Ludwig Forum

The first presentation of the young American pop art scene in Aachen in 1968 by Peter and Irene Ludwig was a real bang. It led to the founding of the New Gallery – Collection Ludwig , headed by Wolfgang Becker. The program of the Neue Galerie and the later Ludwig Forum for International Art was directly linked to the often bold development steps of the Ludwig Collection. Due to the collector's enthusiasm for the "immediate expression of a generational attitude to life", works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Duane Hanson and Chuck Close, among others, that later became world-famous found their place in the collection. Today, the collection and the potential of the Ludwig Forum Aachen present themselves as a kaleidoscope of a world that has come together in inhomogeneous spurts of development over the last 30 years. Its strength is unbiased access to important works of art from five cultural regions: Europe, North America, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia.