August-Macke-Haus, Art museum in Nordstadt, Bonn, Germany
The August Macke House is an art museum in Bonn's Nordstadt district and displays the former home and workplace of an Expressionist painter. The building combines the original residential structure with a modern extension that provides additional exhibition spaces and facilities.
The house served as the home and studio of painter August Macke from 1911 to 1914, where he created significant works. It was transformed into a museum in 1991 and expanded with a modern addition in 2017.
The house displays works by Rhineland Expressionists and connects artistic traditions from the early 1900s with contemporary approaches to art. Visitors can see how the art movement shaped the region and continues to influence local artistic practice.
The museum occupies Macke's former home at Bornheimer Straße 96 plus a 2017 extension by architect Karl-Heinz Schommer. The restored attic studio, reached through the historic house, holds a full-size copy of the 1912 mural Paradise; the original, removed in 1980, is in Münster. A reference library and archive on Rhenish Expressionism are available to visitors.
The museum is run by Museum August Macke Haus gGmbH, whose shareholders are the August Macke Haus association and the August Macke Haus der Sparkasse Bonn foundation, established in 1994. The 2015–2017 extension by Bonn architect Karl-Heinz Schommer was funded by the federal government, North Rhine-Westphalia, the NRW Foundation, the Landschaftsverband Rheinland, private donors and former foreign minister Guido Westerwelle.
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