Twentieth century artists
The collection includes the French cubist André Lhote, the Dutch, German and Spanish painters Karel Appel, Lucebert, Otto Piene and Luis Feito who represent the 'Art Brut' development of the 1950s and 1960s and Max Bill and Heinz Mack of the German 'Group Zero' of the same period. Others of note are the Paris-based Constructivists Sergio Camargo and J R Soto, as well as Victor Vaseraly and a group of younger German artists including Friedemann Hahn and G L Gabriel. The Russian painter Maxim Kantor is represented by Two Versions of History 1993.
The small group of post war American paintings ranks next to the Tate Gallery's collection of Abstract Expresssionism and Post-Painterly Abstraction. Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell and Paul Jenkins are represented, but probably the most significant American painting of this category is Morris Louis's Golden Age of 1959.
Image: Karel Appel (b.1921), Portrait of Cesar (1956). Copyright The Artist.