Legendary dealer Michael Werner decided to donate the Paris Museum of Modern Art works of Andre Derain, William Lembruka, Otto Freundlich, Jörg Immendorff, Per Kirkeby, and other

A. AR Penck Man, woman, lion and other animals at the waterhole. In 1989. Collection of Michael Werner
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in recent months in the art world all want to make gifts, and not someone else, namely museums. In March Getty Museum made happy 25 pictures of Ansel Adams ; art consultants Wagner promised wife Whitney Museum and the Centre Pompidou 800 works ; and another museums in San Diego a bequest collector-countryman passed a collection of German expressionists and minimalists of $ 40 million . In April, a wave of donations continued to gain momentum: Baltimore Museum Walters received a gift of a collection of works with flowers . And in May David Hockney gave the fund its work on behalf of 55 million dollars ; Tate supplemented collection of classical photography and nine works by contemporary artists ; and Boston Museum of Fine Arts has received a royal gift of 6,000 photographs, 100 drawings and 25 paintings .

And now one more generous gift: a legendary dealer and collector Michael Werner (Michael Werner) decided to donate the Paris Museum of Modern Art (Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris) 130 works from his collection.

a gift includes Werner, in particular the work of Marcel Brotarsa ​​(Marcel Broodthaers), James Lee Byarsa (James Lee Byars), Shessaka Gaston (Gaston Chaissac), André Derain (André Derain), Otto Freundlich (Otto Freundlich), Etienne Martin (Étienne-Martin ) Filiu Robert (Robert Filliou), Antonius Hekelmana (Antonius Höckelmann), Jorg Immendorff (Jörg Immendorff), Per Kirkeby (Per Kirkeby), Lembruka William (Wilhelm Lehmbruck), Marcus Lyupertsa (Markus Lüpertz), AR Penck ( AR Penck), Rekish Bernard (Bernard Réquichot), Nile Toroni (Niele Toroni) and Don Van Vliet (Don Van Vliet).

works almost all of these artists art dealer in a different time sold in his gallery. Director Werner gave the Museum of Modern Art right away from his own collection of those works that are best suited for the museum's collection.

Michael Werner, through its galleries in Berlin (since 1963), Cologne (with 1967) and New York (1990) introduced the world with outstanding writers of the twentieth century. Thanks Werner, we learned about these wonderful artists like Georg Baselitz, Markus Lyuperts, Joerg Immendorff, Sigmar Polke, Per Kirkeby, and others. The dealer assembled his collection since the 1960s. It was a place works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Ernst Ludwig Kirchner), Yves Klein (Yves Klein), Piero Manzoni (Piero Manzoni), Francis Picabia (Francis Picabia), as well as African and Khmer art, antique furniture and old master drawings.

Giver explained his generous offer special treatment to the Paris Museum of Modern Art. One of the exhibitions of the museum in 1962 so captured the imagination of the then novice gallerist Werner that his attitude to art since become deeper and more personal. For dealers, this museum exhibition has become something like a religious revelation.

Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Fabrice Hergott said that the gift of Werner can be considered as the largest since the establishment of a museum in 1953. and promised to arrange a separate exhibition of works from the collection of Michael Werner in the period from October 2012 to March 2013.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

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