Museum Baden

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The Art Museum Solingen ("Museum Baden") keeps the art collection of Solingen - about 10,000 mostly regionally specific art works, including over 8,000 graphic-tion leaves. Of utmost importance is the early paintings and graphics Georg master's, one of the most important German artists of the postwar period. These pictures are the art works of the generation born around 1900 artists in this museum are of particular interest. This was 2004, a unique focus to be created with the "Community Foundation for Arts ostracized by the collection of Gerhard Schneider, Solingen". came out in 2008 on permanent loan to the Foundation of Else Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft, the collection "The poet scorched" added.
Another focus of the museum lies in the presentation of contemporary art. Here visitors new boy approaches are offered instead of established art. The museum organizes regular exhibitions nationally acclaimed as the "Bergische art exhibition" and are out to catalogs.
Since its founding in 1996, the museum is organized as a profit company, and thus a project of the Public Private Partnership, Foundation for income, sponsorships, donations and funds earned himself two thirds of the necessary profits make dar.
The listed building was built as a city hall for the 1907/1908 time independent Gräfrath. The new building was added in 1995/1996.

represented artists