Museum Kunstpalast

Coordinates: 51°14′3.5″N 6°46′23.9″E / 51.234306°N 6.773306°E / 51.234306; 6.773306
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Kunstpalast
Kunstpalast
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LocationDüsseldorf, Germany
Coordinates51°14′3.5″N 6°46′23.9″E / 51.234306°N 6.773306°E / 51.234306; 6.773306
TypeContemporary art
DirectorBeat Wismer[1]
Public transit accessDüsseldorf Stadtbahn: U70 U74 U75 U76 U77 at Tonhalle/Ehrenhof [de]
Websitekunstpalast.de/en
Museum Kunst Palast

The Kunstpalast, formerly Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf is an art museum in Düsseldorf.

History

The roots of the museum go back around 300 years. In 1932, the collection of the

Palatinate, and his wife Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, and some rich citizens of Düsseldorf. The academy had been founded in 1710,[2] its collection expanded in the 19th century by the collection of Lambert Krahe.[citation needed
]

The Düsseldorfer Gallerieverein, founded in the 19th century, collected many drawings of the

Düsseldorfer Malerschule, later given to that collection. The Museum for Advanced Arts, whose opening was in 1883, merged with that museum later.[citation needed
]

The Kunstmuseum in its actual form opened in 1913. Subsequently, the Museumsverein (the Museum Association) and the Künstler-Verein zur Veranstaltung von Kunstausstellungen (the Artists’ Association for the Realisation of Art Exhibitions) collaborated in the organisation of art exhibitions, and the foundation Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast was established in 1998.[2]

In January 2020, the NRW Forum became part of the Kunstpalast.[2]

Architecture

In 1902, the first Kunstpalast was erected at Ehrenhof ("court of honour"), for a major exhibition featuring artworks as well as industrial and trade items. A new building in Art Deco style was designed by Wilhelm Kreis in 1926, for an exhibition on health care, social care and exercise, called "GeSoLei". The Communal Arts Collection and the Hetjens-Museum [de] for ceramics (applied arts moved into the Ehrenhof building in 1928.[2]

In 1969 the ceramics moved to the

NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft
(forum for culture and economy of North Rhine-Westphalia) in the same building complex.

The museum was extensively remodelled by Oswald Mathias Ungers and reopened in 2001.[2]

Collection

The Museum Kunstpalast includes objects of fine arts from

graphic exhibits and photographs, applied arts and design and one of Europe's largest glass collections, the Helmut Hentrich
Glass Museum./

The graphic collection includes 14,000

Goethe, the 19th century, the 20th century including a large collection of ZERO
works, and the present.

Restitution of Franz Marc's The Foxes

In 2017, the family of the German Jewish art collector Kurt Grawi requested the restitution of Franz Marc's painting The Foxes (1913) ("Die Füchse")[3] which had been acquired by Grawi in 1928. When the Nazis rose to power in 1933, they persecuted Grawi because he was Jewish, "Aryanizing" his business in 1935 and imprisoning him in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938.[3][4] Grawi fled Germany for Chile in 1939, selling the painting to fund his escape.[5][6] In 2021, the German Advisory Commission recommended that the city of Düsseldorf restitute the painting to Grawi's heirs and the Düsseldorf City Council voted to restitute the painting.[7]

In January 2022 Düsseldorf restituted Marc's The Foxes ("Die Füchse" ) to the Grawi heirs.[8]

Gallery

  • Entrance Eastern wing
    Entrance Eastern wing
  • Entrance Western wing
    Entrance Western wing
  • The Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Peter Paul Rubens
    The Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Peter Paul Rubens

Affiliated Institutes

Exhibitions

Among several exhibitions of archival material, the Museum Kunstpalast has already hosted some exhibitions on Old Masters as well, including:

See also

References

  1. ^ Beat Wismer, museum-kunst-palast.de
  2. ^ a b c d e "Kunstpalast". Museum, Veranstaltungen & Konzerte I Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Düsseldorf faces Nazi-era claim for Franz Marc's foxes". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  4. ^ Axelrod, Toby (3 May 2021). "In precedent-setting case, German city to return painting to heirs of Jewish businessman who was once in concentration camp". The Forward. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  5. ^ "German Lost Art Foundation - Project finder - Provenance Research on Franz Marc's "Foxes" of 1913". www.kulturgutverluste.de. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  6. ^ Axelrod, Toby. "In precedent-setting case, German city to return painting to heirs of Jewish businessman who was once in concentration camp". Cleveland Jewish News. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  7. ^ Selvin, Claire (29 April 2021). "Düsseldorf Committee Votes to Return Franz Marc Painting to Former Owner's Heirs". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  8. ^ "Stadt Düsseldorf gibt 14-Mio-Gemälde zurück an Erben". www.lootedart.com. Retrieved 23 January 2022.

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