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Krupp-Jubiläums-Stiftung
In 1912, the Friedrich Krupp Gussstahl AG celebrated its 100th anniversary in business. To mark the occasion, Margarethe Krupp and the couple Gustav and Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach set up the Krupp-Jubiläums-Stiftung foundation. Half of the initial assets of two million Reichsmark assigned to the foundation were to be used to »acquire artworks for the City of Essen Art Museum«; another stated object of the foundation was social and charitable work in the City of Essen.

For the members of the Krupp family, social and cultural commitment was part and parcel of how they saw entrepreneurial activity and this corporate culture was reflected as early as the mid-19th century in the social welfare and housing programme that Alfred Krupp promulgated. In the fine arts, in particular Friedrich Alfred Krupp and the couple Gustav and Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach were very active, and they established a large private collection of paintings as well as commissioning countless pieces from artists they knew. The City of Essen Art Museum also benefited from this interest, and its director Ernst Gosebruch maintained good links with the family. Individual works were thus already gifted to the museum collection even before 1912. With the foundation of the Krupp-Jubiläums-Stiftung the commitment to the arts by both the Krupp family and corporation was given an institutionalized form.

Amongst the first pieces acquired with funding from the foundation for the museum’s collection were Max Liebermann’s ›The Parrot Man‹ and Wilhelm Trübner’s ›Portrait of a Lady‹. In subsequent decades, the foundation on numerous occasions supported acquisitions of paintings by German artists (including Carl Gustav Carus, Johann Erdmann Hummel, Franz Kobell, Carl Spitzweg and Adolf Menzel). From the 1950s onwards, the foundation has repeatedly enabled the museum to acquire major works of Classical Modernism (including Camille Pissarro, Henri Le Fauconnier, Otto Dix, Rudolf Belling and members of the Brücke group) and of contemporary art (examples being Arman, Katharina Fritsch, Antonio Saura and Jesús Raphael Soto). Since the 1990s, support has increasingly also been provided for purchases of photographic work groups and portfolios (including Umbo, Joan Colom, Rineke Dijkstra and Darren Almond).
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