Marburger Kunstverein, Art museum in Marburg, Germany.
The Marburger Kunstverein is an art museum with around 525 square meters (5,650 sq ft) of exhibition space. The rooms display contemporary paintings, sculptures, photography, and installations.
The Marburger Kunstverein was founded in 1953 out of a Künstlerkreis of local painters, among them Franz Frank, who sought a forum and exhibition space after the Second World War; former mayor Eugen Siebecke, an amateur painter, was a co-founder. Its first exhibition house opened in 1958 at Am Markt 16 in the Oberstadt above the town hall, enlarged in 1978 to the building's upper floor. In 2000 the new Marburger Kunsthalle opened at Gerhard-Jahn-Platz 5 on the site of the former slaughterhouse.
The museum displays works by artists from Germany and across the world. Visitors encounter pieces from emerging creators alongside established names.
The Kunstverein's Kunsthalle is at Gerhard-Jahn-Platz 5, on the site of the former slaughterhouse. The ground floor holds a reference library, an exhibition hall and the Artothek; the upper floor has the gallery and a second large hall. Experimental music concerts led by Albert Kaul take place regularly.
The Artothek, founded in 1984, holds around 800 works of painting, graphic art, photography and sculpture, among them pieces by Sigmar Polke, Nan Goldin and Peter Doig. Works can be borrowed for a limited time, for a home or an office.
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