Die Sammlung Kemp

About this book

'New colours. A selection from the Kemp collection' 26.03.2011 - 07.08.2011. The art collector Willi Kemp (*1927) has donated his extensive collection of contemporary art, which he assembled over decades, to Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. The contract was signed on 25 February 2011. The Kemp collection ranks among the most outstanding and extensive German private collections of art after 1950. Apart from figurative painting, ZERO art, sculptures and preparatory drawings, high-calibre works of Art Informel and Colour Field Painting form the core of the collection built up by Willi Kemp and his deceased wife Ingrid. The collection includes works by Joseph Beuys, Karl Otto Götz, David Rabinowitch, Bernard Schultze, Cy Twombly, Günther Uecker, as well as large-format paintings by Gotthard Graubner, Kenneth Noland and Ellsworth Kelly. The donation comprises a total of approximately 1,200 works of art. As part of the Museum Kunstpalast collection, parts of the scientifically conceptualised Kemp collection will henceforth be presented to the public on a permanent basis.