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| Established | 9 July 1902 |
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| Location | Essen, Germany |
| Coordinates | 51°26′30″N 7°00′15″E / 51.44167°N 7.00417°E |
| Type | Modern art museum |
| Key holdings | Mountain Landscape with Rainbow by Caspar David Friedrich |
| Visitors | 800,000 in 2010[1] |
| Director | Peter Gorschlüter |
| Public transit access | Essen Stadtbahn: U11 at Rüttenscheider Stern |
| Website | museum-folkwang.de |
Museum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th- and 20th-century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, founded in 1902.[2]
The term Folkwang derives from the name of the afterlife meadow of the dead, Fólkvangr, presided over by the Norse goddess Freyja.[3]
Museum Folkwang incorporates the Deutsche Plakat Museum (German poster museum), comprising circa 340,000 posters from politics, economy and culture. During a visit in Essen in 1932, Paul J. Sachs called the Folkwang "the most beautiful museum in the world."[4]
In 2007, David Chipperfield designed an extension, which was built onto the older building.[5][6][7]
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- ^ "History". Folkwang-uni.de. Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
- ^ "The Most Beautiful Museum in the World – Museum Folkwang until 1933". Museum Folkwang. 2010. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Blog Archive » Museum Folkwang by David Chipperfield". Dezeen. 3 February 2010. Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
- ^ Woodman, Ellis (19 February 2010). "David Chipperfield's Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany | Building Studies | Building Design". Bdonline.co.uk. Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
- ^ "The new Museum Folkwang: RUHR.2010". Essen-fuer-das-ruhrgebiet.ruhr2010.de. Archived from the original on 6 January 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2010.