Description: The Scharpff Collection was established in the sixties by husband and wife team Rudolf and Ute Scharpff. The director is the daughter Carolin Scharpff-Striebich. The collection currently includes works by internationally recognized artists from Germany, the UK and the US.
The Scharpff-Striebich Collection comprises contemporary painting as well as sculpture and installation works that bear a critical reference to the times. By globalizing and diversifying her collection, she adds to the bigger picture of her parents collection as well as art history.
Starting in the 1980s, the Scharpff Collection has been built and grown by the art collector couple Rudolf and Ute Scharpff. The initial focus was on American graffiti painting and socially critical art. Later the emphasis was to shift to collecting paintings.
Since 2004, the collection has been under the direction of Carolin Scharpff-Striebich, the collector couple’s younger daughter, who is bringing the collection into the future with her own sets of emphasis.