"Balthus- suspended Time"

From 18 August to 4 November 2007 Museum Ludwig will be presenting the first-ever solo exhibition of the French painter Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski, 29.02.1908-18.02.2001) in Germany. On show will be around 70 outstanding paintings and drawings from the years 1932 to 1960, on loan from international public and private collections.

The exhibition has been organised by Museum Ludwig ( curator Nina Guelicher) in collaboration with Dr. Sabine Rewald, a Balthus expert and curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and been made possible by generous loans from international private and public collections, not least the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute in Chicago, the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Musée National d'art Moderne and the Musée Picasso in Paris.

As nominated Logistics Lead Party, Brandl Transport|Fine Art Service Division had an intensive cooperation with market leading enterprises in the US (Masterpiece International Ltd.), Australia ( GSS) and France ( Crown), and with Van Kralingen as airport agent in Amsterdam.
Thanks to a streamlined information flow and networking between all agentsinvolved masterpieces from intercontinental lenders arrived on only 4 flights from the US and Australia. From the arrival of aircrafts transit times from arrical airport to the loading dock at Museum Ludwig were less than 3 hours from Cologne Airport, 6 from Frankfurt Airport and Amsterdam Airport. We have heard that couriers from intercontinental lending institutions were very appreciable as to the swift transit, as they already had spent many hours én route.

A number of verbal acknowledgments (to services rendered by Brandl ) were received, most notably from australian and US-lenders. Upon request we will be pleased to copy you with written statements.

workshop photo gallery

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