Klassik Stiftung Weimar

Profile

(Profile only availible in german - translated by machine)

The Weimar Classic Foundation is a unique ensemble of cultural monuments. With more than 20 museums, castles, historic houses and parks, as well as the collections of literature and art, she is one of the largest and most important cultural institutions in Germany. Ten properties of the ensemble, as part of the "Classical Weimar" in the list of World Heritage listed by UNESCO. More than 700,000 people annually visit the houses of the Classic Foundation.

With the Master Plan »Space Weimar", the Foundation has decided in 2008 a pioneering concept that the great museums will open up new in and around Weimar for the visitor. Key measures include the development of the city palace to the center of the classical foundation and the construction of a new Bauhaus Museum.
Tasks

The work priorities of the Foundation are on the era of the Weimar Classics, its aftermath in the art and culture of the 19th Century and the modern with Friedrich Nietzsche, Henry van de Velde and the Bauhaus. These will open in a bridge to the arts and sciences of the present room for questions from the spirit of tradition.

It is the aim of the Foundation, with the cultural heritage entrusted to it to be an effective center of culture, science and education in Germany and the world.

represented artists

Carl Andre      Giovanni Anselmo      Hans Baldung Grien      Robert Barry      Max Beckmann      Arnold Böcklin      Lothar Böhme      Marcel Breuer      Heinrich Brocksieper      Angela Bulloch      Daniel Buren      Lucas Cranach      Albrecht Dürer      Luciano Fabro      Lyonel Feininger      Dan Flavin      Gunda Förster      Caspar David Friedrich      Walter Gropius      Hans Grundig      Keith Haring      Josef Hegenbarth      Rebecca Horn      Johannes Itten

Donald Judd      Angelica Kauffmann      Anselm Kiefer      Paul Klee      Joseph Kosuth      Via Lewandowsky      Max Liebermann      Piero Manzoni      Claude Monet      Georg Muche      Giulio Paolini      Giuseppe Penone      Pipilotti Rist      Christian Rohlfs      Philipp Otto Runge      Salvo      Oskar Schlemmer      Thomas Schütte      Gunta Stölzl      Franz von Lenbach      Wilhelm Wagenfeld      Andor Weininger