Die Künstlersammlung: The Artist Collection Acconci, Francis, Nauman, Warhol and others from the Collection of Marc Egger

The inventory of the Marc Egger Collection reads like a list of names of the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century. During his visits to New York in the 1960’s and 1970’s, the young, art-obsessed Egger, who grew up in Mühlehorn (canton of Glarus), had a good nose for small works (primarily drawings and prints, but also smaller paintings and objects) by artists who were already hot at the time, but had not yet by a long shot climbed to the summit of the art world. This small collection of about 100 works provides a fast overview, so to speak, of the most important artistic movements of the postwar decades: Concrete Art (Joseph Albers, Bridget Riley), Abstract Expressionism (Sam Francis, Barnett Newman), Minimal Art (Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt), with a main focus on American Pop Art (Mel Ramos, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol).

The Kunsthaus Glarus, which received the Marc Egger Collection in 1979 as a permanent loan, will now exhibit part of this collection of small works by great artists.