The Musée Würth presents the exhibition ZOOM. Faces and Works from the Würth Collection from January 25, 2026, to January 10, 2027.

While the works of Jean Arp or Georg Baselitz are familiar at the Musée Würth in Erstein, their faces often remain unknown to the public. ZOOM. Faces and Works from the Würth Collection brings together more than one hundred photographs of major figures from the European and American art scene of the 20th century—among them Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, and David Hockney—and presents them alongside their works. The exhibition thus invites visitors to rediscover these artists in the dual role of model and creator.

As the exhibition unfolds, this approach goes even further. Renowned photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sabine Weiss, Lee Miller, and Arnold Newman captured the gaze and energy of their peers in portraits that also reveal their own sensibility. The exhibition invites us to immerse ourselves in a dialogue from artist to artist, from creator to photographer, in moments sometimes seized within the intimacy of the studio.

Finally, ZOOM. Faces and Works from the Würth Collection illustrates how photography, still young in the 20th century, gradually asserted itself as an art form in its own right: from the act of shooting to the development of film, the photographic process harnessed and transcended its technical specificities to flourish as an eloquent artistic gesture.

These photographic portraits are part of the collection of Angelika Platen, herself a photographer and, since the 1960s, one of the leading figures in contemporary artistic portraiture. Through her lens, she has created images that have become iconic, while enriching her practice through collecting—a pursuit that allows her to continually revisit the foundations of her art.