The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection (Sammlung Lambrecht-Schadeberg/Rubenspreisträger der Stadt Siegen in German) contains diverse works from all phases of each awardee of the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen.
History The patron Barbara Lambrecht-Schadeberg (1935-) began specifically collecting the works of Rubens Prize awardees in 1992 to raise awareness around the Ruben Prize. She is a native of Siegerland (Krombach and Kreuztal). In 1961, she became a co-partner of the family brewery Krombacher Brauerei Bernhard Schadeberg GmbH & Co. She created the Barbara Schadeberg Foundation back in 1994 to promote a Christian style of upbringing and education. She also collected impressionist and post-impressionist paintings since the 1970s (Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzalès, Claude Monet, Raoul Dufy, Kees van DongenThe personal collection of Barbara Lambrecht - sold to benefit the Rubens Prize Collection in the Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen - leads Christie’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale, Christies.com, 17 January 2017). Her reorientation went along with general endeavours regarding the foundation of a museum of contemporary art in Siegen. She became the patron of the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, which opened in 2001. She provided the collection of paintings to the foundation as a permanent loan. In 2015, Lambrecht-Schadeberg announced her retirement from the foundation's management board. In 2016, she received the Federal Cross of Merit.
In 2017, the museum acquired Francis Bacon's Painting 1962, the sixth Bacon of the collection,Six works on display at museum für gegenwartskunst siegen, Francis-bacon.com, 24 May 2017 and sold 2 Morisot (Femme en noir and Femme et enfant au balcon), 1 Monet (Les Bords de la Seine au Petit-Gennevilliers), 1 van Dongen (Les deux Anges), and 1 Picasso (Lluis Alemany). In 2018, the collection acquired the painting Turn by Bridget RileyThe Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection / Rubens Prize Winners of the City of Siegen. In Focus: Black and White (group show), Maxhetzler.com, March 2018 and a group of 85 photographs of Sigmar Polke.Sigmar Polke and the 1970s, Monovisions.com, 9 January 2019
Description The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection consists of more than 200 works by Hans Hartung, Giorgio Morandi, Francis Bacon, Antoni Tápies, Fritz Winter, Emil Schumacher, Cy Twombly, Rupprecht Geiger, Lucian Freud, Maria Lassnig, Sigmar Polke, and Bridget Riley.
The collection is exhibited permanently in the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, a contemporary art museum. Regularly alternating exhibitions show representative examples from the Rubens Prize awardees’ various phases of work. The individual artistic positions offer an insight into the European history of painting.
The collection is a significant part of the cultural life of the Siegerland, an area in the south of North Rhine-Westphalia.
References