Hans-Peter Feldmann
collection of works including White Cube (Exhibitionist)

Artist
Hans-Peter Feldmann

Title
White Cube (Exhibitionist)

Year of creation
2002

Technique and dimensions
Head, torso and two hands of a male mannequin (slightly damaged), trench coat, on the inside of the right side there is an image of the moon attached with a safety pin, white wooden base / base: 128.5 x 32 x 22.5 cm / total: approx. 197x80x60cm

Year of acquisition
2024

Donors
Paul Maenz and Gerd de Vries to the FRIENDS Foundation of the Nationalgalerie eV

Acquisition of the foundation

Collection of works including White Cube (Exhibitionist), 2002

listing
undated (6 toy cars), undated (1975)
undated (music box), undated (1975)
undated (standing nude, blonde), undated (1980/81)
undated (standing nude, brown), undated (1980/81)
The Museum in the Head, 1989
undated (wobble picture “runner” [Muybridge]), undated (1998)
White Cube (Exhibitionist), 2002
undated (Hammer), undated (2004)
Hurray, hurray, the goose mail is here, 2006
undated (two toy frogs ["hopping frogs"] with wind-up key), undated (2011)
undated (golden "75" in a laurel wreath), undated (2014)
undated (wobble picture "farewell" [woman with handkerchief]), oJ

Last year, the artist Hans-Peter Feldmann died in Düsseldorf at the age of 82. The National Gallery has an extensive inventory of the artist's works, which can be used to represent his work using major works. The Marzona Collection contains important examples of Feldmann's early work. A large part was added in 2006, when the Friends of the National Gallery Foundation for Contemporary Art was able to acquire a collection of his works. This inventory was repeatedly enriched by generous donations from Paul Maenz, the artist's long-standing gallery owner. Together with Gerd de Vries, with whom Maenz ran his art shop in Cologne, he is now donating further works by Feldmann to the friends of the Nationalgalerie. In addition to personal works in which Maenz and de Vries' bond with the artist is expressed, the thirteen works also include now very rare painted sculptures from the 1970s. The assemblage “White Cube (Exhibitionist)” (2002) is also a later work by Feldmann, which was also shown at his 2006 exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof. Thanks to this addition, the Nationalgalerie now has one of the largest collections of Hans-Peter Feldmann. – Sven Beckstette