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Very good, clean and fresh copy. - Languages: Polish, english and german. / Published on the occasion of the exhibitions Atlas Sztuki 22.10.2011-08.01.2012, Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie 27.01.-22.04.2012. / Lech Karwowski: It is with manifest pleasure and no small amount of pride that Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie and Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart-Berlin organized the debut presentation in Poland of artworks from the collection of Erich Marx, one of the most valuable contemporary art collections in Germany and in Europe. The exhibition is presented in the main building of the National Museum in Szczecin. It was the first museum building in our city, opened in 1913 as the result of an enlightened policy of Hermann Haken, then mayor of Szczecin. Walter Rietzler was the first director of the Stadtmuseum. Despite the reluctance of Szczecin's conservative society, that later would purge him from the post preferred classical and national art, Reitzler from the start embraced world renown contemporary artists, aiming to establish in the city an international collection of art from the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th century. As a collector, Erich Marx trods a similar path. The fact that a Polish museum is displaying paintings from the collection of a German enthusiast, who, like Rietzler, gathered works by the preeminent artists of his time- among them Polish artists - also is symbolic. One hundred years after opening of the first museum in Szczecin, the exhibition connects and synthesizes the difficult Polish and German shared history of 20th century. The paradox is that while so much has changed, Rietzler's great vision of European order continues. To paraphrase the German writer Heinrich Böll-it is neither intentional nor accidental, but inevitable. Over the last century, the perception of art has changed, but the mission-to bring representative works from the broad spectrum of contemporary output-of the museum in Polish Szczecin remained similar to its pre-War legacy. As such, presentation of works from the Marx Collection represents an example of fulfilling that mission to its utmost, given the exemplary quality and pertinence of works that Erich Marx has assembled over the course of four decades of assiduous collecting. The exhibition of works from the Marx Collection, which includes paintings by prominent Polish artists among the luminaries of American and European contemporary art, burnishes more deeply the reputation of our institution as a locus of artistic excellence in the genre. Lech Karwowski / Greeting The exhibition portends a long and lasting influence in the cultural life of the city. Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Erich Marx has cast a collector's eye on the output emanating from the countries of the former Communist Bloc including art form Poland. Their marriage in the Marx Collection with works by influential American and Western European artists from previous generations encapsulates similar curatorial efforts and initiatives by the National Museum in Szczecin. From the mid 1990s, together with the city authorities the Museum has directed a Baltic program for contemporary art promotion. Via the Mare Articum program's succession of Baltic Biennial exhibitions and those that result from the program's international partnerships and co-operations, the National Museum in Szczecin strives to integrate the output from both Poland and the region with that from elsewhere in ways that showcase for audiences their quality and their influence in the trends shaping contemporary art. Cooperation in this unusual project with such a tremendous partner as Director Eugen Blume and his team at the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, the institution the Marx Collection calls home, evokes great satisfaction. I would like to further extend thanks to Erich Marx for his sympathetic reception of the National Museum in Szczecin initiative and his agreement to lend the valuable works for their presentation in Poland.