The Museum Haus Ludwig für Kunstausstellungen Saarlouis owes its name to the collector couple Peter and Irene Ludwig.
Peter and Irene Ludwig began collecting their first works while they were still students in Mainz. Today, thousands of objects make up the uniquely broad profile of the collection. Individual works of the highest quality have been brought together as well as coherent groups of works. Artifacts from Greek antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Baroque and Rococo periods, pre-Columbian art, art from Africa, China and India and contemporary art, with American Pop Art and the works of Pablo Picasso as the glittering highlight, are collected across time and space. Faience, tiles, porcelain, Islamic ceramics, furniture and arts and crafts are just as valued as the great achievements of painting and sculpture. The couple are avowedly collecting for the public.
The Museum Haus Ludwig for art exhibitions Saarlouis
Part of the Ludwig museums, the Ludwig Galerie Saarlouis offers an unusual and exciting exhibition program.
Art as a medium to bring people into contact with each other and the first German-German town twinning formed the basis for the establishment of the museum in 1989. After 28 years, the Saarlouis museum has now moved into its new home under the roof of the museums in Kaserne VI and bears the name "Ludwig Galerie Saarlouis". Together with its cooperation partner, the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation Aachen, the district town of Saarlouis is continuing its multifaceted exhibition concept with its Ludwig Gallery.
Bringing works of old and modern art "into contact" with each other, showing "high" and "popular" art in equal measure, is the program.
International art from East and West, as brought together by the collectors Irene and Peter Ludwig, is presented annually in three changing thematic exhibitions. The exhibition program is complemented by exhibitions on the rich heritage of Saarland's art and cultural history.
