Wie die Bilder ins Museum kamen: Biografien von Kunstwerken aus dem Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Koeln

The author explores the stories behind artworks in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, revealing the city's legal battles, acquisitions, and courageous museum director. The book offers insights for museum visitors and readers to learn more about the exhibits.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 19 April 2021
Publisher: De Gruyter

Pictures often tell stories, but they also have their own stories when they have been passed through many hands on their way into a museum. The author, who supports his views with the results of relevant provenance research, goes on a search for traces of these descriptions of the lives of artworks from the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne. The city of Cologne had to litigate against the daughter of Hermann Göring for nineteen years in connection with a painting by Cranach, a high price had to be paid for the acquisition of another painting because it was not wanted as a gift, and a courageous museum director made his acquisitions of art despite great resistance. In this book for all museum visitors and readers who would like to learn more about the exhibits, the stories behind the pictures come to life.

Weight: 408g
Dimension: 137 x 217 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783422984387