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Michael Werner Makes Major Gift to Paris PR Newswire PARIS, June 4, 2012 PARIS, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The legendary art dealer and collector, Michael Werner has made a major gift of 130 works from his collection to the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. To mark this exceptional gift, an exhibition of works from the collection will go on show at the museum from 5 October 2012 - 3 March 2013. Michael Werner's donation includes works by Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Gaston Chaissac, André Derain, Otto Freundlich, Étienne-Martin, Robert Filliou, Antonius Höckelmann, Jörg Immendorff, Per Kirkeby, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Markus Lüpertz, A.R. Penck, Bernard Réquichot, Niele Toroni and Don Van Vliet. The gift consists of a number of works by the artists Michael Werner has represented through the years, as well as a group of modern works by artists such as Lehmbruck, Freundlich, Derain and others. The selection for the donation was, for the most part, made by the museum's director, Fabrice Hergott who made a list of the artists and pieces he felt were crucial to themuseum. Represented by galleries in Berlin, Cologne, New York, and also in London in the autumn, Michael Werner is one of the most influential gallerists in the world and has worked with some of the leading artists of the 20th century.
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Michael Werner Makes Major Gift to Paris
PR Newswire
PARIS, June 4, 2012
PARIS,
June 4, 2012
/PRNewswire/ --
The legendary art dealer and collector, Michael Werner has made a major gift
of 130 works from his collection to the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
To mark this exceptional gift, an exhibition of works from the collection will go
on show at the museum from
5 October 2012
-
3 March 2013
.
Michael Werner's donation includes works by Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee
Byars, Gaston Chaissac, André Derain, Otto Freundlich, Étienne-Martin, Robert
Filliou, Antonius Höckelmann, Jörg Immendorff, Per Kirkeby, Wilhelm
Lehmbruck, Markus Lüpertz, A.R. Penck, Bernard Réquichot, Niele Toroni and
Don Van Vliet.
The gift consists of a number of works by the artists Michael Werner has
represented through the years, as well as a group of modern works by artists
such as Lehmbruck, Freundlich, Derain and others. The selection for the
donation was, for the most part, made by the museum's director, Fabrice
Hergott who made a list of the artists and pieces he felt were crucial to the
museum.
Represented by galleries in
Berlin
,
Cologne
,
New York
, and also in
London
in the
autumn, Michael Werner is one of the most influential gallerists in the world and
has worked with some of the leading artists of the 20th century. Through his
support for artists such as Georg Baselitz, Markus Lüpertz, Jörg Immendorff and
Sigmar Polke, he has helped to bring international acclaim to German post-war
art. Developed since the 60s, his collection documents his activities over a
period of 50 years.
A self-described "conservative anarchist," Michael Werner opened his first
gallery, Werner and Katz, in
Berlin
in 1963 with the first exhibition of paintings
by Georg Baselitz. He opened his gallery in
Cologne
in 1967 and in
New York
in
1990. Werner discovered and has nurtured some of the most significant post-
war artists throughout their careers including Georg Baselitz, Marcel
Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Jörg Immendorff, Markus Lüpertz, Per Kirkeby
A.R. Penck, and Sigmar Polke. -
His single minded vision of continuously championing the same artists over fifty
years sets him apart from his contemporaries and makes him a unique figure in
the art world. Werner's uniqueness is furthered by the breadth of his art
historical interests which extend well beyond the artists whose careers he
started to include Jean Arp, Jean Fautrier, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Yves Klein,
Piero Manzoni, Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters, all of whose work he has shown
at the gallery. - In addition to his already diverse interests as a gallerist, as a
collector Werner's collection includes African tribal art, eighteenth century
German and French furniture, Khmer Art, and old Master Drawings.
Talking about his donation, Michael Werner has said: ""It is basically a
sentimental choice. It was a visit to this museum very early on in my career
that profoundly changed my understanding of and relationship to art. In 1962
Georg Baselitz and I travelled to Paris to see an exhibition of Jean Fautrier at
the museum and it had a serious emotional impact on me. The exhibition was
full of strange and extraordinary paintings and the atmosphere of the show was
all encompassing and I was very moved. -Although I had been working in a
gallery for a few years at that point, I had not really been touched by art in a
profound sense. The effect of this exhibition constituted my real entrance into
the art world and it defined my way. I am not a religious man but it was like a
religious conversion."
Fabrice Hergott, Director of Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville, said: "Michael
Werner's Gift represents the most significant enrichment of the Museum's
collection since the bequest made by Dr Maurice Girardin in 1953, which led to
the creation of the Institution".
Michael Werner will open a new gallery in
London
in
October 2012
with new
work by Peter Doig
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