Visitor Information
Museum Address
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2, 53113 Bonn, Germany
Bonn, Germany
Ticket Prices
€7 (under 18 free, 1st Sun free)
Featured Artists
1 artists in database
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The Kunstmuseum Bonn was founded in 1947 and moved into its current building in 1992, a bold structure designed by Axel Schultes. The collection of around 9,000 works holds the world's largest collection of Rhenish Expressionism, with an extensive group of paintings by August Macke, who lived and worked in Bonn before his death in World War I.
Beyond Expressionism, the museum focuses on post-war German art from the 1960s through the early 1990s, with emphasis on painting, photography, and time-based media. An international collection of post-war prints rounds out the holdings. The museum sits on Bonn's Museumsmeile (Museum Mile), a cultural corridor that also includes the Bundeskunsthalle and the Haus der Geschichte.
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn in Bonn, Germany houses 2 masterpieces in our database, including works by August Macke. Notable works include Self-Portrait with Hat and At the Rhine near Hersel.
Visiting Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
The Kunstmuseum Bonn is on the Museum Mile (Museumsmeile) in Bonn, Germany. The minimalist building by Axel Schultes opened in 1992 with spacious galleries flooded with natural light.
The museum holds one of the world's largest collections of August Macke's work, alongside German art from 1945 to the present. Its Expressionist holdings are particularly strong.
The collection spans Rhenish Expressionism to contemporary art, with works by Macke, Max Ernst, Joseph Beuys, Georg Baselitz, and Gerhard Richter.
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