Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Art museum in Düren, Germany.
The Leopold-Hoesch-Museum is an art museum in Düren, Germany, housed in a neo-Baroque brick building with stone sculptures flanking its entrance. It presents contemporary art across several rooms spread over two floors.
The museum was founded in 1905 by the Hoesch family, a prominent industrial family from Düren who had assembled an art collection for the city. The building survived the 1944 air raids that destroyed much of the city center around it.
The Leopold-Hoesch-Museum shows rotating exhibitions by national and international artists, making it a place where the art on view always changes. Inside, large rooms alternate with smaller galleries, allowing very different works to be shown side by side.
The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, with extended hours on Thursday evenings. It is worth checking the current exhibition on the website before your visit, as the program changes regularly.
A stone block by artist Ulrich Rückriem has stood in front of the building since 2011, weighing around 80 tons and cut from Anröchter dolomite. The stone is not polished or shaped beyond the cut itself, which is part of how Rückriem works: he splits stone and reassembles it without hiding the marks of the split.
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