Osthaus Museum

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The Osthaus Museum Hagen has about 1,000 works of painting, sculpture and nearly 800 sculptures and about 250 artists objects. There are also over 5,000 works on paper, nearly 700 works of applied arts, over 100 installations and approximately 2,000 maps, books and object boxes in the room-filling presentation "Architecture of Memory" by Sigrid Sigurdsson.
A targeted acquisition policy in the six decades since the museum's founding in 1945, constitutes the departments of classical modern and contemporary art in Osthaus Museum Hagen, the company structurally and conceptually on the one hand regarding the Folkwang collection of Karl Ernst Osthaus, on the other hand, however, with their exquisite individual pieces an independent profile have pronounced that made this collection of Hagen also known.

The Osthaus Museum Hagen presents his collection in the former of the Belgian Art Nouveau architect Henry van de Velde designed building at the Folkwang Museum Square in the center of Hagen. After the extensive reconstruction of the interior of the original concept of Karl Ernst Osthaus initiated in 1900 museum building is understandable, that conveys the impression of an organically-conceived work of art.

The Osthaus Museum is part of the Kunstquartier Hagen , that is completed by the Emil Schumacher Museum .