Elizabeth Allen
Stephen Anderson
Anonymous
André Bauchant
H. Biehler
Mihalj Bireš
Camille Bombois
Ilija Bosilj
Erich Bödeker
Eugen Buktenica
Rosie Camanga
Zuzanna Chalupová
Sailor Jerry Collins
Fleury-Joseph Crépin
A. Daussin
Ferdinand Desnos
Louis Auguste Déchelette
Adolf Dietrich
Louis Ducasse
Préfète Duffaut
Curtis Lee Fairley
Emerik Feješ
Johann Fischer
René-Luc François
Auguste Forestier
Ivan Generalić
Willem van Genk
Pietro Ghizzardi
Madge Gill
Léon Greffe
Jacob Greuter
Don Ed Hardy
Johann Hauser
Nathan Heber
Margarethe Held
Morris Hirshfield
Wolfgang Hueber
Paul Humphrey
Michael Johns
Juliette Juvin
Franz Kamlander
John Kane
Karl Eduard Kazmierczak
Johann Korec
Mijo Kovačić
Lawrence Lebduska
Augustin Lesage
Abraham Levin
Abdel Mason
Pavel Petrovič Leonov
Franjo Mraz
James Lloyd
Séraphine Louis
Berthelus Myrbel
Nikifor
Heinrich Nüßlein
Antoine Obin
Sénèque Obin
Télémaque Obin
Dominique-Paul Peyronnet
Niko Pirosmani / Nikolos Pirosmanaschwili
Ivan Ra­bu­zin
Vasilij Romanenkov
Max Raffler
Henri Rousseau
Aloys Sauter
Sava Sekulić
Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern
Simon Schwartzenberg
Matija Skurjeni
Ondrej Šteberl
Emma Stern
Gheorghe Sturza
Petar Smajić
Louis Soutter
Franz Spielbichler
Günther Thumer
Max Tobler
Abram Topor
Bill Traylor
Oswald Tschirtner
Adalbert Trillhaase
Gérard Valcin
Ivan Večenaj
Mirko Virius
Louis Vivin
August Walla
Alfred Wallis
Scottie Wilson
Josef Wittlich
Agatha Wojciechowsky
Adolf Wölfli
Adam Zegadło
Piotr Zelek
Bogosav Živković
Anna Zemánková
Carlo Zinelli
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Artists
Elizabeth Allen
Stephen Anderson
Anonymous
André Bauchant
H. Biehler
Mihalj Bireš
Camille Bombois
Ilija Bosilj
Erich Bödeker
Eugen Buktenica
Rosie Camanga
Zuzanna Chalupová
Sailor Jerry Collins
Fleury-Joseph Crépin
A. Daussin
Ferdinand Desnos
Louis Auguste Déchelette
Adolf Dietrich
Louis Ducasse
Préfète Duffaut
Curtis Lee Fairley
Emerik Feješ
Johann Fischer
René-Luc François
Auguste Forestier
Ivan Generalić
Willem van Genk
Pietro Ghizzardi
Madge Gill
Léon Greffe
Jacob Greuter
Don Ed Hardy
Johann Hauser
Nathan Heber
Margarethe Held
Morris Hirshfield
Wolfgang Hueber
Paul Humphrey
Michael Johns
Juliette Juvin
Franz Kamlander
John Kane
Karl Eduard Kazmierczak
Johann Korec
Mijo Kovačić
Lawrence Lebduska
Augustin Lesage
Abraham Levin
Abdel Mason
Pavel Petrovič Leonov
Franjo Mraz
James Lloyd
Séraphine Louis
Berthelus Myrbel
Nikifor
Heinrich Nüßlein
Antoine Obin
Sénèque Obin
Télémaque Obin
Dominique-Paul Peyronnet
Niko Pirosmani / Nikolos Pirosmanaschwili
Ivan Ra­bu­zin
Vasilij Romanenkov
Max Raffler
Henri Rousseau
Aloys Sauter
Sava Sekulić
Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern
Simon Schwartzenberg
Matija Skurjeni
Ondrej Šteberl
Emma Stern
Gheorghe Sturza
Petar Smajić
Louis Soutter
Franz Spielbichler
Günther Thumer
Max Tobler
Abram Topor
Bill Traylor
Oswald Tschirtner
Adalbert Trillhaase
Gérard Valcin
Ivan Večenaj
Mirko Virius
Louis Vivin
August Walla
Alfred Wallis
Scottie Wilson
Josef Wittlich
Agatha Wojciechowsky
Adolf Wölfli
Adam Zegadło
Piotr Zelek
Bogosav Živković
Anna Zemánková
Carlo Zinelli
and more
Sammlung Zander

Milestone Cooperation on Self-Taught and Outsider Artists’ Work in Cologne. The Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek and ZADIK Receive Major Gifts from the Zander Collection

Charlotte Zander. 2004, Photograph: © Guido Mangold (Sammlung Zander | Naive Art)
Charlotte Zander. 2004, Photograph: © Guido Mangold

In 1997, Charlotte Zander was the first woman to be honored with the ART COLOGNE Award for her formidable dedication to “naïve art.” Twenty-eight years later, the documentation and scholarly study of the works of self-taught and outsider artists are firmly established in Cologne, with permanent representation at three venues: last fall, the nonprofit Zander Collection inaugurated an exhibition space in Cologne where exhibitions of works from the collection are held on a regular basis. Susanne Zander now gifts the internationally unrivaled specialized library with literature on the collection’s themes to the Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek Köln (KMB), where scholars can access it effective immediately. Meanwhile, the collector, gallery owner, and museum founder Charlotte Zander’s archive has been entrusted to ZADIK, where it is being made accessible to researchers. ZADIK is preparing a thematically focused exhibition, which will open in 2025.

Nadine Oberste-Hetbleck, director of ZADIK, is delighted: “In the extensive archival material documenting Charlotte Zander’s work, ZADIK now possesses a stock of high-quality sources providing insight into her collection-building activities going back to the 1950s. Because she turned her personal passion into a profession, founding a gallery and, later, a museum, the archive also enables us to learn more about the international networks of dealers and museums handling and showcasing ‘naïve art.’”

Susanne Zander, CEO of Sammlung Zander, is confident that the gifts have opened up new avenues of access to the work of self-taught and outsider artists for specialists and the broader public alike: “One objective of our work with the Zander Collection is to facilitate and promote scholarly engagement with this art. We want to establish Cologne as a central setting of such research. The gifts, which also encompass my personal extensive library on so-called outsider art, are a vital step toward this goal. We are moreover developing new projects involving the collection that embed our exhibitions in diverse discursive and scholarly contexts.”

Elke Purpus, director of the Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek, is inviting the interested public to come and start reading: “We have already entered 2,449 publications into our online catalogue—the work is almost complete. We look forward to welcoming many visitors wishing to consult the Zander Library.”

Bringing both an archive and the related specialized library to Cologne is a model that ZADIK and the Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek have successfully implemented in a series of instances. They underscore its advantages: “It is only a short walk from one institution to the other, enabling scholars to take full advantage of the two related sets of holdings—a collaboration we intend to consolidate and expand on.”