The Kunstmuseum Bonn is a
major, highly respected museum of contemporary art. The new building, designed
by the Berlin architect Axel Schultes and
opened in 1992, is one of the most important museum buildings to have been
built in Germany
in past few decades.
The collection at the
Kunstmuseum Bonn, that comprises some 7,500 works, forms the heart of the
museum and moulds its identity with pivotal groups of works by August Macke and
the ‘Rheinishe Expressionisten’, as well as the important collection of German
art from 1945 with an emphasis on painting and its extended forms of
expression. A special feature of the museum that is unique in Germany is its
concentration on a modest number of exceptional artists whose works are
comprehensively shown in spacious rooms devoted in each case to one artist. The
thematic and monographic exhibition projects, aimed at an international public,
normally have a close context to the permanent collection.
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