Hans-und-Sophie-Scholl-Platz 1
89073 Ulm
Germany
kunsthalle weishaupt
The entrepreneur from Schwendi near Ulm has been collecting with great sensitivity for more than fifty years. Together with his wife Frau Jutta he has built up a collection with a strong individual profile.
It all began with Weishaupt’s connections to the Ulm School of Design (HfG). His father Max Weishaupt, founder of the business, established contact to the Ulm School in the early 1960s and commissioned the outstanding product designers Hans Gugelot and Hans Sukopp to work for his business, and later also the pioneering Swiss graphic designer Josef Müller-Brockmann. “Thus the Bauhaus and its clarity of design moved in with us,” Siegfried Weishaupt remembers. This also led to a special connection with Max Bill, founder director of the Ulm School. der HfG, and to his work as an artist.
It all began with Weishaupt’s connections to the Ulm School of Design (HfG). His father Max Weishaupt, founder of the business, established contact to the Ulm School in the early 1960s and commissioned the outstanding product designers Hans Gugelot and Hans Sukopp to work for his business, and later also the pioneering Swiss graphic designer Josef Müller-Brockmann. “Thus the Bauhaus and its clarity of design moved in with us,” Siegfried Weishaupt remembers. This also led to a special connection with Max Bill, founder director of the Ulm School. der HfG, and to his work as an artist.
Siegfried Weishaupt’s approach to art was greatly influenced by Josef Albers, who also taught in Ulm for a while. Over the following years, Weishaupt and his wife Jutta broadened out beyond geometrical and “concrete” art and became interested in American abstract expressionism (such as Rothko), then Rauschenberg, whose work was highly influential, and then Pop art and other contemporary movements in art.