Museum Kunst Palast

The Museum Kunst Palast is an art museum in Düsseldorf, Germany.

History

The Museum Kunst Palast was founded as "Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf", a typical communal arts collection in Germany. The first exhibits were given by the popular regent Jan Wellem, Duke of Palatinate, and his wife Anna Maria Louisa de Medici and some rich citizens of Düsseldorf. The number of exhibits was expanded in the 19th century by the collection of Lambert Krahe, formerly a collection for educational reasons of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. The "Düsseldorfer Gallerieverein", founded in 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. The Museum Kunst Palast in its actual form opened in 1913.

Collection

The Museum Kunst Palast includes objects of fine arts from Classical antiquity to the present, including drawings, sculptures, a collection of more than 70,000 graphic exhibits and photographs. On the other side, there are a lot of examples of applied arts and design. There is a great arts library too. The graphic collection includes 14,000 Italian baroque graphics.

The collection presents several works from Europe, Japan, Persia/Iran and some other places, beginning with the 3rd century B.C.. The art collection also include works from other periods such as Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, the time of Goethe, the 19th century and the present.

Architecture

The Ehrenhof was built in 1925 for the exhibition " [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeSoLei Gesundheit, soziale Fürsorge, Leibesübungen] " (short „GESOLEI“, germ.: "health, social care and sports"). Construction plans of the building are made by the architect Wilhelm Kreis. The Communal Arts Collection and the Hetjens-Museum for ceramics moved into the Ehrenhof building in 1828. There is also the "NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft" (forum for culture and economy of North Rhine-Westphalia) in the same building complex.

References

* "museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf" with articles written by Bettina Baumgärtel, Sonja Brink, Christoph Danelzik-Brüggemann, Jean-Hubert Martin, Helmut Ricke, Dieter Scholz, Barbara Til, Stephan von Wiese. Book series of the Fondation BNP Paribas. Paris 2003 ISBN 2-7118-4673-3 (in German, English and French)
* Bogomir Ecker, Thomas Huber: "Künstlermuseum". ISBN 3-9808208-5-8

External links

* [http://www.museum-kunst-palast.de/ museum kunst palast website]