Four original Ring Magazine covers will be on display for the first time at an international art fair as part of Ingo Wegerich’s Wegerich Fine Art Collection at the Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt in Germany from Thursday through Sunday.

The four original Ring Magazine covers that’ll be featured are Max Schmeling as “The Man of the Hour” in 1936 by C R Schaare, Joe Louis from 1937, being depicted as “The Brown Bomber” by Schaare, Jack Delaney vs Paul Berlenbach II in 1948 by former owner, publisher and writer for The Ring, Stanley Weston, and “Muhammad Ali in court” in 1966 when he refused to enlist for the Vietnam War by Willard Mullin.

Wegerich, whose collection is recognized as the world’s foremost art collection dedicated to boxing, will also have the original artwork from the program cover for Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor from 2017 by Richard T Slone and the second fight between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin in 2018 by Slone.

Over 110 international exhibitors will be displaying their work, and over 12,000 people are expected to attend the four-day event. For Wegerich, it’ll mark the first time he’s displayed any of his collection at an art fair after previously displaying parts of his collection at two exhibitions at a private club and the German Sports & Olympic Museum.

“This was always my big wish to show this art to the art world,” Wegerich told The Ring. “I get to go to a different sphere now. I get to show The Ring art to the art people, so I’m bringing the boxing fans and the art people together, and that's really pretty cool.”

“People can relate to it,” Wegerich added on previously displaying the work at two exhibitions. “Everybody in life has a fight. It's not a boxing fight, but some people fight against illness, some people fight for their wife or for their children, lose or fight for their job. Everybody in life fights for something. These artworks show boxers, and also show a fight. Everybody has emotions when they see the fight, they think about their personal fights and so on. That’s wonderful what it brings out of people.

"It was wonderful to see the people when they stand in front of these artworks, and talk for like five minutes about an artwork and take photos. It was really wonderful. I really loved it to see the emotions the artworks bring out of people there. That was very special for me."

In total, Wegerich has over 100 original works and 55 original Ring Magazine covers, dating back to 1933. Many of the pieces Wegerich has collected are signed by the fighters featured in them.

Wegerich is a German lawyer who advises on capital markets and studied law at the University of Hamburg. That time coincided with when former heavyweight champions Wladimir Klitschko and his brother, Vitali Klitschko, dominated the division and spent most of their career fighting in Germany. Wegerich had attended many of their fights, then he made his first trip to Las Vegas to watch a fight when Joe Calzaghe defeated Bernard Hopkins by split decision on April 19, 2008.

At the fight, he crossed paths with Slone for the first time, which helped spark his interest in collecting boxing art. Wegerich and the British artist have grown close, particularly after he bought his first Ring Magazine cover, which was Slone’s painting for the first fight between Canelo and Golovkin.

Slone, who has been the official artist for the International Boxing Hall of Fame since 1996, has 43 pieces of his work featured on Wegerich’s website.

“He's an amazing person,” Wegerich said of Slone. “He's a fantastic painter. I would say he's the best living boxing painter at the moment.”

Wegerich displaying the Ring Magazine cover art at an art festival is what he hopes is a significant step toward what he hopes to one day accomplish. At some point, the aim is to display his collection as part of an exhibition wherever big fights could be taking place, whether it’s in the United States, the United Kingdom, or Saudi Arabia.

“Imagine an exhibition at Madison Square Garden?” Wegerich said. “Or an exhibition with the MGM when there's a big fight. Imagine if there are 55 Ring Magazine covers hanging there… my dream would be a big exhibition somewhere where people go to fights and you see the most boxing fans. It would be fantastic to show these artworks in these places.”