Independent Collectors
Lines of Quiet Beauty
Located in a former residential and commercial property from the 1960‘s, the Swiss architect Hans Rohr transformed into a home for contemporary art with over 2 700 square metres of exhibition space.
![AI WEIWEI, Coloured Vases, 2006. © Stiftung DKM. Photo: Werner J. Hannappel](/site/assets/files/25117/2023-06-14_12-43-43_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg?v=77814351 640w, /site/assets/files/25117/2023-06-14_12-43-43_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg?v=1220704122 1024w)
Titled ”Lines of Quiet Beauty” the permanent exhibition at the Museum DKM shows the result of fifty years of collecting by Krämer and Maas, with the presentation of the collection focusing on the comparison of past and contemporary design language and the dialogue between traditional Asian and modern European art. Distributed over fifty-one rooms and five floors of exhibition space, the exhibition includes works from over forty modern and contemporary artists from Europe and Asia, Japanese scroll paintings and ceramics from the 18th and 19th centuries, artefacts from ancient China, from ancient Egypt, Gandhāra, Cambodia and Thailand’s Ayutthaya Kingdom. The museum also hosts regular temporary exhibitions related to the focal points of the collection.
In this online exhibition, we share views from inside the museum’s permanent exhibition “Lines of Quiet Beauty”.
![RICHARD LONG, Cornish Slate Circle, 1983. © Stiftung DKM. Photo: Werner J. Hannappel](/site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-55_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-55_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![SONG DONG, Write your Message with Water, 2001. © Stiftung DKM. Photo: Werner J. Hannappel](/site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-56_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-56_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![(l–r) TADAAKI KUWAYAMA, Untitled, 1981/1982; Untitled, 1974; Untitled, 1973; AI WEIWEI, 8 chairs from the project "Fairytale – 1001 Chairs", 2007. © Stiftung DKM. Photo: Werner J. Hannappel](/site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-56_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-2.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-56_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-2.jpg 1024w)
![GEREON KREBBER, Antagomorph (installation view of the exhibition "antagomorph" 09.30.16-03.05.17), 2016. © Stiftung DKM. Photo: Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf](/site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-57_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-57_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![ERWIN WORTELKAMP, Oranges for Hans von Marées, 1996. © Stiftung DKM. Photo: Werner J. Hannappel](/site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-57_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-57_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.jpg 1024w)
![HUGO SUTER, Frühlicht, Dämmerung, 2012. © Stiftung DKM. Photo: Werner J. Hannappel](/site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-56_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-56_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.jpg 1024w)
![Standing Figure, presumably Siddhartha. © Stiftung DKM. Photo: Greg Wallis](/site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-57_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-2.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-57_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-2.jpg 1024w)
![Coffin for a shrew, 2nd half of the 1st millennial B.C. © Stiftung DKM. Photo: Werner J. Hannappel](/site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-57_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-3.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-57_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-3.jpg 1024w)
![ERNST HERMANNS, WV 255. © Stiftung DKM. Photo: Werner J. Hannappel](/site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-58_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-58_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![Iranian Animal Vessels, around 1000 B.C. © Stiftung DKM. Photo: Werner J. Hannappel](/site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-58_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-58_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.jpg 1024w)
![THOMAS VIRNICH, Großer Pott, 1993/2003. © Stiftung DKM. Photo: Werner J. Hannappel'](/site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-58_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-2.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-58_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-2.jpg 1024w)
![Buddhist Torsos from Ayutthaya, Thailand, 17./18. century. © Stiftung DKM. Photo: Werner J. Hannappel](/site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-59_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/25121/2023-06-14_12-45-59_lines-of-quiet-beauty_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors-1.jpg 1024w)
Museum DKM is included in the Art Guide.