Krefeld – Just a year ago that wanted to make the city of Krefeld, its Monet ( "Houses of Parliament") from lack of money to shekels and caught harsh criticism. Now threatens to bankrupt the next art: The family Lauffs wants to withdraw their impressive art collection (500 works valued at around 400 million euros) from the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum. The reason: they were "inappropriately presented and exposed to dangers.
The entrepreneurial couple Walther (†) and Helga Lauffs (82) from Bad Honnef (Rabenhorst fruit juices) were permanent loan collection. Helga Lauffs is an honorary citizen of the city of Krefeld. Her lawyer Michael Lohschelder: "The collection is presented in conservation inappropriate, and the technique of the house does not have the standard of comparable museums.
The criticism of the state of the museum and the announcement of the withdrawal of the collection followed long negotiations. Results: The huge collection of one of Germany's largest private collections of contemporary art is only a fraction.
Advocate Lohschelder: "For a timely renovation of the museum, there was no binding commitment. It now comes to the modalities of this operation. "
EXPRESS learned, however, that (the heirs of Walter Lauffs including six daughters), many plants would prefer to sell.
Among these works are the most important artists of the 20th Century, like Beuys, Kienholz, Rosenquist, Roth, Segal, Warhol, Richter, Gursky.
Helga Lauffs: "A reorganization of the museum would be a way for new talks." The city believes the reasons for the withdrawal of the works as a pretext for "". Museum boss Martin Hentschel suspects a "early inheritance". At the reorganization would still worked, the museum remains fully operational and will not be closed.
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Cologne – The castle in the Eifel was a secret control center for Südstadt hero Jean Löring († 70).
In the 80s and 90s, the Cologne-based company celebrated his 600-square meter on the estate of longtime Fortuna Bosses "Schäng" Löring) in Nideggen (Rureifel glittering parties.
The guests were sleeping in rooms with ceiling gold decoration and stunning views, gold faucets in the bathroom, after the sauna, it was in the bar Koelsch. And in summer, guests seeking the self-made-Man's cool in the pool.
The heyday of Fortuna is history, Löring the past four years dead, and his company went down the drain, he died in 2005 of cancer. Only the property is still there. And no one buys them.
His widow Katherine talked of turning the castle houses a training area for the Fortuna. Nothing happened. The castle is empty, the park is unkempt. In 2004, the district court had determined the market value at Düren 2.9 million euros.
Then the Lindenthaler Nobel agents Engel & Völkers, the former sanctuary of the southern part-king tried to market it. For 1.85 million €.
"After four years, we have delisted the object in view the wishes of the family," said broker Michael Mouse, the Eifel and the house of an industrialist Dürener and celebrity can convey objects in Hahnwald.
The creditor bank to deliver the castle now for 995.000 €. A bargain. If you like gold and can be renovated bathrooms.
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