PETER LUDWIG, PATRON OF ARTS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Peter Ludwig, who used his German chocolate factory fortune to become one of the world's foremost art collectors, died Monday. He was 71. Ludwig died from a ruptured colon, his company Ludwig Schokolade said in Aachen, where he had been hospitalized for several weeks. A voracious collector and generous patron of the arts in a number of countries, Ludwig bought works by Picasso, Russian avant-garde The Russian avant-garde is an umbrella term used to define the large, influential wave of modern art that flourished in Russia from approximately 1890 to 1930 - although some place its beginning as early as 1850 and its end as late as 1960. painters and pop art, as well as South American gold trinkets and medieval German manuscripts. Many of the thousands of works collected by Ludwig and his wife, Irene, over a half-century went on display in some 30 museums worldwide. Ludwig set up several endowments and gave freely to museums. He was on the board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. of the Museum of Modern Art in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and set up a foundation to promote the arts in Cuba. Ludwig also was the driving force behind the establishment of modern art museums in Vienna, Budapest, and St. Petersburg. A museum bearing his name is due to open in Beijing this fall. Ludwig's sale of medieval manuscripts to the J. Paul Getty Jean Paul Getty (December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American industrialist and founder of the Getty Oil Company. Biography Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, into a family already in the petroleum business, he was one of the first people in the world with a Museum in Los Angeles in 1983 became controversial when critics accused Ludwig of selling out German art. |
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