

 

At the same time, Reinhold Würth has always closely followed the artists of his own time and has taken a particular interest in some extraordinary careers: this has resulted in special relationships with Alfred Hrdlicka, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, José de Guimarães and Robert Jacobsen, whose work he has supported as a committed patron.