Museum Ludwig has one of the most important historical photography collections, which includes the Lebeck and Agfa Collections. It ranges from artist portraits by Edward Steichen, Heinrich Kühn, Hugo Erfurth, George Platt Lynes and Cecil Beaton, to exposures by Irving Penn, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Weegee and Robert Doisneau, and to legendary photographs by Margaret Bourke White, Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz.

All of these photographs have an established place in the history of photographic art and culture, and are rarely ever missing in historical presentations of photography. Apart from these, the exhibition will also present a number of newly discovered masterpieces that are scarcely known, such as ‘Reflection’ by Erwin von Dessauer or the ‘Arrival of the S.S. Bremen in New York’ by Bernd Lohse.
Museum Ludwig is responsible for the standard work ‘Photography of the 20th century’.

Director of institute: Prof. Kasper König
Contact person: Dr. Barbara Engelbach, Job title contact person: Curator, Contemporary Art Collection, Photography and Media Art: engelbach@museum-ludwig.de