Museum kunst palast

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The museum kunst palast is an arts museum in Düsseldorf, Germany.

1 History
2 Collection
3 Architecture
4 Literature
5 External links

[edit] History

The museum kunst palast was founded as Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, a typical communal arts collection in Germany. The first exponates 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 exponates was expanded in the 19th century by the collection of Lambert Krahe, former a collection for study 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 the year 1883, merged with that museum later. The museum kunst palast in its actual form opened in the year 1913.

[edit] Collection

The museum kunst palast includes objects of fine arts from the Classical antiquity to the present, drawings, sculptures, graphics - a collection of more than 70,000 exponates - and photographies. On the other side there are a lot of examples of applied arts and design. There is a great arts libery, 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. about late gotics, renaissance and Baroque to the time of Goethe, the 19th century and finally to the present.

[edit] Architecture

The Ehrenhof was built in 1925 for the exhibition "Gesundheit, soziale Fürsorge, Leibesübungen" (short „GESOLEI“, germ.: "health, social care and sports"). The construction plans of the building are made by the architect Wilhelm Kreis. The Communal Arts Collection and the Hetjens-Museum for ceramics moved in the year 1928 into the Ehrenhof building. There is the NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft (forum for culture and economy of North Rhine-Westphalia) in the same building complex.