
Pablo Picasso
Femme assise à l'écharpe verte, 1960
Öl auf Leinwand / Oil on canvas
195,3 x 130,3 cm
Leihgabe der Österreichischen Ludwig Stiftung/On loan from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation, seit/since 1991
Pablo Picasso
Femme assise à l'écharpe verte, 1960
Öl auf Leinwand / Oil on canvas
195,3 x 130,3 cm
Leihgabe der Österreichischen Ludwig Stiftung/On loan from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation, seit/since 1991
Geta Brătescu
Magneti, 1974
Holz, Stahl, Farbe, Karton, Papier / Wood, steel, paint, cardboard, paper
73,2 x 53,2 x 4,4 cm
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, erworben/acquired in 2011
(c) Geta Brătescu
Photo: mumok
László Moholy-Nagy
Komposition Q VIII, 1922
Öl auf Leinwand / Oil on canvas
96,3 x 75,7
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, erworben/acquired in 1960
Bildrecht Wien, 2014
Daniel Spoerri
Hahns Abendmahl, 1964
Diverse Gegenstände, montiert auf Holztafel / Various objects mounted on wooden board
200 x 200 cm
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Ehemals Sammlung Hahn/Former Hahn Collection, Köln/Cologne erworben/acquired in 1978
Daniel Spoerri/ Bildrecht Wien
Photo: mumok
Andy Warhol
Orange Car Crash, 1963
Acryl, Siebdruck auf Leinwand / Acrylic, silkscreen on canvas
334,1 x 418 cm
Leihgabe der Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen / On loan from the collection Ludwig, Aachen, seit/since 1978
A. Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York / Bildrecht Wien, 2014
Photo: mumok
Christopher Williams
For Example: Die Welt ist schön, Grande Dixence, Val de Dix, Switzerland, August 2, 1993, 1993
Gelatine-Silberabzug / Gelatin silver print
65,5 x 74,7 cm
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, erworben/acquired in 2006
(c) Christopher Williams
Photo: mumok
Runa Islam
Empty the pond to get the Fish, 2008
35 mm Film, Farbe, Ton, 12'08'' / 35mm film, color, sound, 12'08''
12:8 min
mumok museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, erworben / acquired in 2008
Photo: mumok
© Runa Islam
Maria Lassnig
Rast der Schwimmerin, 1982
Öl auf Leinwand / oil on canvas
100 x 120 cm
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, erworben/acquired in 1985
(c) Maria Lassnig
Photo: mumok
The mumok collection today comprises around 10,000 works by c. 1,600 artists. In 1959, the first purchases were made for the newly founded Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, which held 90 works when officially opened in 1962.
A key impulse for the museum's exhibition and collecting policy was provided by the Ludwig and Hahn Collections in the 1970s, which were shown from 1979 in a second building, the Palais Liechtenstein. The Hahn Collection was purchased by the Republic of Austria, whereas the loans by Peter and Irene Ludwig were permanently guaranteed for the museum by establishing the Austrian Ludwig Foundation. The Republic of Austria agreed in turn to provide a budget that has enabled the Foundation to expand its collection of key works of international modernist and contemporary art - to this day.
The mumok collection consists of several "blocks" that correspond to the different stages in the museum’s history. The period to after World War Two is covered by holdings in classical modernism that were purchased by the museum's founding director, Werner Hofmann. A further focus is the Ludwig and Hahn Collections, with their emphasis on the avant-gardes of the 1960s and 1970s. In the last 15 years a comprehensive collection of Vienna Actionism has been built up. mumok collects contemporary art with an emphasis on photography, video, and film, as well as painting, sculpture, and installations, works which have mainly been added to the collection over the last two decades.