2011 – John Miller 2012 – Henrik Olesen 2013 – Andrea Fraser 2014 – Kerry James Marshall 2015 – Michael Krebber, R. H. Quaytman 2016 – Huang Yong Ping 2017 – Trisha Donnelly 2018 – Haegue Yang 2019 – Jac Leirner 2020 – Betye Saar 2021 – Marcel Odenbach 2022 – Frank Bowling 2023 – Francis Alÿs Directors 1978–1984: Karl Ruhrberg 1984–1991: Siegfried Gohr 1991–1997: Marc Scheps 1997–2000: Jochen Poetter 2002–2012: Kasper König 2012–2014: Philipp Kaiser 2015–present: Yilmaz Dziewior Nazi looted art In 1999 the museum returned the painting Zwei weibliche Halbakte (Two Female Nudes ) (1919) by Otto Mueller to the heirs of Dr. Ismar Littmann. In February 2000 the museum returned La Grappe de Raisins (1920) by Louis Marcoussis (1883–1941) to the family of El Lissitzky and Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers. In 2013 the city of Cologne agreed that the Ludwig Museum should restitute six valuable drawings looted by the Nazis from the Jewish art collector Alfred Flechtheim to his heirs. The drawings are by Karl Hofer, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Ernst Barlach, Aristide Maillol and Wilhelm Morgner. The Ludwig Museum also agreed to restitute five drawings by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel and Georges Kars to the heirs of Curt Glaser. See also List of museums in Cologne References Further reading 20th Century Art. Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen, 1996, . Thiemann, Barbara M. Nonconform: Russian and Soviet Artists 1958–1995, the Ludwig Collection. Prestel Publishing, 2007. . External links Museum website (in English) Ludwig Innenstadt, Cologne Art museums and galleries in Germany Modern art museums in Germany Museums in Cologne Former private collections 1976 establishments in West Germany Buildings and structures in Cologne