Prinzenpalais, Art museum in Oldenburg, Germany.
The Prinzenpalais is an art museum in Oldenburg housed in a classical-style building with tall rooms and spacious gallery areas. The collection spreads across multiple floors and displays works by German artists from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The building was constructed in 1826 as a residence for Russian princes and later served as a military hospital during World War I. It was converted into an art museum in 2003.
The gallery's name recalls its first residents, the Russian princes Alexander and Peter, grandsons of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig. Its showpiece is a room of works by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel painted during their stays at Dangast on the Jade Bight. It also holds Germany's most important public collection of the Dangast painter Franz Radziwill.
The Prinzenpalais stands opposite Oldenburg Castle, near the northeast corner of the Schlossgarten; the Augusteum and Elisabeth-Anna-Palais are close by. The galleries occupy two floors, reached by stairs, and the 1890/91 photographs of court photographer Franz Titzenthaler guided the restoration of the original room sequence.
The collection holds many works by artists from the Worpswede artist colony, a group who settled in the marshland south of Bremen. These pieces reveal how creators incorporated the landscape of their region into their artistic output.
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