Museum Folkwang
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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 und patron Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, founded in 1901.
The term Folkwang is taken from the Edda; Folkvangar means 'hall of the people', 'hall of the goddess Freyja'.
Museum Folkwang incorporates the Deutsche Plakat Museum (German poster museum), whose circa 340 000 posters from politics, economy and culture make it one of the largest and most important ones of its kind world-wide.
[edit] Works in Museum Folkwang
 Caspar David Friedrich: |
 Edouard Manet: |
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir: |
 Vincent van Gogh: |
 Paul Gauguin: |
 August Macke: |
 Franz Marc: |
 Paula Modersohn-Becker: |
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