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Konrad Lueg: Accretion for the Kunstpalast

Generous donation from Jan Fischer to mark the 90th anniversary of DKV Mobility


He was a central figure in German Pop Art: the Düsseldorf artist Konrad Lueg (1939-1996) caused a sensation in the 1960s. Together with Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke and Manfred Kuttner, whom he had met during his studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, Lueg contributed to a radical expansion of the traditional understanding of art. Nine of his works are now being donated to the Kunstpalast: Jan Fischer is presenting them to the museum on the occasion of DKV Mobility’s 90th birthday as a commitment to the Düsseldorf and NRW region.
Konrad Lueg: Accretion for the Kunstpalast

In their works, they made references to everyday life, media and consumption and pursued the goal of uniting art and life: Konrad Lueg and his fellow artists were perceived as a German version of US Pop Art with joint projects and exhibitions. In 1963, Lueg and Richter organized the action “Leben mit Pop – eine Demonstration für den kapitalistischen Realismus” (Living with Pop – a demonstration for capitalist realism) in the Düsseldorf furniture store Berges, which they converted into an exhibition space. They demonstrated how capitalism had found its way into West German living rooms: against a backdrop of furnishings on pedestals, they staged themselves as television viewers. Four of their paintings hung on the walls. Visitors were thus confronted with their own bourgeois lives. This unusual exhibition went down in art history and cemented Düsseldorf’s reputation as an international art metropolis.

The Kunstpalast is now enriched by nine works by Konrad Lueg. Works such as the Praying Hands (1963), the Bockwürste auf Pappteller (1962/63) and the Bügel (1963) – all works that were shown in the legendary “Leben mit Pop” show in 1963 – are part of Jan Fischer’s donation to the Museum der Stadt Düsseldorf.

“I am extremely grateful to now have a significant group of works in our collection by such an important and influential artist of this period,” says a delighted Felix Krämer, General Director of the Kunstpalast. The donation is now on display in the collection tour.