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. [Essen], german for Meal [essen], german for eat Essen is the name of the following places: Essen, Germany, one of the major cities of the Ruhr area Essen, Belgium Essen, Netherlands, a village in the province of Groningen German: to eat, eating, food This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... Hagen is the 37th largest city in Germany, located in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. ...

The term Folkwang is taken from the Edda; Folkvangar means 'hall of the people', 'hall of the goddess Freyja'. The Edda are collections of poetically narrated folk-tales relating to Norse Mythology or Norse heroes. ... Freyja, in an illustration to Wagners operas by Arthur Rackham. ...

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.

Works in Museum Folkwang

Caspar David Friedrich: Frau vor untergehender Sonne	Edouard Manet: Faure als Hamlet	Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Lise mit Schirm	Vincent van Gogh: Porträt des Armand Roulin
Paul Gauguin: Junges Mädchen mit Fächer	August Macke: Hutladen	Franz Marc: Pferd in der Landschaft	Paula Modersohn-Becker: Die Malerin mit Kamelienzweig Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1256x2660, 380 KB) Description: Title: de: Die Malerin mit Kamelienzweig (Selbstporträt) Technique: de: Holz Dimensions: de: 62 × 31 cm Country of origin: de: Deutschland Current location (city): de: Essen Current location (gallery): de: Museum Folkwang Other notes: Source: The Yorck...