The spectacular room installation—Helm/Helmet/Yelmo—was created by the renowned Cuban artist duo Los Carpinteros for Museum Folkwang in 2014.

Museum Folkwang

The Museum Folkwang was the first public collection in Germany to acquire and exhibit the works of the forerunners of Modernism: Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Henri Matisse. Today, it is among the most important art museums in Germany.

In March 2007, David Chipperfield emerged as the winner of an international architectural competition for the new building of Museum Folkwang. The inauguration was in January 2010. – © Museum Folkwang

In Franz Marc's "Horse in a Landscape," from 1910, the animal was the bridge between nature and man, who has lost a unity he wants to restore. – © Museum Folkwang

Through the window of Vincent van Gogh's room in the Saint-Remy hospital, he looked at a field that became the masterpiece "Wheat Field with Reaper," in 1889. – © Museum Folkwang

A group of visitors looking at part of Museum Folkwang's magnificent collection. – © Achim Thiemer / Museum Folkwang

The Museum Folkwang was founded in 1902. It soon developed into one of the most pioneering museums of modern art in the world. The focal points of its collection are 19th century art and classic modernism, photography, and painting after 1945. It holds 900 paintings and 320 sculptures, approximately 14,000 drawings and works on paper, and around 60,000 photographs and related objects.

The building also contains a collection of antique works, non-European art, and European and non-European crafts (from 4000 B.C. to the 19th century) with about 1,800 objects. The German Poster Museum, with 350,000 posters, has become a department of the Museum Folkwang.

In 2010, the Museum Folkwang opened a new building designed by David Chipperfield. The new wing provides an additional 16,000 square metres of floor space.

Visit

Museum Folkwang

Hours

Tuesday, Wednesday: 10:00 to 18:00
Thursday, Friday: 10:00 to 20:00
Saturday, Sunday: 10:00 to 18:00

Closed: Carnival Monday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year´s Eve
Exceptionally opened: New Year, Good Friday, Easter Day, Easter Monday, Labour Day, Ascension Day, Whitsunday, Whitmonday, Corpus Christi, German Unification Day, Reformation Day, All Hallows, Last Sunday before Advent, Boxing Day

Pricing

Admission to the permanent collection at Museum Folkwang is free on all opening days. This is made possible by the generous support of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation; temporary exhibitions see www.museum-folkwang.de/en.html