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Museum Ludwig

Cologne - This Museum Ludwig was a short walking distance to the Cologne cathedral.  The entrance to this museum was euro 12.  This museum houses a collection of modern art. It includes works from Pop Art, Abstract and Surrealism, and has one of the largest Picasso collections in Europe.

Museum Ludwig

Art is what you make it to be

To me Art is what you imagine it to be, or be in the shoes of the artist when he created it and imagine his thoughts when he worked on the art.   I begin to appreciate art as I travel as it opens different perspective and human possibilities of creation.

mother and her baby

This portrait is of a mother carrying her baby on her back but is there another child?




These are some of the works of the famous Spanish artist - Pablo Picasso.  Irene Ludwig, widow of the chocolate magnate and art collector Peter Ludwig, donated 774 pieces to a museum named after her late husband.

watering can


pop art section 

There was a big section for Ur­su­la Schultze-Bluhm, who is known sim­p­ly as Ur­su­la, was one of the most im­por­tant Ger­man artists of the se­cond half of the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry. She was born in Mit­ten­walde, Ger­many, in 1921 and died in Cologne in 1999.




Ur­su­la’s life and work of­fer an un­con­ven­tio­n­al nar­ra­tive of artis­tic in­de­pen­dence. Her art ex­em­pli­fies the idea that Sur­re­al­ism is not a style, but an at­ti­tude.




I spent more an hour walking around the different gallery of this museum, feeling tired and decided to walk back to the hotel. 

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