Piet Mondrian: The picture probably hung upside down for 77 years

This picture has been hung around like this for 77 years. Experts are now assuming that it should actually be issued the other way around. The curator at the Kunstsammlung NRW in Düsseldorf, Susanne Meyer-Büser, expressed the good reasons for this assumption on Friday. “First there were only indications and then it was a real suspicion. And if you look at the strips in this picture, they are adhesive strips, tapes, they cannot have been applied in this condition as they are now. But Mondrian must have rotated the work because the tape is on top, then pulled down, snapped off, and started all over again. And it just follows gravity. And so we’re assuming it’s hanging upside down here.” How the artist really wanted the work “New York City I” from 1941 to be hung up will probably remain an eternal mystery, said the curator. Piet Mondrian himself died in New York on February 1, 1944. But his works live on. And if you want to get your own impression of this work of art, you have the opportunity to do so in the current Mondrian exhibition in the Düsseldorf Museum K20 until mid-February. There are now 90 chronologically arranged works and reflect the stations of the artist Piet Mondrian.