 The restored Kunsthalle Bremen, 2011 | |
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| Established | 1823 |
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| Location | Am Wall 207 28195 Bremen, Germany |
| Coordinates | 53°4′22.01″N 8°48′49.00″E / 53.0727806°N 8.8136111°E |
| Type | Art museum, Historic site |
| Website | www |
Masolino da Panicale
Lovis Corinth
The Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum in Bremen, Germany. It is located close to the Bremen Old Town on the "Culture Mile" (German: Kulturmeile). The Kunsthalle was built in 1849, enlarged in 1902 by architect Eduard Gildemeister, and expanded several more times, most notably in 2011. Since 1977, the building has been designated a Kulturdenkmal on Germany's buildings heritage list.[1]
The museum houses a collection of European paintings from the 14th century to the present day, sculptures from the 16th to 21st century and a New Media collection. Among its highlights are French and German paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries, including important works by Claude Monet, Édouard Manet and Paul Cézanne, along with major paintings by Lovis Corinth, Max Liebermann, Max Beckmann and Paula Modersohn-Becker. The New Media section features works by John Cage, Otto Piene, Peter Campus, Olafur Eliasson, and Nam June Paik. The Department of Prints and Drawings has 220,000 sheets from the 15th to 20th century, one of largest collections of its kind in Europe.[2]
The Kunsthalle Bremen is operated by the non-profit Bremen Art Society (German: Kunstverein Bremen), making it the only German museum with an extensive art collection from the 14th to 21st century which is still in private ownership.[3]
- ^ "Database of Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Bremen #0084". (in German)
- ^ Kunsthalle Bremen at: Euromuse.net – the exhibition portal for Europe (in English) retrieved 2 June 2012.
- ^ Wulf Herzogenrath, Ingmar Laehnemann: Noble Gäste. 200 Meisterwerke der Kunsthalle Bremen zu Gast in 22 deutschen Museen (Bremen: Hachmannedition, 2009) ISBN 978-3939429586