Irene and Peter Ludwig: Insights into the Collectors' International Activities

In the second half of the twentieth century, they amassed one of the most important and comprehensive collections of art: Irene and Peter Ludwig. Driven by the idea of putting a panorama of global art on display, from 1970 onwards they were instrumental in the establishment of museums and foundations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Russia, Cuba, and China. In interviews with Regina Wyrwoll, fourteen of their contemporaries tell the stories behind the Ludwigs' global activities. Introductory texts offering contextual information, documents and photographs from the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation archive-some published for the first time-and a timeline of their founding of institutions complete the publication.

Text: Regina Wyrwoll