Von der Heydt Museum

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This is Von der Heydt-Museum located in the pedestrian zone of Wuppertal-Elberfeld. Originally built as a city hall, the building was rededicated on Turmhof 1902 Municipal Museum. Since 1961 it bears the name of Von der Heydt-Museum.Schwerpunkte in the collection are paintings by the Dutch art of the 16th and 17 Century painting and graphic art of the 19th Century, including excellent images of Impressionism, and the painting of the 20th century, whereas here the Expressionism is represented by outstanding works.
 
This is Von der Heydt-Museum since its beginning in 19th Century by the bourgeoisie of the towns of Barmen and Elberfeld, the 1929, Wuppertal 'fused coined. If the museum has now become one of the richest collections in Germany, is due primarily to the Wuppertal citizens and their art and sense of community. In particular, the NIV banking family Von der Heydt and acquired in Barmer Art Association organized art lovers significant works of art and donated it to "their museum."
 
In the course of more than hundred years ago by wealthy foundations and donations from the citizens, and large purchases an impressively large collection of early 16th Century to the present reicht.Trotz the devastating bloodletting, the museum suffered in the Nazi "degenerate art, the collection now contains 3000 paintings, 400 sculptures and 30,000 works on paper.
 

represented artists

Robert Acuna      Jankel Adler      Josef Albers      Claudia Angelmaier      Horst Antes      Alexander Archipenko      Armando      Francis Bacon      Stephan Balkenhol      Ernst Barlach      Willi Baumeister      Max Beckmann      Matthias Beckmann      Daniel Behrendt      Matthew Benedict      Umberto Boccioni      Arnold Böcklin      Richard Parkes Bonington      Pierre Bonnard      Georges Braque      Carl Buchheister      Paul Cézanne      Marc Chagall      Lovis Corinth      Tony Cragg      Salvador Dalí      Honoré Daumier      Giorgio de Chirico      Edgar Degas      Walter Dexel      Otto Dix      Kees van Dongen      Raoul Dufy      James Ensor      Ulrich Erben      Jean Fautrier      Lyonel Feininger      Conrad Felixmüller      Gloria Friedmann      Alberto Giacometti      Domenico Gnoli      Karl Otto Götz      Carl Grossberg      Peter Halley      Werner Haypeter      Erich Heckel      Auguste Herbin      Ferdinand Hodler      Heinrich Hoerle      Karl Hofer      Hans Hofmann      Alexej von Jawlensky      Wassily Kandinsky      Alexander Kanoldt      Ellsworth Kelly      Ernst Ludwig Kirchner      Per Kirkeby      Konrad Klapheck      Max Klinger      Oskar Kokoschka      Sven Kroner      Karl Kunz

Mikhail Larionov      Henri Laurens      Fernand Léger      Wilhelm Lehmbruck      Steffen Lenk      Daniel Lergon      Max Liebermann      Jacques Lipchitz      Richard Long      Lucebert      Markus Lüpertz      August Macke      Aristide Maillol      Franz Marc      Joseph Marioni      Rune Mields      Jean-Francois Millet      Paula Modersohn-Becker      Laszló Moholy-Nagy      Claude Monet      Henry Moore      Richard Allen Morris      Otto Mueller      Edvard Munch      Gabriele Münter      Ernst Wilhelm Nay      Emil Nolde      Max Pechstein      Pablo Picasso      Camille Pissarro      Sigmar Polke      Odilon Redon      David Reed      Peter Reichenberger      Pierre-Auguste Renoir      Germaine Richier      Gerhard Richter      Auguste Rodin      Christian Rohlfs      Christian Schad      Oskar Schlemmer      Rudolf Schlichter      Karl Schmidt-Rottluff      David Schnell      Georg Scholz      Henrik Schrat      Georg Schrimpf      Emil Schumacher      Sean Scully      George Segal      Paul Signac      Max Slevogt      Chaim Soutine      Jessica Stockholder      Tamara K.E.      Günther Uecker      Félix Vallotton      Vincent van Gogh      Jorinde Voigt      Edouard Vuillard