LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur

Description

The collections and special exhibitions of the LWL Museum of Art and Culture are a great arc from medieval art to the contemporary avant-garde. They are the result of a hundred-year collection, research and cooperation work. The museum contains historic works of art from the early Middle Ages, with a focus on the Romanesque and Gothic monumental sculpture and early Westphalian panel painting. Highlights include the Soest Antependium, the overpass sculptures from Münster, the paintings by Konrad von Soest, Johann Koerbecke, Derick Baegert's panels and the work of the last great master of Westphalian sculpture Heinrich Brabender. This collection of mediaeval art is complemented by the non-Westphalian collection of medieval glass windows of the Freiherrn von Stein. The Renaissance is excellently represented by the münsterian family of tom rings (see Hermann tom Ring, Ludger tom Ring d. Ä.), But also by a masterpiece of German inlaid art, the so-called Wrangel cupboard. The great events of history in Westphalia, such as the time of the revival and the Peace of Westphalia, are reflected in the collection as well as the aristocratic and bourgeois culture of the Baroque period. In addition to the older art, another important focus of the collection and exhibition activity is the Modern Gallery, built since 1950, with an extensive collection of paintings by Liebermann, Slevogt and Corinth, Expressionism (Bridge and Blauer Reiter) with special emphasis on August Macke from Westphalia ) over the Bauhaus period and the art of the fifties to the international avant-garde. Large retrospectives have attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors in recent years. Thus, the international exhibition Sculpture Projects of 1977, 1987, 1997 and 2007 is now regarded as a model for the possibilities of art in public space. Significant collection collections are the history of the country, the coin cabinet with more than 100,000 objects, and Diepenbroick's portraits portraits, with more than 120,000 portraits in various prints.