New heavyweights

Presentation of artworks by Dieter Krieg and Andreas Blank Museum Ulm as guest at kunsthalle weishaupt

Sagrotan meets soldiers’ boots: from 12 March 2025, the Museum Ulm will be presenting three new additions from its collection of 20th and 21st century art on the display wall on the first floor of the kunsthalle weishaupt. With ‘Untitled (Sagrotan)’ (1991/92) and ‘Untitled (Idiot)’ (1979), two large-format paintings by Dieter Krieg will be on display, complemented by the sculpture ‘Box with Military Boots’ (2010) by Andreas Blank.

Dieter Krieg (1937-2005) was one of the most important southern German painters of his time. The two newly added works expand the artist’s presence in the museum’s collection, in which his works have so far been acquired with the support of the Freunde des Ulmer Museums e.V., among others. Donations and a future endowment from private donors will add outstanding pieces to the collection.

Andreas Blank (*1976) is no stranger to the Ulm art scene, having been particularly supported in his younger years by entrepreneur and art collector Friedrich E. Rentschler (1932-2018). ‘Box with military boots’ plays a central role in the artist’s oeuvre to date. For Andreas Blank, it was, is and will remain a work that he would like to see shown and communicated in a museum. Like many museums of a comparable size, the Museum Ulm can hardly afford a five-figure sum to acquire a piece of contemporary art. It is therefore a great stroke of luck that a private investor has acquired the sculptural masterpiece by Andreas Blank and is making it available to the Museum Ulm in accordance with the artist’s wishes.

With these new acquisitions, the Museum Ulm is strengthening its claim to be a collector’s museum. The museum will continue to accept works and groups of works by relevant artists of the 20th/21st century from private collections that are of strategic interest to the collection and will also actively pursue their acquisition.