Leopold Hoesch Museum

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In memory of Leopold Hoesch (1820 - 1899), a Dürener industrialist who was involved is extremely generous in his home town, the magnificent museum was inaugurated in 1905. Quick Nordeifler the industrial city became a versatile cultural capital, from the start, seeking dialogue with contemporary artists. Since the turmoil of World War II is its adult collection to date have been lost or destroyed. Was re-founded in 1949 Museums Association, it is therefore for the task, the Leopold Hoesch-museum with acquisitions, trusts and gifts of artworks to support. The result was a remarkable collection of classic modern art, which he is entitled as a permanent loan.

Together with the Paper Museum in Düren provides a great tradition in the current aesthetic discourse and forms required in a dual museum concept a globally oriented platform for contemporary art and the cultural history of the paper with interdisciplinary exhibitions. In this sense, it extends the cultural axis with Belgium and the Netherlands.

The Leopold-Hoesch Museum sees itself as an open arena for exchange, the constant change is subjected to integrate contemporary trends in its development and, as the art itself, always in the flow of change remains.

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