Museums and Art Galleries in Dusseldorf

Dusseldorf is one of the popular attractions of the city and features all the requisites of being an avant-garde destination. If you want to have an idea about the culture and customs of the city, you can visit the museums and art galleries of the city. There are numerous art galleries in the city and these galleries will give you a clear idea about the art and culture of the city as well as the country. Some of the significant museums and art galleries of the city are Gelerie Ludorff, NRW Forum and Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Gelerie Ludorff is one of the premium art galleries of Dusseldorf, which was founded in 1975. The gallery boasts of works of stalwarts like Alexej von Jawlensky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Otto Mueller, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Emil Nolde, Herrmann-Max Pechstein and many more. The gallery also provides you the opportunity to witness works of Post War Abstract artists like Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Fritz Winter, Georg Meistermann, Willi Baumeister and Sam Francis. Another key area of the art gallery is sculpture; here you can see work of important sculptors like Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Georg Kolbe, Ernst Barlach, Ewald Mataré, Reneé Sintenis, Henry Moore, George Rickey and Robert Metzkes.

NRW Forum was opened in 1970 and it deals with the development and the economy of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia or regions within it. In the year 1988, the NRW Forum hosted an exhibition on design in 1960's and the exhibition continued up to three months. This exhibition was followed by an exhibition on history of VW Beetle and in the year 2000, the museum housed an exhibition that showcased the history, present and future scenarios of the Rhine-Ruhr region. Most of the exhibitions of the NRW Forum are based on political, historical, social or economical themes or phenomena, which are represented from a specific point of view.

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is one of the major art galleries of the city. The art gallery began operating in the year 1960, when it bought 88 works of Paul Klee. The gallery comprises of two houses, the K 20 dedicated to 20th century arts and the K21 for 21st century arts. K20 houses the collection of the 20 the century artists with special focus on classical modern art. You can see here works of art starting from 20th century and includes works pertaining to Fauvism, Expressionism, Pittura Metafisica, Cubism Dadaism and Surrealism. K21 features works of artists of late 20th and 21st century beginning from 1980s.