# Haupt Collection

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The **Haupt Collection** entitled "Thirty Pieces of Silver — Art and Money" is a thematic Berlin-based [collection](/source/Collection_(artwork)) of [contemporary art](/source/Contemporary_art) curated by Stefan Haupt. The collection is dedicated to the topic of money all media. It is shown in rotating exhibitions in both national [museums](/source/Art_museum) and [art galleries](/source/Contemporary_art_gallery), as well as by appointment in the space of Haupt's Law Firm.

## Formation

Initially dedicated to the [photographic medium](/source/Photography), Haupt shifted his focus to money art in the mid-'90s, inspired by an origami [sculpture](/source/Sculpture) by New York-based Taiwanese artist [Lee Mingwei](/source/Lee_Mingwei). In the following years, this inspiration developed through visits to art fairs and galleries, as well as Internet research.

For art collector Stefan Haupt, the fascination with money is that — besides sex and death — it is a phenomenon about which we do not speak although it is one of the determining factors of human existence.

— Uta Tackenberg[1]

## Range

The collection comprises some 200 [works](/source/Works_of_art) in varying techniques and approaches that provide an overview of the study of [money](/source/Money) in contemporary art. Significant works in the collection, among others, are the work *$* by the French light artist [Mathieu Mercier](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu_Mercier_(plasticien)), "Hidden Object III" by Timm Ulrichs and several works by [Joseph Beuys](/source/Joseph_Beuys).

Also represented in the collection (selected):

- César Escudero Andaluz
- Stephan Balkenhol
- Thomas Baumgärtel
- Barton Lidicé Beneš
- [Joseph Beuys](/source/Joseph_Beuys)
- JSG Boogs
- [Anne de Vries](/source/Anne_de_Vries)
- Ruprecht Dreher
- Felix Droese
- Nikolaus Eberstaller
- Agathe Fleury
- Fabian Fontain
- [Thorsten Goldberg](/source/Thorsten_Goldberg)
- Jan Henderikse
- Julia Herfurth
- Norbert Hinterberger
- [Ottmar Hörl](/source/Ottmar_H%C3%B6rl)
- [Friedensreich Hundertwasser](/source/Friedensreich_Hundertwasser)
- [Robert Jelinek](/source/Robert_Jelinek)
- Anne Jud
- Christin Lahr
- [Lee Mingwei](/source/Lee_Mingwei)
- Mathieu Mercier
- Wolfgang Nieblich
- Jochen Schamal
- Sebastian Siechold
- [Daniel Spoerri](/source/Daniel_Spoerri)
- [Klaus Staeck](/source/Klaus_Staeck)
- [Michael Timpson](/source/Michael_Timpson)
- Timm Ulrichs
- Philipp Valenta
- Andreas von Weizsäcker
- [Lawrence Weiner](/source/Lawrence_Weiner)
- Stefan Wewerka
- [Vadim Zakharov](/source/Vadim_Zakharov_(artist))

## Exhibitions (selected)

- "Art and Money — Collection Haupt", Exhibition at the Halle am Wasser, Kunst-Campus Berlin at the Hamburger Train Station, 10. September to October 8, 2011
- "Thirty Pieces of Silver – Art and Money" — Collection Haupt – Altmärkisches Museum Stendal, May 20 September 2, 2012
- "Real or Fake? An Exhibition about Money and its Counterfeits", Works from the Haupt Collection at the Museum of the Printing Arts Leipzig, October 14 to December 7, 2012
- "MONEY, MONEY, MONEY" – Exhibition of the Haupt Collection at the Kunstforum Halle, August 20 to September 15, 2013
- "DIVIDED AND REUNIFIED", selected works from the Haupt Collection, curated by Tina Sauerländer, satellite program of Art Market Budapest 2014, A38, Budapest, Hungary

## Literature

- *Haupt Collection, Thirty Pieces of Silver – Art and Money*, Hermann Büchner and Tina Sauerländer, Braus, 2013 – ISBN 978-3-86228-086-5

## External links

- [Haupt Collection](https://archive.today/20150202000154/http://www.sammlung-haupt.de/sammlung_engl.htm)
- [German Association for Numismatic Art](http://www.medaillenkunst.de/index.php?item_id=733)
- [KUNST-Magazine – article over the exhibition at the Kunstforum Halle](http://kunst-magazin.de/its-all-about-money-die-sammlung-haupt/)
- [Article about the collection in artparasites.com magazine](http://www.artparasites.com/people/collectors-corner-show-me-money-1218/)
- [Information about the exhibition at Art Market Budapest](https://web.archive.org/web/20150202022114/http://www.artmarketbudapest.hu/2013/programs_2_1/berlinbudapest/haupt_collection/)

## Notes and references

1. in: [Dreißig Silberlinge, Kunst und Geld – Geld und Kunst](http://www.sammlung-haupt.de/pdf/text_tackenberg.pdf), Sammlung Haupt

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