20 November 2008 – 28 February 2009

Michael and Eleonore Stoffel Collection

Passionately provocative major works of contemporary art were collected by the Stoffels from the 1970s onwards.

‘Passionately Provocative’: the Modern Art Collection at the Pinakothek der Moderne is now showing a large part of this splendid collection for the very first time with some 120 works exhibited over more than 1,200 m2.

From the 1970s onwards, Michael and Eleonore Stoffel worked on building up an exceptional collection with clear objectives and a sense for the unique qualities of each artist. The cosmos which the collection encompasses traces important developments of German and American art from the 1960s up to the ’90s: examples of new developments in painting are represented by artists such as Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke and Jörg Immendorff, whose ironic subversive early ‘Lidl’ works are particularly worthy of mention.

Extensive bodies of works by artists including A.R. Penck, Markus Lüpertz and Günter Förg, have helped to shape the Stoffel Collection. Works by the ‘Neue Wilden’ (such as Albert and Markus Oehlen, Martin Kippenberger, Walter Dahn and Jiri Georg Dokoupil) complement the focus on German artists. All of these represent an important supplement to the works already in the Pinakothek der Moderne, built up from the collection of HRH Duke Franz of Bavaria, PIN. Friends of the Pinakothek der Moderne and the museum’s own selective acquisitions.

A particularly important new accent has been set by Rosemarie Trockel’s pictures, objects and room installations executed in various media, in which the artist focuses on the relationship between the sexes, the affinity between mankind and nature and the phenomena of perception in general.

Apart from the works of Carroll Dunham and Terry Winters, one of the focal elements of the American part of the collection is on the works of David Salle, whose collage-like works, with their many facetted pictures of reality, are made up from a mixture of stylistic means, quotations and spontaneous gestural elements.
A special place has been dedicated to installations by Mike Kelley, an artist whose sources of inspiration are to be found far from what is generally acceptable, at the bottom of the social scale. Another facet of the Stoffel Collection can be seen in the South African Marlene Dumas’s subtle but provocative paintings.

Address

Pinakothek der Moderne
Kunstareal München Barer Strasse 40
80333 München
phone +49 89 23 80 53 60
http://www.pinakothek.de

Opening Hours

Daily 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m., closed on Monday

Description of the Museum

With four major museums presenting art, works on paper, architecture and design under one roof, the Pinakothek der Moderne is one of the world’s greatest collections of 20th and 21st century art. The open and spacious building invites visitors to explore, to discover connections and gain new and surprising insights. Temporary exhibits and events from various cultural domains complete the supradisciplinary program.

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