Goethe Museum Anton and Katharina Kippenberg Foundation
By Worth Attention on 18-Jul-11 04:23:25 PM
The Goethe Museum is located in the beautiful baroque building, Schloss Jagerhof, in Dusseldorf. The museum‘s treasures, consisting of 50.000 items, cannot, of course, all be exhibited at the same time. This is in part due to a lack of space and also because the visitor would find it overwhelming. For these reasons the greater part of the collection is kept in storage and selected items are brought out for changing exhibitions which mark specific occasions. But an interested visitor may see particular objects in the reading room of the museum. Arranged chronologically in 11 rooms, about 1000 objects illustrate the museum‘s main subject: Goethe‘s life and work. First editions of the poet‘s work are displayed in showcases, accompanied by drafts, letters and other items from the period when those works were written. Paintings of towns and landscapes show the places where Goethe worked and portraits of the poet and his friend complete the chronicle.
The following is taken from www.planetware.com:
Some attractions within Goethe Museum Map: (I) Frankfurt artists of Goethe's early years (II) Contemporaries of the young Goethe (III) Paintings by A. Graff and J.H. F(IV) Goethe's circle in Weimar(V) Goethe's Italian journey (VI) Angelika Kauffmann (VII) Cast of Ludovisi Juno Views of Rome by Piranesi (VIII) Italian landscapes by J.P. Hackert (IX) Portraits of the aging Goethe (X) Views of Thuringia (XI) Goethe's later years (XII) Romantic period (C.D. Friedrich, etc.) (XIII) C. Brentano, A. von Arnim (XIV) German landscapes and towns
Goethe Museum Anton and Katharina Kippenberg Foundation Schloss Jägerhof, Jacobistraße 2 40211 Düsseldorf, Telephone (0211) 899-6262, Fax: (0211) 8929144 e-mail: goethe-museum@duesseldorf.de website: www.goethe-museum.com
Museum hours: Tuesday to Friday and Sunday 11 a. m. to 5 p. n. Saturday 1 p. m. to 5 p. m. Library and reading hours: Tuesday to Friday 10 a. m. to 12 a. m. and 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. Special arrangements are possible on request
