KNEIP Art collection

The KNEIP art collection was born in 1993 at the same time as the company out of Bob Kneip’s desire to share his taste for beautiful things with his clients and his team. Art and life no longer belong to two different worlds. Art must be experienced day by day, as Bob Kneip says, and should not be confined to special and private places. In offices paintings fill the walls with colour and create a special and stimulating atmosphere for ideas to emerge and develop. This, in turn, helps to foster an attitude that increases people’s openness to art in their private and professional life. KNEIP is proud to support artists and help develop a taste for pictorial art among KNEIP employees.

It is probably no coincidence that Pop Art features prominently in this collection: what other kind of art would better suit a company like KNEIP where communication of financial information to all major media (newspapers and global websites) is the core business? Pop Art stems from a meeting of art and mass media culture. It has its origins in England in the late ‘50s and developed in the United States in the early ‘60s with Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns; it later met with success during the ‘60s in Europe, particularly in Germany. Pop Art makes immediate sense to many of us. We can relate to these pictures and identify our own reality highlighted by advertising, TV, press and cinema – in an abrupt, colourful, laconic or trivial way, and always mass-effective.

An array of around 100 works of art, mainly centered on the production of the last 50 years, strongly characterised by Pop Art, the KNEIP Art Collection includes such names as César, Döring, Erró, Fifax, Huart, Warhol, Wesselmann to name just a few. This year the exhibition is enriched by the contribution of Gallery Luc Pieters Modern and Contemporary Art (Knokke-Zoute) and Nosbaum & Reding Art Contemporain (Luxembourg).

But you will find “More than Pop Art”, since the guiding principle of this collection is love for contemporary art in general.

EXHIBITION: 22 September 2007 “Private Art Kirchberg” - www.artkirchberg.lu

Partial overview of the ART COLLECTION: