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Art Museum Attractions In Essen

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Essen is the fourth largest city of Germany's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and its population of approximately 589,000 also makes it the ninth largest city of Germany, as well as the third largest city of the Rhineland after Cologne and Düsseldorf. On the Ruhr and Emscher rivers , it lies at the centre of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area, of which it is the second largest city after Dortmund. The Ruhr is itself part of the larger Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, the most highly populated area in Europe with a population of 13,400,000. Essen lies in the Low German and Low Franconian dialect areas. Essen is seat to several...
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Art Museum Attractions In Essen

  • 1. Museum Folkwang Essen
    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.The term Folkwang derives from the name of the afterlife meadow of the dead, Fólkvangr, presided over by the Norse goddess Freyja.Museum Folkwang incorporates the Deutsche Plakat 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.In 2007, David Chipperfield designed an extension, which was then built onto the older building.
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