Current cabinet exhibition

Based on a fabulous Who's Who, the gallery focused on artists represented in the Würth Collection amounts to a Parnassus of 20th-century art. Both in terms of those portrayed and those who portrayed them. From Max Beckmann and Georges Braque to Andy Warhol, from Pablo Picasso to Niki de Saint Phalle and Frank Stella. And from René Burri, Robert Capa, Philippe Halsmann, Lee Miller and Man Ray to Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Albert Watson and Charles Wilp. Amounting to more than 200 works, this gallery additionally records how masterfully this still young medium with its artistically and technically diverse visual langage emancipated itself in the course of the 20th century into an autonomous art form. The intrinsically photographic process of shooting and developing has long since expanded far beyond its technically determined connotations. In many of their works, the photographers meet their opposite numbers (from their own genre) at eye level. Many images have a documentary look and are complexly planned. Yet they are still authentic. For it is the oscillation between intimacy and calculated distance that creates the sophistication that lends these images on display their special magic.