The Chinese Museum of Fine Arts Lutwig couple donated works to Tsinghua University

The opening ceremony of the opening ceremony of the "Eternal Temperature -Choosing Exhibition of Ludwig Couples of the Chinese Art Museum" jointly sponsored by the Chinese Art Museum, Tsinghua University, and the Federal Republic of Deutsche Federal Republic in China was held at Tsinghua University on September 14 Essence Zhao Shaohua, deputy secretary of the party group and deputy minister of the former Ministry of Culture, attended and announced the opening of the exhibition. Fu Rong, Germany's ambassador to China, Wu Weishan, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, director of the China Art Museum, and vice chairman of the Chinese Academy of Arts, Yang Bin, vice president of Tsinghua University, and Shao Dazhen, a professor and doctoral instructor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, attended and delivered a speech.

This exhibition belongs to the China Art Museum's "Collective activation" series exhibition, exhibiting 61 (sets) of the Ludwig couple donated works in the Chinese Art Museum, divided into "consumer culture", "constructing society", "expanding language", "constituting boundaries", "constituent boundary", "constituent border" The six parts of narrative life "and" inheritance tradition "show the artistic appearance of Europe and America in the 1960s and 1990s.

Professor Peter Ludwig and his wife, Professor Erin Lutwich, are internationally renowned collectors and scholars. In 1996, they donated their personal treasures of Berllo Picasso, Andy Volhol, Gehard Richt, David Hockni and other artists. The pavilion. These works come from different countries and regions, including multiple art schools, showing cultural diversity in different society and historical context. Since accepting donations, the Chinese Art Museum has been based on these collections every year. Through exhibitions, research, and public education, it has continuously "activated" these collections to maximize the value of these classics. Over the past 26 years, more than one million viewers have witnessed the style of these cultural treasures.

In December 2020, the China Art Museum and Tsinghua University signed a cooperation agreement to open a new chapter in the cooperation between the "strong joint and advantage". This time, the Ludwig couple donated works to enter the Tsinghua campus. It is also a powerful measure for both parties to study academic communities through collections and deepen public cultural services. The exhibition uses "Aesthetic Education" as the starting point, restores a section of an era by combining works and literature, and explains the art and cultural value of these works to the audience on this basis.

In 2016, the China Art Museum held the first special exhibition with the theme of "Eternal Temperature" to commemorate the love of donors. As a beneficiary of donations, the China Art Museum once again subject to "eternal temperature". It is hoped that through the exhibition, the emotional temperature of these works and the temperature of the friendship between China and Germany continue to "heat up."

The exhibition is presented in the No. 4, 8, and 14th Floor of Art Museum of Tsinghua University, and it will last until November 30 (closed Monday).

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