Sammlung Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

In addition to three to four major special exhibitions per year, the highlights of the city's art collection are presented.

With the glass cube visible from afar and the two exhibition levels, which were fitted into a disused tunnel system, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart has an exhibition area of 5,000 square meters.

1924, Count Silvio della Valle di Casanova laid the foundation for the Stuttgart collection with the donation of his private collection of Swabian Impressionists. After the destruction of the Villa Berg during the Second World War, the Stuttgart City Gallery found new exhibition space in the art building on Schlossplatz in 1961.

Eugen Keuerleber, who had been in charge of the municipal art collection since 1945, made Adolf Hölzel and Otto Dix the central focal points of the collection. Director Johann-Karl Schmidt added works by internationally renowned artists such as Joseph Kosuth, Dieter Krieg, Wolfgang Laib, Markus Lüpertz, Dieter Roth and K.R.H. Sonderborg from 1986 onwards

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important collections were also acquired on permanent loan: the Rudolf and Bertha Frank Collection in 1992 and the Fritz Winter Konrad Knöpfel Foundation in 1994. Under Director Marion Ackermann, the Baumeister Archive moved into its own rooms in the newly completed museum building in 2005. Most recently, the holdings were expanded to include the Heinz and Anette Teufel Collection of Concrete Art. Since January 1, 2010, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart has been under the direction of Ulrike Groos

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the presentation of the collection includes acquisitions by the museum and permanent loans from private collectors that have been acquired for the Kunstmuseum in recent years, as well as works from the rich collection of over 15,000 works that have rarely or never been exhibited before

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works by artists such as Otto Dix, Willi Baumeister, Fritz Winter, Dieter Roth, Wolfgang Laib, Ben Willikens, Joseph Kosuth, Michel Majerus and Josephine Meckseper. Furthermore, a central thematic block spanning several rooms is dedicated to the development of non-representational painting since the 1950s with painters of the Informel, Concrete Art and abstraction in general.