Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, museum in Regensburg, Germany
The Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie is an art museum in Regensburg that houses paintings, sculptures, and prints in a building that started as a gymnasium in the 1870s. The renovated interior now displays artworks and allows visitors to move through galleries designed for viewing and exploring the collection.
Built in 1871 as the city's gymnasium, the hall was rebuilt as an exhibition building from 1906 and drawn into the Upper Palatinate regional exhibition of 1910. During the Second World War it housed an air-raid protection school. From 1957 it held the Sudetendeutsche Galerie of the Adalbert Stifter Verein, and in 1970 the collections of that association and the Künstlergilde were united here at the museum's opening.
The collection covers art from about 1800 to the present, with an emphasis on Classical Modernism between Impressionism and New Objectivity. It holds works by Lovis Corinth, Käthe Kollwitz, Oskar Kokoschka and Gerhard Richter, alongside lesser-known artists such as Clara Siewert and Irma Lang-Scheer. A separate room is devoted to Corinth, and the museum awards the Lovis-Corinth-Preis every two years.
The entrance with the portico faces Johann-Maier-Straße, named after the anti-Nazi Catholic priest Johann Maier; the Pallas Athena figure on the dome turns her back to visitors entering. The listed 1652 Schützenhaus opposite the main building now serves as the museum's administration. Allow time for 27 rooms with 1,800 m² of exhibition space.
Four red pillars by Czech artist Magdalena Jetelová stand at the entrance and create an unmissable visual marker for the building. This modern installation contrasts sharply with the classic architecture of the older structure.
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