Reinhold Würth a German businessman has been collecting 20th century art for about 20 years. In the last decade this activity which began as a spontaneous one became more and more conscious. The German company which produces screws and mounting equipments, has concerns in 38 countries, among others in Hungary and celebrated in 1995 the 50. anniversary of its foundation. The first public exhibition of this collection took place in 1989. The Stiftung Würth started its exhibition in Künzelsau, Baden-Würtenberg. In the middle of the 80's the company has issued a tender for the construction of an office building which includes the collection as well as contemporary exhibitions. The works has been finished in 1991. In 1995 Art Frankfurt honoured Reinhold Würth with the Adam Elsheimer Prize for his activities as collector and patron. The major part of our exhibition in Budapest had been shown spring at the Moderner Kunst in Passau. We received 190 Works made by 53 artists: paintings, sculptures, and paper-works. The exhibition contains works of over 80 years: from the early Gabriele Münter painting "Kandinsky's Garden in Murnau" (1912) to Christo drawings concerning the wrapping of the Berlin Reichstag. The Classical modern was represented by artists, as Albers, Alechinsky, Kandinsky, Arp, Baumeister, Beckmann, Chagall, Dix, Delaunay, Max Ernst, Fontana, Hartung, Léger, Miró, Mortensen, Picasso, Nolde, Poliakoff, Vlaminck. The sculptors Hrdlicka and Jacobsen enriched the exhibition with powerful works, which contains paintings as well as sculptures from the German ‘New Wilds' (Immendorf, Lüpertz, Penck), and from the Italian avantgarde (Chia, Paladino). We wanted to emphasise also the Works of the Paris School abstract painters, the Arp-Collection and the 12 wonderful drawings of Christo. The works had been chosen by the director of the Würth Museum, Sylvia Weber.
