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Sabrina Schrimpf +49 (0) 711-17-47074
Date:
May 11, 2012
Daimler Art Collection presents the exhibition
“Cars and Art” in the Museum for Historic
Maybach-Vehicles
• Selected works of art from the Daimler Art Collection in
Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz from May 13 – August 12, 2012.
• 45 works of art from Sylvie Fleury to Andy Warhol.
• Dr. Renate Wiehager, head of the Daimler Art Collection: ”We
are pleased to be able to present these extraordinary artistic
treatments of 'Cars and Art' in Neumarkt, now with a number
of additional original artworks concerned with the history,
design and aesthetics of the automobile”.
• Anna Hofmann, executive director of the Museum for Historic
Maybach-Vehicles GmbH: “The crème de la crème of motoring
in the form of historic Maybach vehicles coming together with
artworks by a major artist like Andy Warhol can only be
described as a very special meeting of leaders in their field.”
Neumarkt – Under the topic “art meets technology”, the Daimler Art
Collection is exhibiting representative car-related works on the
subject “Cars and Art” from May 13 to August 12, 2012 in the
Museum for Historic Maybach Vehicles in Neumarkt in der
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5 pm and Thursday from 9 am to 8 p.m.
At the heart of the exhibition are selected works from Andy Warhol’s
Car-series, to which are added a selection of collages, objects,
sculptures and videos showing various variations in terms of subject
matter and media on the theme of “Cars and Art”. With works from
Ulrike Flaig (*1962/D), Sylvie Fleury (*1961/CH), Richard Hamilton
(1922 -2011/GB), David Hockney (1937/GB), Robert Longo
(*1953/USA), Gerold Miller (*1961/D), Kirsten Mosher
(*1963/USA), Vincent Szarek (*1973/USA), Andy Warhol (1927-
1987/USA)
Dr. Renate Wiehager, head of the Daimler Art Collection: “Andy
Warhol’s CARS series, created in 1986, puts the Pop artist at the
heart of the Daimler Art Collection. It was the prelude to other
collaborations on the subject of ‘the automobile’ with famous artists
such as Robert Longo, Sylvie Fleury and Vincent Szarek, which now
represent a significant subgroup within our collection. “We are
pleased to be able to present these extraordinary artistic treatments
of 'Cars and Art' in Neumarkt, now with a number of additional
original artworks concerned with the history, design and aesthetics
of the automobile.”
Anna Hofmann, executive director of the Museum for Historic
Maybach-Vehicles GmbH: “The crème de la crème of motoring in the
form of historic Maybach vehicles coming together with artworks by
a major artist like Andy Warhol can only be described as a very
special meeting of leaders in their field. In fact, it is hard to imagine
how it could be improved on.”
The Daimler Art Collection was founded in 1977, and is one of the
most renowned European corporate collections. The collection
includes around 2000 pieces by roughly 700 international artists. It
focuses on the area of twentieth-century Abstract Art: from the
circle of artists around Adolf Hölzel in Stuttgart in the 1910,
Bauhaus, Constructivism, Concrete Art, the European Zero avant-
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to the most recent contemporary art. There are areas dedicated to
photography and media art as well as large public sculptures in
Stuttgart and Berlin. In-house exhibitions, at the Daimler
Contemporary exhibition space at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, and at
international museums – New York, Karlsruhe, Detroit,
Johannesburg, Tokyo, Singapore, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires.
Grants are awarded to upcoming artists with the aim of
communicating the Daimler Art Collection
to a wide audience.
The Museum for Historic Maybach Vehicles presents an exhibition
on the life stories and the products of the car designers Karl and
Wilhelm Maybach. The approximately 2500 m² of exhibition space
contains exhibits that illustrate the history of Maybach motor
construction – the vehicles, the motors and the gears. This
chronologically organized exhibition contains 18 to 20 Maybach
vehicles in all kinds of states – from a gutted vehicle of the type
sometimes found in a barn to a concourse classic.
Further information on the Daimler Art Collection is available at:
www.sammlung.daimler.com
Further information on the exhibition is available at:
www.automuseum-maybach.de
Contact person for media:
Anja Hofmann, managing director
Museum for Historic Maybach Vehicles
Tel.: 09181/4877100
info@automuseum-maybach.de
Further information from Daimler is available at:
www.media.daimler.com and www.daimler.com
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