Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie, Art museum in Constance, Germany.
The Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie is an art museum in Konstanz, housed in the former residence and death house of its founder Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg, integrated into the Kulturzentrum am Münster. It focuses on art of the 19th and 20th centuries from Southwest Germany and the Lake Constance region, with temporary exhibitions and a small permanent display from the Wessenberg collection.
Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg, last administrator of the Diocese of Constance, left the city 357 copper engravings and 77 lithographs at his death on 9 August 1860, intended for drawing students. Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden kept the collection in Constance for public education, creating the city's first museum. The gallery opened in Wessenberg's own house and has been part of the Kulturzentrum am Münster since its integration.
The gallery is named after Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg, who left the city 357 copper engravings and 77 lithographs in 1860 for the instruction of drawing pupils. A small permanent display shows excerpts from this Wessenberg collection, and the Hans Meid Kabinett rotates works by that artist each year.
The museum is centrally located in Constance and easy to reach on foot from the harbor and old town. Daytime visits work best, as natural light fills the galleries and rotating exhibitions can be viewed in full.
The gallery occupies the house where its founder, Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg, lived and died; he left the city 357 copper engravings and 77 lithographs in 1860, intended for the instruction of drawing pupils. A separate cabinet shows works by Hans Meid, changed each year.
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