The exhibition house was founded in 1947 as the Oberhausen Municipal Gallery. The Aachen art patrons Peter and Irene Ludwig, after whom the Museum Ludwig in Cologne is also named, had been active in Oberhausen since the 1980s. From 1983 onwards, the palace complex housed the Ludwig Institute for Art of the GDR, founded by the collector couple. Here, works by East German artists were exhibited and documented for the first time in the West. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the construction of today's Westfield Centro and the redesign as a house for temporary exhibitions, this focus was dropped.
In 1998, the LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen was established in its current form in the remodeled and expanded museum rooms and has since shown an extraordinary program and new perspectives on supposedly familiar things. The hope of the collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig is recorded on a plaque at the entrance: "We hope that one day it will be possible to see the art of all the world's great cultures together in order to recognize what separates them and experience what unites them."
In the form of smaller, in-depth exhibitions, masterpieces from the eponymous collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig – from antiquity to the present day – are presented again and again, including a candlestick woman from the 16th century or a memento mori made of ivory and ebony from around 1520.
Comics, cartoons and caricatures are the main characters in the Popular Gallery. The first retrospectives of the work of illustrators such as Ralf König and Walter Moers were shown here. Large exhibitions were also dedicated to the cosmos of Mordillo and Ralf Kaukas Fix & Foxi.
In addition, the LUDWIGGALERIE has been a renowned address and a real tip for many years, especially in the field of photography. With the Landmarkengalerie, the house also accompanies the structural change artistically.
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There is a combination ticket with the Gasometer Oberhausen for 19,00 €.
Pupils aged 18 and over, students, trainees, people with severe disabilities (70% or more) with accompanying person, recipients of social benefits, recipients of unemployment benefits, groups of 10 or more people per person, members of the Oberhausen Art Association, members of the Oberhausen Artists' Working Group, small group discount (valid for 4 full-paying adults, 20% discount on the regular price)
€6,00