Museum Folkwang

Museum Folkwang is a first-rate collection of 19th- and twentieth-century art in Essen, Germany. The museum changed into hooked up in 1922 by using merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which changed into founded in 1906, and the personal Folkwang Museum of the collector and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, founded in 1902. The term Folkwang derives from the name of the afterlife meadow of the lifeless, Fólkvangr, presided over by using the Norse goddess Freyja. Museum Folkwang carries the Deutsche Plakat Museum, comprising circa 340,000 posters from politics, economy and lifestyle.

During a go to in Essen in 1932, Paul J. Sachs referred to as the Folkwang "the most stunning museum in the global." In 2007, David Chipperfield designed an extension, which become then built onto the older building. Ernst Gosebruch, director of the museum in the 1920s and 1930s, and earlier directors, had made the museum's series of cutting-edge artwork into one of the main collections inside the world. However, whilst the National Socialists got here to electricity in Germany in the early Nineteen Thirties, they instituted a central authority-wide purge of what they termed "degenerate art", via which they intended summary, cubist, expressionist, surrealist and impressionist artwork.