Museum Ludwig
Post-war art museum built from a chocolate fortune, holding one of the world's largest Picasso collections.
This guide to Museum Ludwig in Cologne opens with chocolate manufacturer Peter Ludwig ordering his art pulled overnight from an East Berlin museum in 1990, after it refused to rename a gallery for him. It traces how his fortune, built at the candy maker Leonard Monheim, funded an early, aggressive collection of Pop Art, and how a 1976 gift of modern works locked the city into building him a dedicated museum, opened in 1986 beside the cathedral. Ludwig also kept trading art and chocolate across the Iron Curtain through the 1980s, loaning Warhols to East Berlin while his firm reportedly supplied the East German military with cocoa.
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